Estudar sem melancolia: Reflexões teóricas e aplicadas nos bastidores do sistema literário

Abstract

The volume consists of two parts.The first part is concerned with the discussion of theoretical and methodological aspects of literary historiography from a systemic point of view, fundamentally based on Even-Zohar's Polysystem Theory and the developments made by the author. This part discusses issues concerning the consideration of national (as) literatures and their canon historiography and canonization processes, the functionality of literary studies for the knowledge of communities, the analysis of narratives and their relation to communities, and the conception and function of teaching and research in literature.The second is a part applied to cases of Portuguese literature. With examples applied to illustrated women, to Bocage's position in the historiographic construction of the 19th century; to Camilo's trajectory; to the analysis of a period of field intensity and tensions (1891-1910) and to the Galician, Brazilian and African cases in some contemporary Portuguese historiography, with emphasis on A. J. Saraiva and Ó. Lopes