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Post-Imperial Bacchus: The politics of literacy criticism in Camões studies 1940-2001
Published 2016-09-19
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Abstract
Abstract: A post-imperial approach to Camões cannot ignore the figure of Bacchus. As Camões’s very epic might suggest, Bacchus strongly tends to constitute a non-subject for both “imperial” and “liberal” critics. Given that context, one ought to denounce the politics of criticism apparently sustained by reliable philological practice and show how they silence or put aside a presence that, also through philology, cannot but dominate the meaning of Os Lusíadas.