Fragments of history of literature: reports and results of a research in Portugal

Abstract

The work resumes the results achieved by the research project “A study of primary sources: the presence of the Brazilian literature in Portuguese journals of 19th century (1850- 1900), that derives from a post-doctoral internship held in 2008, in National Library of Portugal, with the support of CAPES. After several published articles and presented communications, it is made here a balance of the collected and analyzed material, that obeyed, predominantly, to the following topics, always having as a corpus Lisbon magazines, newspapers and almanacs: 1) the discovery of unknown authors and texts and/or on the sidelines of historiography; 2) the examination of the literary relationship between Brazil and Portugal in 19th century; 3) the reception, in Portugal, of authors belonging to Brazilian literature.