Évora University Press

Essays of Imagination with the Landscape

Maria João Pereira MARQUES — 2025-06-23

Ensaios da Imaginação com a Paisagem (Essays of Imagination with the Landscape) is a study on the works of Armando Antunes da Silva (Évora, 1921-1997), developed around two main objectives: to determine the uniqueness of this writer within Portuguese literature and to trace, throughout the second half of the 20th century, the evolution of the Alentejo, a region present throughout Antunes da Silva's work as both an object of reflection and a source of lyricism.

To achieve these goals, we selected three of the author's works—the novel Suão (1960) and his two diaries, Jornal I (1987) and Jornal II (1990). The historical period documented in these books, coinciding with their publication dates, ensured that they encompassed a significant stretch of Alentejo’s reality. This perspective was further extended by the portrayal of the region in the 1940s, as conveyed in Gaimirra, a collection of short stories previously read by the author.

However, the effort to read the selected books in alignment with the rest of Antunes da Silva’s work led to a reflection on other texts that are part of his journalistic and literary production. For this reason, Ensaios da Imaginação com a Paisagem also explores narratives such as Alentejo É Sangue and A Fábrica, as well as Antunes da Silva's poetry, including Canções do Vento and Rio Degebe, among others. In harmony with the prose and poetry referenced above, we also analyzed his reports on Terras Velhas Semeadas de Novo and Alqueva a Grande Barragem.

As Antunes da Silva was a voice of constructive criticism toward the Estado Novo regime and Portugal’s young democracy, it was essential from the outset to clarify his political ideology. Understanding the core ideas of the MDP/CDE, the party in which he was an active member, alongside the reading of these reports and diary texts—published after the April 25th Revolution—and the analysis of Notícias do Sul (1976-1981), the newspaper he directed, helped uncover the political and civic ideas embedded in his literature, while also providing a broader contextual framework. The socio-cultural and political-economic landscape of 20th-century Alentejo is thus revealed through the intersection of Antunes da Silva’s perspective with that of other figures interested in the region.

Always driven by the desire to distinguish Antunes da Silva within the national literary scene, we examined the influences of other writers on his work. A steadfast advocate of the human value of the Alentejo plains and deeply captivated by its sunlit landscape, Antunes da Silva reveals, in his diaries and in some press articles, the words that interweave with his own. It is therefore imperative to compare his regionalist work to that of authors such as Camilo Castelo Branco (As Novelas do Minho) and Alentejo-born writers like Mário Beirão, Fialho de Almeida, Manuel Ribeiro, and Garibaldino de Andrade. The selection of texts and authors was based not only on Antunes da Silva’s own references but also on his efforts to pay tribute to Alentejo’s cultural heritage. In response to this endeavor, and particularly due to Manuel Ribeiro de Pavia, the artist who illustrated some of Antunes da Silva’s books, an appendix was dedicated to the illustrators of the literature under discussion.

Osteology and Miology

Ana Faustino — 2024-11-12

This book is the third in a didactic collection for the study of the anatomy (osteology and myology) of domestic animals for veterinary students. It deals with the osteology of the thoracic limb, describing the bony parts of the different anatomical regions, the main joints and movements, particularly the detailed anatomy of the canine forelimb. It also covers the main skeletal muscles of the thoracic limb, mentioning the bony landmarks of origin and muscle insertion for a better understanding of movements.

Using photographs of the bone parts and muscle dissection provides an engaging way to review the bones, and the specific areas where the muscles originate and insert, allowing a better understanding of the muscles that function as flexors and those that are extensors.

Finally, there is a short section on how to study these topics in the form of a practical protocol.

Cruzando la raya 4

Susana Gil Llinás — 2024-06-27

The proximity between Spanish and Portuguese is both an advantage and a drawback for Portuguese-speaking students who are beginning to study Spanish. The similarities between both languages allow learners to advance easily through the initial levels of Spanish, but, at the same time, cause recurrent interference mistakes that are commonly shared. Taking these peculiarities into account, the Cruzando la Raya 3 coursebook was created for university students of Spanish whose mother tongue is Portuguese. This coursebook follows a communicative and contrastive approach by offering explanations, semantic notes or exercises that emphasize the similarities and differences between Spanish and Portuguese in order to promote a more effective learning of the Spanish language.

Eugénio de Castro on the 100th Anniversary of his Spanish Celebration

Miguel Filipe Mochila — 2024-05-14

In 1922-1923, the Portuguese poet Eugénio de Castro [1969-1944] was received in Madrid for a series of public events. These events represent the peak of an unusual international reception for his contemporary Portuguese authors, which would make him a leading figure in the direction of national and transnational literary modernity. 100 years on, this volume aims to rehabilitate and reinterpret his work and his cultural action. To this end, it brings together essays by some of the leading specialists in the work of the Portuguese poet: José Carlos Seabra Pereira discusses the continuity, syncretism and pioneering nature of his poetry, between symbolism, decadentism, classicism, neo-romanticism and academicism. Paula Morão analyzes his chronicle production, highlighting the characteristics of a modern author and his mastery of the codes of the genre. Bruno Anselmi Matangrano demonstrates the vitality of one of Castro's most famous texts, Belkiss (1897), proposing an ecocritical interpretation. Finally, Miguel Filipe Mochila analyzes the intersection of Eugénio de Castro's poetry and critical positioning, under a decadentist tone, with some of the most important coeval Hispanic authors. The second part presents an anthology of the most relevant critical texts on Eugénio de Castro published in Castilian, here translated into Portuguese almost in their entirety for the first time. These texts prove the depth, diversity and longevity of his Hispanic reception, which touched names such as Rúben Darío, Leopoldo Lugones, Miguel de Unamuno, Rogelio Buendía, Carmen de Burgos, Enrique Díez-Canedo, Andrés González-Blanco, César González-Ruano, Mauricio Bacarisse or Pere Gimferrer.

ESSAYS ON LITERATURE AND WINE TOURISM

CARLA FERREIRA DE CASTRO — 2023-12-22

This volume, under the words of the poet António Barbosa Bacelar, dwells on the culture of vineyards and wine and brings together the contribution of several researchers who carry out their research in Portugal, Spain, France and Italy, from a dual perspective, which comprises the division into two distinct parts: on the one hand, literary studies that address the language and discourse surrounding wine, as well as wine culture in literature and history and, on the other, in the field of wine tourism, they analyse the ways in which wine and tourism intersect, studying issues related to territory, society and economy.

The first part, “Essays on Literature”, is dedicated to the analysis of the presence of wine in literature, following a generally chronological order, in presentation and in the subjects covered, following a path that starts from a general scope of the culture and civilization of the wine, to more particular domains, in an approach that is sometimes thematic, other times more focused on an analysis that privileges the study of an author.

The second part, “Essays on Wine Tourism”, includes three articles, which examine specific issues related to wine and tourism, from a contemporary perspective, located in geographical terms, and reporting case studies.