Brazil's Folk-Popular Poetry - A Literatura de Cordel: A Bilingual Anthology in English and Portuguese AUTH-3300919 What\'s In It For You

What\'s In It For You

Physical Info: 210 pages

A native of Atlanta

ISBN13: 9781426931222

Griffith is a professor at the Catholic University of America

Brazil's Folk-Popular Poetry - A Literatura de Cordel: A Bilingual Anthology in English and Portuguese AUTH-3300919 What\'s In It For YouBrazil's folk popular poetry "a literatura de cordel," is perhaps the most important and vibrant variant of poetry of the masses in western culture. But not many people in the English speaking world know much about it. Written by one of the most educated scholars on the subject, Brazil's Folk Popular Poetry A Literatura De Cordel goes back to the craft's origins in Portugal in the 17th and 18th centuries and tells the story of how it developed and