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  • Obra Poética Completa de Castro Alves

    by Castro Alves ...
    Como principal representante da poesia condoreira e maior poeta lírico e épico do Brasil, Castro Alves se utiliza de uma linguagem eloquente e grandiosa para denunciar os horrores da escravidão e lutar pela liberdade dos escravos, motivo pelo qual é conhecido como "Poeta dos Escravos". Foi também o poeta do amor, sua poesia amorosa descreve a beleza e a sedução do corpo da mulher.Este volume reúne ... Read more

    $1.99 USD

  • Espumas Flutuantes

    by Castro Alves ...
    “Espumas Flutuantes” é uma coletânea de poemas de Castro Alves e sintetizam todas as características inovadoras dele. O título incomum transmite uma poderosa idéia de transitoriedade: o desalentado poeta sente sua vida esvair-se, como as espumas no mar agitado, frente à iminência da morte (de fato, ele morreria menos de 1 ano após a publicação, em 1871). A antologia inclui poemas notáveis, como: O ... Read more

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  • Applied Linguistics in the Global South

    Ethical Human Relations Within and Beyond the Academia

    by Alex Alves Egido, Giuliana Castro Brossi, Barbra Sabota, Christiane Rocha Novas, Fernanda Coelho Liberali, Gabriel Nascimento dos Santos, Diogo Oliveira do Espírito Santo, Viviane Pires Viana Silvestre, Marisol Patricia Saucedo Revollo Lage0, Rosane Rocha Pessoa1, Nicolas de Oliveira Santos2, Vanessa Cristina da Cunha Caires3, Ricardo Regis de Almeira4, Jhuliane Evelyn da Silva5, Ariovaldo Lopes Pereira6, Suellen Thomaz de Aquino Martins7, Melina Porta8 ...
    Applied Linguistics in the Global South: Ethical Human Relations Within and Beyond the Academia emerges from conversations between scholars interested in discussing all the pains, crises, and difficulties on the path to establishing themselves in academia. Through these dialogues, this book creates a space in which applied linguists can exist, feel, relate, think, and research themselves as human, ... Read more

    $80.99 USD

  • Music and the Making of Portugal and Spain

    Nationalism and Identity Politics in the Iberian Peninsula

    by Paulo Ferreira de Castro, Igor Contreras Zubillaga, Vera Marques Alves, Eva Moreda Rodríguez, Leonor Losa, Pedro Moreira, Hugo Castro, Diego García-Peinazo, Ricardo Andrade, Héctor Fouce, Fernán del Val, Josep Martí, Cristina Sánchez-Carretero, Cristina Cruces Roldán ...
    How music embodies and contributes to historical and contemporary nationalismWhat does music in Portugal and Spain reveal about the relationship between national and regional identity building? How do various actors use music to advance nationalism? How have state and international heritage regimes contributed to nationalist and regionalist projects? In this collection, contributors explore these ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

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