CUNHA, EUCLIDES DA

āˌooklēˈdĭsh dä kooˈnyə, 1866–1909, Brazilian writer. After his military service, Cunha became a civil engineer and a journalist. He wrote several historical works but is remembered for only one book, Os sertões (1902, tr. Rebellion in the Backlands, 1944), an account of a rebellion against the Brazilian government led by a religious fanatic, Antônio Conselheiro, in 1896–97. The book is a pessimistic narrative, embellished with lengthy descriptions of the Brazilian landscape and living conditions; it is primarily concerned with the state of mankind in Brazil. Its power and sincerity counterbalance its complexity of style and racist doctrine.

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books on: Cunha Euclides Da  - 116 results

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Brazilian Culture: An Introduction to the Study of Culture in Brazil
Book by Fernando de Azevedo, William Rex Crawford; Macmillan, 1950
Subjects: Brazil--Civilization, Brazil--Intellectual Life, Education--Brazil
...spirit -- Machado de Assis and Euclides da Cunha -- Essay ists, critics, and...State Archives of Sao Paulo. Euclides da Cunha born in State of Rio, 1866, died at Rio, 1909 . Bust of Euclides da Cunha in Sao Jose do Rio Pardo, state...
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Entangled Edens: Visions of the Amazon
Book by Candace Slater; University of California Press, 2002
Subjects: Amazon River Region--Description And Travel, Amazon River Region--Public Opinion, Myth, Utopias--Amazon River Region
...a direct effect on early-nineteenth-century writers such as Theodore Roosevelt and the great Brazilian essayist Euclides da Cunha, who will reappear in chapter 8. Even the salty narrator of H. M. Tomlinsons The Sea and the Jungle is quick...
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Myth and Archive: A Theory of Latin American Narrative
Book by Roberto Gonzalez Echevarria; Duke University Press, 1998
Subjects: Fiction, Latin American Fiction--History And Criticism--Theory, Etc, Literature And History, Myth In Literature, Narration (Rhetoric)
...narrative prose. Sarmiento and Euclides da Cunha are more important in that history...already been the subject of Euclides da Cunha classic Os Sertoes 1902...Francisco 1880 , and Euclides da Cunha Os Sertoes 1902 describe...
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Encyclopedia of the Essay
Book by Tracy Chevalier; Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, 1997
Subjects: Essay--Encyclopedias, Essay--History And Criticism--Encyclopedias
...Cuadernos Americanos Paulo Freire Euclides da Cunha French Essay Ernst Robert...has a circulation of about 4500. DA has presented works by nearly every...and Gunter Kunert. Essays in DA have often provided the theoretical...
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Third World Literary Fortunes: Brazilian Culture and Its International Reception
Book by Piers Armstrong; Bucknell University Press, 1999
Subjects: Brazil--Civilization, Brazilian Literature--19th Century--History And Criticism, Brazilian Literature--20th Century--History And Criticism, Brazilian Literature--Appreciation--Foreign Countries
...number of scholars, particularly Euclides da Cunha, Gilberto Freyre, Sdrgio Buarque de Holanda, and Ro- berto da Matta. The cultural context which...except in her last work, A Hora da Es- trela). Cabral and Guimaraes...
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Talking Maps: Region and Revolution in Juan Vincent Benet and Euclides Da Cunha
Journal article by Thomas O. Beebee; Comparative Literature, Vol. 47, 1995
Subjects: Benet, Juan Vincent, Cunha, Euclides da (1866-1909), Geography, Literary criticism, Novels
...Revolution in Juan Vincent Benet and Euclides Da Cunha by Thomas O. Beebee LACAN...military engineer and journalist Euclides da Cunha, transcend such solidarity with...January 1994. Candido, Antonio. "Euclides da Cunha Sociologo." Estado de Sao Paulo...
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Modernity and Femininity in 'He and She' by Julia Lopes De Almeida
Journal article by Darlene J. Sadlier; Studies in Short Fiction, Vol. 30, 1993
Subjects: Almeida, Julia Lopes de--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Language and languages--Sex differences, Sex role--Portrayals, depictions, etc.
...Lorente. Boston: Four Seas, 1920. Cunha, Euclides da. Rebellion in the Backlands. Trans...1944. Grieco, Agrippino. Evolucao da Prosa Brasileira. Rio de Janeiro...26.1 (1989): 45-47. ---. "O Crime da Galeria Crystal, em 1909: A Jornalista...
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Canudos Revisited: Cunninghame Graham, Vargas Llosa and the Messianic Tradition
Journal article by John Walker; Symposium, Vol. 41, 1987
Subjects: Cunninghame Graham, R. B--(Robert Bontine)--1852-1936, Messianism In Literature, Vargas Llosa, Mario--1936-
...of Canudos, immortalized by Euclides da Cunha in Os sertoes ( 1902...The novel is dedicated to "Euclides da Cunha en el otro mundo ." Nowhere...admit that there is much of Euclides da Cunha in Cunninghame Graham--perhaps...
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Brazilian International Identity and Foreign Policy: Past, Present, and Future
Journal article by Celso Lafer; Daedalus, Vol. 129, 2000
Subjects: Brazil--Foreign relations, Group identity--Brazil
...the Republic, as pointed out by Euclides da Cunha. 11 Only when the U.S. Manifest...Perspectiva, 1972), 160-184. (11.) "Euclides da Cunha, "Contrasres e Confrontos," in...318, 322. (43.) Pedro Penner da Cunha, A Diplomacia da Paz: Rui Barbosa...
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Bosi, Alfredo. Literatura E Resistencia
Journal article by Jaime Ginzburg; Chasqui, Vol. 32, 2003
Subjects: Literatura e resistencia (Libro)
...estuda, entre outros, Lima Barreto e Graciliano Ramos. Os dois livros tem em comum a presenca de reflexoes sobre Euclides da Cunha. Chamam a atencao as discussoes conceituais, que incluem elaboracoes da nocao de critica em Candido, e uma larga...
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magazine articles on: Cunha Euclides Da  - 4 results

 
 
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Notes from the Global Church
Magazine article by Philip Jenkins; The Christian Century, Vol. 125, October 7, 2008
Subjects: Conselheiro, Antonio--Appreciation, Conselheiro, Antonio--Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Cunha, Euclides da--Works, Pentecostalism--Growth, Pentecostalism--History, Preachers--Appreciation, Preachers--Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Rebellion in the Backlands (Nonfiction work)--Authorship, Sociologists--Works
...Rebellion in the Backlands (1902), by Euclides da Cunha, forces us to rethink the modern...undeveloped hinterland, the Sertoes. Da Cunha accompanied the government forces...this vast and baffling phenomenon, da Cunha wrote an encyclopedic account of...
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The Devil Is Real : Mario Vargas Llosa Attempts to Depict the Final Days of the Dominican Tyrant Rafael Trujillo Yet Cannot Make the Dictator Come Alive as a Human Being
Magazine article by Alfred Mac Adam; World and I, Vol. 17, April 2002
Subjects: Dictators--Portrayals, Vargas Llosa, Mario--Criticism and interpretation
...was there that he read Euclides da Cunhas Revolt in the Backlands...clearly identifies with da Cunha, whose visit to the battlefields...withdrawal and simplification, da Cunha, in Vargas Llosas interpretation...hilarious. The idea that da Cunha could be transformed into...
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The Two Brazils
Magazine article by Kenneth Maxwell; The Wilson Quarterly, Vol. 23, Winter 1999
Subjects: Brazil--Economic aspects, Economic development--Brazil, Economic indicators--Brazil, Politics--Brazil, Social indicators--Brazil
...ago and immortalized by the great Brazilian essayist Euclides da Cunha in his Rebellion in the Backlands, and more recently...slaughter in the backlands so brilliantly immortalized by Euclides da Cunha and Vargas Llosa. The great 20th-century Brazilian...
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Wry Modernist of Brazil's Past: Often Considered the Father of His Country's Literature, Machado De Assis Created Humorous and Dark Works of Implicit Social Criticism, Free of the Conventions of His Nineteenth-Century Rio
Magazine article by David A. Taylor; Americas (English Edition), Vol. 54, November 2002
Subjects: Assis, Joaquim Maria Machado de--Influence, Assis, Joaquim Maria Machado de--Works, Authors, Brazilian--Influence, Authors, Brazilian--Works
...appreciate the father of Brazilian literature. "I admit that when I was younger I preferred Machados contemporary Euclides da Cunha--that dense and wonderful writing, that implicit strength and comprehension" of the man from Brazils Northeast. But...


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newspaper articles on: Cunha Euclides Da  - 1 result

 
 
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Amazing Amazon: Tucunare Provide Big Battle on a Fishing Trip to Brazil
Newspaper article by Gene Mueller; The Washington Times, October 3, 1999
...Brazil by Gene Mueller "The Amazon is the last unwritten page of Genesis." - Geographer/novelist Euclides da Cunha (from "Amazon Up Close," by Pamela Bloom) URUCURA, Brazil - Those blasted iridescent-green hornets would not leave...


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encyclopedia articles on: Cunha Euclides Da  - 3 results

 
 
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Cunha, Euclides Da
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
CUNHA, EUCLIDES DA a ookle dish da koo ny , 1866 1909, Brazilian writer. After his military service, Cunha became a civil engineer and a journalist. He wrote several historical...
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SertÃo
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...cangaceiros ), and religious fanatics, has been a source of inspiration for numerous Brazilian writers (notably Euclides da Cunha). See B. J. Chandler, The Feitosas and the Sertao dos Inhamuns (1972); K. Webb, The Changing Face of Northeast...
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Brazilian Literature
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...the Brazilian scene. The Twentieth Century In 1902 Euclides da Cunha wrote his masterly description of an uprising in the...1902), a pessimistic novel of ideas by Jose Pereira da Graca Aranha, appeared in the same year, and the childrens...


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