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The Traveling Eye: Retrospection, Vision, and Prophecy in the Portuguese Renaissance

Fernando Gil and Helder Macedo, With a contribution by Luís de Sousa Rebelo

Translation team
Anna Klobucka, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
Kenneth Krabbenhoft, New York University
K. David Jackson, Yale University
Richard Zenith, Lisbon (Coordinator)

 


 

// HIGHLIGHTS

 Timetable as of August 4, 2008.

July-August, 2008. Manuscript editing in progress.

Auust 31, 2008. Manuscript editing complete.

September 1-4. Final review of MS chapters. Send to Editor 1st week in September.

Fall 2008. Book available.


 

// TABLE OF CONTENTS [New order; different from the Portuguese edition]

Reviewed

Chapter I [Translation K.  David Jackson, Yale University. Deadline: August 1, 2005.]

1. The Poetics of Truth in The Lusiads (Helder Macedo) [[Reviewed by HM]]
    Notes

2. The Lusiads Effect (Fernando Gil) [[MS Editing Completed.]]

    I  Cantos and Contents
       Voyage and Foundation

    II  Veri-diction and Validation
        Syntax: Aspects, Tenses, Persons, Modes
        The Strangeness of Experience
        Semantics: The Hypostasis of Foundation
        Global Effects

    III The Failure of The Lusiads (1): Pathos and Ideology
         The Failure of The Lusiads (2): The Persistence of Bacchus
         The Failure of The Lusiads (3): Imaginative Shortcoming
         Useless Service, Glorious and Miserable Love
         Postscript to Complicate Matters
         Notes

3.  The Traveling Eye: The Seas of The Lusiads (Fernando Gil) [[MS Editing Completed.]]
     The Planes of Vision, or Voyage as Possibility
     The Immediacy of Vision, or The Syntax of the Map
     The Super-reality of Vision
     Notes

Chapter II [Translation Kenneth Krabbenhoft, New York University. Deadline: August 1, 2005.]
Fernão Lopes on the Seventh Age and the House of Avis  (Helder Macedo) [[Reviewed by HM]]
1.  Functional Truth
2.  History as Prophecy
3.  The Virtuous Benefit of the New Order
4.  King Duarte, or The Imperatives of Reason
Notes

Chapter III [Translation Kenneth Krabbenhoft, New York University. Deadline: August 1, 2005.]

1.  Sixteenth-Century Portuguese Chronicles  (Luís de Sousa Rebelo) [[Reviewed by HM]]
2.  The Deceiving Eye  (Helder Macedo) [[Reviewed by HM]]

Chapter IV [Translation Kenneth Krabbenhoft, New York University. Deadline: August 1, 2005.]

1.  Sá de Miranda and the Ambiguities of Knowledge  (Helder Macedo) [[Reviewed by HM]]
2.  The Obscurities of the I  (Fernando Gil) [[MS Editing Completed]]
Notes

Chapter V [Translation Anna Klobucka, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth. Deadline: August 1, 2005.]

1.  Bernardim Ribeiro's Obscure Clarities  (Helder Macedo) [[Reviewed by HM]]
     2.1  The Book and What Is Written in It
     2.2  Duplications of Self
     2.3  The Vision of Love and the Immanence of Death
     Notes

2.  Modes of Absent Love  (Fernando Gil)  [[MS Editing Completed]]
     Ways of Reading
     Mode of Life: Sorrow, Misfortune, Exile
     Love
     On the Mode of Love's (Not) Being
     On the Mode of (Not) Knowing Love
     Mode of Telling
     Anamnesis and Foundation
     Lamentor and Belisa: The Modality of Existence and Non-Existence
     Bimarder and Aónia: The Modality of Necessity and Contingency
     Avalor and Arima: The Modality of Possibility and Impossibility
     The Soma and the Silence
     Notes

3.  Convergence and Dissent  (Helder Macedo)  [[Reviewed by HM]]
     Notes

Chapter VI [Translation Richard Zenith. Deadline: August 1, 2005.]

Appetite and Reason in Camões' Lyric Poetry  (Helder Macedo)  [[Reviewed by HM]]

Chapter VII [Translation Richard Zenith. Deadline: August 1, 2005.] 

Nationalism and Pastoralism  (Helder Macedo)  [[Reviewed by HM]]

Notes

Chapter VIII [Translation Kenneth Krabbenhoft, New York University. Deadline: August 1, 2005.]

Two Views of António Vieira (Fernando Gil)  [[MS Editing Completed]]

Notes

1.  How to Prove Prophecy: Base the Original on the Copy
    The Syllogism of the Prophecy
    António Vieira in the Prophetic Tradition
    Operations and Objects, Expectation and Fulfillment
    The Unfolding of the Prophecy and its Problems
    Consequence: "The King Must Resurrect"
    The Major Premise: "Bandarra Was a True Prophet"
    The Minor Premise: "Bandarra Prophesied the Still Incomplete Deeds of the Dead King"
    Realism and Intuition: The "Probable" Prophecy
    Deduction or Abduction? The Future in the Present
    Hallucination and Abduction: The King's Resurrection
    Notes

2. The Coming of the Fifth Empire and Biblical Prophecy  [[MS Editing Completed]]

[Editor's note] Note on the authors here. 

[Editor's note] Note on the translators here.

Index [[TBA]]

[Editor's note: the poems will appear in English and in Portuguese.]

Sponsors (translation from the Portuguese):

Instituto Português do Livro e das Bibliotecas
Fundação Luso-Americana
Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian


 

 

 



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