Author: Putnam, Samuel
Title: Marvelous Journey: A Survey of Four Centuries of Brazilian Writing
Description: New York, Octagon Books, 1971. Reprint. orig.cloth. 23x15cm, xvi,270,xii pp, A facsimile reprint of the 1948 edition.. Minor rubbing. A small chip from front fixed endpaper. VG. ¶ Contents: Backgrounds; Landscape Is Not All; Cutting the Umbilical; Legacy of the Tropical Forest; Toward Autonomy; Priests, Planters, Travelers; and the Birth of a Literature; The Epic Spirit and the Dawn of Nationalism; Bohemia in the Wilderness; Music of Parnassus; Arcady and the Rights of Man; The Romantic Liberation; Where the Sabía Sings; Tristful Tavern and a Condor Bard; Little Brunette and Noble Savage; The Rise of Regionalism; The Modern Spirit; Parnassians and Symbolists; Machado de Assis and the End-of-the Century Realists; From the Old Century to the New.

Keywords: Latin American Literature, Brazil, South America, Brazilian Poetry, Literary History, Criticism, , ,