Memoirs for 'a Sunlit Doorstep': selfhood and cultural difference in Tomé Pinheiro da Veiga's Fastigínia

• Tipo: Capítulo ou Parte de Livro
• Data: 2021

Autores

Homem, Rui Carvalho (Autor) FLUP

Livro

Título: Exile, diplomacy and texts

Páginas: 103-129

ISBN: 978-90-04-27365-8

ISBN Eletrónico: 978-90-04-43804-0

Editora: Brill

Classificação Científica

CORDIS: Humanidades > Ciências da linguagem

Outras Informações

DOI: 10.1163/9789004438040_007

Abstract (EN): This is a study of cultural perplexities and images of national identity in Tomé Pinheiro da Veiga’s Fastigínia – an extensive, often rambling account by a Portuguese visitor to Valladolid at the time (1605) of the celebrations of the birth of the future Philip IV of Spain (and third of Portugal), and of the arrival and sojourn of an English embassy mandated to confirm the Anglo-Spanish peace.* The Fastigínia is seldom discussed, and even less so outside Iberian scholarly contexts. Drawing primarily on insights from imagology (the study of national representations), this essay argues the singularity of Pinheiro da Veiga’s text within Early Modern writing by stressing its cultivated uncertainties. These uncertainties bear on genre; on the relation between public and private profiles in the construction of an authorial persona; and prominently on the authority (informative, judicative) claimed or renounced by the first-person speaker throughout the text, within the various social environments in which he moves. (...)

Idioma: Inglês

Tipo (Avaliação Docente): Científica

Notas: Publication Date: 2020. Copyright Year: 2021 - Chapter 5