Dynamics of the Character: International Colloquium "Figuras da Ficção 5"

Authors

Carlos Reis
University of Coimbra
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6492-3486
Keywords: Character, figuration, afterlife, metalepse, narrative genres

Synopsis

This work brings together the production of researchers integrated in the project "Figures of Fiction", as well as other papers on the theme of this issue: "Dynamics of the Character". This theme focus on reflections on the transliterary vitality of the character and the movements of refiguration that it motivates. Therefore, the work concerns the literature, in several times and narrative genres, the cinema, the arts, the television, the publicity, the media speeches and the videogames, stressing the dynamism of the character, as a key category of the narrative

Author Biography

Carlos Reis, University of Coimbra

Carlos Reis is a tenured professor lecturing in Portuguese literature, literary theory, and Queirosian studies, as well as coordinator of the Portuguese Literature Center. As a visiting professor he lectured in numerous foreign universities, including the universities of Salamanca, Wisconsin-Madison, Santiago de Compostela, Massachusetts-Dartmouth, the Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul, and the State University of Rio de Janeiro. Reis directs the Critical History of Portuguese Literature and has published more than a dozen books in Portugal, Spain, Germany, France, and Brazil. Director of the National Library, president of the Associação Internacional de Lusitanistas, dean of the Open University (2006-2011), and president of the European Association of Distance Teaching Universities (2009-2011), Reis is a member of the Royal Spanish Academy, the Lisbon Academy of Sciences, and of the Academia Europaea. At the Portuguese Literature Center (CLP) he directs projects on the Critical Edition of the Works of Eça de Queirós and “Figuras da Ficção” [“Figures of Fiction”].

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Published
March 27, 2020

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ISBN-13 (15)
978-989-26-1940-8
doi
10.14195/978-989-26-1940-8

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