José Saramago: history, utopia, and the necessity of error
- Submitting institution
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University of Nottingham, The
- Unit of assessment
- 26 - Modern Languages and Linguistics
- Output identifier
- 1335758
- Type
- A - Authored book
- DOI
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- Publisher
- Legenda
- ISBN
- 9781781884546
- Open access status
- -
- Month of publication
- September
- Year of publication
- 2018
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
- No
- Criminology
- No
- Interdisciplinary
- No
- Number of additional authors
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0
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
- Yes
- Double-weighted statement
- This 134,000-word monograph unites over 15 years’ research, predominantly conducted in Portugal and Brazil, on Saramago. It is the first study in English dedicated to Saramago’s key cycle of five ‘historiographical’ novels from the 1980s. It explores the historical and literary context of Portugal and scrutinises Saramago’s relationship with a series of C20th Marxist philosophers. It draws on a wide range of ‘postmodern’ literary and theoretical texts to illuminate Saramago’s critique of Marxism and development of a novel form responsive to Portuguese preoccupations in the postmodern era.
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
- The book contains 90,000+ words of new material. Offering a significantly expanded and updated exploration of Saramago, it substantially reworks published material: [1] 8,000 words from “Saramago’s ‘Other’ Pessoas and ‘Pessoan’ Others” (2012), in Chapters 3 and 5; [2] 6,000 words from “Raised from the Ground after One Hundred Years of Solitude” (2006), in Chapter 1; passages from [3] the co-edited volume "Introduction" to In Dialogue with Saramago: Essays in Comparative Literature (2006) and [4] “Refitting the Lexicon of Resistance” (2011) were incorporated into the book's Introduction.
[1] and [4] were submitted to REF2014; [2] and [3] to RAE2008.
- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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