Lecture: Demystifying Portuguese National (Literary) Myths: "The Twelve of England”

Rogério Miguel Puga (FCSH-New University of Lisbon)

Title:  Demystifying Portuguese National (Literary) Myths: "The Twelve of England”

Local: Northrop Frye Hall 004
Date: Tuesday, September 22nd, 2015
Time: 1-2pm

This lecture will analyse the function and need of national myths as a way to create and maintain the idea of a shared past, a national sense of identity and figures of function as examples for the national 'imagined' community, while interpreting one of Portugal's most famous and enduring national literary myths, the episode of the Twelve of England, imortalised by Camões in his The Lusiads.

For more information on Professor Puga, please see:

http://portuguese-american-journal.com/miguel-puga-his-work-on-macau-and-his-wide-literary-interests-interview/