Ontological excess and metonymy in early-modern descriptions of Brazil: an amodern para-scientific approach to nature

This essay relies on and furthers a hypothesis advanced in previous research: that the well-known eccentricities to be found in the early-modern corpus of the Portuguese colonizers of Brazil—its references to entities like monsters and demons, its bizarre descriptions, and odd classification systems...

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Publicado en:	Vol 22 No 2 (2020)
Autor Principal:	Zir, Alessandro
Formato:	Artikel (Zeitschrift)
Idioma:	inglés
Publicado:	2020
Schlagworte:	English analogy Portuguese colonization figurative language ontolgy para-scientific words and things Brazil
Acceso en liña:	Acceso en liña
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