TY - BOOK ID - 78342922 TI - Luso-Brazilian encounters of the sixteenth century : a styles of thinking approach PY - 2011 SN - 1611470218 9781611470215 9781611470208 161147020X PB - Lanham, Maryland ; Plymouth, England : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Portuguese prose literature KW - Ontology in literature. KW - Colonies in literature. KW - Neoplatonism KW - Ontology KW - Portuguese literature KW - Being KW - Philosophy KW - Metaphysics KW - Necessity (Philosophy) KW - Substance (Philosophy) KW - Alexandrian school KW - Church history KW - Hellenism KW - Philosophy, Ancient KW - Platonists KW - Theosophy KW - History and criticism. KW - History KW - Brazil KW - al-Barāzīl KW - Barāzīl KW - Brasil KW - Brasile KW - Brasilia KW - Brasilië KW - Brasilien KW - Brazili KW - Brazili Federativlă Respubliki KW - Brazilia KW - Brazilië KW - Brazilii︠a︡ KW - Brazilii︠a︡ Federativ Respublikaḣy KW - Braziliya KW - Braziliya Federativ Respublikası KW - Brazilská federativní republika KW - Brazylia KW - Brésil KW - Burajiru KW - Federale Republiek van Brasilië KW - Federative Republic of Brazil KW - Federativna republika Brazil KW - Federativna republika Brazilii︠a︡ KW - Federat︠s︡iėm Respublikė Brazil KW - Fedėratyŭnai︠a︡ Rėspublika Brazilii︠a︡ KW - Gweriniaeth Ffederal Brasil KW - Pa-hsi KW - Pa-se KW - Pa-se Liân-pang Kiōng-hô-kok KW - Pederatibong Republika sa Brasil KW - Pindorama KW - República Federal del Brasil KW - Republica Federale di u Brasile KW - Republica Federativa del Brazil KW - República Federativa do Brasil KW - Rèpublica fèdèrativa du Brèsil KW - Republik Kevreel Brazil KW - République fédérative du Brésil KW - Tantasqa Republika Wrasil KW - Tetã Pindorama KW - Wrasil KW - Федэратыўная Рэспубліка Бразілія KW - Федеративна република Бразилия KW - Федерациэм Республикэ Бразил KW - Бразил KW - Бразили KW - Бразили Федеративлă Республики KW - Бразилия KW - Бразилия Федератив Республикаhы KW - Бразілія KW - البرازيل KW - برازيل KW - ブラジル KW - Discovery and exploration KW - In literature. KW - Historiography. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:78342922 AB - As it happens with other early-Modern corpora, the descriptive texts from 16th-century encounters of the Portuguese colonizers in Brazil are well-known for their strangeness. In them we find references to entities like monsters and demons, bizarre descriptions, and odd classification systems of plants and animals. For the most part, these elements are dismissed as mere eccentricities by modern scholars studying these texts. Instead, this book takes these elements seriously. They are focused on and tackled with a theoretical tool-styles of thinking-not yet used in Luso-Brazilian studies, and co ER -