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    Name of Collection: NUPILL - Center for Research on Computing, Literature and Linguistics, Literature on Electronic Med
    URL of Collection: http://www.cce.ufsc.br/~nupill/literatura/english.html

    Name of Institution: Center for Research on Computing, Literature and Linguistics
    Institution URL: http://www.cce.ufsc.br/~nupill

    Description: Lovers of the Portuguese language and Brazilian literature have now free access through the Internet to a dedicated site named "Literature on Electronic Medium". The chief works of the most important Brazilian authors now on public domain -thus dead for more than 70 years - can be found on this site. These include works belonging to the various literary movements, such as the Baroque period, Romanticism, Realism and Naturalism, all the way to the beginnings of the Modernist period. They are available on line for reading or printing and include selected editions of the famous "Sermons", by Padre Antonio Vieira; "Caramuru", the epic poem by Santa Rita Durão; and "Capitu" and "Quincas Borba", by Machado de Assis, the internationally renowned writer who is often compared to Laurence Sterne and other British authors. More than 200 texts (fulltext). This research group studies the relationship between the computer and textual production. Some texts are translated into English.As NUPILL was created strictly for research purposes, access is entirely free.

    Main language of the collection: Portuguese
    Type of Material: Manuscripts, Printed documents, Photographs

 

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