Conference "Space, the construction of the character and Camillian intertextuality in Domingos Monteiro"

Summary: In this communication, we try to illustrate the intertextuality between the two writers, Camilo Castelo Branco and Domingos Monteiro (both lived in the city of Vila Real and Domingos Monteiro was a student at the then Camilo Castelo Branco Central High School! ), based on an analysis of the short story "O Desconto", included in História das Horas Vagas, published in 1966, and the novel Eusébio Macário, in which there is even an intradiegetic reference to Camilo and an episode from that novel, which was later continued in A Corja.

Speaker: Fernando Alexandre Lopes

Biographical note: Fernando Alexandre de Matos Pereira Lopes (Viseu, 18/08/1965) is a Professor at the School of Education of the Polytechnic Institute of Viseu, where he holds the position of Director of the Department of Language Sciences and teaches various curricular units, for bachelor's and master's courses, in the area of Portuguese Language and Culture, Literature and Theater, Literature for Children, Literatures of Portuguese Expression and Didactics of Portuguese, as well as supervising and arguing Master's dissertations and Doctoral theses (his participation in juries of academic examinations at other universities has also been extended).

Holds a PhD in Literary Studies, specializing in Portuguese Literature, from the Trás-os-Montes and Alto Douro University  (UTAD), with a thesis on Space in the Short Stories and Novels of Domingos Monteiro: Faces of Lyricization and Topics of the Fantastic. In this specific field of literary spatiality, he has published several articles, most of which have been derived from his active participation in all editions of JOEEL (International Conference on the Study of Literary Space).

After graduating in Humanities in 1987 from the Catholic University - Viseu Campus, he studied for a Master's Degree in Classical Literature at the School of Letters of the University of Coimbra. In 1993, he defended his dissertation titled - Mestre João Fernandes: A "Oração Pública" de 1539.

He is a member of a number of scientific associations and research units; he has participated in numerous national and international congresses and has published in specialist journals.