O «ESTADO DA ARTE»: OS ESTUDOS LITERÁRIOS EM FORMA DE DICIONÁRIO/ENCICLOPÉDIA

Abstract

The analysis of the most important literature, characters or literary terms' dictionaries, as well as of the Biblos, Enciclopédia Verbo das Literaturas de Língua Portuguesa, published in Portugal throughout the 20th century and the first decades of the 21st, allows one to reflect on "the state of the art". This lets us infer literary knowledge as an uncontroversial synthesis of what, in other places, has led to disagreements. A clear example of that is the multitude of "theories of literature", following different trends, which the previous century left us with.