Adverse genres in Fernando Pessoa:
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Main Author: Jackson, K. David 1944- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York Oxford University Press 2010
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Online Access:DE-384
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Item Description:Includes bibliographical references and index
Deceiving the messenger: To be and not to be -- Cannibal rituals: cultural primitivism in "A very original dinner" -- Waiting for the Pessoa's Ancient mariner: a theater of immanence -- Feigning real life: heart and mind in the Cancioneiro -- Clearly non-campos!: Álvaro De Campos's song of non-self -- "All love letters are ridiculous:" Fernando's sentimental education -- The adventure of the anarchist banker -- Alberto Caeiro's other version of pastoral -- Scientific neoclassicism in the odes of Ricardo Reis -- History as iconography: messages from beyond -- The book of disquietude: the anti-artist and the non-book -- The mirror, the coat hanger, and the pen: Pessoa's labyrinth -- Appendices -- "A very original dinner" by Alexander Search -- Locating the odes of Ricardo Reis by edition
Poet, short-story writer, feverish inventor--Fernando Pessoa was one of the most innovative figures shaping European modernism. Known for a repertoire of works penned by multiple invented authors--which he termed heteronyms--the Portuguese writer gleefully subverted the notion of what it means to be an author. Adverse Genres in Fernando Pessoa offers an introduction to the fiction and the "profusion of selves" that populates the enigmatic author's uniquely imagined oeuvre. To guide readers through the eclectic work fashioned by Pessoa's heteronyms, K. David Jackson advances the idea
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (xiv, 268 pages)
ISBN:9780199741700
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