Fernando Pessoa's modernity without frontiers : influences, dialogues, responses

266 Pages·2013·9.79 MB·English

by  Pessoa

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SERIE A: MONOGRAFÍAS, 320
FERNANDO PESSOA’S MODERNITY
WITHOUT FRONTIERS
INFLUENCES, DIALOGUES AND RESPONSES
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FERNANDO PESSOA’S MODERNITY
WITHOUT FRONTIERS
INFLUENCES, DIALOGUES AND RESPONSES
Edited by
Mariana Gray de Castro
TAMESIS
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Contents
List of Illustrations vii
Acknowledgements x
List of Contributors xi
Foreword 1
Helder Macedo
Introduction 3
Mariana Gray de castro
Chronology of Pessoa’s Life and Work 9
ricHard ZenitH
Part i: influences
1 ‘o Deus que Faltava’: Pessoa’s theory of Lyric Poetry 23
M. irene raMalHo santos
2 Pessoa and Walt Whitman Revisited 37
ricHard ZenitH
3 the Poet as Hero: Pessoa and Carlyle 53
leyla Perrone-Moisés
4 Álvaro de Campos, english Decadent 63
GeorGe Monteiro
5 Pessoa’s Unmodernity: Ricardo Reis 75
Helena carvalHão Buescu
6 From FitzGerald’s Omar to Pessoa’s Rubaiyat 87
JeróniMo PiZarro
7 the solitary Reaper Between Men (and some Women) 101
anna M. KloBucKa
8 Mostrengos 113
rui Gonçalves Miranda
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Part ii: dialoGues
9 Inverted Aesthetics: Pessoa, Campos and António Botto’s 129
Canções
MarK saBine
10 Pessoa, Shakespeare’s Sonnets, and the Problem of 143
Gaspar Simões
Mariana Gray de castro
11 The Alchemical Path: Esoteric Influence in the Works of 157
Fernando Pessoa and W. B. Yeats
Patricia silva Mcneill
12 An Implausible Encounter and a Theatrical Suicide – its 169
Prologue and Aftermath: Fernando Pessoa and Aleister Crowley
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13 Bernardo Soares, Pig of Destiny! 181
rHian atKin
14 The Birth of Literature 193
antónio M. feiJó
15 The Ecology of Writing: Maria José’s Fernando Pessoa 201
victor K. Mendes
Part iii: resPonses
16 Patrícia Galvão on Pessoa in Brazil, 1955–61 217
K. david JacKson
17 Great Pessoans: A Tribute 233
José Blanco
Selected Bibliography 243
Index 246
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ILLUSTRATIONS
Figure 1. ‘Differences between Whitman and Caeiro are
clear.’ First two pages of the eight-page manuscript,
written in pencil on one large folded sheet of paper.
(Courtesy of the Portuguese National Library.) 48
Figure 2. Pessoa’s copy of Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám,
rendered into English verse by Edward Fitzgerald.
(Courtesy of Casa Fernando Pessoa.) 88
Figure 3. Diagrams featuring in automatic script from
Yeats’s Vision notebooks and Pessoa’s Notebook 2.
(Courtesy of the Portuguese National Library.) 161
Figure 4. Crowley’s suicide letter to Hanni Jaeger.
(Courtesy of the Portuguese National Library.) 174
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The publication of this book was supported
by the Luso-American Foundation
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