Fernando Pessoa S Modernity Without Frontiers

Author : Mariana Gray de Castro
Publisher : Tamesis Books
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781855662568

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Fernando Pessoa's Modernity Without Frontiers by Mariana Gray de Castro Pdf

Eighteen short essays by the most distinguished international scholars examine Pessoa's influences, his dialogues with other writers and artistic movements, and the responses his work has generated worldwide. Portuguese writer Fernando Pessoa claimed that he did not evolve, but rather travelled. This book provides a state of the art panorama of Pessoa's literary travels, particularly in the English-speaking world. Its eighteen short, jargon-free essays were written by the most distinguished Pessoa scholars across the globe. They explore the influence on Pessoa's thinking of such writers as Whitman and Shakespeare, as well as his creative dialogues with figuresranging from decadent poets to the dark magician Aleister Crowley, and, finally, some of the ways in which he in turn has influenced others. They examine many different aspects of Pessoa's work, ranging from the poetry of the heteronyms to the haunting prose of The Book of Disquiet, from esoteric writings to personal letters, from reading notes to unpublished texts. Fernando Pessoa's Modernity Without Frontiers is a valuable introduction to this multifaceted modern master, intended for both students of modern literature and general readers interested in one of its major figures.

Author : Irene Ramalho-Santos
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2022-01-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781666903140

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Fernando Pessoa and the Lyric by Irene Ramalho-Santos Pdf

Fernando Pessoa and the Lyric studies Pessoa’s poetic theory and practice, emphasizing Livro do desassossego and the heteronymic drama, and discovers new approaches to reading and appreciating the lyric. A number of Pessoan concepts are examined in relation to different poets, yielding unprecedented results in comparative studies of poetry.

Author : Martin P. Starr
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 457 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2024
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780197744512

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The Unknown God by Martin P. Starr Pdf

The Unknown God gives a view into the twentieth-century North American occult underground influenced by the English occultist and prophet Aleister Crowley, as told through the biography of his disciple in the USA, Wilfred Talbot Smith (1885--1957). It draws on accounts from Smith's social network, which encompassed Caltech rocket scientist Jack Parsons, the Rosicrucian leader H. Spencer Lewis, the Hollywood actor John Carradine, and gay liberationist Harry Hay. Students of esoteric Freemasonry, the Golden Dawn, the Theosophical Society, and the Crowley-based occult orders will find The Unknown God a fascinating resource--this is the book that connects them all.

Author : Thomas F. Glick,Elinor Shaffer
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 656 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2014-05-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781780937120

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The Literary and Cultural Reception of Charles Darwin in Europe by Thomas F. Glick,Elinor Shaffer Pdf

Beyond his pivotal place in the history of scientific thought, Charles Darwin's writings and his theory of evolution by natural selection have also had a profound impact on art and culture and continue to do so to this day. The Literary and Cultural Reception of Charles Darwin in Europe is a comprehensive survey of this enduring cultural impact throughout the continent. With chapters written by leading international scholars that explore how literary writers and popular culture responded to Darwin's thought, the book also includes an extensive timeline of his cultural reception in Europe and bibliographies of major translations in each country.

Author : Paul S. MacDonald
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 476 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2019-04-05
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780359197903

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Nature Loves to Hide: An Alternative History of Philosophy by Paul S. MacDonald Pdf

An alternative history of philosophy has endured as a shadowy parallel to standard histories, although it shares many of the same themes. It has its own founding texts in the late ancient Hermetica, from whence flowed three broad streams of thought: alchemy, astrology, and magic. These thinkers' attitude toward philosophy is not one of detached speculation but of active engagement, even intervention. It appeared again in the European Middle Ages, in the Renaissance with Rabelais, Paracelsus, Agrippa, Ficino, and Bruno; and in the early modern period with John Dee, Robert Fludd, Jacob Böhme, Thomas Browne, Kenelm Digby, van Helmont, and Isaac Newton. In the 18th-19th centuries, this book considers Lichtenberg's Fragments, Berkeley's Siris, Swedenborg, Hegel, von Baader, and great Romantics such as Novalis, Goethe, S. T. Coleridge, and E. A. Poe, as well as Nietzsche; and in the 20th century it turns to the great modernist literature of Fernando Pessoa, Robert Musil, Ernst Bloch, and P. K. Dick.

Author : Rhian Atkin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9781351560023

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Lisbon Revisited by Rhian Atkin Pdf

Twentieth-century Portugal saw dramatic political and social change. The monarchy was abolished, and a republic installed (1910), soon giving way to a long-lasting dictatorship (1926); a transition to democracy (1974) led to membership of the European Union (1986). But what do we know of how people lived during these periods? And how did men, in particular, respond to the changes taking place in society? In this illuminating and broad-ranging study, Rhian Atkin uses as case studies the work of Fernando Pessoa (1888-1935), Luis de Sttau Monteiro (1926-93) and Jose Saramago (1922-2010) in order to examine the relationship between socio-political change and the construction and performance of masculinities in the urban environment of Lisbon over the course of the last century.

Author : Richard Zenith
Publisher : Liveright Publishing
Page : 1088 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2021-07-20
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781324090779

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Pessoa: A Biography by Richard Zenith Pdf

Like Richard Ellmann’s James Joyce, Richard Zenith’s Pessoa immortalizes the life of one of the twentieth century’s greatest writers. Nearly a century after his wrenching death, the Portuguese poet Fernando Pessoa (1888–1935) remains one of our most enigmatic writers. Believing he could do “more in dreams than Napoleon,” yet haunted by the specter of hereditary madness, Pessoa invented dozens of alter egos, or “heteronyms,” under whose names he wrote in Portuguese, English, and French. Unsurprisingly, this “most multifarious of writers” (Guardian) has long eluded a definitive biographer—but in renowned translator and Pessoa scholar Richard Zenith, he has met his match. Relatively unknown in his lifetime, Pessoa was all but destined for literary oblivion when the arc of his afterlife bent, suddenly and improbably, toward greatness, with the discovery of some 25,000 unpublished papers left in a large, wooden trunk. Drawing on this vast archive of sources as well as on unpublished family letters, and skillfully setting the poet’s life against the nationalist currents of twentieth-century European history, Zenith at last reveals the true depths of Pessoa’s teeming imagination and literary genius. Much as Nobel laureate José Saramago brought a single heteronym to life in The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis, Zenith traces the backstories of virtually all of Pessoa’s imagined personalities, demonstrating how they were projections, spin-offs, or metamorphoses of Pessoa himself. A solitary man who had only one, ultimately platonic love affair, Pessoa used his and his heteronyms’ writings to explore questions of sexuality, to obsessively search after spiritual truth, and to try to chart a way forward for a benighted and politically agitated Portugal. Although he preferred the world of his mind, Pessoa was nonetheless a man of the places he inhabited, including not only Lisbon but also turn-of-the-century Durban, South Africa, where he spent nine years as a child. Zenith re-creates the drama of Pessoa’s adolescence—when the first heteronyms emerged—and his bumbling attempts to survive as a translator and publisher. Zenith introduces us, too, to Pessoa’s bohemian circle of friends, and to Ophelia Quieroz, with whom he exchanged numerous love letters. Pessoa reveals in equal force the poet’s unwavering commitment to defending homosexual writers whose books had been banned, as well as his courageous opposition to Salazar, the Portuguese dictator, toward the end of his life. In stunning, magisterial prose, Zenith contextualizes Pessoa’s posthumous literary achievements—especially his most renowned work, The Book of Disquiet. A modern literary masterpiece, Pessoa simultaneously immortalizes the life of a literary maestro and confirms the enduring power of Pessoa’s work to speak prophetically to the disconnectedness of our modern world.

Author : PauloDe Medeiros
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9781351554312

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Pessoa's Geometry of the Abyss by PauloDe Medeiros Pdf

"Fernando Pessoa wrote prolifically in many genres until his untimely death in 1935, and he has long been widely recognized as Portugal's most influential twentieth century writer. The publication of the Book of Disquiet in 1982, however, caused a seismic change in the appreciation of his work and its place in Modernism. In that great and vast collection of fragments, Pessoa firmly established his place among the canon of European modernists and radically questioned many of Modernity's assumptions. Alain Badiou, for example, has argued that philosophers are not yet able to assimilate Pessoa's thinking. Paulo de Medeiros's new study, one of the first to be dedicated to the Book of Disquiet, takes up that challenge, exploring the text's connections with photography, film, politics and textuality itself, and developing comparisons with D. H. Lawrence, Walter Benjamin, and Franz Kafka. Paulo de Medeiros is Professor of Modern and Contemporary World Literatures in the Department of English and Comparative Literary Studies at the University of Warwick."

Author : Maria Irene Ramalho Sousa Santos
Publisher : UPNE
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : American poetry
ISBN : 1584652209

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Atlantic Poets by Maria Irene Ramalho Sousa Santos Pdf

An important new reading of Portugal's greatest poet.

Author : Nadia Bartolini,Sara MacKian,Steve Pile
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2018-02-15
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781315398402

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Spaces of Spirituality by Nadia Bartolini,Sara MacKian,Steve Pile Pdf

Spirituality is, too often, subsumed under the heading of religion and treated as much the same kind of thing. Yet spirituality extends far beyond the spaces of religion. The spiritual makes geography strange, challenging the relationship between the known and the unknown, between the real and the ideal, and prompting exciting possibilities for charting the ineffable spaces of the divine which lie somehow beyond geography. In setting itself that task, this book pushes the boundaries of geographies of religion to bring into direct focus questions of spirituality. By seeing religion through the lens of practice rather than as a set of beliefs, geographies of religion can be interpreted much more widely, bringing a whole range of other spiritual practices and spaces to light. The book is split into three sections, each contextualised with an editors’ introduction, to explore the spaces of spiritual practice, the spiritual production of space, and spiritual transformations. This book intends to open to up new questions and approaches through the theme of spirituality, pushing the boundaries on current topics and introducing innovative new ideas, including esoteric or radical spiritual practices. This landmark book not only captures a significant moment in geographies of spirituality, but acts as a catalyst for future work.

Author : Maria do Rosário Monteiro,Mário S. Ming Kong,Maria João Pereira Neto
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 510 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2018-09-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780429680731

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Modernity, Frontiers and Revolutions by Maria do Rosário Monteiro,Mário S. Ming Kong,Maria João Pereira Neto Pdf

The texts presented in Proportion Harmonies and Identities (PHI) - MODERNITY, FRONTIERS AND REVOLUTIONS were compiled with the intent to establish a multidisciplinary platform for the presentation, interaction and dissemination of research. It also aims to foster awareness of and discussion on the topics of Harmony and Proportion with a focus on different visions relevant to Architecture, Arts and Humanities, Design, Engineering, Social and Natural Sciences, and their importance and benefits for the sense of both individual and community identity. The idea of modernity has been a significant driver of development since the Western Early Modern Age. Its theoretical and practical foundations have become the working tools of scientists, philosophers, and artists, who seek strategies and policies to accelerate the development process in different contexts.

Author : Francesca Pasciolla
Publisher : Critical, Cultural and Communications Press
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2017-04-26
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1905510497

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Walt Whitman in Fernando Pessoa by Francesca Pasciolla Pdf

This volume explores the dynamics that connect two of the most celebrated poets and intriguing literary figures of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, Walt Whitman and Fernando Pessoa. It focuses in particular on the role of the Portuguese Pessoa as reader of the North American writer, on the lessons he took from Leaves of Grass and, finally, on the reworking that he performed on Whitman's legacy. Whether characterized by a metaphor from chemistry (catalyst) or psychology (liberator), what is certain is that Whitman represented for the Portuguese poet a breach in his own writing practice, opening up a further plurality and an extended performance of the textual expression of the Real. Pessoa found in the verses of Leaves of Grass an encouragement to transcend his own limits and to embark upon a dramatic poetics, the most notable feature of which is perhaps heteronymy - his so-called drama em gente. It is legitimate, therefore, to think of the experimental dramatization in poetry undertaken by Pessoa as a challenging multiplicity of voicings and, as a consequence, for the reader, a reminder of the unrealizability of any critical synthesis. The refusal of linear conceptions (derivative, filial) of his writing and the elaboration of a literary project that might proceed by irradiating in multiple directions at one and the same time is, without doubt, one of the most important features of Pessoa's modernity. The gesture of writing thus ever differently may be viewed through a prism of contiguous accumulation, as a taking up again of the basic conception that the singer of Leaves of Grass had of poetry. Such a notion was for Pessoa an irresistible invitation to the infinite amplification of discontinuity.

Author : Paulo de Medeiros,Rosa Maria Martelo
Publisher : MHRA
Page : 187 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2020-11-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781839541070

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Modern Portuguese Poetry: Essays, Poems and Translations by Paulo de Medeiros,Rosa Maria Martelo Pdf

The present volume assembles, for the first time in English, a wide range of poetic voices and critical perspectives that illustrate the vibrancy and richness of contemporary Portuguese poetry. Special attention is given, in seven chapters, to the relations between poetry and the visual arts, to questions of gender, politics, language, and resistance. While aiming to make a unique contribution to Portuguese Studies, this book also invites scholars engaged in questions of Poetics across the board, to enter into a fresh dialogue.

Author : Achim Hölter
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 685 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2024-01-16
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783110641929

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The Languages of World Literature by Achim Hölter Pdf

Author : Sionaidh Douglas-Scott
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2013-04-30
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781782251194

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Law after Modernity by Sionaidh Douglas-Scott Pdf

How can we characterise law and legal theory in the twenty-first century? Law After Modernity argues that we live in an age 'after Modernity' and that legal theory must take account of this fact. The book presents a dynamic analysis of law, which focusses on the richness and pluralism of law, on its historical embeddedness, its cultural contingencies, as well as acknowledging contemporary law's global and transnational dimensions. However, Law After Modernity also warns that the complexity, fragmentation, pluralism and globalisation of contemporary law may all too easily perpetuate injustice. In this respect, the book departs from many postmodern and pluralist accounts of law. Indeed, it asserts that the quest for justice becomes a crucial issue for law in the era of legal pluralism, and it investigates how it may be achieved. The approach is fresh, contextual and interdisciplinary, and, unusually for a legal theory work, is illustrated throughout with works of art and visual representations, which serve to re-enforce the messages of the book.