An introduction to the world of Fernando Pessoa (1888-1935), a fascinating and complex figure in European literary modernism and avant-garde. Adverse Genres in Fernando Pessoa describes how the enigmatic author combined traditional forms and modernist content. By separating form and content, or author and text, or self and non-self, Pessoa gives new life and character to historical genres for a modernist age. INDICE: Acknowledgments; Introduction. Deceiving the Messenger: To Be And Not To Be; 1.: Cannibal Rituals: Cultural Primitivism in 'A Very Original Dinner'; 2.: Waiting for the Ancient Mariner: A Theater of Immanence; 3.: Feigning Real Life: Heart and Mind in the Cancioneiro; 4.: Clearly Non-Campos!: Álvaro de Campos's Song of Non-Self; 5.: 'All Love Letters are Ridiculous:' Fernando's Sentimental Education; 6.: The Adventure of the Anarchist Banker; 7.: Alberto Caeiro's Other Version of Pastoral; 8.: Scientific Neoclassicism in the Odes of Ricardo Reis; 9.: History as Iconography: Messages from Beyond; 10.: The Book of Disquietude: The Anti-Artist and the Non-Book; 11.: The Mirror, theCoat Hanger, and the Pen: Pessoa's Labyrinth; Appendices; 1.: 'A Very Original Dinner' by Alexander Search; 2.: Locating the Odes of Ricardo Reis by edition; Bibliography; Index
- ISBN: 978-0-19-539121-3
- Editorial: Oxford University
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 384
- Fecha Publicación: 14/10/2010
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés