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Fernando Pessoa's Modernity without Frontiers: Influences, Dialogues, Responses: 320
Author(s): Mariana Gray de Castro (Editor, Contributor), Anna M. Klobucka (Contributor), Antonio M. Feijo (Contributor), George Monteiro (Contributor), Helder Macedo (Contributor), Helena Buescu (Contributor), Jeronimo Pizarro (Contributor), Jose Blanco (Contributor), K. David Jackson (Contributor), Leyla Perrone-Moises (Contributor), Maria Irene Ramalho de Sousa Santos (Contributor), Mark Sabine (Contributor), Patrícia Silva McNeill (Contributor), Rhian Atkin (Contributor), Richard Zenith (Contributor), Rui Goncalves Miranda (Contributor), Steffen Dix (Contributor), Victor Mendes (Contributor)
- Publisher: Tamesis Books
- Publication Date: 18 July 2013
- Edition: 1st
- Language: English
- Print length: 264 pages
- ISBN-10: 1855662566
- ISBN-13: 9781855662568
Book Description
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to the haunting prose of The Book of Disquiet, from esoteric writings to personal letters, from reading notes to unpublished texts.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.
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