Embodying Pessoa : : Corporeality, Gender, Sexuality / / Mark Sabine, Anna Klobucka.

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• TeilnehmendeR: Klobucka, Anna,; Sabine, Mark,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2016]; ©2007
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Series: University of Toronto Romance Series
• Physical Description: 1 online resource

he multifaceted and labyrinthine oeuvre of the Portuguese poet Fernando Pessoa (1888-1935) is distinguished by having been written and published under more than seventy different names. These were not mere pseudonyms, but what Pessoa termed 'heteronyms,' fully realized identities possessed not only of wildly divergent writing styles and opinions, but also of detailed biographies. In many cases, their independent existences extended to their publication of letters and critical readings of each other's works (and those of Pessoa 'himself').Long acclaimed in continental Europe and Latin America as a towering presence in literary modernism, Pessoa has more recently begun to receive the attention of an English-speaking public. Embodying Pessoa responds to this new growth of interest. The collection's twelve essays, preceded by a general introduction and grouped into four themed sections, apply a range of current interpretative models both to the more familiar canon of Pessoa's output, and to less familiar texts - in many cases only recently published. As a whole, this work diverges from traditional Pessoa criticism by testifying to the importance of corporeal physicality in his heteronymous experiment and to the prominence of representations of (gendered) sexuality in his work.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Pessoa's Bodies / Klobucka, Anna M. / Sabine, Mark -- Part One: Corporeal Investigations -- To Pretend Is to Know Oneself / Stevens, Dana -- Strength, Contemplation, and Disquiet: Towards a Corporeal Aesthetic of the Heteronyms / Pires, Alessandra M. -- Unburied Bodies: Abdication and Art Production in The Book of Disquiet / Strawbridge, Blake -- Part Two: Reading Pessoa Queerly -- Fernando Pessoa: The Homoerotic Drama / Arenas, Fernando -- Fernando Pessoa, He Had His Nerve / Monteiro, George -- 'Ever-repositioned mysteries': Homosexuality and Heteronymity in 'Antinous' / Sabine, Mark -- Part Three: (Dis)Placing Women -- The Truant Muse and the Poet's Body / Ramalho Santos, M. Irene -- Kissing all Whores: Displaced Women and the Poetics of Modernity in Álvaro de Campos / Bishop-Sanchez, Kathryn -- Together at Last: Reading the Love Letters of Ophelia Queiroz and Fernando Pessoa / Klobucka, Anna M. -- Part Four: Pessoa in Performance -- Appearances of the Author / Martins, Fernando Cabral -- Automatic Romance: Pessoa's Mediumistic Writings as Sexual Theatre / Zenith, Richard -- Antonio Tabucchi in Search of Pessoa's Heteronymous Body / Billiani, Francesca -- Contributors -- Index