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Book SynopsisFernando Pessoa and the Lyric: Disquietude, Rumination, Interruption, Inspiration, Constellation is an in-depth exploration of Pessoa’s major innovations in lyric writing and thinking. This book is an original contribution to comparative literature and poetic theory that puts Pessoa side by side with several other poets. It delves into Pessoa’s poetic theory, with an emphasis on Livro do desassossego and the heteronymic drama, and discovers new approaches to reading and appreciating the lyric. Such Pessoan literary concepts as disquietude, rumination, interruption, inspiration, and constellation are carefully examined in relation to a number of different poets, yielding unprecedented results in comparative poetics.
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments
Introduction. The Truth of Fiction
Chapter One. The “Great Book,” Caeiro, and Pessoa’s Theory of Poetry
Chapter Two. The Tail of the Lizard: Pessoan Disquietude and the Subject of Modernity
Chapter Three. The Art of Rumination: Pessoa’s Heteronyms Revisited
Chapter Four. Poetic Interruption: A Pessoan Concept for Reading the Lyric
Chapter Five. ‘The God That Was Missing’: Poetry, Divinity, Everydayness
Chapter Six. Modernist Muses That Matter. Inspiration in Pessoa and Stevens
Chapter Seven. The Truant Muse and the Poet’s Body
Chapter Eight. Orpheu et al. Modernism, Women and the War
Chapter Nine. The Accidental Bridge: Hart Crane’s Theory of Poetry
Chapter Ten. Being Blind . Being Nobody . Being a Poet: Emily Dickinson “Reads” Fernando Pessoa
Bibliography
Source of Texts
Index
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