Embodying Pessoa: Corporeality, Gender, Sexuality

Published by University of Toronto Press 2007

Embodying Pessoa

Corporeality, Gender, Sexuality

Edited by: Anna Klobucka and Mark Sabine

In the series University of Toronto Romance Series

https://doi.org/10.3138/9781442627765

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About this book

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.

Author / Editor information

Klobucka Anna :

Anna Klobucka is an associate professor and chair in the Department of Portuguese at the University of Toronto.

Sabine Mark :

Mark Sabine is Lecturer in Lusophone Studies at the University of Nottingham.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Acknowledgments Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	ix
Introduction: Pessoa’s Bodies Anna M. Klobucka and Mark Sabine Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Part One: Corporeal Investigations
To Pretend Is to Know Oneself Dana Stevens Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	39
Strength, Contemplation, and Disquiet: Towards a Corporeal Aesthetic of the Heteronyms Alessandra M. Pires Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	52
Unburied Bodies: Abdication and Art Production in The Book of Disquiet Blake Strawbridge Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	71
Part Two: Reading Pessoa Queerly
Fernando Pessoa: The Homoerotic Drama Fernando Arenas Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	103
Fernando Pessoa, He Had His Nerve George Monteiro Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	124
‘Ever-repositioned mysteries’: Homosexuality and Heteronymity in ‘Antinous’ Mark Sabine Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	149
Part Three: (Dis)Placing Women
The Truant Muse and the Poet’s Body M. Irene Ramalho Santos Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	181
Kissing all Whores: Displaced Women and the Poetics of Modernity in Álvaro de Campos Kathryn Bishop-Sanchez Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	201
Together at Last: Reading the Love Letters of Ophelia Queiroz and Fernando Pessoa Anna M. Klobucka Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	224
Part Four: Pessoa in Performance
Appearances of the Author Fernando Cabral Martins Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	245
Automatic Romance: Pessoa’s Mediumistic Writings as Sexual Theatre Richard Zenith Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	258
Antonio Tabucchi in Search of Pessoa’s Heteronymous Body Francesca Billiani Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	273
Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	293
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	297

Language: English
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Audience: College/higher education;Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 336

eBook

Published: December 15, 2007
ISBN: 9781442627765