Embodying Pessoa : Corporeality, Gender, Sexuality.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (314 pages)
- University of Toronto Romance Series .
- University of Toronto Romance Series .
Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Pessoa's Bodies -- Part One: Corporeal Investigations -- To Pretend Is to Know Oneself -- Strength, Contemplation, and Disquiet: Towards a Corporeal Aesthetic of the Heteronyms -- Unburied Bodies: Abdication and Art Production in The Book of Disquiet -- Part Two: Reading Pessoa Queerly -- Fernando Pessoa: The Homoerotic Drama -- Fernando Pessoa, He Had His Nerve -- 'Ever-repositioned mysteries': Homosexuality and Heteronymity in 'Antinous' -- Part Three: (Dis)Placing Women -- The Truant Muse and the Poet's Body -- Kissing All Whores: Displaced Women and the Poetics of Modernity in Álvaro de Campos -- Together at Last: Reading the Love Letters of Ophelia Queiroz and Fernando Pessoa -- Part Four: Pessoa in Performance -- Appearances of the Author -- Automatic Romance: Pessoa's Mediumistic Writings as Sexual Theatre -- Antonio Tabucchi in Search of Pessoa's Heteronymous Body -- Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Z.
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.
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Pessoa, Fernando,-1888-1935-Criticism and interpretation. Heteronyms. Gender identity in literature.