Blindfolded Eyes and the Eyable Being: Pessoa, the senses, and the 35 Sonnets

This article revisits Pessoa’s heteronymism (as performativity) in relation to the old issue of poetic unity/diversity. It examines Pessoa’s espistemological skepticism, while handling the five senses in the 35 Sonnets, in comparison and contrast with his so-called “obscene poems” and the rest of hi...

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Autor principal: Santos, M. Irene Ramalho (author)
Formato: article
Idioma:eng
Publicado em: 2016
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Texto completo:http://hdl.handle.net/10316/41745
País:Portugal
Oai:oai:estudogeral.sib.uc.pt:10316/41745
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Resumo:This article revisits Pessoa’s heteronymism (as performativity) in relation to the old issue of poetic unity/diversity. It examines Pessoa’s espistemological skepticism, while handling the five senses in the 35 Sonnets, in comparison and contrast with his so-called “obscene poems” and the rest of his poetry.