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The Presence of Pessoa. English, American and Southern African Literary Responses.
George Monteiro
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Description for The Presence of Pessoa. English, American and Southern African Literary Responses.
Num Pages: 176 pages, portraits. BIC Classification: DSBH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 222 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 431.
Fernando Pessoa (1888--1935) is perhaps the most engaging of the great Western modernists of this century. Born in Portugal but raised and educated in southern Africa, Pessoa wrote poetry, fiction, and nonfiction.
George Monteiro provides refreshingly new interpretations of Pessoa's Mensagem ( Message) and the modernist novella 0 Banqueiro Anarquista ( The Anarchist Banker). But he is primarily interested in tracing Pessoa's influence on a wide range of contemporary writers.
Among those Monteiro finds putting Pessoa's work to their own surprising -- and sometimes comic -- uses are Joyce Carol Oates, Allen Ginsberg, John Wain, Lawrence ... Read more
Fernando Pessoa (1888--1935) is perhaps the most engaging of the great Western modernists of this century. Born in Portugal but raised and educated in southern Africa, Pessoa wrote poetry, fiction, and nonfiction.
George Monteiro provides refreshingly new interpretations of Pessoa's Mensagem ( Message) and the modernist novella 0 Banqueiro Anarquista ( The Anarchist Banker). But he is primarily interested in tracing Pessoa's influence on a wide range of contemporary writers.
Among those Monteiro finds putting Pessoa's work to their own surprising -- and sometimes comic -- uses are Joyce Carol Oates, Allen Ginsberg, John Wain, Lawrence ... Read more
Product Details
Publication date
1998
Publisher
The University Press of Kentucky United States
Number of pages
176
Condition
New
Number of Pages
176
Format
Hardback
Place of Publication
Lexington, United States
ISBN
9780813120539
SKU
V9780813120539
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