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Novas: Selected Writings
Haroldo de Campos
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Description for Novas: Selected Writings
Paperback. An introduction to one of the key literary figures to emerge from Brazil in the second half of the twentieth century, this book offers English-speaking readers an ample selection of this prodigious writer's celebrated poetry and widely influential critical work. Editor(s): Bessa, Antonio Sergio; Cisneros, Odile. Series: Avant-garde and Modernism Studies. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: DCF; DNF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 30. Weight in Grams: 703.
A generous introduction to one of the key literary figures to emerge from Brazil in the second half of the twentieth century, this book offers English-speaking readers an ample selection of this prodigious writer's celebrated poetry and widely influential critical work. As a poet and as a cofounder of the renowned group Noigandres. Haroldo de Campos made a unique and substantial contribution to the theory and practice of experimental writing, particularly the form known as concrete poetry, and to the Latin American avant-garde as a whole. These contributions, acclaimed worldwide by figures such as Umberto Eco, Jacques Derrida, Octavio Paz, ... Read more
A generous introduction to one of the key literary figures to emerge from Brazil in the second half of the twentieth century, this book offers English-speaking readers an ample selection of this prodigious writer's celebrated poetry and widely influential critical work. As a poet and as a cofounder of the renowned group Noigandres. Haroldo de Campos made a unique and substantial contribution to the theory and practice of experimental writing, particularly the form known as concrete poetry, and to the Latin American avant-garde as a whole. These contributions, acclaimed worldwide by figures such as Umberto Eco, Jacques Derrida, Octavio Paz, ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Northwestern University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Series
Avant-garde and Modernism Studies
Condition
New
Weight
661g
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
Evanston, United States
ISBN
9780810120303
SKU
V9780810120303
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About Haroldo de Campos
Haroldo de Campos (1929-2003) taught literary theory at the Pontificia Universidade Catolica in Sao Paulo for most of his life and published several volumes on translation theory and on Brazilian and international literature. He was a prolific translator who introduced the work of many foreign poets to Brazil, beginning in the early 1950s with Ezra Pound, and most recently Charles ... Read more
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