Poéticas modernistas e os discursos das ciências

• Author(s): Vasconcelos, Filomena
• Date: 2001
• Persistent ID: http://hdl.handle.net/10216/8505
• Origin: Repositório Aberto da Universidade do Porto
• Subject(s): Modernismo; Literatura
• Document Type: Journal article
• Language: Portuguese

Description

Modernist poetics are largely influenced by important scientific changes that took place in the western world in the early decades of the 20th century. Questions raised by a new perception and knowledge of reality and truth mainly in the fields of mathematics and physics, together with a new philosophical altitude, brought along a linguistic and literary openess to innovating ways of conceiving language in its various and multiform functions and uses. Apart from a theoretical approach to the subject, and and occasional reference to the Portuguese modernist poet Mário de Sá-Carneiro, special emphasis is given to some English modernist writers like Joyce, Eliot and Pound.