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The Sea, the City, and the Machine: the queer modernism of Hart Crane and Álvaro de Campos
| Resumo: | This dissertation aims to contribute to the debate surrounding the intersections of Anglo- American and Portuguese modernisms, through a comparative approach that reads a representative corpus of poems by Álvaro de Campos, and another set of poems by Hart Crane according to three vectors of comparison (the sea, the city, and the machine), predicated on a queer reading of their poetry. As critics have remarked, it is highly unlikely that the two poets ever read — and much less met — each other. However, both show overlapping concerns with gender and sexuality articulated through the three highlighted vectors, which contribute to what is suggested in the title of this paper as a “queer modernism”, a concept used by critic Niall Munro. I contend that the relation Crane and Campos establish with their literary and sociohistorical contexts is mediated by gender and sexuality and operates on a permanent tension between belonging and escaping, which are often conveyed through a conflict between the material and the intellectual selves — the mind and the body. |
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| Autores principais: | Gabriel, João Miguel Palaio de Almeida |
| Assunto: | Pessoa, Fernando, 1888-1935 - Crítica e interpretação Crane, Hart, 1899-1932 - Crítica e interpretação Poesia portuguesa - séc.20 - Temas, motivos Poesia americana - séc.20 - Temas, motivos Literatura comparada - Americana e portuguesa Modernismo (Literatura) Sexualidade - Na literatura Identidade sexual - Na literatura Mar - Na literatura Cidades - Na literatura Eu - Na literatura Teoria queer Teses de mestrado - 2022 |
| Ano: | 2022 |
| País: | Portugal |
| Tipo de documento: | dissertação de mestrado |
| Tipo de acesso: | acesso aberto |
| Instituição associada: | Universidade de Lisboa |
| Idioma: | inglês |
| Origem: | Repositório da Universidade de Lisboa |
| Resumo: | This dissertation aims to contribute to the debate surrounding the intersections of Anglo- American and Portuguese modernisms, through a comparative approach that reads a representative corpus of poems by Álvaro de Campos, and another set of poems by Hart Crane according to three vectors of comparison (the sea, the city, and the machine), predicated on a queer reading of their poetry. As critics have remarked, it is highly unlikely that the two poets ever read — and much less met — each other. However, both show overlapping concerns with gender and sexuality articulated through the three highlighted vectors, which contribute to what is suggested in the title of this paper as a “queer modernism”, a concept used by critic Niall Munro. I contend that the relation Crane and Campos establish with their literary and sociohistorical contexts is mediated by gender and sexuality and operates on a permanent tension between belonging and escaping, which are often conveyed through a conflict between the material and the intellectual selves — the mind and the body. |
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