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Blindfolded eyes and the eyable being: Pessoa, the senses, and the 35 Sonnets

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Abstract:
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.
Este artigo revisita o heteronimismo de Pessoa (como performatividade), em relação à velha questão da unidade/diversidade poéticas. Debruça-se sobre o cepticismo epistemológico com que Pessoa trata os cinco sentidos nos 35 Sonnets, em comparação e contraste com os ditos "poemas obscenos" e o resto da poesia de Pessoa.

Citation

Santos, Maria Irene Ramalho, "Blindfolded eyes and the eyable being: Pessoa, the senses, and the 35 Sonnets" (2016). Pessoa Plural—A Journal of Fernando Pessoa Studies. Brown Digital Repository. Brown University Library. https://doi.org/10.7301/Z0BG2M5F

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  • Pessoa Plural—A Journal of Fernando Pessoa Studies

    Pessoa Plural—A Journal of Fernando Pessoa Studies (ISSN: 2212-4179) is an international peer-reviewed scholarly journal dedicated to studies of Fernando Pessoa. It is published jointly by the Department of Portuguese and Brazilian Studies at Brown University, the Department of …

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