WHEN DID NATURE STOP TALKING TO THE POET? PORTUGUESE POETRY IN THE SECOND HALF OF THE 19TH CENTURY

Authors

  • Helena Carvalhão Buescu Universidade de Lisboa

Keywords:

liber mundi, interpretation, legibility of the world.

Abstract

This essay posits that Portuguese poetry of the second half of the 19th century represents an unbridged gulf within modernity. It separates the belief in a world embodied in nature, to which the Poet has access by reading the book of nature, on the one hand, and, on the other, a rising disbelief that the world is readable, or even that it may be viewed as a book. The death of God is a corollary of this loss of meaning.

Author Biography

Helena Carvalhão Buescu, Universidade de Lisboa

Professora catedrática da Universidade de Lisboa, fundou e dirigiu o Centro de Estudos Comparatistas. Colabora regularmente com Universidades estrangeiras, como docente ou investigadora convidada. Ente suas publicações, figuram Cristalizações: fronteiras da modernidade (2005), Emendar a morte: pactos e(m) Literatura (2008), Experiência do incomum e boa vizinhança (2013).

Downloads

Published

2014-12-19

How to Cite

Buescu, H. C. (2014). WHEN DID NATURE STOP TALKING TO THE POET? PORTUGUESE POETRY IN THE SECOND HALF OF THE 19TH CENTURY. MATRAGA - Journal Published by the Graduate Program in Letters at Rio De Janeiro State University (UERJ), 21(35). Retrieved from https://www.e-publicacoes.uerj.br/matraga/article/view/17488

Issue

Vol. 21 No. 35 (2014): The Critical Fortune of Augusto dos Anjos

Section

Literature Papers

License

Authorization

Matraga – Scientific Journal of the Post-graduate Program in Arts and Humanities of UERJ is authorized to publish the article submitted here, if it is accepted for online publication. It is attested that the contribution is original, that it is not being submitted to another publisher for publication, and that this statement is the expression of truth.

The works published in Matraga's virtual space – Scientific Journal of the Post-graduate Program in Arts and Humanities of UERJ will be automatically transferred, and your copyright is reserved to Matraga. Its reproduction, in whole or in part, is conditional on the citation of the authors and the data of the publication.


Licença Creative Commons
Matraga uses license Creative Commons -  Attribution-Non-Commercial 4.0 International.