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Open Access Dissertation
Document Type
dissertation
Degree Name
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
Degree Program
Hispanic Literatures & Linguistics
Year Degree Awarded
2018
Month Degree Awarded
February
First Advisor
Francisco Cota Fagundes
Second Advisor
José N. Ornelas
Third Advisor
Margara Russotto
Fourth Advisor
Joye Bowman
Subject Categories
Portuguese Literature
Abstract
Based on the idea of itinerancy as a vital element of human existence, this doctoral dissertation examines and reevaluates the corpus of poems integrating Jorge de Sena’s and Cecília Meireles' “travel poetry,” proposing poetic itineraries bearing their own itineraries. Chapter 1 presents some considerations about the concept of travel in literature, as well as theoretical concepts related to the idea of travel, some of them discussed theoretically by the two poets. Reflecting on the privileged relationship that human movement inscribes in space creating new meanings, Chapter 2 presents the Senian and Meirelian physical spaces connected with their “travel poems,” taking into account the definition presented by Fazenda Lourenço, along with his listing of Senian “travel poems”. Of note in the “travel poems” is the apprehension of the historical crosscultural images, which constitute a constant presence in the “travel poems” of the authors under consideration. Taking into account the importance of the presence of the city in literature and what this new phenomenon implies, Chapter 3 begins with some considerations derived from the presence of the city and the ways in which the displacement of humans in the urban space gave rise to new forms of expression, such as the “walk-poem.” Based on the work proposed by Francisco Cota Fagundes regarding this concept in the representation of the city of Porto in the poetry of Jorge de Sena, it turns out that Meireles’ poetry also reveals the presence of the “walk-poem.” This chapter also highlights the enchanting contrasts between the Senian and Meirelian “walk-poems,” with the poem “U.S.A. – 1940” by the Brazilian poet constituting the exception in her entire corpus. Finally, the last chapter establishes the itineraries from the “travel poem” to the “walk-poem,” embodying as well the “poetry of places,” a concept proposed by Fátima Freitas Morna. This concept redefines the “travel poem” presented herein, and proposes new perspectives of analysis for poems that can be classified as “walk-poems.” In this chapter the idea of endless travel that language itself establishes through the History and Culture of Humanity is also acknowledged in relation to a body of poems that could not be considered “travel poetry.
DOI
https://doi.org/10.7275/11402547.0
Recommended Citation
Antunes, Susana L. M., "ITINERÂNCIA(S) POÉTICA(S): JORGE DE SENA E CECÍLIA MEIRELES" (2018). Doctoral Dissertations. 1149.
https://doi.org/10.7275/11402547.0
https://scholarworks.umass.edu/dissertations_2/1149