Approaches to Teaching the Works of Fernando Pessoa
Essays on teaching a major Portuguese writer

The writings of Fernando Pessoa, one of Portugal's most renowned authors, stand alongside other significant works of modernist world literature and offer a view into the specific milieu of early-twentieth-century Lisbon. Writing under several identities known as heteronyms, Pessoa created works in many genres, including fragments that were assembled into his best-known text, The Book of Disquiet, only after his death.

The essays in this volume explore questions raised by Pessoa about the nature of the self, the stability of the text, and the conflict between tradition and innovation. Part 1, "Materials," describes editions, translations, and other resources. The essays in part 2, "Approaches," address Pessoa's works and delve into the author's historical and cultural contexts, heteronyms and multiplicity, archives and editing processes, and connections with other authors and fields of study.

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Approaches to Teaching the Works of Fernando Pessoa
Essays on teaching a major Portuguese writer

The writings of Fernando Pessoa, one of Portugal's most renowned authors, stand alongside other significant works of modernist world literature and offer a view into the specific milieu of early-twentieth-century Lisbon. Writing under several identities known as heteronyms, Pessoa created works in many genres, including fragments that were assembled into his best-known text, The Book of Disquiet, only after his death.

The essays in this volume explore questions raised by Pessoa about the nature of the self, the stability of the text, and the conflict between tradition and innovation. Part 1, "Materials," describes editions, translations, and other resources. The essays in part 2, "Approaches," address Pessoa's works and delve into the author's historical and cultural contexts, heteronyms and multiplicity, archives and editing processes, and connections with other authors and fields of study.

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Essays on teaching a major Portuguese writer

The writings of Fernando Pessoa, one of Portugal's most renowned authors, stand alongside other significant works of modernist world literature and offer a view into the specific milieu of early-twentieth-century Lisbon. Writing under several identities known as heteronyms, Pessoa created works in many genres, including fragments that were assembled into his best-known text, The Book of Disquiet, only after his death.

The essays in this volume explore questions raised by Pessoa about the nature of the self, the stability of the text, and the conflict between tradition and innovation. Part 1, "Materials," describes editions, translations, and other resources. The essays in part 2, "Approaches," address Pessoa's works and delve into the author's historical and cultural contexts, heteronyms and multiplicity, archives and editing processes, and connections with other authors and fields of study.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781603296816
Publisher: Modern Language Association
Publication date: 06/20/2025
Series: Approaches to Teaching World Literature
Pages: 260
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.00(d)
Age Range: 18 Years

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Teaching Pessoa’s Infinite Plurality, by Paulo de Medeiros and Jerónimo Pizarro

Part One: Materials

Editions and Translations

Further Reading for Students

The Instructor’s Library

Part Two: Approaches

Historical and Cultural Context

Orpheu, Modernism, and Europe, by Steffen Dix

Gender in Pessoa, by António Ladeira

Pessoa and Popular Culture, by Ellen W. Sapega

The Book of Disquiet

The Book of Disquiet
and World Literature: Notes from the Seminar Room, by Paulo de Medeiros

The Problem of Genre in The Book of Disquiet, by Bernat Padró Nieto

Other Works

Mensagem: The Ideas behind a Poetic Vision, by Onésimo T. Almeida

The “Great Book,” Caeiro, and Pessoa’s Theory of Poetry, by Irene Ramalho-Santos

The Political Poetry of Álvaro de Campos: At the Margin of the Margin, by Sofia de Sousa Silva

Curriculum

Bringing Pessoa into the Philosophy Curriculum, by Jonardon Ganeri

Reframing Writerly Identity with the Works of Pessoa and Other Modernist Poets, by Meghan P. Nolan

Editing

From Meta-Editing to Virtual Editing: The LdoD Archive as a Computer-Assisted Editorial Space, by Manuel Portela

Editing Pessoa’s “Radical Scatters”, by John Pedro Schwartz and Jerónimo Pizarro

Notes on Contributors

Works Cited

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