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| Author(s): |
Alex de Araujo Neiva
Total Authors: 1
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| Document type: | Master's Dissertation |
| Press: | São Paulo. |
| Institution: | Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH/SBD) |
| Defense date: | 2015-10-21 |
| Examining board members: |
Caio Márcio Poletti Lui Gagliardi;
Leonardo Garcia Santos Gandolfi;
Jorge Alberto Uribe Lozada
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| Advisor: | Caio Márcio Poletti Lui Gagliardi |
| Abstract | |
This work consists of a study of the notion of genius in Fernando Pessoa. This research delimits as its goal the identification and analysis of Fernando Pessoas genius both in his aesthetic formulations and his poetics. The present work is divided into three sections, each defined by the methodology used and the selection of the corpus being investigated. The first part addresses the ethos of the man of genius in the letters to João Gaspar Simões, Adolfo Casais Monteiro, and Armando Côrtes-Rodrigues. The second part aims to analyze Pessoas theoretical texts from the perspective of the genius, carefully examining the writings that reflect on Shakespeare-Bacon. The third part will focus on Fernando Pessoas readings of the Scottish historian and essayist Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881), specifically of Carlyles work On Heroes, Hero-Workship, and The Heroic in History. (AU) | |
| FAPESP's process: | 13/09613-5 - The exaltation of genius: a study on the construction of ethos in Fernando Pessoa |
| Grantee: | Alex de Araujo Neiva |
| Support Opportunities: | Scholarships in Brazil - Master |