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Emily Dickinson e Luiza Neto Jorge
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2015
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Entre Emily Dickinson e Luiza Neto Jorge não há apenas um século de distância: há duas línguas, duas tradições literárias, dois contextos histórico-sociais e obras que divergem entre si. Ao mesmo tempo, porém, são surpreendentes as continuidades que se estabelecem entre as duas autoras quando sobre elas se faz incidir um olhar de teor aproximativo. Ambas apresentam poéticas singulares, que resistem à definição. Ambas criam um idioma desviante, que tanto suscita entusiasmo quanto incompreensão. Ambas obrigam à reformulação dos pressupostos crítico-literários tradicionais e à criação de um diferente tipo de público. Ambas - poetas vulcânicas - ameaçam o status quo literário e social com a sua torrente poética, ainda que obliquamente, no caso de Dickinson, e ciclopicamente, no caso de Neto Jorge. Revelando formas similares de insubordinação, as obras poéticas de Emily Dickinson e de Luiza Neto Jorge contribuem decisivamente para a reconceptualização da categoria de sujeito presente na tradição da Modernidade, através da desestabilização operada pela emergência de uma subjectividade instável (mas) feminina.

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Emily Dickinson
Emily Dickinson
Author · 131 books

Emily Dickinson was an American poet who, despite the fact that less than a dozen of her nearly eighteen hundred poems were published during her lifetime, is widely considered one of the most original and influential poets of the 19th century. Dickinson was born to a successful family with strong community ties, she lived a mostly introverted and reclusive life. After she studied at the Amherst Academy for seven years in her youth, she spent a short time at Mount Holyoke Female Seminary before returning to her family's house in Amherst. Thought of as an eccentric by the locals, she became known for her penchant for white clothing and her reluctance to greet guests or, later in life, even leave her room. Most of her friendships were therefore carried out by correspondence. Although Dickinson was a prolific private poet, fewer than a dozen of her nearly eighteen hundred poems were published during her lifetime.The work that was published during her lifetime was usually altered significantly by the publishers to fit the conventional poetic rules of the time. Dickinson's poems are unique for the era in which she wrote; they contain short lines, typically lack titles, and often use slant rhyme as well as unconventional capitalization and punctuation.Many of her poems deal with themes of death and immortality, two recurring topics in letters to her friends. Although most of her acquaintances were probably aware of Dickinson's writing, it was not until after her death in 1886—when Lavinia, Emily's younger sister, discovered her cache of poems—that the breadth of Dickinson's work became apparent. Her first collection of poetry was published in 1890 by personal acquaintances Thomas Wentworth Higginson and Mabel Loomis Todd, both of whom heavily edited the content. A complete and mostly unaltered collection of her poetry became available for the first time in 1955 when The Poems of Emily Dickinson was published by scholar Thomas H. Johnson. Despite unfavorable reviews and skepticism of her literary prowess during the late 19th and early 20th century, critics now consider Dickinson to be a major American poet. For more information, please see http://www.answers.com/topic/emily-di...

Luiza Neto Jorge
Luiza Neto Jorge
Author · 2 books

Maria Luísa Neto Jorge (Lisboa, 10 de Maio de 1939 — Lisboa, 23 de Fevereiro de 1989) foi uma tradutora e poetisa portuguesa. Frequentou a Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Lisboa, onde foi fundadora do Grupo de Teatro de Letras, mas desistiu do curso e foi viver para Paris, onde permaneceu durante oito anos (1962-70). Ainda hoje é considerada a personalidade de maior destaque do grupo de poetas que se reuniu em torno do movimento Poesia 61, no âmbito do qual publicou Quarta Dimensão. Não foi essa, todavia, a sua estreia literária. O primeiro livro foi Noite Vertebrada (1960), a que iria seguir-se uma obra escassa mas de obrigatória referência. Como tradutora deixou uma obra inigualável, nos domínios da poesia, da ficção e do teatro, abrangendo autores como Céline - "Morte a Crédito" valeu-lhe o prémio de tradução do PEN Clube -, Sade, Goethe (o Fausto), Verlaine, Marguerite Yourcenar, Jean Genet, Witold Gombrowicz, Apollinaire, Karl Valentim, Garcia Lorca, Ionesco, Boris Vian, Oscar Panizza, entre outros.

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