Articles & Chapters by Viktor Mendes
This is my third article on Fernando Pessoa's Maria José (circa 1930). I failed 10% better! Pleas... more This is my third article on Fernando Pessoa's Maria José (circa 1930). I failed 10% better! Please let me know what you think.
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This volume of Portuguese Literary & Cultural Studies offers the most recent criticism on Alberto... more This volume of Portuguese Literary & Cultural Studies offers the most recent criticism on Alberto Caeiro's poetry and influence. It is the first time that at this level an entire critical volume has been devoted to the Master of Fernando Pessoa's heteronyms. This work undercuts the well-established habit of publishing a book on that constructed unity called Pessoa, whatever Pessoa means, and it probably does not mean anything. Paraphrasing what
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Mendes, V. and Valéria Souza, eds. Garrett's Travels Revisited., 2012
Travels in My Homeland (Viagens na minha terra , 1846), by the multifaceted Almeida Garrett (1799... more Travels in My Homeland (Viagens na minha terra , 1846), by the multifaceted Almeida Garrett (1799-1854), became a work of consequence for literatures in Portuguese, while also creating strong, explicit and implicit links to Anglo-American literary traditions, especially English authors from the long eighteenth century, like Sterne and Swift, and to the texts nineteenth-century American counterpart, Mark Twain's The Innocents Abroad (1869). It has been acknowledged by critics as a seminal influence for the most acclaimed novelists of the Portuguese language writing later in the nineteenth century, E$a de Queiros in Portugal and Machado de Assis in Brazil. A common saying
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Coloquio Letras, 1999
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Coloquio Letras, 1999
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Mendes, V. (2007). “A Praga do Plágio e Uma Maldição de Tristram Shandy.” 39-49. A Teoria do Programa: Uma Homenagem a Maria de Lourdes Ferraz e a M. S. Lourenço. Universidade de Lisboa, Faculdade de Letras (Programa em Teoria da Literatura), 2007, pp. 39-49. Impresso. ISBN978-989-95307-0-6., 2007
Após terminologia preliminar e um breve retrato da alarmante expansão do plágio, intensificado pe... more Após terminologia preliminar e um breve retrato da alarmante expansão do plágio, intensificado pela mais recente facilidade em fazer viajar textos, imagens e sons através dos canais globais que a revolução digital popularizou, nas páginas que se seguem são oferecidas algumas possibilidades de analisar a ligação, ou ausência dela, entre plágio e crise da representação, na esperança epistemológica de que se possam esclarecer um pouco reciprocamente. Para localizar melhor esta relação, são oferecidas breves descrições da praga do plágio contemporâneo (Vibiana Bowman) e de uma passagem de Tristram Shandy.
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Colóquio: Letras
Page 1. 1 Leitura e nacionalismo (Eduardo Lourenço) Victor K. Mendes University of Massachusetts ... more Page 1. 1 Leitura e nacionalismo (Eduardo Lourenço) Victor K. Mendes University of Massachusetts Dartmouth Nas páginas que se seguem, procurarei esclarecer um pouco (1) as estratégias de leitura ea globalização de Eduardo Lourenço e, por outro lado, (2) o benefício ...
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Coloquio Letras, 1998
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Portuguese Literature and the Environment, 2019
The dominant scholarship on Pessoa has glorified his anthropocentric proliferation of a web of in... more The dominant scholarship on Pessoa has glorified his anthropocentric proliferation of a web of interconnected fictional authors ("drama in people," "heteronyms"). Reading Pessoa ecocritically may take us in the direction of a different conclusion. For example, reading carefully the episode of the Lisbon downtown office fly in The Book of Disquietude shows that Pessoa stages the anxiety of being human in a post-Darwinian world in such a fashion that makes it impossible to be appropriately read as yet another reiteration of the author's alleged humanist and anthropocentric stance.
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Cadernos de Literatura Comparada, 2016
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Resumo. Este artigo, influenciado inicialmente pela leitura de Carrie Rohman, Stalking the Subjec... more Resumo. Este artigo, influenciado inicialmente pela leitura de Carrie Rohman, Stalking the Subject: Modernism and the Animal (2009), mostra como a interpretação detalhada de alguns trechos do Livro do desassossego, escrito entre 1913 e 1934 por Fernando Pessoa, produz uma crítica do antropocentrismo ocidental e do humanismo em sentido lato, servida por uma precisa e recorrente redução ao absurdo (reductio ad absurdum é a expressão erudita que Pessoa usa) duma versão muito específica da humanidade ambiental pós-darwniana, identificada principalmente com animais e plantas. Palavras-chave: Fernando Pessoa, Livro do desassossego, crítica do humanismo, crítica do antropocentrismo, animais e plantas em literatura. // Abstract This article, influenced initially by a reading of Carrie Rohman's Stalking the Subject: Modernism and the Animal (2009), shows how the interpretation of some passages of the The Book of Disquiet, written between 1913 and 1934 by the modernist poet Fernando Pessoa, suggests a critique of broadly understood Western anthropocentrism and humanism, which is supported by a precise and recurrent reduction to the absurd (reductio ad absurdum is the erudite expression used in Pessoa's text) of a very specific version of the post-Darwinian environmental humanity, identified mainly with animals and plants. Keywords: Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet, critique of humanism, critique of anthropocentrism, animals and plants in literature.
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Fernando Pessoa's Modernity without Frontiers. Influences, Dialogues and Responses. Ed. Mariana Gray de Castro. Woodbridge, UK: Tamesis, 2013., Jul 1, 2013
In this essay I propose a course of action for reading Pessoa’s ‘A Carta da Corcunda para o Serra... more In this essay I propose a course of action for reading Pessoa’s ‘A Carta da Corcunda para o Serralheiro' [Letter from a Hunchback Girl to a Metalworker] (by Maria José, circa 1930). Despite its late appearance in the ongoing publication of his oeuvre (1990), the letter has already attracted significant critical insight. The relevance of this distressed letter rests on the following four arguments: firstly, the preeminence of the letter among the poet’s works and the challenge it presents to thriving Pessoan hermeneutics; secondly, the chain of association formed by texts — some from the ‘exemplary tradition’ — which may be of use in the demanding task of reading Maria José; thirdly, her minimalist ecology of writing; and finally, the success of her achievement.
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Estratégias rivais na análise da obra de Fernando Pessoa associadas a duas diferentes cartas do p... more Estratégias rivais na análise da obra de Fernando Pessoa associadas a duas diferentes cartas do poeta, uma ficcional de 1930 ("A Carta da Corcunda para o Serralheiro") e outra não-ficcional de 1935 (a carta sobre a génese dos heterónimos a Adolfo Casais Monteiro, de 13 de janeiro de 1935)..
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Portuguese Literature and the Environment, 2019
Mendes, Victor K. and Patrícia Vieira, eds. Portuguese Literature and the Environment. New York: ... more Mendes, Victor K. and Patrícia Vieira, eds. Portuguese Literature and the Environment. New York: Lexington, 2019. [227pp.]
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In Travels in My Homeland (1846), Almeida Garrett—the most prominent figure of Portuguese Romanti... more In Travels in My Homeland (1846), Almeida Garrett—the most prominent figure of Portuguese Romanticism—narrates his thirteen-day trip to Santarém, wittily intermingling personal experiences with a sentimental novel. Influenced by Laurence Sterne’s Sentimental Journey, Garrett’s masterpiece paved the way for great writers like Eça de Queirós and Machado de Assis and helped foster modern Portuguese prose. This collection, the first in English, supplies comparative contexts by leading scholars that illuminate topics such as narrative technique, gender relations, women and nationalism, literary hypertext, travel writing and visual culture, literature and music, and Romantic fiction and classical literature.
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Facts and Fictions of António Lobo Antunes, 2011
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Fronteiras/Borders, 1998
Inaugural volume of Portuguese Literary & Cultural Studies (1998-present)
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