Tag Archives: Gilberto Freyre

6 REFERENCES


REFERENCES ALI, Manuel Said. Versificação Portuguesa. São Paulo: Editora da Universidade de São Paulo, 2006. ALLEN, Gay W. The Solitary Singer: a critical biography of Walt Whitman. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1955. ALIGHIERI, Dante. The Divine Comedy. Available at: … Continue reading

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3.5 Part 4


3.5 Oswald de Andrade, Fernando Pessoa, Aléxis de Tocqueville, Gilberto Freyre Part 4 As we have mentioned in the beginning of this chapter, now we will try to provide a few hints on how Gilberto Freyre has helped us to … Continue reading

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3.5 Part 3


3.5 Oswald de Andrade, Fernando Pessoa, Aléxis de Tocqueville, Gilberto Freyre Part 3 This, again, is a link between Oswald and Whitman, for absorption was a process that was carried on by Whitman for a long time before publishing his … Continue reading

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3.5 Part 2


3.5 Oswald de Andrade, Fernando Pessoa, Aléxis de Tocqueville, Gilberto Freyre Part 2 Synchronically, another poet, this time in Brazil, was using the same word used by Álvaro de Campos, concrete, to refer to his artistic work. We refer to … Continue reading

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3.5 Part 1


3.5 Oswald de Andrade, Fernando Pessoa, Aléxis de Tocqueville, Gilberto Freyre In this section we will address the subject of renewing the craft of poetry through the invention of free verse, and how some poets and writers relate to Whitman. … Continue reading

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2.5.6 “Language is fossil poetry”: poetic function, Emerson, Blake, mediums, Adam


2.5.6 “Language is fossil poetry”: poetic function, Emerson, Blake, mediums, Adam In this chapter we are discussing themes in or related to Leaves of Grass. We shall address now the following subjects: the “poetic function” of the language, which is … Continue reading

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1. Introduction


1 INTRODUCTION The purpose of our work is to render a considerable part of Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass in Portuguese, so that the Brazilian reader can have an idea of who the great American poet was and what his … Continue reading

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My PhD Dissertation


UNIVERSIDADE FEDERAL DO RIO GRANDE DO SUL INSTITUTO DE LETRAS PROGRAMA DE PÓS-GRADUAÇÃO EM LETRAS LITERATURAS DE LÍNGUA INGLESA Doutorando: Gentil Saraiva Junior

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Alan Trachtenberg


Alan Trachtenberg writes about Whitman’s influence on modern poets in his essay “Walt Whitman: Precipitant of the Modern” (GREENSPAN, 1997, pp.194-207).

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Ph.D.


Dear readers, my resumé page shows that I have been doing a doctorate in poetic translation since 2005. The good news is that I have finished it, and got my Ph.D. I have got an A with honors!

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