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Beauty, power, and desire : notes on Ana Luísa Amaral’s poetics

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Medeiros, Paulo de (2019) Beauty, power, and desire : notes on Ana Luísa Amaral’s poetics. Journal of Romance Studies, 19 (3). pp. 469-485. doi:10.3828/jrs.2019.29 ISSN 1473-3536.

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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3828/jrs.2019.29

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Abstract

Ana Luísa Amaral’s critical engagement with tradition, be it Portuguese, European, or American, establishes new parameters for poetry today and brings us new modes of understanding textual and material conditions. I propose some modes of reading her poetry towards a wider understanding of the importance of contemporary poetry for literary theory. Ana Luísa Amaral develops a continuous meta-poetic reflection characterized by an acute and lucid preoccupation with beauty and desire. Often subversive, her poetics is inextricably enmeshed with ethics and hence with a specific form of being political. Ana Luísa Amaral excessively demonstrates the fundamental excess of poetry and shows the importance of poetics and poetry in today’s world. Drawing on a poetics of the fragment, she also refuses any sort of originary or foundational aesthetics. In her work, the poetic is always a return otherwise, an ‘avesso’, or the other side of the mirror of language.

Item Type: Journal Article
Subjects: P Language and Literature > PN Literature (General)
P Language and Literature > PQ Romance literatures
Divisions: Faculty of Arts > English and Comparative Literary Studies
SWORD Depositor: Library Publications Router
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): Amaral, Ana Luísa, 1956-, Portuguese poetry -- 20th century, Portuguese poetry -- 21st century, Poetics, Literature -- Philosophy
Journal or Publication Title: Journal of Romance Studies
Publisher: Berghahn Books Ltd.
ISSN: 1473-3536
Official Date: January 2019
Dates:
DateEvent
January 2019Published
21 June 2019Accepted
Volume: 19
Number: 3
Page Range: pp. 469-485
DOI: 10.3828/jrs.2019.29
Status: Peer Reviewed
Publication Status: Published
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Access rights to Published version: Restricted or Subscription Access
Copyright Holders: © Institute of Modern Languages Research 2019
Date of first compliant deposit: 20 December 2019
Date of first compliant Open Access: 20 December 2019

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