A Maneira Trágica de Eugénio de Castro

A persona/gem feminina entre Belkiss e Oaristos

DOI: https://doi.org/10.13135/2384-8987/5815

Abstract

Eugénio de Castro's nineteenth-century work is ambiguously related to the dramatic genre, in interesting affinity and in tune with the interior dimension’s tragic, theorized and practiced by the best authors of the French-speaking symbolist mêlée. Privileging the work with the verbal material, crossing boundaries between literary and expression modes, with a unique refusal of extra-artistic dictates, Castro's tragic way launches stimulating challenges and promises to the symbolist theater that emerges and unfolds in the Portuguese literary field throughout the 20th century. I am interested in this article to delve into this sui speciei tragic configuration, both in the Belkiss’s dramatic poem by and in the lyric fiction of Oaristos, whose heroines reflect the fundamental aesthetic and ethical non-conformity of the Poet. Because neither artistic individualism nor eclecticism are enough to overcome the deepest enigma of existence.

 

Author Biography

Maria de Jesus Cabral, Universidade de Lisboa

 Maria de Jesus Cabral is an Assistant Researcher at the School of Arts and Humanities, Universty of Lisbon. She holds a Ph.D. in Modern Literature with a thesis on Mallarmé’s and Maeterlinck’s theatre (Mallarmé hors frontières, 2005, published at Rodopi) and completed 2 pos-doctoral fellowships in Literary Studies, one focused in the evolution of Poetic Theatre, at University of Coimbra and Antwerpen University (2008-2012), the other focused on the interfaces between Theatre and Medicine, at University of Lisbon (2013-2019). With 25 years of university-taught in French and studies, and interdisciplinary research projects, she is presently the Co-PI of the Project in Medical Humanities SHARE. She has published extensively in the fields of Literary Studies, and Medical Humanities. Her main research interests include Symbolist and Modernist Drama, Poetics of Reading, and relationships between Literature and Medicine. She is one of the founding members and presently co-coordinator of the network LÉA! Lire en Europe Aujourd’hui. She is the President of APEF (Portuguese Association For French Studies) and director of the indexed journal Carnets, revue électronique d'études françaises

Published
2021-06-30
How to Cite
Cabral, M. de J. (2021). A Maneira Trágica de Eugénio de Castro: A persona/gem feminina entre Belkiss e Oaristos. RiCOGNIZIONI. Rivista Di Lingue E Letterature Straniere E Culture Moderne, 8(15), 87-98. https://doi.org/10.13135/2384-8987/5815
Issue
Vol. 8 No. 15 (2021)
Section
CrOCEVIA

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