Identity of substitution: Sensationism – the poetics of mask authentifying
Through his writings, either theoretical, programmatic or essays, the Portuguese poet Fernando Pessoa, appears as twice an anarchist: both a heteronymic and an orthonymic one. In this study, we shall analyse the cultural legitimating strategies that Pessoa, under Álvaro de Campos’s mask but also as himself, builds, thus contributing to the definition and refinement of modernist critical awareness within which scepticism will convert to stronger reactions, futuristic visions, messianic-apocalyptic tones, becoming more complicated in the subtle architectures of irony and Dadaist palinodic cynicism, leading the European spirit into a deep reform.
Keywords: Fernando Pessoa, Álvaro de Campos, heternonymous, sensationiste poetry, mask, identity, cultural irony, modernist critical awareness, cultural legitimacy, European spirit.
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