{"title":"How to Construct a Master: Pessoa and Caeiro","authors":"J. Pizarro","doi":"10.5699/portstudies.33.1.0056","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:ABSTRACT. Fernando Pessoa described Alberto Caeiro as his teacher, despite the fact that Caeiro was a poetic creation. This article studies the construction of that teacher, from a diachronic approach. Rather than a rounded and defined figure, Caeiro is presented as an author who became more and more real, up until and after his fictitious death, in 1915, and indeed was still being constructed in 1935, the year in which Pessoa himself died. It also aims to explain how it was only in 2008 that Caeiro's genetic dossier became much more complete and to stress the fact that the Caeiro revealed by Pessoa in 1925, in Athena magazine, actually hides aspects of his heteronym.KEYWORDS. Fernando Pessoa, Alberto Caeiro, The Keeper of Flocks, The Sick Shepherd, The Amorous Shepherd, Walt Whitman, diachronic approach.","PeriodicalId":42713,"journal":{"name":"PORTUGUESE STUDIES","volume":"33 1","pages":"56 - 69"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1000,"publicationDate":"2022-01-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.5699/portstudies.33.1.0056","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"PORTUGUESE STUDIES","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.5699/portstudies.33.1.0056","RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"0","JCRName":"HUMANITIES, MULTIDISCIPLINARY","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract:ABSTRACT. Fernando Pessoa described Alberto Caeiro as his teacher, despite the fact that Caeiro was a poetic creation. This article studies the construction of that teacher, from a diachronic approach. Rather than a rounded and defined figure, Caeiro is presented as an author who became more and more real, up until and after his fictitious death, in 1915, and indeed was still being constructed in 1935, the year in which Pessoa himself died. It also aims to explain how it was only in 2008 that Caeiro's genetic dossier became much more complete and to stress the fact that the Caeiro revealed by Pessoa in 1925, in Athena magazine, actually hides aspects of his heteronym.KEYWORDS. Fernando Pessoa, Alberto Caeiro, The Keeper of Flocks, The Sick Shepherd, The Amorous Shepherd, Walt Whitman, diachronic approach.
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The only English-language journal devoted to the literature, culture, and history of Portugal, Brazil, and the Portuguese-speaking countries of Africa. Launched in 1985, it received the "Best New Journal Award" of the Conference of Editors of Learned Journals in 1987. It publishes articles, translations, previously unpublished historical and literary texts, bibliographical information, and a survey of research and reviews.