A Poesia de Paul Durcan – Um Autorretrato na Irlanda Contemporânea

Autori

  • Munira Mutran Universidade de São Paulo

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.37389/abei.v22i2.180775

Parole chiave:

Poesias autobiográficas, Narrativas em verso, Sísifo moderno

Abstract

Os poemas de Paul Durcan representam suas experiências sociais, históricas e culturais, na Irlanda e nos países que visitou. Assim, dentre as muitas abordagens que sua obra poética inspira, seu reconhecimento como um “poeta-jornalista” é destacado. Este artigo tem o objetivo de discutir outro relevante aspecto das múltiplas atitudes de Durcan em relação à realidade em que vive, argumentando que seus poemas são parte de uma longa autobiografia que contém acontecimentos e emoções, desde a tenra infância até os dias de hoje. A tarefa do leitor será juntar numa sequência temporal os fios soltos da tessitura autobiográfica; sua recompensa será vislumbrar um fascinante e único autorretrato do poeta.

Biografia autore

  • Munira Mutran, Universidade de São Paulo

    Munira H. Mutran is Associate Professor of Literatures in English at the University of São Paulo, Brazil. She specializes in Irish Literature and Comparative Studies. She holds an MA, a PhD and a post-doctoral thesis [Livre Docência] at the University of São Paulo and an Honorary Degree in Letters at the National University of Ireland, Maynooth. She was coeditor of The Brazilian Journal of Irish Studies (1996-2018) and of Lectures, a series of books with lectures given at the W. B. Yeats Chair of Irish Studies at USP. She has published articles and chapters in books on Irish fiction and drama, two collections of Irish short stories translated into Portuguese, Joyce no Brasil (1997), Sean O’Faolain’s Letters to Brazil (2005), Álbum de Retratos [A Portrait Album, 2002] and A Batalha das Estéticas [Aesthetic Movements in Battle, 2005]. In 2018 she received “The Presidential Distinguished Service Award”.

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Pubblicato

2020-12-20

Fascicolo

V. 22 N. 2 (2020): ABEI Journal 22.2 — Celebrating Paul Durcan on his 76th Birthday

Sezione

Paul Durcan’s Poetry from the Irish and the International Perspectives

Licenza

Copyright (c) 2020 Munira Mutran

Creative Commons License

Questo volume è pubblicato con la licenza Creative Commons Attribuzione - Non commerciale 4.0 Internazionale.

Come citare

Mutran, M. (2020). A Poesia de Paul Durcan – Um Autorretrato na Irlanda Contemporânea. ABEI Journal, 22(2), 99-108. https://doi.org/10.37389/abei.v22i2.180775