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O 'garcialorquismo minhoto' de Pedro Homem de Mello

Publication . Pereira, Elsa

Este artigo detém-se em duas grandes matrizes da obra melliana, assinaladas numa apreciação crítica de Jorge de Sena em 1946: por um lado, a afinidade com o romanceiro e os cantares tradicionais, sobretudo do Norte de Portugal; por outro, a influência popularizante do Romancero Gitano de Federico García Lorca.

2024-09Journal article

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The materiality of typescripts in Pedro Homem de Mello’s writing practice

Publication . Pereira, Elsa

This article addresses the main typewriting habits of Portuguese poet Pedro Homem de Mello (1904–1984), as evidenced in documents belonging to the family’s private estate and scattered collections owned by public archives and libraries. After examining his work in several spheres of activity (his personal and professional correspondence, his newspaper collaborations and essays as a folklorist, and his work as an author and presenter of TV and radio programs), the essay focuses on material aspects of Homem de Mello’s literary typescripts, such as page management strategies, the use of coloured ribbons, the occurrence of mechanical errors, or the combination of handwritten corrections and carbon-paper duplicators as a favoured revision technique. It concludes by interrogating how the author’s multimodal typewriting ecosystem may have contributed to stylistic changes in his poetry, catalysing freer modes of expression in the traditional forms of his choice.

2024Journal article

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17th century holographs in a personal miscellany of D. Francisco Manuel de Melo

Publication . Pereira, Elsa

Not many documents qualify as material evidence of 17th century holographs in Portugal. However, personal miscellanies can provide valuable insight into textual composition and transmission in the literary scene of the time. One of the examples worth exploring is a miscellaneous volume of papers collected by D. Francisco Manuel de Melo (1608-1666), which includes several manuscripts either written by the owner himself or by the hand of fellow contemporary poets. These are clean copies with few or no layers of revision, but still relevant to a certain kind of genetic criticism without drafts (GRÉSILLON, 1993), focused on the interstices of scribal activity and distributed authorship in the early modern period. The article examines little-explored documentation from the national archive Torre do Tombo, thus broadening the scope of genetic studies into the realm of Portuguese baroque literature.

2022Journal article

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Evocação de Rosalía de Castro em dois poemas de Pedro Homem de Mello

Publication . Pereira, Elsa

2024Journal article

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