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Jackson, Kenneth David was born on July 21, 1944 in Henderson, Texas, United States. Son of Kenneth Leon and Anna Margaret (Sattes) Jackson.
(Poet, short-story writer, feverish inventor--Fernando Pes...)
Poet, short-story writer, feverish inventor--Fernando Pessoa was one of the most innovative figures shaping European modernism. Known for a repertoire of works penned by multiple invented authors--which he termed heteronyms--the Portuguese writer gleefully subverted the notion of what it means to be an author. Adverse Genres in Fernando Pessoa offers an introduction to the fiction and the "profusion of selves" that populates the enigmatic author's uniquely imagined oeuvre. To guide readers through the eclectic work fashioned by Pessoa's heteronyms, K. David Jackson advances the idea of "adverse genres" revealing genre clashes to be fundamental to the author's paradoxical and contradictory corpus. Through the invented "coterie of authors," Pessoa inverted the usual relationships between form and content, authorship and text. In an inspired, paradoxical, and at times absurd mixing of cultural referents, Pessoa selected genres from the European tradition (Ricardo Reis's Horatian odes, Álvaro de Campos's worship of Walt Whitman, Alberto Caeiro's pastoral and metaphysical verse, and Bernardo Soares's philosophical diary), into which he inserted incongruent contemporary ideas. By creating multiple layers of authorial anomaly Pessoa breathes the vitality of modernism into traditional historical genres, extending their expressive range. Through examinations of "A Very Original Dinner," the "Cancioneiro," love letters to Ophelia Queirós, "The Adventure of the Anarchist Banker," Pessoa's collection of quatrains derived from Portuguese popular verse, the Book of Disquietude, and the major poetic heteronyms, Jackson enters the orbit of the artist who exchanged a normal life for a world of the imagination.
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(This study of literary themes, linguistic practice and cu...)
This study of literary themes, linguistic practice and cultural traditions analyzes the oral traditions of Indo-Portugese creole verse, as a synthesis from European, African and Asian sources. This musical, dramatic and textual syncretism defines tradition within the group and maintains the identity of the creole community. References are primarily to Indian and Sri Lankan materials collected in the late nineteenth century and to data in the H. Nevill collection, an extensive manuscript of Sri Lankan Creole texts from the 1870s or 1880s, housed in the British Museum. The importance of these texts is linguistic, anthropological and sociological. They are persistent in their ability to give definition to creole culture, surviving in South Asia from the seventeenth century to the present.
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Jackson, Kenneth David was born on July 21, 1944 in Henderson, Texas, United States. Son of Kenneth Leon and Anna Margaret (Sattes) Jackson.
Bachelor, University Illinois, 1966. Master of Arts, University Wisconsin, 1967. Doctor of Philosophy, University Wisconsin, 1973.
Master of Arts, Yale University, 1993.
Instructor, Illinois Wesleyan University, Bloomington, 1968-1970;
visiting assistant professor, U. New Mexico, Albuquerque, 1973-1974;
assistant professor Spanish, Portuguese, University Texas, Austin, 1974-1980;
associate professor, University Texas, Austin, 1980-1990;
professor, University Texas, Austin, 1990-1993;
professor, Yale University, New Haven, since 1993. Fulbright lecturer, Federal U. Santa Catarina, Brazil, 1984, '91. Visiting associate professor University of California, Santa Barbara, 1986.
Visiting professor Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, 1992.
(This study of literary themes, linguistic practice and cu...)
(Poet, short-story writer, feverish inventor--Fernando Pes...)
Member of Academia Portuguesa Historia (correspondent).
Married Elizabeth Anne Gardner, May 10, 1980. Children: Sophia, Katharina, Kenneth.