| Abstrakt: |
This essay examines comparatively different strategies for self-portrayal in the poetry of three modernist authors sharing a deep interest in the developments of the avant-garde in the visual arts: William Carlos Williams, Marianne Moore, and Fernando Pessoa. By highlighting the connections with the visual portraiture of the time, the essay outlines the evolution of a modernist, non-naturalistic kind of literary portrait, in which the authors constantly oscillate between representing and disguising themselves, thus merging the boundaries between portrait and self-portrait. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
