Euro-American Correspondence: Poe, Baudelaire, Valéry, Wilson and the Construction of Symbolism

This article revisits a complex theme in Western literary history, the construction of symbolist poetics in the nineteenth century, which was a decisive step towards establishing modernity. To this end, the relationship between Edgar Alan Poe and Charles Baudelaire who, with his pioneering translati...

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Autor: de Oliveira, Anelito Pereira
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2017
País:Brasil
Institución:Associação Nacional de Pós-Graduação e Pesquisa em Letras e Lingüística (ANPOLL)
Repositorio:Revista da ANPOLL (Online)
Idioma:portugués
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Acceso en línea:https://revistadaanpoll.emnuvens.com.br/revista/article/view/1064
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Palabra clave:Symbolism
Edgar Allan Poe
Charles Baudelaire
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Sumario:This article revisits a complex theme in Western literary history, the construction of symbolist poetics in the nineteenth century, which was a decisive step towards establishing modernity. To this end, the relationship between Edgar Alan Poe and Charles Baudelaire who, with his pioneering translations, presented the American author to the French literary world. The approach is stimulated by Paul Valéry's interpretation of the authors’ relationship, as well as by Edmund Wilson's interpretation of the Anglo-Saxon romantic literary framework. Symbolism, in the light of these authors’ reflections, would be the result of a supra-national action, a policy of poets, whose purpose was to overcome the social and cultural limitations of specific countries, of nation-states.