O poema icônico de T. S. Eliot The Waste Land, publicado em 1922, é indiscutivelmente o texto principal de poesia moderna em inglês. Eliot residia em Londres no momento da sua composição, e embora o poema contenha numerosas citações literárias e culturais, The Waste Land não é considerado como tendo sido influenciado por nenhum dos poetas ingleses que foram contemporâneos de Eliot. Pelo contrário, o poema é tido como um afastamento radical e uma reação contra, a poesia inglesa escrita antes e durante a Primeira Guerra Mundial (1914-1918). Neste artigo, eu argumento que The Waste Land contém ecos da obra dos poetas ingleses Harold Monro e Herbert Read, ambos os quais conheciam Eliot bem. Olhando retrospectivamente a partir de 1922, tendo The Waste Land como meu texto modernista base e ponto de partida crítico, eu conduzo uma reavaliação da cena poética inglesa do período 1910- 1922, a partir dos Georgian Poets do pré-guerra até o aparecimento, no pós-guerra, da obraprima de Eliot. Ambos Monro e Read foram influenciados pelo movimento radical 'Imagism' de Ezra Pound, que formou um elemento central na cena da poesia progressiva de Londres nos anos que antecederam a guerra. Portanto, utilizo ambos The Waste Land e os experimentos 'Imagist' de Pound como modelos de prática modernista através dos quais comparar e contrastar a obra dos Georgian Poets (especificamente Wilfrid Gibson), a poesia produzida durante a Primeira Guerra Mundial, e a obra de Monro e Read. Os princípios orientadores da minha abordagem analítica são dois: em termos de prática poética, eu avalio o trabalho de Eliot e seus contemporâneos, comparando as suas abordagens quanto à forma, a fim de demonstrar como a forma poética não apenas define o conteúdo, mas também revela mudanças nos valores culturais. Em segundo lugar, minha abordagem teórica é baseada nos conceitos mutantes da função estética da poesia, buscando demonstrar como valores estéticos estão historicamente relacionados a, e determinam, a produção e a recepção da poesia, expondo como os experimentos modernistas de Eliot e Pound estão historicamente relacionados com princípios estéticos românticos. / T. S. Eliot’s iconic poem The Waste Land, published in 1922, is indisputably the key Modernist poetry text in English. Eliot was living in London at the time of its composition, and although the poem contains numerous literary references, The Waste Land is not thought to have been influenced by the poetry of Eliot’s English contemporaries. On the contrary, the poem is regarded as a radical departure from, and reaction against, the English poetry being written before and throughout the Great War (1914-1918). In this paper, I argue that The Waste Land contains echoes of the work of English poets Harold Monro and Herbert Read, both of whom knew Eliot well. Looking back retrospectively from 1922, with The Waste Land as my exemplary Modernist text and critical starting point, I carry out a reassessment of the English poetry scene from 1910 to 1922, from the pre-war Georgians to the post-war appearance of Eliot’s masterpiece. Both Monro and Read were influenced by Ezra Pound’s radical ‘Imagism’ movement, which formed a central plank in the progressive London poetry scene in the years leading up to the war. I therefore employ both The Waste Land and Pound’s ‘Imagist’ experiments as models of Modernist practice by which to compare and contrast the work of the Georgians (particularly Wilfrid Gibson), the poetry produced during the Great War, and the work of Monro and Read. The guiding principles of my analytical approach are twofold: firstly, in terms of poetic practice, I evaluate the work of Eliot and his contemporaries by comparing their approaches to form, assessing how poetic technique both defines content and offers insight into shifts in cultural values; secondly, my theoretical approach is based on changing concepts of the aesthetic function of poetry, revealing how aesthetic values are historically relative to, and determine, the production and reception of poetry, ultimately exposing how Eliot and Pound’s Modernist experiments are historically related to Romantic aesthetic principles.

Este trabalho tem como objetivo analisar a importância social das formas estéticas abordadas pelos romances modernos de autoria dos artistas que formaram o grupo Orpheu, responsável pelo primeiro modernismo em Portugal. O corpus de análise é formado pelas obras A engomadeira, publicada em 1917, por José de Almada Negreiros; A confissão de Lúcio, publicada em 1914, por Mário de Sá-Carneiro; e Livro do desassossego, publicação póstuma com autoria de Fernando Pessoa. Para isso, são adotadas diversas teorias que vinculam o romance à sociedade, com uma atenção maior para Ascensão do romance, de Ian Watt. De acordo com ele, os elementos que caracterizaram o romance tradicional nos séculos XVIII e XIX são signos materiais que respondem ao processo de consolidação da classe burguesa. Dessa maneira, os textos analisados procuram a ruptura dos elementos apontados por Watt, o que revela uma atitude política de subversão dos signos burgueses no momento em que eles passam a estar em declínio no contexto europeu, com exceção de Portugal. Configura-se, portanto, como uma intervenção política a atitude desses três artistas. / This paper aims to analyze the social importance of aesthetic forms approached in modern novels by artists who formed the Orpheu group, which was responsible for the first modernism movement in Portugal. The corpus of analysis of this work is composed by the literary works The ironing girl (A engomadeira), published in 1917 by José de Almada Negreiros; Lucio’s confession (A confissão de Lúcio), published in 1914 by Mário de Sá-Carneiro; and The book of disquiet (Livro do desassossego), a posthumous publication authored by Fernando Pessoa. For this purpose, several theories that link novel to society are adopted, giving greater attention to The rise of the novel, by Ian Watt. According to this author, the elements that characterized the traditional novel in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries are material signs that respond to the process of consolidation of the bourgeois class. Therefore, the analyzed texts seek to break the elements mentioned by Watt, which reveal an attitude of subversion of bourgeois signs when they start to decline in the European context, with the exception of Portugal. Thus, the novels of these three artists are characterized as a political intervention.

The thesis focuses on Germany's Mexican policies from 1911 to 1917, with particular attention given to the connection of these policies to political relations between the United States and Germany and between the United States and Mexico. The paper also attempts to place German activities in Mexico within the context of Germany's desire to promote its political and economic interests on a worldwide scale. Although some unpublished sources were consulted, the account relies mostly on published documents, memoirs, and secondary sources for its factual basis.

In 1879 the British Colony of New South Wales hosted the first international exhibition in the Southern Hemisphere. This was immediately followed by the Melbourne International Exhibition of 1880 in the colony of Victoria and the success of these exhibitions inspired the Melbourne Centennial Exhibition, which was held in 1888 to celebrate the centenary of white settlement in Australia. My thesis is that these international exhibitions had a profound impact on the development of our cities, the evolution of an Australian ethos and the gaining of nationhood. The immense popularity and comprehensive nature of the exhibitions made them the only major events in late nineteenth-century Australia that brought the people together in an almost universally shared experience. The exhibitions conveyed official ideologies from the organising elites to ordinary people and encouraged the dissemination of new cultural sentiments, political aspirations, and moral and educational ideals. Many exhibition commissioners, official observers and ideologues were also predominantly involved in the Federation movement and the wider cultural sphere. The international exhibitions assisted the development of an Australian urban ethos, which to a large extent replaced the older pastoral / frontier image. Many of the more enduring ideas emanating from the exhibitions were physically expressed in the consequent development of our cities ??? particularly Sydney and Melbourne, both of which had achieved metropolitan status and global significance by the end of the nineteenth century. The new urban ethos, dramatically triggered by Sydney 1879, combined with and strengthened the national aspirations and sentiments of the Federation movement. Thus the exhibitions created an immediate connection between colonial pride in urban development and European and American ideals of nation building. They also created an increasing cultural sophistication and a growing involvement in social movements and political associations at the national level. The international exhibitions, more than any other single event, convinced the colonials that they were all Australians together and that their destiny was to be united as one nation. At that time, Australians began to think about national objectives. The exhibitions not only promulgated national sentiment and a new ethos, but also provided opportunities for independent colonial initiatives, inter-colonial cooperation and a more equal position in the imperial alliance. Thus they became a powerful impetus, hitherto unrecognised, for the complex of social, political and economic developments that made Federation possible.

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In twentieth-century poets such as W. B. Yeats, T. S. Eliot, Robert Lowell and Allen Ginsberg, the literary apocalyptic--identifiable by its homology with the major elements of the biblical Apocalypse--undergoes progressively complex transmutations. While in the early Yeats the apocalyptic is evocative of earnest Romantic moods, in his later work it is complicated by irony, yoked to the cycles of Yeatsean history, and counteracted by exaggerated postures of defiance. In Eliot, a reductive juxtaposition of the apocalyptic and the contemporary foreshortens the traditional paradigms to a diminutive modern-day scale. In Lowell, the apocalyptic is manifested variously as a bitter inversion of American Puritan eschatology, the telescoping of the personal and the cosmic, and a catastrophe in slow-motion. The climactic point of distortion, however, is reached in Ginsberg's poetry in which apocalyptic horrors form a bizarre combination with humour and bathos. While their treatment of the eschatological is widely divergent, an element common to all four poets is their ambivalence towards the paradigms of an apocalyptic new world.

In 1879 the British Colony of New South Wales hosted the first international exhibition in the Southern Hemisphere. This was immediately followed by the Melbourne International Exhibition of 1880 in the colony of Victoria and the success of these exhibitions inspired the Melbourne Centennial Exhibition, which was held in 1888 to celebrate the centenary of white settlement in Australia. My thesis is that these international exhibitions had a profound impact on the development of our cities, the evolution of an Australian ethos and the gaining of nationhood. The immense popularity and comprehensive nature of the exhibitions made them the only major events in late nineteenth-century Australia that brought the people together in an almost universally shared experience. The exhibitions conveyed official ideologies from the organising elites to ordinary people and encouraged the dissemination of new cultural sentiments, political aspirations, and moral and educational ideals. Many exhibition commissioners, official observers and ideologues were also predominantly involved in the Federation movement and the wider cultural sphere. The international exhibitions assisted the development of an Australian urban ethos, which to a large extent replaced the older pastoral / frontier image. Many of the more enduring ideas emanating from the exhibitions were physically expressed in the consequent development of our cities ??? particularly Sydney and Melbourne, both of which had achieved metropolitan status and global significance by the end of the nineteenth century. The new urban ethos, dramatically triggered by Sydney 1879, combined with and strengthened the national aspirations and sentiments of the Federation movement. Thus the exhibitions created an immediate connection between colonial pride in urban development and European and American ideals of nation building. They also created an increasing cultural sophistication and a growing involvement in social movements and political associations at the national level. The international exhibitions, more than any other single event, convinced the colonials that they were all Australians together and that their destiny was to be united as one nation. At that time, Australians began to think about national objectives. The exhibitions not only promulgated national sentiment and a new ethos, but also provided opportunities for independent colonial initiatives, inter-colonial cooperation and a more equal position in the imperial alliance. Thus they became a powerful impetus, hitherto unrecognised, for the complex of social, political and economic developments that made Federation possible.

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Apesar da grande quantidade de estudos acerca da obra de Fernando Pessoa, um número ínfimo deles enfoca o Fausto, poema dramático no qual Pessoa trabalhou entre 1908 e 1933, deixando-o, inconcluso e fragmentário, depositado na famosa arca junto com todo o seu espólio. Este trabalho pretende, tomando por base a edição organizada por Teresa Sobral Cunha, analisar como se processa a retomada do Fausto de Goethe pelo texto do poeta português. Para tanto, servem como pressupostos teóricos os conceitos de dialogismo, intertextualidade e, especialmente, hipertextualidade. Fernando Pessoa se apropria do texto do poeta alemão para transformá-lo, ou seja, ainda que algumas cenas de Fausto: tragédia subjectiva sejam reminiscências goetheanas, há uma reelaboração dos elementos alheios e o texto é relançado em um novo circuito de sentido. Existem, é certo, analogias entre os textos; todavia, as diferenças – que aqui serão enfatizadas – são marcantes. O Fausto de Goethe é um drama de ação, já o de Fernando Pessoa se enquadra na categoria de teatro estático, ideal para a representação de uma tragédia anímica. O personagem de Pessoa, a exemplo do seu antecessor, deseja ultrapassar limites; tenciona fazê-lo, porém, através do pensamento. Aqui, uma vez que o pacto inexiste, não há ameaça de danação eterna. Além disso, o protagonista é abúlico, não age, não ama e não se transforma. Enquanto o Fausto de Goethe, na figura do seu herói, expressa o otimismo e a crença no progresso, o de Pessoa, por sua vez, é a representação do sentimento de crise, da descrença na ação e da falta de esperança, características próprias do Decadentismo. / Despite the large number of studies concerning the work of Fernando Pessoa, a small percentage of them focuses on Faust, a dramatic poem in which Pessoa worked between the years of 1908 and 1933, leaving it, incomplete and fragmentary, deposited in his famous ark along with all his estate. This study aims to, based on the edition organized by Teresa Sobral Cunha, examine how the Portuguese poet text processes the resumption of Goethe's Faust. To do so, were used as theoretical concepts dialogism, intertextuality, and especially hypertextuality. Fernando Pessoa appropriates the text of the German poet to transform it, that is, even if some scenes of Faust: subjective tragedy are goetheans reminiscences’, there is a reworking of the extraneous elements and the text is relaunched in a new circuit of meaning. There are, of course, analogies between the texts, however, the differences - which are emphasized here - are striking. Goethe's Faust is a drama of action while Fernando Pessoa’s fits in the category of static theater, ideal for the representation of a tragedy pertaining to the soul. Pessoa’s character, like his predecessor, would exceed limits, it intends to do so, however, through thought. Here, since the pact does not exist, there is no threat of eternal damnation. Moreover, the protagonist is apathetic and does not act, love and transform. While Goethe's Faust, in the figure of his hero, expressed optimism and belief in progress, Pessoa’s, in turn, is the representation of the sense of crisis, of disbelief in action and lack of hope, characteristics of Decadence.