António Botto and literary criticism: tension, exclusion and revalorization of homoerotic writing in Portugal
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António Botto, portuguese poetry, literary criticism, canonAbstract
The article presents the relations of literary criticism with the poet António Botto (1898-1959), one of the most debated Portuguese modernist poets of the 1920s and 1930s. However, over the years, his poetry was continuously excluded from the emerging literary canon, mainly because of the homoerotic theme and the various tensions and questionings that surrounded the validity of his poetic writing. Thus, we undertake a brief overview of the main critical readings of Botto's poetry from the past and the present, when Botto goes through some processes of critical reassessment, especially of his primacy in portraying homoeroticism in Portuguese literature.
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