Paisagens da memória: uma leitura da poesia de Ana Martins Marques

Abstract

This dissertation proposes an investigation of the memory s landscapes in the contemporary poetry of Ana Martins Marques. Based on the critical method of close reading, the perspective of this work seeks to make a formal semantic reading of selected poems of her books: A Vida submarina (Scriptum, 2009), Da Arte das Armadilhas (Companhia das Letras, 2011) and O livro das semelhanças (Companhia das Letras, 2015). It also seeks to exam certain aspects in this poetry that configure the contemporary as the strong and decisive expression of female authorship, the textual and discursive hybridization, and the pronounced bond between tradition and individual talent. The first chapter «Travel Memories» is devoted to the travel landscapes by the literature memory carried out by the recurrent feminine figures in her poetry: Penélope and Ana Cristina Cesar, analyzing the plots updates of the classical and contemporary literary tradition. Therefore, these were the proposed sections: «The Waiting Odyssey» and «Anas on the scene». In the second chapter «Houses Memories» it is analyzed the problematization of the passage of time in the landscapes of the memory of houses and their interiors, being the house one of the privileged landscapes in the poetic composition of Ana Martins Marques. Therefore, these were the proposed sections: «Houses» and «Interiors»