“Frames of Fear” in modern and contemporary portuguese literature

• Autor(a) principal: Sasaki, Leonardo de Barros
• Data de Publicação: 2018
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Letras (Santa Maria. Online)
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.ufsm.br/letras/article/view/32725
• topic: Portuguese Literature; Emotions; Fear; Literatura portuguesa; Emoções; Medo

This article intends to offer a panoramic view of key names of modern and contemporary Portuguese literature from a fear perspective. At first, we present the reasons for the focus on the emotion as a theme and as an inherent element of literary creation. The limitations and difficulties of such approach are hereafter discussed. Finally, based on Portuguese names – but not only –, we develop how fear ambivalently integrates itself to literary works as a cause and effect of writing. Highlighting fear, especially in contemporaneity, means a protection of the transit of affects and a resistance to impoverishment and / or mechanization of experience.