THE HOUSE AND THE CITY AS AFFECTIVE SPACES IN THE SOPHIA DE MELLO BREYNER
ANDRESEN'S POETRY
Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen. House and City. Affectional spaces. Portuguese contemporary poetry.
This thesis aims to analyze the spaces of ―house‖ and ―city‖ on the poetic work of the portuguese writer Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen (1919-2004). Considering the historical happenings lived in Portugal: Salazar´s regime (1926-1974), Cravo´s revolution (1974) and the period post revolution (1975), it´s possible to realize that on Sophia´s poetic the spaces of ―house‖ and ―city‖ follow this changes, on the way that translate the affections agitated by the author and by most of portuguese that experienced the horrors of almost 50 years of a dictatorial regime. It´s intended, therefore, analyze how these spaces are presented in poem, from an affectional motivation. This analyze was reached throw the support of theoric-critic of studies about affection, presence and attention of: Baruch Spinoza (2009) on a dialog of another studies, among them Gilles Deleuze (1992), Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht (2010), Gaston Bachelard (2000), Roberto da Mata (1997) and Renato Cordeiro Gomes (1994)