CALL FOR PAPERS - DOSSIER/SPECIAL ISSUE: Poetry and Image in 20th and 21st-Century Portuguese Literature

2026-03-02

DOSSIER/SPECIAL ISSUE: Poetry and Image in 20th and 21st-Century Portuguese Literature

 Editors: Rita Novas Miranda (Sorbonne Université), Joana Meirim (Universidade Nova de Lisboa) and André Luiz do Amaral (Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso do Sul)

 

Proposal: As Rosa Maria Martelo (2012) argues, two predominant modes of conceptualizing the image in Portuguese poetry can be identified from the 1960s onwards: one of a rhetorical and figural nature, sustained by the use of metaphor and linked to the notion of the mental image; and another more closely associated with experimentalism, textual materiality, and visuality. These trends — complementary and at times overlapping — trace back to the very emergence of poetic modernity in Baudelaire and Mallarmé. Their effects remain identifiable in contemporary manifestations that explore interartistic practices and conceptualize poetry as an expanded field. ithin this critical horizon, this dossier seeks to gather articles that address these and other forms of dialogue between Poetry and Image in modern and contemporary Portuguese literature.

Deadline: Articles may be submitted until July 1st, 2026.




Submissions: Original articles written in Portuguese, Spanish, French, or English are welcome. Submission guidelines are available at: https://periodicosonline.uems.br/REV/about/submissions.

 

Proposed Thematic Areas:

  1. Image, imaginary, and imagination
  2. Image and memory
  3. Legacies of nineteenth-century poetics
  4. Dialogues between poetry and the visual arts
  5. Poetry and cinema
  6. Poetry and photography
  7. Ekphrastic procedures
  8. Poetics of the iconotext
  9. Poetry and the essay
  10. Montage and collage

 

Suggested Bibliography:

AGAMBEN, Giorgio, Image et mémoire, Paris, Éditions Hoëbeke, 1998.

ALOA, Emmanuel (org.), Pensar a imagem, Belo Horizonte, Autêntica, 2015.

AUMONT, Jacques, A Imagem, trad. de Marcelo Félix, Lisbonne, Texto & Grafia, 2009.

BARTHES, Roland, A Câmara Clara, trad. de Manuela Torres, Lisbonne, Edições 70, 1989.

BENIS, Rita; MARQUES, Elisabete, Escrita e Imagem, Lisbonne, Documenta, 2020.

CHRISTIN, Anne-Marie, Escrita e imagem: ensaios, trad. Júlio Castañon Guimarães, Márcia Arbex-Enrico, Belo Horizonte, Relicário, 2023.

DELEUZE, Gilles, L’Image-mouvement. Cinéma 1, Paris, Éditions de Minuit, 1999.

DELEUZE, Gilles, L’Image-temps. Cinéma 2, Paris, Éditions de Minuit, 2009.

DIDI-HUBERMAN, Georges, Ce que nous voyons, ce qui nous regarde, Paris, Éditions de Minuit, 1992.

DIDI-HUBERMAN, Georges, Images malgré tout, Paris, Éditions de Minuit, 2003.

FRIAS, Joana Matos; EIRAS, Pedro; MARTELO, Rosa Maria (org.), Ofício Múltiplo: poetas em outras artes, Porto, Instituto de Literatura Comparada Margarida Losa (FLUP)/ Edições Afrontamento, 2017.

FRIAS, Joana Matos, O Murmúrio das Imagens, 2 vols., Porto, Afrontamento/ ILCML, 2018. 

FRIAS, Joana Matos, Oscilações (Poesia em todos os sentidos), Lisboa, Documenta, 2023. 

HANSEN, João Adolfo, “Categorias epidíticas da ekphrasis”, Revista USP, n.º 71, São Paulo, septembre/ novembre, 2006, p. 85-105.

HATHERLY, Ana, A reinvenção da leitura: breve ensaio crítico seguido de 19 poemas visuais. Lisbonne, Futura, 1975.

HEFFERNAN, James A. W., Museum of Words: The Poetics of Ekphrasis from Homer to Ashberry, Chicago, The University of Chicago Press, 1993.

MAIA, Tomás, “Ensaio sobre a origem da imagem”, in MAIA, Tomás; MARANHA, Marta; SALDANHA, Diogo, Assombra, Lisbonne, Assírio & Alvim, 2009, p. 7-188.

MARTELO, Rosa Maria, “De imagem em imagem”, ABRIL – Revista do Núcleo de Estudos de Literatura Portuguesa e Africana da UFF, vol. 5, n° 9, novembre 2012, p. 15-26. 

MARTELO, Rosa Maria, O Cinema da Poesia, 2ª ed. augméntée, Lisbonne, Documenta, 2017.

MITCHELL, W. J. T., Iconology: Image, Text, Ideology, Chicago, The University of Chicago Press, 1986.

MITCHELL, W. J. T., Picture Theory, Chicago, The University of Chicago Press, 1994.

NANCY, Jean-Luc, Les Muses, Paris, Galilée, 1994.

NANCY, Jean-Luc, Au fond des images, Paris, Galilée, 2003.

NOVAS MIRANDA, Rita, Modos de Ver, Modos de Escrever. Da imagem e da escrita em Herberto Helder e em Jean-Luc Godard, Porto, Afrontamento/ ILCML, 2018. 

RANCIÈRE, Jacques, Le Destin des images, Paris, La Fabrique, 2003.

ROPARS-WUILLEUMIER, Marie-Claire, Le Temps d’une pensée. Du montage à l’esthétique plurielle, Saint-Denis, Presses Universitaires de Vincennes, 2009.

ROWLAND, Clara; CONLEY, Tom (org.), Falso Movimento: Ensaios sobre escrita e cinema, Lisbonne, Cotovia, 2016.

ROWLAND, Clara; BÉRTOLO, José (org.), A Escrita do Cinema: Ensaios, Lisbonne, Documenta, 2015.