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In this chapter, Leão and Guimarães focus on the poetic, visionary and wanderer perspective of Arthur Rimbaud (1854–1891), found in his “Letters of the Seer” (1871), aiming to highlight the potential of poetry to provoke a creative derangement in the living experiences of making senses about the I-Other-(chaotic) World relations, reason-unreason dualism and futurity as unknown. The authors make connections between poetry, psychology and philosophy under the perspective of semiotic-cultural constructivism in psychology (Simão, 2010), bringing Rimbaud into a dialogue with theoreticians such as Mikhail Bakhtin, William James and Jaan Valsiner.
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“To rebind”, in Latin.
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The production of this text was funded by CNPq (National Council for Scientific and Technological Development) that has conceded to Maria Eloisa do Amaral Leão a masters’ scholarship and to Danilo Silva Guimarães a scholarship for research productivity.
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Leão, M.E.d.A., Guimarães, D.S. (2017). Rimbauding Worlds: Creation of Deranging Senses. In: Lehmann, O., Chaudhary, N., Bastos, A., Abbey, E. (eds) Poetry And Imagined Worlds. Palgrave Studies in Creativity and Culture. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-64858-3_7
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