The aesthetic battles at the turn of the Nineteenth Century

• Grant number: 14/50144-1
• Support Opportunities: Regular Research Grants - Publications - Books published in Brazil
• Start date: April 01, 2014
• End date: March 31, 2015
• Field of knowledge: Linguistics, Literature and Arts - Literature - Modern Foreign Literatures
• Principal Investigator: Munira Hamud Mutran
• Grantee: Munira Hamud Mutran
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil

Abstract

In the last decades of the Nineteenth Century, the esthetic battles preoccupied three lrish writers George Moore, Oscar Wilde and W.B. Yeats. In their essays and documents of the self, they reflect upon the difficulties of choosing a method to repressed life in the arts and in literature. The book presented for publication contains complete texts or excerpts, in Portuguese, which show the dialogue between different critical approaches related to the so-called-isms. The Postface includes one creative text by each of the writers-critics to illustrate their aesthetic ideas, and takes the reader to one of James Joyce's short stories showing the synthesis of different aesthetic tendencies. (AU)