All packed up and ready to go: the trip and the modernism in Ronald de Carvalho's intellectual path

• Grant number: 11/14718-5
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships abroad - Research
• Start date: November 30, 2011
• End date: February 09, 2012
• Field of knowledge: Linguistics, Literature and Arts - Literature - Brazilian Literature
• Principal Investigator: Mirhiane Mendes de Abreu
• Grantee: Mirhiane Mendes de Abreu
• Host Investigator: Jacqueline Penjon
• Host Institution: Escola de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (EFLCH). Universidade Federal de São Paulo (UNIFESP). Campus Guarulhos. Guarulhos , SP, Brazil
• Institution abroad: Université Sorbonne Nouvelle - Paris 3, France

Abstract

Ronald de Carvalho (1893-1935) got involved in the most significant activities of his time - he was a diplomat, poet, historian, lecturer, letter writer and traveler - all of them were carried out dialoguing with the intelligentsia in Brazil and abroad. These references appoint him as one of the most important collective authors in the early decades of the nineteenth century, however he has a small space dedicated to the study of this period. Considering the previous information, the aim of this project is to analyze the intellectual journey of the referred author mainly by his correspondence, evaluating him on his own context and relating him to the actions of modernism. The proposed hypothesis suggests that this particular and comparative exam of a trajectory (in this case, very well defined by the act of travelling), contributes to the understanding of the debates and dilemmas experienced by a specific social and cultural section, programmatically endangered. (AU)