Engaged poetry of Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen

• Grant number: 11/18872-9
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Scientific Initiation
• Start date: January 01, 2012
• End date: December 31, 2012
• Field of knowledge: Linguistics, Literature and Arts - Literature - Modern Foreign Literatures
• Principal Investigator: Rubens Pereira dos Santos
• Grantee: Luane Gonçalves Amurin
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Ciências e Letras (FCL-ASSIS). Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP). Campus de Assis. Assis , SP, Brazil

Abstract

This project aims to develop a commented anthology of poems with the Portuguese poet Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen. She lived in Portugal when Salazar was in power, was a troubled period of dictatorship for many intellectuals. Shophia de Mello, with its revolutionary character, reveals all her feelings, which were also similar to those of society, rebellion and struggle for freedom. Her poems cover the period of Portuguese neorealism, a movement that carries the phenomenon of artistic conscientious, context in which much of the literary theorists make use of political ideologies, relating the literary work with reality and with the prospect of transforming society.