THE BOY POET: Traces of utilitarianism and aesthetics of a production of Henriqueta Lisboa

• Grant number: 11/15877-0
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Master
• Effective date (Start): April 01, 2012
• Effective date (End): March 31, 2014
• Field of knowledge: Linguistics, Literature and Arts - Literature - Brazilian Literature
• Principal Investigator: João Luís Cardoso Tápias Ceccantini
• Grantee: Carla Francine da Silva Reis
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Ciências e Letras (FCL-ASSIS). Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP). Campus de Assis. Assis , SP, Brazil

Abstract

This research project aims to check the status of the issue of literary studies on poet Henriqueta Lisboa (1901-1985), in the Brazilian children's literature. In the studies focused on the lyrical, there is great need in academia, either as literature or as reception work reading on the reader as to the beginner and even young readers. The bibliographic proposed in this research project will include references to the history of Brazilian children's literature, analysis of poetic texts of poetry and literary criticism, seeking to establish relations between the critical fortune of the writer and the aesthetic features of The Boy Poet, published in 1943 , considered a masterpiece for children. The analysis of the poems will switch the search for aesthetic that, according to literary critics referenced the possible overlap of poetry pedagogizantes intentions of Lisbon.

Academic Publications

(References retrieved automatically from State of São Paulo Research Institutions)

REIS, Carla Francine da Silva. Meninices de uma poetisa: um estudo de O menino poeta, de Henriqueta Lisboa. 2014. Master's Dissertation - Universidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp). Faculdade de Ciências e Letras. Assis Assis.