On the way to 'Guesa': narrative form and poetic diction in 'Guesa', by Sousândrade

• Grant number: 13/50488-0
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Post-Doctoral
• Start date: October 01, 2013
• End date: August 13, 2014
• Field of knowledge: Linguistics, Literature and Arts - Literature - Brazilian Literature
• Principal Investigator: João Adolfo Hansen
• Grantee: André Fiorussi
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil

Abstract

This research aims at contributing for the studies of the poetry of Sousândrade (Joaquim de Sousa Andrade, 1832-1902) by way of an investigation of the historical and stylistic determinations concerning the narrative form and the poetic diction of the long poem Guesa, published in parts during the 1870s and 1880s. It proposes to examine the modes of relation and dependence between these two aspects of the composition, discussing possible 19th century models for the poem so as to insert it in a network of texts of its own time that could offer elements to a historicized understanding of its poetical procedures. In order to do so, this research will benefit from recent works that, by focusing on different aspects of the composition of Guesa, have shown several modes of relation between Sousândrade's techniques and the poetic categories of his time (Hansen, 1993,1998 e s/d; Cunha, 1998 e 2012; Librandi, 2003; Reinato, 2008), and also from other fundamental works on Sousândrade's poetry (Costa Lima, 1960; Campos, 1964,1979 e 2002; Williams, 1976; Lobo, 1986; Cuccagna, 2004).This investigation will also benefit from previous researches undertaken by the author of this project (Fiorussi, 2008; Fiorussi, 2013) in the field of 19th century Hispanic-American poetry. (AU)