Epigraphs and dialogues in the poetry of Machado de Assis

• Grant number: 14/07653-2
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Master
• Start date: November 01, 2014
• End date: January 31, 2016
• Field of knowledge: Linguistics, Literature and Arts - Literature - Brazilian Literature
• Agreement: Coordination of Improvement of Higher Education Personnel (CAPES)
• Principal Investigator: Wilton José Marques
• Grantee: Audrey Ludmilla Do Nascimento Miasso
• Host Institution: Centro de Educação e Ciências Humanas (CECH). Universidade Federal de São Carlos (UFSCAR). São Carlos , SP, Brazil

Abstract

In the epigraphs that accompany some of the poems of Crisálidas (1864), by Machado de Assis, there are names of authors like Dante, Camões, Heine and Homer. The same happens in the next two books of poems published by the author, Falenas (1870) and Americanas (1875). The choice of these names reveals the authors of Machado's library that accompanied him throughout your career and influenced their way of composition since its debut in the lyrics. These names dialogue with Machado's poetry and help us to better understand the architecture of the poetic composition of the author, such the epigraphs become an inseparable part of poems and weave with them an intimate relationship of dependency, being not only a source of supply for themselves, but also by relating them in own understanding of the issue of work. (AU)