Inventive subjectivities: the I in the silence in Sylvia Plath and Ana Cristina Cesar

• Grant number: 15/20858-5
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Scientific Initiation
• Start date: December 01, 2015
• End date: November 30, 2016
• Field of knowledge: Linguistics, Literature and Arts - Literature - Comparative Literature
• Principal Investigator: Marcos Piason Natali
• Grantee: Fabio Pomponio Saldanha
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil

Abstract

This project seeks to revise certain tendencies in literary criticism associated with authors who committed suicide, as Ana Cristina Cesar and Sylvia Plath, in order to separate the analysis of their works and the analysis of their lives in the specific genre of poetry. Seeking to understand the poetic values that are at stake in their poetry, the project seeks to review the theoretical discourse on what is the poetical, what is considered when analyzing poetry and what would then be the misconception related to the death of the authors to a specifically autobiographical reading in the genre in question.