Brazilian literary studies in the 1970's and the structuralism/post-structuralism's reception: the case of PUC-Rio

• Grant number: 18/23180-8
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships abroad - Research
• Start date: February 11, 2019
• End date: July 30, 2019
• Field of knowledge: Linguistics, Literature and Arts - Literature - Brazilian Literature
• Principal Investigator: Jefferson Agostini Mello
• Grantee: Jefferson Agostini Mello
• Host Investigator: Michel Robert Jean Riaudel
• Host Institution: Escola de Artes, Ciências e Humanidades (EACH). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil
• Institution abroad: Université Paris-Sorbonne (Paris 4), France

Abstract

The present project aims to examine de Brazilian reception of French structuralist and post-structuralist theories in the literary studies domain during the 1970's. It focuses a group of professors who worked at the Undergraduate course on Brazilian Literature at the Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio): Silviano Santiago, Luiz Costa Lima e Affonso Romano de Sant'Anna. One discusses the contexts - social and institutional - that allowed such a reception, the forms that the structuralist and post-structuralists acquired when circulating in such a space and among those professors, and, more particularly, the difference of those ideas in the work of each professor.