The Lushiness and the Flush: Representations of Nature in Gonçalves Dias

• Grant number: 23/18071-3
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Scientific Initiation
• Start date: April 01, 2024
• End date: March 31, 2025
• Field of knowledge: Linguistics, Literature and Arts - Literature - Brazilian Literature
• Principal Investigator: Cilaine Alves Cunha
• Grantee: Francivan Amorim Oliveira
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil

Abstract

The poems in the series "Hinos" (Primeiros and Segundos Cantos), by Gonçalves Dias, favor a painting of nature and, in the midst of it, an approach to loneliness, death and God, motifs that tend to merge in the aforementioned series. The research intends to analyze some of these poems, considering the unique way in which, when creating this painting, the poet appropriates Longinus' and Kant's theories about the sublime and the beautiful. If necessary and on a secondary level, the research will also rely on the theory of ekphrasis, explored in several scholars of classical literature and present in romantic poets, such as Gonçalves Dias and Castro Alves.