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Politics and literature in Antonio Gramsci¿s Prison Notebooks

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Author(s):
Daniela Xavier Haj Mussi
Total Authors: 1
Document type: Master's Dissertation
Institution: Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Instituto de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas
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Examining board members:
Walquiria Gertrudes Domingues Leão Rego; Maria Betânia Amoroso
Advisor: Alvaro Gabriel Bianchi Mendez
Abstract

This thesis dealt with the relationship between politics and literature in the prison writings of Antonio Gramsci, especially the Prison Notebooks 21 and 23. For this, considered the restoration method proposed by the critical edition of the Prison Notebooks edited by Valentino Gerratana (1975). This work proposed to achieve its goals with two main categories, literary criticism and national-popular literature. The general hypothesis, or the starting point, of this research was that the relationship between literature and politics was part of a broader effort by Gramsci to survive the conditions of life in prison and to seek the development of the philosophy of praxis. With regard to literary criticism, the survey sought to establish a possible translation of the prison notes on the construction of the organic and modern intellectual, represented at the "return to De Sanctis", as a model of literary critic opposed to the figure of Benedetto Croce. Here, the contradiction between the literary and the political was taken as a starting point for understanding the birth of the modern intellectual as "political + expert". The research recovered also the national-popular moment in Gramsci, as a hub of the study of modern lifestyle and representative update on politics and literature of the historical experience of the formation of national states. The study of national-popular Italian literature was considered, in turn, in its fragility, the fragility of the Italian unification (AU)

FAPESP's process: 09/02563-7 - Politics and Literature in Quaderni del Carcere
Grantee:Daniela Xavier Haj Mussi
Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Master