A place to the journal O Novo Mundo

Author(s)

Monica Maria Rinaldi Asciutti

• Document type: Master's Dissertation
• Press: São Paulo.
• Institution: Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH/SBD)
• Defense date: 2010-04-29

Examining board members

Helio de Seixas Guimaraes; Sílvia Maria Azevedo; Vagner Camilo

• Advisor: Helio de Seixas Guimaraes

Abstract

This study investigates the articles referring to the literature (fiction prose and poety) of O Novo Mundo Periódico Ilustrado do Progresso da Idade, published in New York, United States, between 1870 and 1879 for distribution and circulation in Brazil. All written in Portuguese, the newspaper was founded by José Carlos Rodrigues (1844-1923), its chief and it reckoned on a group of collaborators, who nourishing admiration for the course of development of the American nation, believed in the American model as a solution to the socio-political problems in Brazil. The examination of articles dealing with the shaping of Brazilian literature on the pages of the newspaper, shows that it can be compared to Niterói magazine, published in France in 1836, and considered a demarcator of the romantic literary trend, with the work of Domingos José de Magalhães, Suspiros Poéticos e Saudades (1836). The comparison is justified to the extent that O Novo Mundo was also a privileged place from which the renewal of literary production during the 1870s can be seen. It was in this period that Machado de Assis published in March 1873, for the very first time, the literary essay \"Instinto de Nacionalidade,\" which would become widely known and celebrated by Brazilian literary critics as a landmark of exhaustion of Brazilian romanticism and an indicative of the renewal that local production would suffer from Machados work and the new doctrines of Realism and Naturalism. (AU)

• FAPESP's process: 07/06233-6 - Vision of Brazilian literature in the periodical "O Novo Mundo" (New York, 1870-1879)
• Grantee: Mônica Maria Rinaldi Asciutti
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Master