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| Author(s): |
Manuella Miki Souza Araujo
Total Authors: 1
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| 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: | 2013-06-28 |
| Examining board members: |
Cilaine Alves Cunha;
Vagner Camilo;
Karin Volobuef
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| Advisor: | Cilaine Alves Cunha |
| Abstract | |
This dissertation aims at examining the unfinished traits in the poetry of Álvares de Azevedo, and approaching them using the theoretical fundaments of the genre fragment. The object of this study, O poema do frade, is a narrative composing which is constantly relegated to a secondary position in the poets critical fortune. This negative appreciation derives exactly from his digressive and irregular style, often seen as defective. O poema do frade is strongly characterized by the mediation of an ironic narrator, inclined to a rambling discourse, often nonlinear, and full of meta-poetic discussion. In the poem, the multiplicity of matters, apparently discontinuous, is unified in the thematization of a great aesthetic debate about the impossibility of an epic in the modernity. From this perspective, O poema do frade dialogues with the controversial project of composing an epic narrative in nineteenth-century Brazil, sponsored by the local imperial politics, and specially fed by the poets connected to the indianist movement. By questioning the epic feasibility in his time, Álvares de Azevedo performs a review of the neoclassical poetic tradition, as well as his own, applying the romantic principle of closing in the criticism and the poetry fields, or in other words, absorbing the critical reflection inside the work of art. (AU) | |
| FAPESP's process: | 10/03462-7 - The romantic fragment in O Poema do Frade, by Álvares de Azevedo |
| Grantee: | Manuella Miki Souza Araujo |
| Support Opportunities: | Scholarships in Brazil - Master |