Objectification and subjectivity in Murilo Mendes' poetry

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DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5902/1679849X72376

Keywords:

Modern Brazilian poetry, Historiography, Theodor Adorno

Abstract

Murilo Mendes' work has been widely discussed as a natural setting in the context of Modernism, for its portion of Surrealism or Catholicism. From this first mapping of his voice tone, it is interested to point out the interstices of his speech to emphasize the elements that contribute to the delineation of its subjective expression, considering the stylistic traits there present materialize in a particular way in the language used. Therefore, we will take the poem "Coisas" collected in the book Parábola (1952) as an element of exploration to be done through the essays "Signs of punctuation" and “Lecture on poetry and society” of Theodor Adorno. Not before making a brief assessment of how that book was received by some perspective of criticism, notably by Antonio Candido and José Guilherme Merquior.

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Author Biography

Éverton Barbosa Correia, Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro

Doutorado em Teoria Literária e Literatura Comparada pela Universidade de São Paulo.

References

ADORNO, Theodor W. Teoria estética. Lisboa: Edições 70, 1993.

ADORNO, Theodor W. Notas de literatura I. São Paulo: Duas Cidades;Ed.34,2003.

CANDIDO, Antonio. Literatura e sociedade. São Paulo: T.A. Queiroz, 2000a.

CANDIDO, Antonio. Na sala de aula. São Paulo: Ática, 2000b.

MENDES, Murilo. Poesia completa e prosa. Rio de Janeiro: Nova Aguilar,1994.

MERQUIOR, José Guilherme. Arte e sociedade em Marcuse, Adorno e Benjamin. Rio de Janeiro: Tempo Brasileiro, 1969.

MERQUIOR, José Guilherme. A astúcia da mimese. Rio de Janeiro: Topbooks,1997.

Published

2012-11-15

How to Cite

Correia, Éverton B. (2012). Objectification and subjectivity in Murilo Mendes’ poetry. Literatura E Autoritarismo, (12). https://doi.org/10.5902/1679849X72376