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- Abstract:
- The imagery of one of Mário de Andrade's less studied poems is interpreted from the standpoint of Ricoeur's hermeneutics and Walter Benjamin's theories of symbol and allegory. The images of the river merged with the musings of the poetic subject are seen as caustic reflections on São Paulo's process of modernization during the forties, with its contrasts of rising democracy, industrial progress, corrupt politics, poverty, and increasing loneliness and dehumanization of the self.
- A imagética de um dos poemas menos estudados de Mário de Andrade é aqui interpretada do ponto de vista da hermenêutica de Ricoeur e das teorias de símbolo e alegoria de Walter Benjamin. As imagens do rio fundidas com as reflexões do sujeito poético são vistas como reflexos cáusticos no processo de modernização de São Paulo durante os anos 1940, com seus contrastes de democracia crescente, progresso industrial, política corrupta, pobreza e crescente solidão e desumanização do ser.
Citation
Brum Santos, Pedro,
"Symbol and allegory in 'A meditação sobre o Tietê'"
(1991).
BRASIL/BRAZIL: A Journal of Brazilian Literature.
Brown Digital Repository. Brown University Library.
https://doi.org/10.26300/34nf-cr46
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BRASIL/BRAZIL: A Journal of Brazilian Literature
...BRASIL/BRAZIL: A Journal of Brazilian Literature (ISSN: 2526-4885), founded in 1988, publishes scholarly articles on Brazilian literature and in Comparative Literature with a focus on Brazilian literature, as well as book reviews, interviews with writers, English-language translations of Brazilian literature …