The relation of avant-garde with tradition is discussed here as regarding Brazilian Concrete Poetry. As a second avant-garde, after the modernist movement, concretist poets make …
This text discusses the reasons for which Clarice Lispector dedicated herself to fictional prose, despite her novels and short stories having a significant poetic quality …
This article argues that Cabral's poetry may be called original, since, after the ruin of the previous system of expression and representation that linked words, …
"Brejo das almas" reflects the distillation of a complex of different attitudes, a variety of seemingly absurd or ironic positions, a division (between human being …
This article argues that, because it is written from an Afro-Brazilian perspective manifest in imagery and idiom, José Carlos Limeira's poetry focuses on the reclaiming …
This essay explores the reasons that led the Bahian poet António Frederico de Castro Alves to write the poem "Saudação a Palmares" (Salute to Palmares, …
This work argues that Olavo Bilac intended to communicate with an "elite" among the carioca reading public, an elite that was culturally and economically able …
This paper focuses on Mario Quintana's early poetry, published in "Ibirapuitan", a largely unknown literary magazine from his hometown of Alegrete (Rio Grande do Sul). …
In Cecília Meireles's poetry we see the construction of a self-reflexive oeuvre in which the lived dream and the dreamt life inermingle, just as words …
Manuel Bandeira's poetry published in 1930 presents characteristics of an "individualistic" nationalism that emerges as a discourse contrary to the Nation's laudatory boastfulness (‘ufanismo’), prevalent …
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 …
Through the reading of some poems of Adélia Prado, this essay aims at highlighting the multiple aspects of the representation of erotism in her poetic …
This essay deals with female readership as it is portrayed in some Brazilian literary texts, and selects significant sections from eighteenth-century poetry to the contemporary …
This essay addresses the so-called "participation" in Brazilian poetry of the 1960s, through an approach of its most outstanding manifestation: the verses published by the …