Figuras femininas e fronteiras sociais na poética de Manoel de Barros

We contemplated concerning the borders in the social relationships, verifying that way the speech poetic internalizes the moral conventions and it fastens identities when proposing the alterity as a one other radically different. We studied the woman's representation in the poetry of Manoel de Barros, in the grandmother's figures, of the mother, of the women of the people and of the prostitutes. We verified the way as the women are figured and the function that they carry out in the universe of poetic's Barros.

Oswald de Andrade e a poética da modernidade

In its first part, this essay looks into basic features of Oswald de Andrade's creative thought; in the second part the poem Soidão is analysed to show some of the poetic procedures used by the poet.