Manuel Bandeira nas cartas e nas crônicas: percurso literário e arte poética

Este trabalho é um exercício reflexivo sobre o percurso literário e a arte poética de Manuel Carneiro de Souza Bandeira Filho nos decênios de 1920 e 1930. Na leitura da correspondência trocada por ele e Mário Raul de Morais Andrade, e de seus textos escritos para a imprensa, buscamos analisar as múltiplas feições assumidas pelo poeta pernambucano e procuramos desentranhar traços gerais de sua concepção de vida e de poesia. Deste modo, na presente dissertação, o gênero epistolar e a crônica são considerados como notáveis objetos de estudo para a literatura brasileira. A correspondência com Mário de Andrade adquire relevo na produção intelectual de Manuel Bandeira, pois ela possibilita um maior entendimento do poeta a partir de sua escrita de si, assim como permite observar a preocupação do escritor com a memória da cultura brasileira. Da mesma forma, a crônica torna-se importante porque traz o testemunho do cronista sobre o tempo circundante. Ao percorremos uma parte significativa da prosa de Manuel Bandeira, estabelecemos o cotejo com o seu texto memorialístico Itinerário de Pasárgada, rastreando, nessas fontes, os escritos que denunciam o seu posicionamento em relação às inovações da arte moderna

Epistolarum Familiarium Liber Unus in The Complete Works of John Milton: Volume XI (672pp.)

This edition of Milton’s Epistolarum Familiarium Liber Unus and of his Uncollected Letters, will appear as 672 pp. of The Complete Works of John Milton Volume XI, eds. Gordon Campbell and Edward Jones (Oxford University Press, forthcoming 2016). A diplomatic Latin text and a new facing English translation are complemented by a detailed Introduction and commentary that situate Milton’s Latin letters in relation to the classical, pedagogical and essentially humanist contexts at the heart of their composition. Now the art of epistolography advocated and exemplified by Cicero and Quintilian and embraced by Renaissance pedagogical manuals is read through a humanist filter whereby, via the precedent (and very title) of Epistolae Familiares, the Miltonic Liber is shown to engage with a neo-Latin re-invention of the classical epistola that had come to birth in quattrocento Italy in the letters of Petrarch and his contemporaries. At the same time the Epistolae are seen as offering fresh insight into Milton’s views on education, philology, his relations with Italian literati, his blindness, the poetic dimension of his Latin prose, and especially his verbal ingenuity as the ‘words’ of Latin ‘Letters’ become a self-conscious showcasing of etymological punning on the ‘letters’ of Latin ‘words’. The edition also announces several new discoveries, most notably its uncovering and collation of a manuscript of Henry Oldenburg’s transcription (in his Liber Epistolaris held in Royal Society, London) of Milton’s Ep. Fam. 25 (to Richard Jones). Oldenburg’s transcription (from the original sent to his pupil Jones) is an important find, given the loss of all but two of the manuscripts of Milton’s original Latin letters included in the 1674 volume. The edition also presents new evidence in regard to Milton’s relationships with the Italian philologist Benedetto Buonmattei, the Greek humanist Leonard Philaras, the radical pastor Jean Labadie (and the French church of London), and the elusive Peter Heimbach.

A representação do homem político no principado romano: uma leitura das cartas de Plínio, o Jovem (96 a 113 d.C)

Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq)

Questões morais do Le Cabinet noir de Max Jacob

This essay aims at presenting the book Le Cabinet noir of Max Jacob, a book of fictional letters with comments, taking into consideration the moral judgment: right conduct, principles that govern modes of action. This strategy demonstrates the ambiguity of Max Jacob’s project: divided into a certain Catholicism, which he practiced, and avant-garde literature. On the other hand, this study points to the various contradictions such as a certain morality towards the family preservation or friendship, virtues or Christian attitudes and bourgeois conveniences. Finally, it establishes the dimension of desire in face of René Girard’s questionings in the essay Mensonge romantique et vérité romanesque.

De Flaubert para Maupassant

This article aims to present some reflections about a selection of letters that Gustave Flaubert (1821-1880) wrote to Guy de Maupassant (1850-1893), between September 23, 1872 and May 3, 1880. For eight years, Flaubert was Maupassant’s friend and a literary master and his letters, marked by a multiple and disordered discourse, reveal a path to friendship and the passionate dedication of the master regarding the intellectual and artistic development of the young writer. It is intended here, to draw some considerations to the moments when Flaubert’s speech assumes, directly or indirectly, a pedagogical role and the letter becomes a way to literary teaching.