Love and Beauty in the Romantic Poetry of Hindi and Malayalam

Hindi

British Romantic Criticism and the Fine Arts: A Study in Philosophical Theories of Literary Unity

This dissertation is an exploration of how a small but important group of Romantic critics, finding fault in the ideal of three unities developed by neoclassical Academicians and wrongly attributed to Aristotle, turned to the terminology and practices of the fine arts to emphasize their conception of organic unity in literature. The Romantic analogy to painting in particular enables a philosophical criticism of literature to present the aesthetic semblance of painting, the comprehension of a multitude of details in a harmonious whole that is a natural unity to its medium, as a paradigm of modern-romantic poetry and its aspirations to similar complexity, particularity, and imaginative colour. Further, in extension of the French Querelle des anciens et des modernes of the seventeenth century, the division of ancient and romantic art by Romantic critics like August Schlegel, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and William Hazlitt not only establishes an ethnological and historical difference between the artistic productions of these two cultural periods but also allows, unlike the neoclassical unities, a non-anachronistic philosophical vocabulary of whole and parts or of the general and particular in the criticism of poetry, which involution provides a “rule” more consonant with the laws of the imagination rather than with the rhetorical and absolutist dicta that were thither available in the literary canon.

New Collected Poems of W. S. Graham

Francis, Matthew, New Collected Poems of W. S. Graham, (London: Faber and Faber, 2004 RAE2008

Review short: Rebecca Law's Lilies and Stars

Review of Lilies and Stars by Rebecca Law, Picaro Press, 2013.

Eliza Hamilton Dunlop's 'the aboriginal mother': romanticism, anti slavery and imperial feminism in the nineteenth century

This paper positions the work of colonial poet Eliza Hamilton Dunlop amongst international Romantic poetry of the period, and argues that Dunlop’s poetry reflects a transposition of Romantic women’s poetry to Australia. Dunlop’s poetry, such as ‘The Aboriginal Mother’, demonstrates the relationship of Romantic women’s poetry to early feminism and Social Reform. As with the work of Felicia Hemans, Dunlop was interested in the role of women, and the ‘domestic’ as they related to broader national and political concerns. Dunlop seems to have been consciously applying the tropes, such as that of the mother, of anti slavery poetry found within American, British, and international poetic traditions to the Australian aboriginal context. Themes of indigenous motherhood, and also of Sati or widow burning in India, and human rights had been favored by early women’s rights campaigners in Britain from the 1820s, focusing on abolition of slavery through the identification of white women with the Negro mother. Dunlop’s comparative sympathy for the situation of aboriginals in Australia has been given critical attention as the aspect which makes her work valuable. However, in this essay I hope to outline how Dunlop’s poetry fits in to the international context of the engagement of Romantic women poets with Western Imperialist models and colonial Others.

A alegoria em Lucinde (1799), de Friedrich Schlegel

Pós-graduação em Estudos Literários - FCLAR

A concepção de arte em Lima Barreto e Leon Tolstói: divergências e convergências

Pós-graduação em Letras - FCLAS

A transcendência pela natureza em Álvares de Azevedo

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES)

Antônio Tavernard: vida em versos de um flâneur estático

Antônio Tavernard é um poeta que até então não inspirou muitos estudos acadêmicos a respeito de sua obra literária. O pouco que se sabe dele é o pouco que se repassou até hoje: um poeta triste, uma poesia pessimista e romântica. No entanto, há muito mais do que parece haver nos versos deixados por Tavernard. A vivência guardada em um chalé no fundo do quintal, o afastamento social por conta de uma doença incurável, possibilitou ao poeta a revelação de outros olhares seus sobre a realidade externa. Este trabalho propõe um percurso diferente pela obra poética de Tavernard, reconhecendo os espaços poéticos existentes na mesma. A partir da definição de flâneur dita por Walter Benjamin, aplica-se ao poeta paraense tal adjetivo de forma metafórica, já que ele, mesmo estático fisicamente, passeia pela Belém do início do século XX através de suas sensações e leituras e retrata, em seus poemas, a cidade de uma forma muito singular, como um dia, Baudelaire fez com Paris. Através da leitura de várias edições da extinta revista A Semana, a pesquisa trata também da relação que a obra do poeta tinha com um público contemporâneo formado por escritores famosos da cena literária local como, por exemplo, Bruno de Menezes.

Poesia romântica brasileira revisitada

Pós-graduação em Letras - IBILCE

O sublime e o problema da modernidade em Pedro Kilkerry

Current paper discusses manifestations of the sublime in Pedro Kilkerry´s poetry as one of the distinguishing characteristics within the Parnassian orientations predominant in his cultural context. The particular way that Kilkerry employs the sublime´s expedients demonstrates the dialogue of his poetry with Romantic ideals, whose traits in his lyrical stance are directly linked to Symbolist influence, far from traditional Parnassian models. The sublime in Kilkerry develops through an elliptical and suggestive language that demonstrates the impossibility of the ideal being directly expressed and shows the affinity of his poetic work with the idealist crisis that marks post-Romantic poetry and provides the basis on which the poetics of Modernity is structured. The poetry of Pedro Kilkerry develops within a complex zone of convergence between the models provided by the Parnassian aesthetic, Romantic idealism with an atavic presence to Symbolism, and the search for new answers to old idealistic concerns. The meeting of these three conflictive currents, perceptible in the manifestations of the sublime in Pedro Kilkerry´s poetry, demonstrates his lyrical sensitivity to the trends of Modernity.