New jewels made of ancient silver: artifice and versatility in the poetry of Rubén Darío / Jóias novas de prata antiga: artifício e versatilidade na poesia de Rubén Darío

AUTOR(ES)

André Fiorussi

DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2008

RESUMO

Taking into account the poetical categories in use at the end of the 19th century, this dissertation examines some of the options chosen and worked by the Nicaraguan poet Rubén Darío (1867-1916) in order to satisfy and, at the same time, expand the diverse demands of his contemporary readers. We have centered upon artifice and versatility as key elements by which the poet managed to receive his publics applause. Chapter I begins with the current state of the reception of Daríos poetry in order to investigate the origins of the process of a historical constitution of his poetical authority, focusing mainly on certain issues which lay on the base of his first reception in America as well as in Europe. In chapter II, we have studied two relevant categories for a historical comprehension of this poetry: elegance (a representative precept appropriate to the insertion of poetry into the refined and ultra-civilized practices of the late 1800s) and harmony (an element of style which operated not only for the phonic level of poetry, for the sonorous beauty, but also for syntax, for metaphor, metrics, versification, choice of themes and subjects, etc.). In chapter III, the analysis of selected poems aims at unveiling the relevance of our methodology through identifying the uses of elegance and harmony in three diverse genres practiced by Darío: the laudatory, the epistles in verse, and the "visions", related more closely to the poetics called by the name of "symbolist". Chapter IV deals critically with the notion of musicality, expanding it in order to explain a series of procedures and techniques through which we are able to differentiate more clearly between personal choices and the elements which were common to the poetical practices of the poets time.

ASSUNTO(S)

harmonia elegância rubén darío elegance modernismo hispano-americano harmony poéticas do fim do século xix darío poetics of the late 1800s hispanic-american modernism

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