Mito e poesia. Modernismo, comunidade e metamorfose

The reading taken here of the relationship between myth and poetry, life and language, intended to highlight that poetry releases energy to operate against its transformation into modern utility. Poetry can, therefore, reverse the direction of a concept of modernity as conquering thought, planning a...

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Main Author: Susana Celia Scramim
Format: Article
Language:Portuguese
Published: Universidade Estadual de Campinas 2014-04-01
Series:Remate de Males
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Online Access:https://periodicos.sbu.unicamp.br/ojs/index.php/remate/article/view/8635831
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Summary:The reading taken here of the relationship between myth and poetry, life and language, intended to highlight that poetry releases energy to operate against its transformation into modern utility. Poetry can, therefore, reverse the direction of a concept of modernity as conquering thought, planning and administration of life. This disordering was at the heart of the concerns of the poetry of some poets of Brazilian modernism, especially in the poetry of Murilo Mendes and João Cabral de Melo Neto, and presents another way of operating the same modernity and its immanent ordering.
ISSN:2316-5758