FROM ARCADIANISM TO ROMANTICISM: SIMILARITIES AND SPECIFICITIES IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF NATIONAL CANON

Authors

  • Wellington Stefaniu

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.48075/rlhm.v12i20.14983

Keywords:

Literatura Brasileira, Cânone Literário, História da Literatura, Literatura Comparada.

Abstract

A lot is being discussed about the characteristics of the Brazilian’s literary esthetics of Arcadianism and Romanticism among the studies that aim to compare these literary periods, observing their factors in the creation of a canon specifically stated as national in Brazil. Issues like the nationalism, the nature and the cult to aborigine are recurrent seen in both esthetics, which usually want to recreate the aspects of an idealized Brazil, yet under the yoke of the colonialism and the monarchism. Therefore, the present study has as its main objective establishing comparative connections between both literary movements here previously mentioned, considering their historical periods and the specific relevancies of each one to our literature. For this purpose, it will be utilized the researches elaborated by Guilhermino César, described in his work Historiadores e Críticos do Romantismo, as well as the considerations made by Alfredo Bosi in his book História Concisa da Literatura Brasileira. It will also be used many essays of the researcher Ricardo Leão, present in the work Os Atenienses e a Invenção do Cânone Nacional. It will also be highlighted the contributions of Afrânio Coutinho, with the interpretation of Caminhos do Pensamento Crítico and of Antônio Candido with his essay Na Sala de Aula. Finally, anchorage will be searched in the theories of comparative literature, proposed by Sandra Nitrini in Literatura Comparada: História, Teoria e Crítica. It will be evinced, from these readings, how the Arcadianism and the Romanticism collaborate to the construction of a literature called “Brazilian”, aiming to highlight the importance that both had so that Brazil could be independent from Portugal not only in the policy issues but also in what refers to the literature produced in our country in that time.

 

Published

26-01-2017

How to Cite

STEFANIU, W. FROM ARCADIANISM TO ROMANTICISM: SIMILARITIES AND SPECIFICITIES IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF NATIONAL CANON. Journal of Literature, History and Memory, [S. l.], v. 12, n. 20, 2017. DOI: 10.48075/rlhm.v12i20.14983. Disponível em: https://e-revista.unioeste.br/index.php/rlhm/article/view/14983. Acesso em: 28 jul. 2025.

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Section

PESQUISA EM LETRAS NO CONTEXTO LATINO-AMERICANO E LITERATURA, ENSINO E CULTURA