Banca de QUALIFICAÇÃO: JULIO CESAR DE ARAUJO CADÓ

Uma banca de QUALIFICAÇÃO de MESTRADO foi cadastrada pelo programa.
STUDENT : JULIO CESAR DE ARAUJO CADÓ
DATE: 11/07/2024
TIME: 14:00
LOCAL: UFRN - Google Meet
TITLE:

CABRALINO BESTIARY: CARVED FAUNA IN THE POETRY OF JOÃO CABRAL DE MELO NETO

KEY WORDS:

Zoopoetics; Animal alterity; Animality; Bestiary; João Cabral de Melo Neto.

PAGES: 228
BIG AREA: Lingüística, Letras e Artes
AREA: Letras
SUBÁREA: Literatura Comparada
SUMMARY:

In this dissertation, I intend to broaden the boundaries of the receptive, poetic and imaginary system that surrounds João Cabral de Melo Neto through the elaboration of an analytical-interpretative reading of his poetry guided by the presence of animals and forms of animality, under the prism of Zoopoetics. This study is guided by an understanding of Cabral's creative stance as a poetics of otherness, which includes all beings that escape our rationalist and anthropocentric model. Situated in the field of Comparative Literature, from a methodological point of view I consider the transitive aspect of the poetic text and the valential relationship between literary studies and other fields of knowledge. I aim to build a catalogue of the animals written by the author in order to characterise the ways in which these non-human living beings are formalised in his poetic work. In pursuing this goal, I specifically intend to: i) map words and images belonging to the zoological semantic field; ii) trace the evaluative path of animality in the works as a whole; iii) unveil the mechanisms by which animals are engendered in the poems; and iv) examine the ways in which some of these animals are apprehended in the compositional fabric. In accordance with this research horizon, I propose a bifurcation of the reading in order to contemplate an extensive movement, encompassing the totality of the volumes of poetry, and another intensive one, with the aim of leading the interpretative effort towards a collection of poems. The corpus was selected on the basis of recognising the centrality of the animal as an element of compositional irradiation and the identification of interspecific relationships that gain materiality in these poems. As preliminary results, I identify a broad and heterogeneous collection of references to animals in the author's poems - from generic allusions to uses of singular species - to which equally diverse values are attributed. The journey through João Cabral's work opens up the reader to a perception of the modalisations that animality undergoes: at first, taken from the instinctive and monstrous dimension to be combated in the conscious process of writing, to the consideration of animals as forms of life from which aesthetic and ethical knowledge about the cohabited world is learned.

COMMITTEE MEMBERS:
Presidente - 3351552 - ROSANNE BEZERRA DE ARAUJO
Externa à Instituição - MARIA ESTER MACIEL DE OLIVEIRA BORGES - UFMG
Externa à Instituição - SOLANGE FIUZA CARDOSO YOKOZAWA - UFG