For a sentimental literary historiography: formation and modernity in Antonio Candido
This article analyzes the literary historiography of Antonio Candido, expressed in the book Formação da literatura brasileira (1959). Understanding Candido’s textual architecture as a narrative of transition, in which the crucial moments of Brazilian literature are selected, suggests a permanent ten...
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| Format: | article |
| Status: | Published version |
| Publication Date: | 2017 |
| Country: | Brasil |
| Institution: | Universidade Federal de Ouro Preto (UFOP) |
| Repository: | História da Historiografia |
| Language: | Portuguese |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:ojs.www.historiadahistoriografia.com.br:article/1093 |
| Online Access: | https://www.historiadahistoriografia.com.br/revista/article/view/1093 |
| Access Level: | Open access |
| Keyword: | Modernity Antonio Cândido Formation Modernidad Formación Modernidade Formação |
| Summary: | This article analyzes the literary historiography of Antonio Candido, expressed in the book Formação da literatura brasileira (1959). Understanding Candido’s textual architecture as a narrative of transition, in which the crucial moments of Brazilian literature are selected, suggests a permanent tension between tradition and modernity, and the unfinished character of our literary formation. Thus, aiming to grasp the relation between tradition and modernity, as the ground of a national literature, we propose a schillerian approach. Perhaps through the passage from a naïve literature to a sentimental one, it may be possible to identify the sense of Brazilian literature formation’s theory expressed by Candido. |
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