T 4 Th 4-5  Prof. Charles A. Perrone  GRI 335; Office Hours: T TH 2- 3 15 or by app't

392 2100 (direct); messages: 392 2017 / 0375; e-mail: perrone@ufl.edu  http:plaza.ufl.edu/perrone

 

Description and Objectives:  This course concerns currents in Brazilian lyric since 1950 in broad cultural contexts involving plastic arts, music, so-called counter-culture, political environment, and history.  After reviewing the background of modernismo, we will examine a series of movements, trends, and themes: concrete poetry; other mid-century neo-vanguards; the politics of committed verse; the poetry of song; youth poetry of the 1970s-1980s, the question of postmodernism vis-à-vis lyric in a developing nation, and "transamerican poetics".  Beyond literarily-focused approaches —close reading, structural analysis, dramatic theory— the course will encourage inter-disciplinary treatments of texts and movements.  The class aims to provide understanding of contemporary poetic manifestations in Brazil both as artistic objects and as historically situated phenomena, in national and international contexts.  With an eye to grasping literary and cultural content, the course seeks further development of reading and interpretative skills.  In addition, enhancement of students' abilities in written and oral expression is sought, especially via open debate and discussion.

 

Required work and grading:
--  Attendance and participation, including assigned presentations (20%);

--  Mid-term examination preceding Spring Break (20%);

--  Take-home/in-class end-term examination (20%);
--  Papers: two short essays, one in each half of the semester (20% / 20%= 40%);
     OR a term project (editorial, research, analytical, interpretative) (40%).

NB:  written and oral instructions for writing assignments will be given in class and/or by email.  Topics should be decided in consultation with the professor; approaches and methodologies will be appropriate to individual backgrounds, interests, and fields of study.  When in doubt, please inquire.

 

Primary Text and Other Readings:

1. Perrone, Charles A. Seven Faces:  Brazilian Poetry since Modernism) =7F  below on schedule

2. _____.  Letras e Letras da Música Popular Brasileira (reserve, =LL  below on schedule

3. Additional material in CP= Course Pack at GTI (w/ table of contents), =CP below on schedule

4. Items at reserve desk in Smathers Library; =R below on schedule

 

Reserve,  Creative works

mini-anthology, Sant'Anna, Música popular e moderna poesia brasileira, =MPMPB, also in CP

selections in Brasil and Smith, eds. Brazilian Poetry 1950-1980

Campos, Augusto de. Viva Vaia Poesia 1949-1979;  Não

Pignatari, Décio.  Poesia Pois é Poesia

various in Simon, Iumna and V. Dantas, eds. Poesia Concreta

Pécora, Alcyr, ed. Caetano Veloso;  Goes, Fred, ed.  Gilberto Gil

Holanda, Heloisa Buarque de, ed. 26 Poetas Hoje, Esses poetas

Leminski, Paulo. Caprichos e relaxos, Distraidos Venceremos

Daniel&Barbosa, Na virada do século; Ascher et al. and Corona, ed. vols., listed under PRT 2490

 

Reserve, Critical works:

Treece, David and Mike Gonzalez.  The Gathering of the Voices:  The Twentieth-Century Poetry
            of Latin America
. (chapters on Brazil)

Greene, Roland, ed.  Material Poetry in the Renaissance / Renaissance of Material Poetry. (HLB)

Sousa, Erthos Albino de, ed. Poesia Concreta 30 anos. Código 11

Campos, A. de, H. de Campos, and D.  Pignatari. Teoria da Poesia Concreta

Campos, Augusto de.  Balanço da Bossa

Sant'Anna, Affonso Romano de. Música popular e moderna poesia brasileira

Holanda, Heloisa Buarque de. Impressões de Viagem

Aguilar, Gonzalo.  Poesia concreta brasileira asvanguardas na cruzilhada modernista

Schedule: Basic readings from books, CP, or reserve in parentheses; (abbreviations: MPMPB = corresponding section in Sant'Anna CP; CP= coursepack; R= on reserve; full assignments in class)

 

Jan. 9               Introduction to course and contemporary Brazilian history; acquire materials

Jan. 11/            Concepts of poetry, recent Brazilian examples (CP: Nicola and Infante, Como ler Lexicon for lyric, exemplifications (CP: Nicola and Infante, cont'd)

 

Jan. 16             Review of Modernismo (7F, Intro A; CP: MPMPB, Brito; R: Treece Ch. 3)

Jan. 18/            Generation of '45, Cabral de Melo Neto  (7F, Intro B; CP: MPMPB, Faustino)

 

Jan. 23             Intro to Noigandres Group and Concrete Poetry.
(7F
Ch. 2 begin; R: Simon and Dantas intro, CP: MPMPB)

Jan. 25/            Concrete Poetry: the visual dimension. Slides. Video.  Internet. (Continue 7F, Ch. 2)

 

Jan. 30             Concrete Poetry 1950s-1960s  (R: A. Campos, Pignatari)

Feb. 1/             Concrete Poetry 1970s-1980s. Slides. Video (7F, Ch. 2, finish)

Concrete Poetry  debates (CP: MPMPB neo-concretismo, Tendência; Treece 242 ff.)

 

Feb. 6              Violão de Rua, Poetry of social commitment (7F, Ch. 3; MPMPB; Treece 247 ff.)

 Feb. 8/            Violão de Rua  (Holanda Impressões) Other neo-vanguards:

Poesia Práxis /  poema processo  (7F, Ch. 2 end; MPMPB)

 

Feb. 13            Poetry of song  (7F, Ch.4, begin LL; MPMPB); conceito de, visão geral
Feb. 15/           Bossa Nova,Festivais
; early MPB(LL Ch. 1, 2) Early Buarque (LL Ch. 3, 7F, Ch. 4)

 

Feb. 20            Tropicalismo (R: A. Campos, Balanço; Treece 313 ff.)
Feb. 22            Veloso Anos 1970s (7F
, Ch. 4 cont'd; LL, Ch. 4; R: Pécora, ed.)

 

Feb. 27            Revisão, review of 1920-1980

Mar. 1/            Mid-term exam in class / Poetry and Performance, video and on line

 

Mar. 6             Veloso Anos 1980s-90s (7F, Ch. 6 cont'd; LL, Ch. 6; R: Pécora, ed.)
Mar. 8/                        Gil (7F
, LL 7.1; Goes); Buarque II (LL Ch.5, 7F, Ch.4)   Mar. 10-17 SpringBreak


Mar. 20           Other poet-songwriters / Lyricists (7F
, Ch. 4, end; LL, Ch. 7, 8); continue 3-29

Mar. 22/          Page poetry 1970s-1980s (7F, Ch. 5; R: Holanda Impressões;  CP: Secchin, Novaes) Poesia marginal  (CP: MPMPB, Holanda  26 poetas; Alvim, César, et al.)

 

Mar. 27           Constructivism-CriaçãoIntersemiótica(7F,Ch.5B, R: Perrone in Greene; cf ubuweb)
Mar. 29/          Special guest:  Luciana Monteiro on MPB and gender 1960s-1990s

                       
April 3             Post-modern? (7F
, Ch. 6; "pós-tudo",  R: A. Campos in Greene;  Treece 307 ff.)
April 5/            Post-modern, post-utopian (7F
, Ch. 6 end);  Não poemas (R:  A. Campos)

 

April 10           Transamerican poetics,  introduction (CP:  Perrone 2002; R: Holanda intro 1990)

April 12/          Transamerican poetics:  language, allusion, outros gêneros (Perrone 2006b)

 

April 17           Transamerican poetics:  épica (R: Perrone 2006a)

April 19/          Transamerican poetics:  Banda Hispânica, late Tropicália

 

April 24           "O último poema", "Guardar" or other; Evaluation
April 26           Discretionary review for/or take-home (7F
postface); Second/term paper by April 27

 

 

II.  Additional works on contemporary Brazilian lyric  (cf. footnotes in Seven Faces)

 

Ávila, Affonso. O poeta e a consciência crítica. Petrópolis: Vozes, 1969.

 

Chamie, Mário. Instauração Práxis I:  manifestos, plataformas, textos e documentos críticos-- 1959 a 1972. São Paulo: Edições Quirón, 1974.

 

Cirne, Moacy. A Biblioteca de Caicó:  Ensaios sobre vanguarda, semiologia e cultura de massa. Rio de Janeiro: José Olympio, 1983.

_____. Vanguarda, um projeto semiológico. Petrópolis: Vozes, 1975.

 

Coutinho, Afrânio,  ed.  A Literatura no Brasil.  Rio de Janeiro: José Olympio, 1986.  230-262.

 

Dantas, Vinícius. "A nova poesia brasileira e a poesia." Novos Estudos CEBRAP 16 (1986), 40-53.

 

Faustino, Mário. "A poesia concreta e o momento poético  brasileiro."  In Poesia Experiência. São Paulo:  Perspectiva,  1976. 209-219.

 

Franchetti, Paulo. Alguns Aspectos da Teoria da Poesia Concreta.  Campinas: UNICAMP, 1989.

 

Freitas Filho, Armando. "Poesia Vírgula Viva" in Novaes, ed. Anos 70 Literatura.  Rio de Janeiro: Europa, 1979.  83-122.

 

Gullar, Ferreira. Vanguarda e subdesenvolvimento. Rio: Civilização Brasileira, 1969.
_____.  Cultura posta em questão. Rio: Civilização Brasileira, 1965.

 

Houaiss, Antonio. Drummond mais seis poetas e um problema. Rio de Janeiro:  Imago, 1976. 

 

Lucas, Fábio. Vanguarda, História & Ideologia da Literatura. São Paulo:  Icone, 1985.

 

Mendonça, Antônio Sergio and Álvaro de Sá. Poesia de Vanguarda no Brasil:  De Oswald de Andrade ao Poema Visual. Rio de Janeiro: Antares, 1983.

 

Merquior, José Guilherme. "Musa morena moça: notas sobre a nova poesia brasileira". Tempo Brasileiro 42-43 (Dec. 1975), 7-19.

 

Pontual, Roberto. "Poesia hoje:  tarefa revolucionária." Tempo Brasileiro  1: 2 ( 1962), 55-80.

 

Portella, Eduardo. Vanguarda e cultura de massa. Rio de Janeiro: Tempo Brasileiro, 1978.

 

Simon, Iumna Maria and Vinícius Dantas. "Poesia ruim sociedade pior." Novos estudos CEBRAP 12 (1985), 48-61.  Trad. in Yudice et al. eds. On Edge:  The Crisis of Contemporary Latin American Culture.  Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1992. 141-159.

 

Teles , Gilberto Mendonça.  Retórica do silêncio I Teoria e prática do texto literário.  Rio de Janeiro: José Olympio, 1989.