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-‡-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 M˙sica 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, M˙sica 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; N„o

Pignatari, DÈcio. Poesia Pois È Poesia

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

PÈcora, 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 sÈculo; 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. CÛdigo 11

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

Campos, Augusto de. BalanÁo da Bossa

Sant'Anna, Affonso Romano de. M˙sica popular e moderna poesia brasileira

Holanda, Heloisa Buarque de. Impressıes 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, TendÍncia; Treece 242 ff.)

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

Feb. 8/ Viol„o de Rua (Holanda Impressıes) Other neo-vanguards:

Poesia Pr·xis / poema processo (7F, Ch. 2 end; MPMPB)

Feb. 13 Poetry of song (7F, Ch.4, begin LL; MPMPB); conceito de, vis„o 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, BalanÁo; Treece 313 ff.)
Feb. 22 Veloso Anos 1970s (7F, Ch. 4 cont'd; LL, Ch. 4; R: PÈcora, ed.)

Feb. 27 Revis„o, 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: PÈcora, 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 Impressıes; CP: Secchin, Novaes) Poesia marginal (CP: MPMPB, Holanda 26 poetas; Alvim, CÈsar, et al.)

Mar. 27 Constructivism-CriaÁ„oIntersemiÛtica(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; "pÛs-tudo", R: A. Campos in Greene; Treece 307 ff.)
April 5/ Post-modern, post-utopian (7F, Ch. 6 end); N„o poemas (R: A. Campos)

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

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

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

April 19/ Transamerican poetics: Banda Hisp‚nica, late Tropic·lia

April 24 "O ˙ltimo 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)

¡vila, Affonso. O poeta e a consciÍncia crÌtica. PetrÛpolis: Vozes, 1969.

Chamie, M·rio. InstauraÁ„o Pr·xis I: manifestos, plataformas, textos e documentos crÌticos-- 1959 a 1972. S„o Paulo: EdiÁıes QuirÛn, 1974.

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

_____. Vanguarda, um projeto semiolÛgico. PetrÛpolis: Vozes, 1975.

Coutinho, Afr‚nio, ed. A Literatura no Brasil. Rio de Janeiro: JosÈ Olympio, 1986. 230-262.

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

Faustino, M·rio. "A poesia concreta e o momento poÈtico brasileiro." In Poesia ExperiÍncia. S„o Paulo: Perspectiva, 1976. 209-219.

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

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

Gullar, Ferreira. Vanguarda e subdesenvolvimento. Rio: CivilizaÁ„o Brasileira, 1969.
_____. Cultura posta em quest„o. Rio: CivilizaÁ„o Brasileira, 1965.

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

Lucas, F·bio. Vanguarda, HistÛria & Ideologia da Literatura. S„o Paulo: Icone, 1985.

MendonÁa, AntÙnio Sergio and ¡lvaro de S·. Poesia de Vanguarda no Brasil: De Oswald de Andrade ao Poema Visual. Rio de Janeiro: Antares, 1983.

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

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

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

Simon, Iumna Maria and VinÌcius 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 MendonÁa. RetÛrica do silÍncio I Teoria e pr·tica do texto liter·rio. Rio de Janeiro: JosÈ Olympio, 1989.