A poeticidade na crônica de Drummond

Abstract

This dissertation is the result of an investigative study of Carlos Drummond de Andrade's newspaper essays, whose language, under close scrutiny, suggests the possibility of its being understood as highly poetic. Confissões de Minas (1944) e Boca de Luar (1984) were both the starting point and the finish line, respectively, for the development of this study, as well as some articles published in Jornal do Brasil (Rio de Janeiro) in the years 1969, 1979 and 1984. It should be observed that the choice of the first and last essays written by the poet is in no way a biographical survey, nor do we intend to demonstrate any thematic evolution. What is sought is to underline the question of poetic stance which involves practically all of his literary discourse beginning from his first works. If the poet's poetic works are already studied so extensively, why not cast an eye on his prose, with its lyric, subjective and poetic language. After all, in spite newspaper origins, Drummond's essays present appreciable literary qualities, which remove them from the ephemeral of newsprint, elevating them,to the more permanent form of a book. We are conscious of poetics as an autonomous science, which is able to provide the means to determine the narrative structure making up an article and the intersubjective relation between emitter and the receptor. Nevertheless, beyond observing the poetic content which characterizes the author's discourse, we also cover questions pertinent to the esthetic of reception and hybridism in the newspaper genre