João do Rio’s O Momento Literário and the polemical spirit

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DOI:

https://doi.org/10.15448/1984-4301.2020.3.37535

Keywords:

Controversial, Surveys, João do Rio

Abstract

Structural feature of the thought of the end of the 19th century and beginning of the 20th century, the polemic, both as a literary genre, as a means of propagating ideas, and as a way of self-affirmation, was a constant practice among Brazilian intellectuals. In João do Rio’s survey, O Momento Literário (1909), there were several writers who spoke about the controversies that, fought in the press, were configured as a strategy of legitimation and entry into the literary field. The objective of the article is to recover the interviewees’ testimony in order to identify the controversy as a constitutive expression of the republic of letters in Brazil, as well as the trajectory of polemicists of some scholars who responded to João do Rio’s inquiry.

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Author Biography

Silvia Maria Azevedo, Universidade Estadual Paulista “Júlio de Mesquita Filho (Unesp), Assis, SP

Professora adjunta do Departamento de Literatura da Faculdade de Ciências e Letras da Universidade Estadual Paulista “Júlio de Mesquita Filho” (Unesp), em Assis, SP, Brasil. Líder do Grupo de Pesquisa do CNPq: Polêmicas Intelectuais na América Latina entre os séculos XIX e XX: retórica, cultura e história.

References

MAGALHÃES JÚNIOR, Raimundo. A vida vertiginosa de João do Rio. Rio de Janeiro: Civilização Brasileira, 1978.

RIO, João do. O momento literário. Organização, introdução e notas de Sílvia Maria Azevedo e Tania Regina de Luca. São Paulo: Rafael Copetti Editor, 2019.

Published

2020-04-08

How to Cite

Azevedo, S. M. (2020). João do Rio’s O Momento Literário and the polemical spirit. Letrônica, 13(3), e37535. https://doi.org/10.15448/1984-4301.2020.3.37535