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Cruz e Sousa: the "walled-in" Poet of Brazilian Symbolism
Korpaczewski, Pavla ; Grauová, Šárka (advisor) ; Válová, Karolina (referee)
This master's thesis deals with the analyse the poem in prose "Walled-in" by Brazilian black symbolist poet João da Cruz e Sousa. At the beginning it outlines the author's life and work. An insight into the starting points of Symbolism follows, accompanied by a detailed characterization of the essential features of its poetics as represented in the works by Cruz e Sousa. The analysis itself begins with the definition of the poem genre in prose and a brief outline of the content of the "Walled-in", which is a synthesis of the poet's artistic and life options resulting from being a black man. On this basis, I have determined the fundamental themes (Night, Art, Pain and Blackness), in which the poet's exclusion as an artist and as a negro. The initial intimate confession turns into a fiery speech that fights back narrow- minded artistic production of the period and the Negro discrimination.
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Concrete Poetry: the Case of Augusto de Campos
Korpaczewski, Pavla ; Grauová, Šárka (advisor) ; Dufková, Vlasta (referee)
The dissertation is divided into sevenparts. The opening part is about the phenomenon of the experimental poetry in general. The second one describes the historical background, the roots of the experimental poetry in Brazil. The third part is devoted to a poet group Noigandres - I write about its foundation and bring a brief synopsis of the editing of the magazin-book noigandres. Main body of my work is about the creative activity of a brazilian poet Augusto de Campos as is summoned in a compilation Hail to the shout (VIVA VAIA Poetry 1949-1979). I focus on his first book of a concrete poetry without a poet (poetamenos, 1953) which presents a new way of organizing the words on a page and the book Bestiarium (Bestiário, 1955) in which appears a transformation of a lyrical subject. From the original point, where the poet expresses himself through the fragments of text, to the point where the poet defines himself through his absence as a situation lyrical subject. He calls himself a designer, who designs/casts the structure of a poem, like in "Tension" (Tensão) analyzed in this dissertation. In 60's the poet gets more interested in a political and performs so-called step of participation (salto participante) - he exploits the form of a montage and a collage to create an immediate and direct impact on...
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The concrete poetry in Brazil
Korpaczewski, Pavla ; Housková, Anna (advisor) ; Dufková, Vlasta (referee)
The main subject ofthis thesis is a brazilian concrete poetry between years 1950 and 1960. This poetry, along the poems-constellations by a swiss poet Eugen Gomringer, precedes an experimental poetry movemen ofthe sixties. The thesis is divided into three parts. First one "Experimental poetry" is a wiev on this poetry in general- sources and methods typical for this formo The second part "Experimental poetry in Czechoslovakia" is about this poetry in socialistic Czechoslovakia between 1962 and 1968, during the short period a relative enlightement of the political regime of that time. Cul ture scene could open the contacts with the current events in the world. For the poets experiment brought a certain creative freedom based on a play with a form and a language. At the back ofthe totalitarian system experiment has oftenly a grotesque features. The third part is opened by a brief description of a socio-political and literary-historical context ofthe brazilian concrete poetry followed by iťs definition based on the theoretical articles and poems from 1950 to 1960 edited in the anthology Theory oj concrete poetry (Teoria da poesia concreta). Décio Pignatari, Haroldo de Campos and Augusto de Campos defined themselves as an opposition to the heterogeneous group of poets of the group generation 45. The group of...
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