The Guesa and the poet olvidado: innovation, stylistics and literature a look at the word of Sousândrade

Abstract

The present work presentes a bibliographical reserach, in which we analyze innovation in Brazilian Romantic poetry through the work “O Guesa” by the Brazilian Romantic poet Joaquim de Sousa Andrade, or Sousândrade, as he preferred to call him. Sousândrade lived during the XIX century, during a period of intense political transformation in Brazil. This time was marked by Brazilian independence in 1822, leading to nationalist sentiment among the current literary movement. The aim of this word is to demonstrate how the writer innovated within the hierarchical standards of his time based on a reading of his work, in which he focuses on the issues surrounding his protagonist. Therefore, the research has na exploratory and explanatory nature, base on the collection of information and ideas from theorists and literacy critics, which will give sustainability to the arguments presented. Thus, among them we have: Abrams (1991), Bosi (1994), Cândido (2002), Cuccagna (2004), Lima (1982), Moisés (1971), Nejar (2007), Pound (1997), Sodré (2002), and the main base used, Campos (1982).