Ressonâncias épicas em yacala, de Alberto da Cunha Melo

Abstract

The research on the long poem or narrative poem is still incipient, consequence of a trend of contemporary criticism that mistakenly takes the interested scholar to believe that the traces of classical epic literature completely disappeared from the national literary universe and, therefore, there are no modern and contemporary authors who produce and publish the long poem. In order to increase the knowledge about the contemporary narrative poem and reflect on the reasons for its "disappearance", it is intended to critically understand the poem Yacala (1999), by Alberto da Cunha Melo, and establish a configuration of the epic and lyrical interrelations, as literary genres in the contemporary context, marked by the breaking of conceptual boundaries, such as structural and thematic elements to the completion of this poem. Facing such incomplete picture, the results of a study on a narrative poem by a contemporary author should bring a significant contributing information, questioning and other relevant developments for understanding the process of formation / development of the Brazilian literary and cultural tradition. Understanding the formal and thematic peculiarities of this composition as a narrative poem, by detecting its formal and thematic branches, as well as increasing the knowledge about the artistic-literary achievement of its author, still very restricted to northeastern cultural circle. To do such thing, the work was divided into three chapters and a structuring of the appendices to present and detail the study material in the critical fortune. The theoretical contribution comes interwoven into chapters, so that the reflections appear in the text and develop themselves over the course of the research.