Poesia de invenção: propostas e realizações

Abstract

The theme and questions addressed in this dissertation revolve around the conception, development, and consolidation of the idea of an aesthetic of invention in poetry, which began to take shape with the Noigandres Group in the early 1950s. This requires, first and foremost, the adoption of a specific creative-theoretical framework within the context of the second cycle of the avant-gardes, more specifically filtered by the phenomenon of Brazilian concrete poetry. The scope of this approach is broad, guided both by the typical transgressive spirit of the avant-gardes and by the recovery of a "tradition of the new," firmly grounded in a significant aesthetic-theoretical-translational paideuma. The central hypothesis of this investigation is that the aesthetic elements formulated at that time already provided the tools for a transhistorical poetics capable of transcending the perspective of its moment: the historicity of the second cycle of the avant-gardes and the radicalism of concretism, becoming a reference for the Brazilian creators now and then. We argue that, from a contemporary viewpoint, more than seven decades later, it is possible to trace the trajectory of this poetics better, especially because its key creators—primarily the works of Augusto de Campos and Haroldo de Campos—have, throughout these decades, advanced their theoretical-critical-translational-creative approach, further developing the poetry of invention without falling into nostalgia for vanguardism. The method employed in this thesis is to describe and critically assess the steps of this evolution, addressing the challenge of establishing the poetic legacy of invention as an essential reference point for the poetry of the last cycle of the avant-gardes and for the contemporary creators