A teoria de Antonio Candido e a formação da literatura australiana
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https://doi.org/10.35921/jangada.v1i13.218Keywords:
Antonio Candido, Formação da literatura, Literatura australianaAbstract
ABSTRACT: In his theory of literary formation, Antonio Candido claims that, for a literature to exist “as a system”, five factors in “dynamic interaction” are required. These factors are divided into two groups. The first group includes two “internal factors”: a common language and themes to express the anxieties and the identity of a community. The three psychological/social factors are authors who are conscious of their roles, a public for these authors and a literary language materialized into works of literature. In the context of this article, the internal factors are the Australian variant of English and the rural themes related to the Australian outback and its inhabitants. Henry Lawson is presented as an author committed to the questions of identity in Australia by means of his fictional and poetic work, which conferred him immense popularity with his reading public and a special place in the Australian canon. The article attempts to analyse the particularities of the interactions between the formative elements of Australian literature, locating the moment of its formation in the second half of the 19th century, especially in the 1890s.
KEYWORDS: Antonio Candido, literary formation, Australian literature.
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