Name: CAROLINA FRIZZERA SANTOS

Publication date: 21/02/2017
Advisor:

Name	Role
FABÍOLA SIMÃO PADILHA TREFZGER	Advisor *

Examining board:

Name	Role
ALEXANDER JEFERSON NASSAU BORGES	External Alternate *
FABÍOLA SIMÃO PADILHA TREFZGER	Advisor *

Summary: ABSTRACT
Humor was a facet of Romanticism that was quite explored here in Brazil, in the middle
of the 19th century. Among many young poets, who adventured themselves about this
terrain, Álvares de Azevedo stands out because of his diversified literary production: he
used humor in various aspects in the Second Part of Lira dos vinte anos. He also could
place, inside brazilian literature, the “english and german humor”, or humour, that never
before made an appearance in the tropics. This work seeks, from the analysis of poems
belonging to the Second Part of his famous book, to explain how the comedy, the irony
and the humour appears on Azevedo’s work chosen as corpus. For such analysis, are used
as theoretical and critical input works and texts concerning the romantic movement,
studies about Álvares de Azevedo’s work and its peculiarities and studies about humor.
Some of these works are: Antonio Candido’s Formação da literatura brasileira:
momentos decisivos; Jacob Guinsburg’s O Romantismo; Vagner Camilo’s Risos entre
pares; Cilaine Alves’ O Belo e o disforme; Henri Bergson’s O riso; Vladimir Propp’s
Comicidade e riso, among others. Finally, I seek to show the importance of the young
poet in our literature, exploring the humour on his face Caliban, presented on the Preface
to the Second Part of the Lira.
Keywords: Brazilian literature. Romanticism. Álvares de Azevedo. Lira dos vinte anos.
Humor.

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