Residualidade literária na poética de Manuel Bandeira

Abstract

Manuel Bandeira, one of the great names of Brazilian Modernism, began his literary life after 31 years with The Grey Book of Hours, work composed by Parnassian and Symbolist poems. His poetry, however, has been transformed, and his fourth book, Libertine, the author was already perfectly adapted to the characteristic elements of the modernist movement. The poetry of Manuel Bandeira presents, at various times, features that match other literary aesthetic, in addition to those under the light of which the artist created his famous poems. Taking the principle teachings of the Theory of Literary and Cultural residuality, Roberto Pontes, this article aims to identify the literary residues varied aesthetic in modernist poems by Manuel Bandeira.