O lugar apesar das ideias: dilemas setecentistas em três rondós de Silva Alvarenga

Abstract

The objective of this work is to demonstrate how some of the poems published in Glaura (1799) make Silva Alvarenga's production an emblematic case of the literary manifestation of decisive cultural and social issues in national history. The main argument is that the inclusion of aspects of the popular songs that were produced at that time in some poems can be understood as an expressive manifestation of the problem of classical and popular languages, the connections between literature and music, the perception of slavery in the 18th century and the situation of mixed race people in this period of colonization. The method used is the analysis of selected poems based on the confrontation with lyrics by Caldas Barbosa, an artist usually cited as an early case of popular music produced on Brazilian territory. In addition, the analyzes is linked to a review of historiographical research on the 18th century and to a comparison of the arguments of the main critics of the discussed book. This work concludes that affections related to social and extraliterary dynamics infiltrate among the bucolic ideal that prevails in the selected poems. This work also concludes that Silva Alvarenga is an unprecedented case within the scope of high literature that includes components that were restricted to the scope of popular culture