Mezi městem a venkovem: jazyk brazilského regionalismu

• Authors: Grauová Šárka

Title variants

EN

BETWEEN THE CITY AND THE BACKLANDS: THE LANGUAGE OF BRAZILIAN REGIONALISM

• Languages of publication: CS

Abstracts

EN

The article deals with the evolution of the language of Brazilian regionalism in the second half of the 19th and the first decades of the 20th century. Beginning with O gaúcho and O sertanejo, “sertanist” novels by José de Alencar, it briefly comments on the “bilingualism” of the regionalist short-stories of the turn of the century and their switching between the story-tellersʼ flowery language and the uncouth language of the rustic characters. Having examined the narrative shift to the first person narrative, capable of relating the personal experience of the villagers, it brings the example of short-stories penned by Simões Lopes Neto as a case of a successful transposition of the dialect of Rio Grande do Sul into a full literary language. This language conveys not only the peculiarity of the “gaúcho” narrator Blau Nunes but also a whole world-view of a character wedded to the archaic understanding of life

Keywords

CS

Regionalismus v literatuře; brazilská literatura; literární jazyk; archaické myšlení; Simões Lopes Neto

EN

Regionalist literature; Brazilian literature; literary language; archaic mind; Simões Lopes Neto

Discipline

• PHILOLOGY_&_LINGUISTICS: PHILOLOGY & LINGUISTICS

• Publisher: Charles University in Prague, Faculty of Arts, Czech Republic
• Journal: Svět literatury – Časopis pro novodobé literatury (World of Literature – Journal for Modern Literatures)
• Year: 2019
• Volume: 60
• Pages: 83-88

Contributors

author

Grauová Šárka

• Univerzita Karlova