THE SHARDS OF MARTINS JÚNIOR AND HIS POSITIVIST EPIC: HISTORICAL REFLECTIONS ABOUT A POETIC LANGUAGE (1880s)

Abstract

This article focuses on elements of a “positivist epic” in the poetic language of Isidoro Martins Junior (Recife, 1860- Rio de Janeiro, 1904), based on poems at the book Estilhaços, from 1885. It’s adopted as reading keys in the construction of the object the notion of scientific-philosophical poetry and the confluence of rhetoric in the Brazilian literature of the period. Inspired by the perspective of Roger Chartier, this paper seeks to map an agenda of ideas and conventions, whose uses (by the poet) make the writing of the practices a relevant phenomenon to historicize this production. It’s proposed, at end, a board of civic events evoked in Estilhaços, in order to link the public occasions of declamation, the political “move” and the form of apprehension of both in (and between) the poems.