PENSANDO SOBRE A INFLUÊNCIA DA ESTÉTICA POSITIVISTA NA POÉTICA DE GENERINO DOS SANTOS

Abstract

This paper aims to bring and discuss some poetic productions of Generino dos Santos (1849-1877) from the perspective of the positivist philosophy proposed by Auguste Comte, that this poet was a confessing follower. However, embedded in the immense philosophical and political work that Comte leaves behind for a whole civilization was its aesthetics, or: Aptitude Esthétique du Positivisme. By these thoughts of the French philosopher, I will discuss some poems of that poet. For this, I consider a production shared between eclectic and plural: the first, summarily, would be the submission of poetic writing to the literary diversity of that period, without the literary actually assuming the primacy, without it being the conductor of this incorporation of the themes’ diversity, of vocabularies and even of concepts (philosophical and scientific). By plurality, on the contrary, I mean precisely the submission of this diversity of non-literary elements to the literary, so that every extra-literary element, when brought to the literary plane, functions differently than it does when it is in its original context.