Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-26T14:53:24Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Syntia Pereira Alves.pdf: 6145209 bytes, checksum: 6ed1f8946f7c01f1edb9772275c49ca9 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2011-12-09 / Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico / Was Federico García Lorca a political agent? This is the question that frames the research here presented. However, this question must be split in two in order to be properly answered: first, who was García Lorca, taking into account his life and work; second, the several possibilities for political action. Politics is not restricted to the institutional realm, but permeates individual and societal relationships, being present both in public and private affairs, touching and being touched by art. A tragic artist, Federico García Lorca constitutes the main focus of this research. To find the politics in Lorca, it is essential to understand the relationship between his art and his life and society. With that in mind, the investigation starts from both external and internal analyses of Lorca's works. The external analysis explores Spain before its Civil War, given the importance of the period which is mirrored in Lorca's works. For internal analysis, the theatrical pieces Yerma and The House of Bernarda Alba were analyzed to investigate both the relationships among characters, and the social conventions shown in these works. Furthermore, a number of conferences and interviews with the author are employed in a dialogue with the theatrical works, with the goal of understanding his relationships with art and society. García Lorca's art, voiced by flamenco, communicated with his society and received an answer: death by firing squad. Lorca wasn't limited to his own time and space, but survives today, be it through his deeply disquieting art, or be it through his still mystery-shrouded death / Federico García Lorca foi um agente político? Sobre este questionamento se desenvolve a presente pesquisa. Porém, para responder a essa pergunta, é fundamental dividi-la em duas, voltando um olhar para quem foi García Lorca levando em consideração sua vida e obra e outro olhar para as diversas possibilidades de atuação da política. A política não está apenas no âmbito institucional, mas permeia as relações dos indivíduos e sociedades, se faz presente nos âmbitos público e privado, alcançando e sendo alcançada pela arte. Artista trágico, Federico García Lorca é o foco central deste estudo. Para buscar a política em Lorca, é fundamental entender a relação de sua arte com a sociedade e a vida do escritor. Para tanto, a investigação parte de uma análise externa e uma análise interna a obra de Lorca. A análise externa mapeia a Espanha que antecede a Guerra Civil Espanhola, tendo em vista a importância desta época que se encontra refletida na obra de Lorca. Para análise interna foram escolhidas as obras teatrais Yerma e A casa de Bernarda Alba, sobre as quais é feita uma análise das relações das personagens entre si e os códigos sociais que essas obras expõem. Além disso, são usadas para dialogar com as obras teatrais algumas conferências e entrevistas do autor, com a finalidade de entender sua relação com a arte e com a sociedade. A arte de García Lorca, entoada pelo flamenco, dialogou com sua sociedade e recebeu resposta desta: seu fuzilamento. Mas Lorca não coube em seu tempo e espaço e transborda para os dias de hoje, seja por sua arte, profundamente inquietante, seja por sua morte, até hoje envolta em mistérios

The poet Larry Levis often employed ekphrasis as an elegiac device—particularly with his verbal descriptions of photographic images—to explore human suffering and reconcile feelings of loss. Through the ekphrastic mode, Levis could juxtapose otherwise disparate images, manipulating their temporal and spatial relationships, to achieve what he conceived an authentic portrait of the human experience. The poet, through his verbal descriptions of photographic images, does not try to evade the pain or joy of being human; instead, he confronts his grief directly and, in so doing, transcends that suffering to better understand himself and his own human position. This thesis analyzes the following poems by Larry Levis: “My Only Photograph of Weldon Kees,” “García Lorca: A Photograph of the Granada Cemetery, 1966,” “The Assimilation of the Gypsies,” “Sensationalism,” and “Photograph: Migrant Worker, Parlier, California, 1967.”

In my thesis, I focus on the evolution of the Spanish poet Federico García Lorca's poetry, from his stay in Andalusia to the period he passed in New York. At first, we present avant-garde literary movements of that age. In detail we focus on the Generation 27, whose Lorca was member, and on the poetry the poets cultivated. In Lorca, firstly, we take a look at his life, his personality and then we divide his production into two periods: Andalusia - we take look at his lecture about "cante jondo" and at two books, Poem of cante jondo and Gipsy romances. New York - we approximate to Lorca's stay in New York and the country, and how the environment was reflected in his book of poems Poet in New York. In conclusion we summarize both periods of his production.

In this thesis, the main male characters in three of the plays written by Federico García Lorca are analysed with the aim of seeingthe role they play in the frustration of desire. After two chapters dedicated to a review of published critical studies on Lorca and tocertain theoretical considerations, Chapter Three examines desire drawing on Ubersfeld's actancial model and observes that thesemale characters can be divided into two groups: those who are desired and those who are undesired.In Chapter Four this classification is linked to an analysis of absence, prohibition and lack. Absence is here defined not asrelated to their non-appearance on stage but rather to their non-presence in the lives of the desiring female protagonists. It isobserved that a number of male characters are absent in the plays mainly due to death or a journey. As far as prohibition isconcerned, in two of the works, there is a moral code associated with concepts such as "honour" and "decency", which blocks thefemale characters' access to the males they desire. Chapter Four also shows how several characters can be considered as lacking inthe sense that they do not possess the ideal male qualities contained in the plays. This chapter reaches the conclusion that desiredmale characters are either absent or forbidden in the world of the desiring female, whereas undesired male characters are lacking inthe sense that they fail to live up to the ideal highlighted in the plays.Chapter Five analyses the female characters' perception of the male figures, making use of René Girard's notion of"transfiguration", which alludes to a process of idealisation of the object of desire. Our analysis reveals a connection betweendesire, denied access to the object of desire and transfiguration in the main subjects of desire. The phenomenon of "transfiguration"has several functions in the play: firstly, the creation of hyperbolical male characters; secondly, that of transmitting the intensity ofthe desire experienced and, finally, the highlighting of the lack of certain qualities in several male characters.We thus observe that, in these three plays written by García Lorca, Girard's pessimistic view of desire is confirmed, since desireneeds a series of obstacles, such as absence or prohibition, to survive. However, this is not the only explanation for the frustrationof desire: other factors, like the actions of certain male characters or destiny, also play a decisive role.