Documents, Non-documents, and Temporality in the History of Poetry
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Poetry, Theory of History, TemporalitiesAbstract
In this article, we propose the development of a new model for thinking about the history of poetry, now divorced from the history of literature and the ongoing crisis it has been facing since the 1960s. In the articulated exposition, we engage with Márcia Abreu (2022) in advocating for materiality, reflecting on the non-documentary nature of poetic objects - mechanisms that establish their own uncriticizable reality. Thus, we assume the hypothesis that poems should be read through a feedback loop overlaid with the materiality of documents and various realities, considering the logic of bipartite temporality in both internal dimensions (genres, forms, structures) and external dimensions (circulation spaces, discourses). Based on these assumptions, we argue for the dissolution of criteria of value, nationality, and rigid periodic separation in arrow-like format, in favor of an amplitude of territorialized space and a geometry of intersecting eccentric circles.
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