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| author | Queiroz, Joao |
| author_facet | Queiroz, Joao |
| contents | <p>The Poética de Os Sertões (Poetics of Rebellion in the Backlands, 2010), featuring essays by Haroldo and Augusto de Campos, uncovers complex “poetic layers” within the prose of Euclides da Cunha. For the poet and translator Augusto de Campos, there are metrical verses in Os Sertões (Rebellion in the Backlands), “subterranean poems” within the prose — which I interpret here as “hidden diagrams.” The distinctive “tone” of Euclides’ text, characterized by its “rhythmic density, plasticity, and sound,” results from an operation that can be described as typically diagrammatic (sensu Charles S. Peirce). My analysis suggests that Euclides employs a form of “iconic calculation,” where the interplay of interrelated prosodic, phonetic, and syntactic structures generates a distinctive tension between the temporal act of reading and the spatial organization of the text. I aim to offer a framework with implications that can be generalized to various instances of diagrammatic reasoning in literature. In my argument, the “physicality of the Euclidean sign,” or the “pregnant areas of poetry” in his prose, has a diagrammatic nature.</p> |
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| spellingShingle | Diagrammatic reasoning in Euclides da Cunha's Os Sertões (Rebellion in the Backlands) Queiroz, Joao <p>The Poética de Os Sertões (Poetics of Rebellion in the Backlands, 2010), featuring essays by Haroldo and Augusto de Campos, uncovers complex “poetic layers” within the prose of Euclides da Cunha. For the poet and translator Augusto de Campos, there are metrical verses in Os Sertões (Rebellion in the Backlands), “subterranean poems” within the prose — which I interpret here as “hidden diagrams.” The distinctive “tone” of Euclides’ text, characterized by its “rhythmic density, plasticity, and sound,” results from an operation that can be described as typically diagrammatic (sensu Charles S. Peirce). My analysis suggests that Euclides employs a form of “iconic calculation,” where the interplay of interrelated prosodic, phonetic, and syntactic structures generates a distinctive tension between the temporal act of reading and the spatial organization of the text. I aim to offer a framework with implications that can be generalized to various instances of diagrammatic reasoning in literature. In my argument, the “physicality of the Euclidean sign,” or the “pregnant areas of poetry” in his prose, has a diagrammatic nature.</p> |
| title | Diagrammatic reasoning in Euclides da Cunha's Os Sertões (Rebellion in the Backlands) |
| url | https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14548965 |