A Theorist in Post-Modernity
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https://doi.org/10.17851/2317-2096.29.3.61-77Keywords:
Luiz Costa Lima, literary theory, mímesis, subject, postmodernityAbstract
In honor of the 100th anniversary of literary theory (1917-2017), which coincides with Luiz Costa Lima’s 80th birthday, the present article proposes to analyze the place occupied, in the current scenario, by the Brazilian thinker. It will be done by contextualizing Lima’s contributions, which can be perceived as part of the third moment (postmodern) of literature problematization. It is verified that the development of Schlegel’s conception of literary theory was delayed until the first decades of the 20th century. It is in the 1980s, when the crisis of “literary high theory” spreads, that Costa Lima stands out by displaying its fundamental question (what is literature?), based on the anthropological framework of the Kantian subject. Such analysis is performed by the inquiry of mimesis, and by highlighting new problems to the contemporary reflection on the poetic.
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