José Oiticica

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José Rodrigues Leite e Oiticica

José Rodrigues Leite e Oiticica (born July 22, 1882 in Oliveira , Minas Gerais , † June 30, 1957 in Rio de Janeiro ) was a Brazilian poet , anarchist , Romanist and Lusitanist .

life and work

Oiticica, son of a senator, broke off studying law and medicine and turned to Romance philology . In 1911 he published his first volume of poetry. From 1914 he taught prosody at the drama school in Rio de Janeiro, from 1917 (after the publication of studies on phonology ) he was professor at the Colégio Pedro II .

In 1918 he took part in the anarchist uprising on November 18, was arrested and exiled to the prison island of Rasa. Following the intervention of intellectual friends and patrons, he was released in 1919, but further anarchist activities led to his arrest and (from 1924 to 1929) to his exile on the island of Ilha das Flores .

In 1929 he went to the University of Hamburg as a professor of Portuguese , for five years according to the contract, but was recalled to Brazil in 1930. In 1935 he taught Greek at the newly founded Universidade do Distrito Federal (today: Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro).

From 1944 Oiticica was a founding member of the Academia Brasileira de Filologia (Cadeira 27). A school in Salvador bears his name.

Works

poetry

  • Sonetos . 1ª série, Rio de Janeiro 1911
  • Ode ao Sol , Rio de Janeiro 1915
  • Sonetos . 2ª série, Maceió 1919
  • Azalan! , Rio de Janeiro 1924 (play)

politics

  • A doutrina anarquista ao alcance de todos , Rio de Janeiro 1945, 1976 (“Anarchism, commonly understood ”; written in 1925 on the Ilha das Flores)

Linguistics and literary studies

  • Estudos de fonologia , Rio de Janeiro 1916
  • Manual de Análise (léxica e sintática) , Rio de Janeiro 1919 (numerous editions)
  • (Translator) La Rochefoucauld, Vauvenargues et al., Reflexões, sentenças e máximas morais , Rio de Janeiro 1923
  • Manual de estilo , Rio de Janeiro 1923 (several editions)
  • Do Método de Estudos das Línguas Sul-Americanos , in: Boletim do Museu Nacional 9, 1933, pp. 41–81
  • A teoria da correlação , Rio de Janeiro 1952, 1962 (concerns the syntax)
  • Roteiros de fonética fisiológica, técnica do verso e dicção , Rio de Janeiro 1955
  • Curso de Literatura , ed. by Roberto das Neves, Rio de Janeiro 1960;
  • Açâo direta. Meio século de pregaçâo libertaria , ed. by Roberto das Neves, Rio de Janeiro 1970 (posthumous collective publication)

literature

  • Maria Aparecida Munhoz de Omena: José Oiticica. Since anarquia à anarcopoesia. Annablume, São Paulo 2010, ISBN 978-85-391-0002-6 .

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personal data
SURNAME Oiticica, José
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Leite e Oiticica, José Rodrigues (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Brazilian poet, anarchist, Romanist and Lusitanist
DATE OF BIRTH July 22, 1882
PLACE OF BIRTH Oliveira , Minas Gerais
DATE OF DEATH June 30, 1957
Place of death Rio de Janeiro