Por uma Ação Católica: hiperedição dos rascunhos de cartas de Eulálio Motta para Eudaldo Lima

Abstract

Por uma Ação Católica: hiperedição dos rascunhos de cartas de Eulálio Motta, no Caderno Farmácia São José, is a continuation of the dissertation entitled Meu caro Eudaldo: edição dos rascunhos de cartas do caderno Farmácia São José, de Eulálio Motta (Santiago, 2021) and it is a work based on the collection of Eulálio de Miranda Motta, a writer from Mundo Novo-Bahia, who archived, among other documents, 15 handwritten notebooks. One of the notebooks is the Farmácia São José, which contains 132 texts on several themes, but predominantly religion, and 19 of these texts are draft letters addressed to Eudaldo Lima (the corpus of this research). These drafts of letters are part of, among other documents, the Catholic Action conceived and developed by Motta, set in a turbulent political context between Integralism Political Party and the Estado Novo. The research intended to present Eulálio Motta's impressions of religion (Protestantism, Spiritism, and Catholicism), as well as draw parallels with his Integralist political roots. It also analyzed aspects of his interpersonal relationships through texts and correspondence that address the themes of politics and religion, with an emphasis on the 19 draft letters addressed to Eudaldo Lima (a Presbyterian pastor and friend of the author). In textual criticism, hyperediting was chosen as the method of publishing these drafts due to its expansive and non-linear nature, given that the documentation consists of drafts, which are naturally non-linear. Thus, it was discussed which types of editing could, to some extent, meet the needs of the draft, respecting its multiple nature and incorporating dynamic writing movements that explore the potential of this type of document in order to compose the hyperedition. It was chosen the editions: linearized genetic edition, topographic edition, interpretive edition with genetic apparatus and modernized interpretive edition. To support the study, the relationships between philology and the digital environment were discussed (Cerquiglini, 2000; Dacos, 2011; Barreiros, 2015, 2017; Shillingsburg, 2004; Lourenço, 2009; McGann, 2001; among others). The discussion about writers' collections were based on Lose (2020), Bordini (2005; 2009), Barreiros (2014), and Deleuze and Guattari (1995). Furthermore, a religious and political profile of the writer Eulálio Motta is presented in this research, as well as a historical context regarding the political-religious movements of the period, prepared based on the collection's documentation, as well as the genetic transcription of draft letters. Finally, the structure of the website is presented, with the hyperedition of the 19 draft letters. This thesis demonstrates relevance because it deals with an edition of documents with marks of the writing process and because it presents a methodological hyperediting proposal focused on this need of the documents, the drafts, in addition to dealing with documentation that reveals an ideological, religious and political undertaking of a writer from the backlands of Bahia.