Research Article
Leitor, narrador, herói: cumplicidade na poesia épica do Romantismo latinoamericano
Authors:
Marcos Machado Nunes ,
Ruhr-Universität Bochum, DE
Dirk Brunke
Ruhr-Universität Bochum, DE
Abstract
Being a highly ambitioned genre in Latin American literature during Romanticism, epic poetry has heroicity as one of its defining features. This article analyses how two Latin American Indianist epic poems – “I-Juca-Pirama” (1851), by the Brazilian Antônio Gonçalves Dias, and Tabaré (1888), by the Uruguayan Juan Zorilla de San Martín – present convergent problems and solutions in the shaping of Indian epic heroes. The recognition of the excellence of a new kind of hero, whose heroicity is based on his/her subjectivity, cannot take place on the diegetic level and is only possible by means of complicity, understood as a sharing of ethical values, between hero, reader and, in the case of Tabaré, narrator.
How to Cite:
Machado Nunes, M. and Brunke, D., 2018. Leitor, narrador, herói: cumplicidade na poesia épica do Romantismo latinoamericano. Latin American Literary Review, 45(89). DOI: http://doi.org/10.26824/lalr.29
Published on
18 May 2018.
Peer Reviewed
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