Praise of rulers: illustrated reformism and poetics of encomium in Grão-Pará e Maranhão (18th Century)

• Autor(a) principal: Souza, Thiago Gonçalves
• Data de Publicação: 2019
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Letras (Santa Maria. Online)
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.ufsm.br/letras/article/view/38055
• topic: Written culture in Grão-Pará e Maranhão (Eighteenth Century); Poetics of encomium; Illustrated reformism; Francisco Xavier de Mendonça Furtado (1701-1769); Bento de Figueiredo Tenreiro Aranha (1769-1811); Letras no Grão-Pará e Maranhão (século XVIII); Poética do encômio; Reformismo ilustrado; Francisco Xavier de Mendonça Furtado (1701-1769); Bento de Figueiredo Tenreiro Aranha (1769-1811)

This work aims to explore the presence of topoi associated to the “Praise of Rulers” (CURTIUS, 1979) within the poetry produced in Grão-Pará and Maranhão in the second half of the Eighteenth century. According to our hypothesis, that production is based on the poetics of encomium, and, in this meaning, is linked to the Portuguese Crown’s demands on social organization and economic development of the region, which draw up a representation of the royal power as source of balance, harmony and progress, following the Illustrated Reformism discourse.