Resonances of Greek-Latin epic in the Ubirajara of José de Alencar

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Autor(a) principal: Dezotti, Maria Celeste [UNESP]
Data de Publicação: 2020
Tipo de documento: Artigo
Idioma: por
Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da UNESP
Texto Completo: http://dx.doi.org/10.4025/actascilangcult.v42i1.49961
http://hdl.handle.net/11449/228851
Resumo: This article analyses the novel Ubirajara, by José de Alencar, and shows the author's debts to the classical tradition. It focalizes the intertextual relations between the alencarian text and the homeric epics, especially concerning a group of themes, among which are highlighted the warrior excellence and the hospitality. It shows also how these themes are interwoven artistically with the epithets, an important stylistic resource of the classical epic, in order to compose a complex plot, supported by peripeteia and anagnorisis. Based on this greek-latin material, the narrator's discourse is arranged as an aition, a narrative genre which intends to explain the causes of the things of the world, that was very appreciated by the greeks and the romans. The Ubirajara defines itself with the subtitle 'tupy legend'; this legend, constructed by the author, explains the causes that originated an indigenous people named Ubirajara; the historical existence of this people is showed by Gabriel Soares, a XVIth century portuguese chronicler; Alencar reference him in the first of the many notes he adds to the fictional narrative. This narrative aims to show the glorious feats done by the warrior Ubirajara, that made him an eponimous hero of that indigenous people.
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dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Resonances of Greek-Latin epic in the Ubirajara of José de Alencar
Ressonâncias da épica Greco-Latina no Ubirajara de José de Alencar
title Resonances of Greek-Latin epic in the Ubirajara of José de Alencar
spellingShingle Resonances of Greek-Latin epic in the Ubirajara of José de Alencar
Dezotti, Maria Celeste [UNESP]
Classical tradition
Comparative literature
Epithet
Etiological narrative
Hero
Homer
title_short Resonances of Greek-Latin epic in the Ubirajara of José de Alencar
title_full Resonances of Greek-Latin epic in the Ubirajara of José de Alencar
title_fullStr Resonances of Greek-Latin epic in the Ubirajara of José de Alencar
title_full_unstemmed Resonances of Greek-Latin epic in the Ubirajara of José de Alencar
title_sort Resonances of Greek-Latin epic in the Ubirajara of José de Alencar
author Dezotti, Maria Celeste [UNESP]
author_facet Dezotti, Maria Celeste [UNESP]
author_role author
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dc.contributor.author.fl_str_mv Dezotti, Maria Celeste [UNESP]
dc.subject.por.fl_str_mv Classical tradition
Comparative literature
Epithet
Etiological narrative
Hero
Homer
topic Classical tradition
Comparative literature
Epithet
Etiological narrative
Hero
Homer
description This article analyses the novel Ubirajara, by José de Alencar, and shows the author's debts to the classical tradition. It focalizes the intertextual relations between the alencarian text and the homeric epics, especially concerning a group of themes, among which are highlighted the warrior excellence and the hospitality. It shows also how these themes are interwoven artistically with the epithets, an important stylistic resource of the classical epic, in order to compose a complex plot, supported by peripeteia and anagnorisis. Based on this greek-latin material, the narrator's discourse is arranged as an aition, a narrative genre which intends to explain the causes of the things of the world, that was very appreciated by the greeks and the romans. The Ubirajara defines itself with the subtitle 'tupy legend'; this legend, constructed by the author, explains the causes that originated an indigenous people named Ubirajara; the historical existence of this people is showed by Gabriel Soares, a XVIth century portuguese chronicler; Alencar reference him in the first of the many notes he adds to the fictional narrative. This narrative aims to show the glorious feats done by the warrior Ubirajara, that made him an eponimous hero of that indigenous people.
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