Between Disbelief and Seduction: reinterpretations of the myth of Don Juan in Álva...
Readings of the Hispanic myths by the Brazilian contemporary historical novel
The romantic fragment in O Poema do Frade, by Álvares de Azevedo
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Between Disbelief and Seduction: Reinterpretations of the Myth of Don Juan in Álvares de Azevedo and Castro Alves
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| Author(s): |
Tereza Cristina Mauro
Total Authors: 1
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| Document type: | Master's Dissertation |
| Press: | São Paulo. |
| Institution: | Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH/SBD) |
| Defense date: | 2014-04-28 |
| Examining board members: |
Vagner Camilo;
Marta Kawano;
Karin Volobuef
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| Advisor: | Vagner Camilo |
| Abstract | |
This dissertation aims to study the dialogue undertaken by the romantic poets Álvares de Azevedo (1831 - 1852) and Castro Alves (1847 - 1871) with the myth of Don Juan. This approach has the purpose to verify how the transformations undergone in the design of the myth in the passage of Azevedos lyric for that of Castro Alves are result of the different approaches of love for both poets, which vacillated between highly idealized love and carnal desire, related to disbelief and sarcasm in the work of the first, while the presence of the myth in the second would have a decisive contribution to a fuller experience of love. Detailed examination of the appropriation of such a myth, based on the worldview introduced by Romanticism, allows review on a new basis the said renewal (concept always debatable when put in the light of the myths and precepts put into circulation by the romantics in the European context) assigned to treatment dispensed to a woman in the lyric of Castro Alves, without resorting to anachronistic affiliations, such as realism avant la lettre. This detailed examination allows also support the insertion of Castro Alves in the literary system of then, from an internal analysis of the poems that address the myth in question, revealing dialogues and tensions in comparison with the treatment of this common theme in the lyric of Castro Alves and the previous generation, whose figurehead is Álvares de Azevedo (AU) | |
| FAPESP's process: | 11/04728-3 - Between Disbelief and Seduction: reinterpretations of the myth of Don Juan in Álvares de Azevedo and Castro Alves. |
| Grantee: | Tereza Cristina Mauro |
| Support Opportunities: | Scholarships in Brazil - Master |