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Procedimentos estilísticos no discurso do Mensageiro na Fedra de Séneca

2008; University of Aveiro; Issue: 10 Linguagem: Inglês

0874-5498

M. Helena Vasconcelos,

Linguistics and Language Studies

Even though in tragedy the Messenger usually narrates the offstage events, which conventionally cannot be presented to the audience, this character should not be seen only from the technical point of view. In this paper some stylistic devices are presented, which allow for the messenger’s speech, in Seneca’s Phaedra, to keep the dramatic and emotional strength, despite the absence of visual presentation. Keywords: Seneca’s Phaedra; Messenger’s speech; Euripides’ Hippolytus, Ovid’s Metamorphoses; stylistic devices.