Produção Nacional
"Tua solicitude é pior do que a cólera": o romance machadiano "Helena" e a tensão dissolutiva das raízes arcaicas no Brasil oitocentista
2014; Issue: 4-5 Linguagem: Inglês
10.11606/issn.2525-8133.opiniaes.2014.114884
ISSN2525-8133
Autores Tópico(s)Literature, Culture, and Criticism
ResumoIn the eighteenth Brazil, with dissolutive archaic roots,rustic civilization elements entangled with modern ones:patrimonialism and the cordial man. The cordial man isa patrimonialist that acts according to the values of theirheart (love as well as hatred; whim, in summary).Through this prism I intend to analyze Helena, observingin a character like Estacio, for instance, an archaicman holding a modern function. This happens becausein the context represented in the novel binomials like“slave owner” and “enlightened”, “courteous” and “violent”were not exclusionary.This approach is based on studies of Brazil’s interpretationby Sergio Buarque de Holanda, Antonio Candido,and Roberto Schwarz.
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