HERACLITO’S TEARS: THE CREATIVE UNITY OF SENTIMENT AND THOUGHT IN THE WORK OF PADRE ANTÓNIO VIEIRA

Reflecting on human emotiveness in literary work, this paper examines some questions motivated by the text “Lágrimas de Heraclito”, written by the Portuguese Padre António Vieira. This literary text deals with laughter and weeping, expressing the existential paradox of emotions. The new paradigms of...

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Main Author: Tiago Eric de Abreu
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Centro de Estudos Humanísticos da Universidade do Minho 2018-10-01
Series:Diacrítica
Online Access:http://diacritica.ilch.uminho.pt/index.php/dia/article/view/229