Submergence, tragic subversion of Bacchus in Os Lusíadas
<p class="Pa5">This work was born from a question: what is the place of the poet in society? In order to build a response to this question, I analyze here in this essay Camões’ character Bacchus, present in <em>Os Lusiadas</em>. Such investigation involves reading that...
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| description | <p class="Pa5">This work was born from a question: what is the place of the poet in society? In order to build a response to this question, I analyze here in this essay Camões’ character Bacchus, present in <em>Os Lusiadas</em>. Such investigation involves reading that character as an allegory of the poet adrift, as well as a poet thrown out of The Platonic Republic; Bacchus finds himself, after having his opinion fully rejected by the olympian gods in the first <em>consilio </em>of Camões’ epic, exiled physically as well as politically and intellectually. The choice of this character is justified since, in Camões epic, this god represents a counterforce to the official discourse of the sixteenth-century Portugal, which aims always to praise the Portuguese historical glory.</p> |
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| spelling | doaj.art-c25ee7d1e1324879917aa5ee07a1faeb2022-12-21T18:34:17ZporUniversidade Federal FluminenseAbril1984-20902016-07-01816149165279Submergence, tragic subversion of Bacchus in Os LusíadasRodrigo Corrêa Martins Machado0Universidade Federal Fluminense<p class="Pa5">This work was born from a question: what is the place of the poet in society? In order to build a response to this question, I analyze here in this essay Camões’ character Bacchus, present in <em>Os Lusiadas</em>. Such investigation involves reading that character as an allegory of the poet adrift, as well as a poet thrown out of The Platonic Republic; Bacchus finds himself, after having his opinion fully rejected by the olympian gods in the first <em>consilio </em>of Camões’ epic, exiled physically as well as politically and intellectually. The choice of this character is justified since, in Camões epic, this god represents a counterforce to the official discourse of the sixteenth-century Portugal, which aims always to praise the Portuguese historical glory.</p>http://www.revistaabril.uff.br/index.php/revistaabril/article/view/317CamõesOs LusíadasBacopoeta. |
| spellingShingle | Rodrigo Corrêa Martins Machado Submergence, tragic subversion of Bacchus in Os Lusíadas Abril Camões Os Lusíadas Baco poeta. |
| title | Submergence, tragic subversion of Bacchus in Os Lusíadas |
| title_full | Submergence, tragic subversion of Bacchus in Os Lusíadas |
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| title_short | Submergence, tragic subversion of Bacchus in Os Lusíadas |
| title_sort | submergence tragic subversion of bacchus in os lusiadas |
| topic | Camões Os Lusíadas Baco poeta. |
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