The bucolic genre in Os Lusíadas
The phenomenon of generic mixture is old among the poets, even though the poetry theorists have not always acknowledged it. This article’s goal is to investigate the coexistence between the epic and bucolic genres in Os Lusíadas. Although this poem is an epic, and Virgil’s Aeneid is its main model o...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2021 |
| País: | Brasil |
| Institución: | Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ) |
| Repositorio: | Codex : Revista de Estudos Clássicos |
| Idioma: | portugués |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:ojs.pkp.sfu.ca:article/45780 |
| Acceso en línea: | https://revistas.ufrj.br/index.php/CODEX/article/view/45780 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | Os Lusíadas gênero bucólico mistura genérica bucolic genre generic mixture |
| Sumario: | The phenomenon of generic mixture is old among the poets, even though the poetry theorists have not always acknowledged it. This article’s goal is to investigate the coexistence between the epic and bucolic genres in Os Lusíadas. Although this poem is an epic, and Virgil’s Aeneid is its main model of composition, it is relevant to notice, with authors such as Macedo (1992), Mulinacci (2011), and Binet (2019), that the Island of Love from Canto IX is a Renaissance version of locus amoenus, which is a commonplace of the tradition of pastoral poetry that starts with Virgil’s Eclogues. In order to demonstrate it, the textual analysis of the poem’s first stanzas and of some passages from the Island of Love episode has shown, respectively, Os Lusíadas’ predominant genre and the function of the bucolic genre in Camões’ epic. It is possible to conclude from this analysis that the bucolic genre has allegorical function in Os Lusíadas and that its local presence participates in the poem’s expansionist and Christian argument. |
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