The Syntagma Horridus and the Vertigo Of Space in José de Alencar´s O tronco do ipê (1871)
This article analyses spatiality in José de Alencar´s novel O tronco do ipê (1871), based on the representations of the lake and the tree, which take up not only the figurations of Gothic fiction from mid-18th century, which spread throughout Romanticism, but also the allegory of Sleep and Narcissus...
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| Formato: | artículo |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2024 |
| País: | Brasil |
| Recursos: | Universidade Federal de Uberlândia (UFU) |
| Repositorio: | Letras & letras (Online) |
| Idioma: | portugués |
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| Acesso em linha: | https://seer.ufu.br/index.php/letraseletras/article/view/72540 |
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| Palavra-chave: | 19th century Romanticism José de Alencar Gothic Ovide Século XIX Romantismo Gótico Ovídio Siglo 19. Romantismo. José de Alencar. Gótico. Ovidio |
| Resumo: | This article analyses spatiality in José de Alencar´s novel O tronco do ipê (1871), based on the representations of the lake and the tree, which take up not only the figurations of Gothic fiction from mid-18th century, which spread throughout Romanticism, but also the allegory of Sleep and Narcissus present in Ovid´s Metamorphoses. If in the first case the suggestions of “ambiguity” (Punter), “hesitation” (Todorov) and “unusual irruption” (Callois, 1966) present in authors such as Ann Radcliffe are quite important, in the second case the dimension of verticality will favour the construction of an image that is referred to here as “syntagma horridus”. It is a combination of two loci horridi – a lake and a tree – which will prove decisive both for representing the ethos of the characters and the mythos of O tronco do ipê. |
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