"Ethos" and persuasion in "De Rusticis Brasiliae Rebus"
In this paper, we propose a reconstruction of the poetical and technical conditions under which the De Rusticis Brasiliae Rebus, a didactic poem by the jesuit José Rodrigues de Melo, was composed. Taking into consideration its historical particularities, we propose to read the text as an artifact fr...
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| Format: | Online |
| Language: | English |
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Universidade Estadual de Campinas
2023
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| Online Access: | https://econtents.sbu.unicamp.br/inpec/index.php/phaos/article/view/18273 |
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| Summary: | In this paper, we propose a reconstruction of the poetical and technical conditions under which the De Rusticis Brasiliae Rebus, a didactic poem by the jesuit José Rodrigues de Melo, was composed. Taking into consideration its historical particularities, we propose to read the text as an artifact from a specific discursive universe in which it is rooted and with which it dialogues, based on the Rhetorical persuasive principles, and in conformation to a poetic genre, in this case, the didactic. We observe how reading it according to the rhetorical precepts that regulated what we now call literary production may shine a light upon the mechanisms through which the text positions itself in the genre of didactic poetry, and through which the author participates in the fierce quarrel between the newly-established national states and the international and universalizing Society of Jesus. |
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| ISSN: | 1676-3076 |
