A tradição de Camões na poesia brasileira durante o Arcadismo ou a reinvenção do imaginário épico em O Uruguay de Basílio da Gama e n’O Caramuru de Santa Rita Durão
The tradition of Camões in Brazilian poetry during the Arcadic period or the einvention of the epic imaginary in O Uruguay by Basílio da Gama and O Caramuru by Santa Rita Durão

Summary/Abstract: In colonial Brazilian epic, exemplified in here by the poems O Uruguay (1769) by Basílio da Gama and Caramuru (1781) by José Santa Rita Durão the tradition of Os Lusíadas (1572) by Luís Vaz de Camões has been affirmed as strong literary influence, even though a new poetic attitude appears, one which exalts differences, narrating the heroic deeds of Brazil, consecrating the Brazilian soil and identifying its people, if not the construction of the paradigm of Brazilianism. In the scope of interest are the two poems which represent the ambiguity of the senses of construction and ideological expression, the Classicist and modern spirit, tradition and, before all, the break with the colonial ideology. The literary formation in Brazil seems to have been born out of the juxtaposition of the tradition of Os Lusíadas (1572) by Luís Vaz de Camões as one of the strongest factor in the process of formation of global Lusophone conscience and its gradual overcoming and substitution by national Brazilian models.

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