Bloomian Concept of Error and Rui Zinc’s Postmodernism in O Anibaleitor
Bloomian Concept of Error and Rui Zinc’s Postmodernism in O Anibaleitor

Summary/Abstract: According to Bloom’s literary canon, one of the three aesthetical principles is the anxiety of influences, namely the original or wrong interpretation of classic great literary works. Postmodern poetics corresponds to this idea, in the sense that it reinterprets the previous literature, often resorting to pastiche, intertext, ludic elements and oral character. The present paper aims at analyzing the manner in which Rui Zinc, voluntarily, interprets in a wrong manner the classical epic genre and explores thepostmodern elements he resorts to in order to accomplish this task.

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