The Virgilian making of Sousândrade's O Guesa
Epic, epic matter, epic hero, Virgil, Sousândrade.
Beyond the literary school, an important point to analyze a poetical work is the relation that a text keeps with production of the same genre. Pay attention to that relation, this work concerns the relations between two epics: Virgil’s Aeneid, and Sousândrade’s O Guesa. For that, it performs a review of epic genre, analyzing its origin, its development, and its features. After this, it describes the Aeneid, detailing the myths and historical events that compounding it, describing its hero’s action and character and avaluating its legacy to the constituition of epic genre in Western culture. By the end, it demonstrates how Sousândrade reelaborates the Virgilian epic model, pointing out in which aspects the Brazilian poet follows that classical reference and in which aspects He disagrees with his classical reference. This work takes Anazildo Vasconcelos da Silva’s the epic semiotization of discourse as its main reference.