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Verdadeira grandeza e degradações do poder: temáticas complementares e convergentes em Fielding, com especial referência às suas Miscellanies
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O presente ensaio começa com a verificação da existência, nos séculos XVII e XVIII, de um prolongado debate sobre as dimensões da grandeza humana e do heróico, estimulado por acontecimentos históricos que afectaram o regime do poder. Como reflexo deste debate, foca-se textos de Fielding, com especial refe rência a Jonathan Wild e a poemas-ensaios das suas Miscellanies, abordando de passagem o relacionamento do autor com Walpole. Avança-se depois para uma interpretação histórico-literária do burlesco naqueles séculos, no âmbito da qual se considera a complementaridade e convergência entre a satura latina (com os seus pólos positivo e negativo) e o burlesco (com a sua bi-polaridade entre linguagem e assunto). Em paralelo, aponta-se complementaridade e convergência análogas entre Jonathan Wilde os ensaio-poemas Of True Greatnesse Of Good Nature. A propósito e a terminar, apresenta-se ainda algumas reflexões sobre o texto em prosa An Essay on Conversation e sobre personagens contrastantes na ficção de Fielding.
The present essay begins with the realization that important historical events in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries favoured a long-standing debate in Britain and elsewhere on human greatness and the fortunes of the heroic. Taking Jonathan Wild and other texts, particularly in Fielding’s Miscellanies, as reflecting such concern, it proceeds with a brief reference to the relationship between the author and Walpole and an interpretation of the prevalence of the burlesque during those two centuries. In this context, it is argued that there is a complementarity and a convergence between the binary latin satura and the binary burlesque. At the same time, it stresses a similar complementarity and convergence between Jonathan Wild and Fielding’s essay-poems Of True Greatnessand Of Good Nature. The essay ends up with some related reflexions on An Essay on Conversation (in prose) and on some contrasting characters in the author’s fiction.
The present essay begins with the realization that important historical events in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries favoured a long-standing debate in Britain and elsewhere on human greatness and the fortunes of the heroic. Taking Jonathan Wild and other texts, particularly in Fielding’s Miscellanies, as reflecting such concern, it proceeds with a brief reference to the relationship between the author and Walpole and an interpretation of the prevalence of the burlesque during those two centuries. In this context, it is argued that there is a complementarity and a convergence between the binary latin satura and the binary burlesque. At the same time, it stresses a similar complementarity and convergence between Jonathan Wild and Fielding’s essay-poems Of True Greatnessand Of Good Nature. The essay ends up with some related reflexions on An Essay on Conversation (in prose) and on some contrasting characters in the author’s fiction.
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Debate sobre a grandeza Verdadeira e falsa grandeza Boa natureza Fortunas do heróico Ensaios Poemas Wilde, Jonathan
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Centro de Estudos Anglísticos da Universidade de Lisboa