The resignification of Epic poetry's structures in Paradise Lost and the context of the invocations

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  • Vanessa do Carmo Abreu Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro

Keywords:

invocation, epic poetry, resignification, English epic of the seventeenth century

Abstract

In this work, it is intended to observe the way in which the structures of epic poetry are presented in the poem Paradise Lost (1674), regarding more specifically the context of the invocations. It is noticed that Milton makes use of said pagan epics in the construction of a Christian epic poem. Therefore, the focus of this study is to analyze how is this construction made, based on reading of the original English text, in the John Leonard’s edition (2000) and the Portuguese editions of Lima Leitão (1840) and Daniel Jonas (2006), the latter bilingual.

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Author Biography

Vanessa do Carmo Abreu, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro

Estudante de graduação em Letras - Português/Inglês pela Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro

Membro discente do PROAERA - Programa de Altos Estudos em Representações da Antiguidade.

Bolsista de Iniciação Científica da Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado do Rio de Janeiro - FAPERJ.

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2016-02-05

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ABREU, V. do C. The resignification of Epic poetry’s structures in Paradise Lost and the context of the invocations. Rónai – Revista de Estudos Clássicos e Tradutórios, [S. l.], v. 3, n. 2, p. 63–77, 2016. Disponível em: https://periodicos.ufjf.br/index.php/ronai/article/view/23145. Acesso em: 22 dec. 2024.

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