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A catábase greco-latina: reescritas contemporâneas

Authors: Estêvão, Carla Sofia Pereira Mouro Cardoso Monteiro;

A catábase greco-latina: reescritas contemporâneas

Abstract

A catábase (do grego, katábasis: descida; aos Infernos) constituiu um topos da literatura antiga que, além de articular um conjunto de elementos mitológicos que enformavam visões do mundo post mortem, refletia posições de carácter filosófico e/ou religioso sobre a morte e o sentido da vida, estruturando ainda um conjunto de motivos relacionados com a procura de «conhecimento» e «autoconhecimento», ideologicamente determinantes para a transformação dos seus agentes nos contextos pós-catábase. A riqueza de conteúdos que se desenvolvem em torno deste topos garantiu-lhe uma notável pervivência literária, como bem o demonstram a sua centralidade na Divina Comédia de Dante, na qual «o poeta europeíza o substrato greco-latino e pagão, ao adaptá-lo ao cristianismo e à realidade histórico-literária da sua época» (Rosado Fernandes, 1993, 350); ou ainda o desenvolvimento que James Joyce lhe confere em Ulysses. O topos foi igualmente recebido pela literatura portuguesa. Autores como Carlos de Oliveira, Miguel Torga e Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen, entre outros, conferiramlhe desenvolvimentos que convocam os intertextos clássicos, mas cujo diálogo se encontra sempre subordinado à expressão das imagéticas e dos quadros poéticos próprios de cada autor. Neste sentido, a presente dissertação analisa textos clássicos (greco-latinos) que estruturam a catábase como topos literário; estabelece o(s) modelos de desenvolvimento das catábases analisadas; analisa, no âmbito da literatura portuguesa, um conjunto de textos que desenvolvam o topos da catábase, de forma a aferir sua afiliação e as redes intertextuais presentes nos seus desenvolvimentos particulares e a estabelecer o quadro das reinterpretações e reescritas; - The Greco-Latin Catabasis: Contemporary Rewritings. Abstract: Catabasis (from the Greek katábasis: descent to the Underworld) is a topos of ancient literature which, beyond articulating a set of mythological elements concerning the post mortem world, reflects philosophical and religious perspectives on death and the meaning of life. At the same time, it structures motifs linked to the search for knowledge and self-knowledge, crucial for the transformation of characters after their descent. The thematic richness associated with this motif ensured its remarkable literary endurance, as exemplified by its central role in Dante’s Divine Comedy — where “the poet Europeanizes the Greco-Latin and pagan substratum by adapting it to Christianity and to the historical-literary reality of his time” (Rosado Fernandes, 1993, p. 350) — or by the way James Joyce reconfigures it in Ulysses. Portuguese literature has also engaged with this legacy. Authors such as Miguel Torga, Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen, and Carlos de Oliveira revisited the topos of catabasis, drawing on classical intertexts that are, however, always subordinated to their own imagery and poetic frameworks. This dissertation thus aims to analyse the classical (Greco-Latin) texts that shape catabasis as a literary topos, to identify the narrative models of the descents under study, and to examine a set of Portuguese texts that develop this motif. Its purpose is to determine their affiliations, to map the intertextual networks at play, and to establish the framework of reinterpretations and rewritings that ensure the vitality of this motif within the contemporary literary horizon.

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Rewriting, self-knowledge, Conhecimento, Poesia, Mythology, Reescrita, Autoconhecimento, Catabasis, Knowledge, Poetry, Catábase, Mitologia, Intertextuality, Contemporary Portuguese literature, Procura

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