The tyrant narrator: notes to a poetics of narrative

Authors

  • Jacyntho Lins Brandão UFMG

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.22409/gragoata.v15i28.33090

Keywords:

Plato, Lucian of Samosata, narrator, narrative, tyrant-narrator

Abstract

The article discusses the use of the term diegesis in Plato’s Republic as a fundamental principle of a poetics of narrative, relating it with the concept of pure freedom (ákratos eleuthería) in Lucian of Samosata. Considering both parameters, it explores the status of the narrator (diegetés) and his tyrannical power, i.e. the ability to report both the credible and the unbelievable.

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Author Biography

Jacyntho Lins Brandão, UFMG

Professor Titular de Língua e Literatura Grega da Faculdade de Letras da Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais e Doutor em Letras Clássicas pela Universidade de São Paulo. Dentre suas publicações mais recentes se incluem os seguintes trabalhos: A poética do hipocentauro (Editora UFMG, 2001); A invenção do romance (Editora UnB, 2005); Antiga Musa: arqueologia da ficção (Faculdade de Letras da UFMG, 2005); “Cyrano de Bergerac e a tradição luciânica” (posfácio a Cyrano de Bergerac, Viagem à Lua (Editora Globo, 2007); e “Luciano e a história” (ensaio que acompanha a tradução de Luciano de Samósata, Como se deve escrever a história, Editora Tessitura, 2009).

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Published

2010-06-30

How to Cite

Brandão, J. L. (2010). The tyrant narrator: notes to a poetics of narrative. Gragoatá, 15(28). https://doi.org/10.22409/gragoata.v15i28.33090

Issue

Vol. 15 No. 28 (2010): Genre and Narrativity

Section

Literature Articles

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