The discovery of representation: figures of rhetorical discourse in Pero Vaz de Caminha’s ‘carta do achamento’

Authors

  • Vincenzo Arsillo Universidade Ca’ Foscari Veneza

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.22409/abriluff.v8i16.29887

Keywords:

Carta do achamento, rhetorical figures, conquest of Brazil.

Abstract

Moving from the analysis of some figural and rhetorical images in the Caminha’s text, the essay defines a semiotic-iconic interpretation of Carta do achamento.



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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.21881/abriluff.2016n16a365

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Author Biography

Vincenzo Arsillo, Universidade Ca’ Foscari Veneza

Professor de Literatura Brasileira e Portuguesa (Departamento de Americanística, Iberística e Slavística) na Universidade Ca’ Foscari Veneza. Tem ensaios recentes sobre Miguel Torga, Eugénio de Andrade, José Cardoso Pires, José Saramago, António Lobo Antunes e João Guimarães Rosa. Integra o conselho da revista Letterature d´America, dirigida, em Roma, por Ettore Finazzi-Agrò.

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Published

2016-07-18

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Arsillo, V. (2016). The discovery of representation: figures of rhetorical discourse in Pero Vaz de Caminha’s ‘carta do achamento’. ABRIL – NEPA / UFF, 8(16), 29-44. https://doi.org/10.22409/abriluff.v8i16.29887

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Vol. 8 No. 16 (2016): VOYAGE, DISLPLACEMENTS, DIFFERENCE

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