The Romantic Reading of a Late Medieval Source: Crónica do Descobrimiento do Brasil by F. A. de Varnhagen as a Historical-Poetic Refiguration of Carta a el-rey D. Manuel de Pêro Vaz de Caminha
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Crónica do Descobrimento do Brasil, Francisco Adolfo de Varnhagen, Pêro Vaz de Caminha, Carta a el-rey D. Manuel, Alexandre Herculano, Discovery of BrazilAbstract
Crónica do Descobrimento do Brasil (1840) by F. A. de Varnhagen is considered one of the founding texts of Brazilian narrative fiction. This article argues that Crônica was written under the broad aegis of early Portuguese Romanticism, and more specifically A. Herculano’s historical-poetic refiguration of medieval sources. Drawing on literary theory of the traditional historical novel, the article examines Varnhagen‘s fictional strategies for appropriating Pêro Vaz de Caminha’s Carta a el-Rei D. Manuel (1500) in order to create a hybrid historical-fictional representation of the Portuguese discovery of Brazil.
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