Satiricon: as origens do romance e do realismo satÃrico
AUTOR(ES)
Josà Alexandre Ferreira Maia
DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO
2005
RESUMO
This study approaches the Satiricon, a literary work written probably in the 1st century A.D, as a product of the action of the same historical-pragmatic and aestheticideological forces that made possible the origin and evolution of the literary genres of Antiquity. Through this approach, it becomes possible to observe that the evolution of the genres followed two paths that coincide with Aristotleâs division of Greek drama into Tragedy and Comedy. From the principles used in the creation of drama, it is possible to understand the existence of at least two kinds of realism: 1) Tragic realism, that has an idealistic character, whose main source is Myth, and which has its most pronounced development in the 5th century B.C in Athens; and 2) Comic realism, whose main source is reality itself as it mirrors the lives of ordinary men; this genre developed during the transformation of Greek cities and during the rise of Rome in the 2nd century B.C. The evolution of realism gave rise not only to mimetic genres but also to theoretical genres that were written in prose. The ancient romance is a genre that presents a hybrid structure; it was born from the fusion of the genres as an answer to the new aesthetic-ideological demands that came into being during the fall of Greece and with the rise of Rome and the Alexandrian monarchies. The Satiricon is classified here as a Satiric Romance and it is an important mimetic literary work that illustrates the evolution of comic realism in contrast with tragic realism
ASSUNTO(S)
romance realismo satyre realism romance literatura latina literature teoria literaria sÃtira
