The validation of Violence from the Pombaline State as portrayed in the poetry ascribed to Alvarenga Peixoto Cover Image

Legitimação da Violência do Estado Pombalino na Poesia Atribuída a Alvarenga Peixoto
The validation of Violence from the Pombaline State as portrayed in the poetry ascribed to Alvarenga Peixoto

Author(s): Caio Cesar Esteves de Souza
Subject(s): Social history
Published by: KSIĘGARNIA AKADEMICKA Sp. z o.o.
Keywords: Alvarenga Peixoto; 18th century; Violence; Ancien Régime; Colonial Poetry

Summary/Abstract: This paper presents a discussion about the way the theme of violence is represented in the poetry attributed to Alvarenga Peixoto, in order to demonstrate its coherency and cohesion in relation to literate and political assumptions of the late 18th century. During the discussion, his famous Ode to Marquis of Pombal will be analyzed and related to other four poems in wich this theme is recurrent.

  • Issue Year: 2016
  • Issue No: 15
  • Page Range: 31-42
  • Page Count: 12
  • Language: Spanish