TRACES OF IDEOLOGY IN PORTUGUESE LITERARY CRITICISM

• Autor(es): Simões, Maria João
• Data: 2024
• Identificador Persistente: https://hdl.handle.net/10316/120136
• Origem: Estudo Geral - Universidade de Coimbra
• Tipo de Documento: Capitulo
• Idioma: Inglês

Descrição

Literature reveals different ideological positions through the figura- tion of characters, the staging of the narrator, and the orchestration of discursive voices. Whether in poetry or in fiction, the literary text is indebted to the aesthetic and ideological values of the subject who is responsible for writing it. Beyond such generally accepted statements, ideological discourse not only emerges in literature (and in art in general) but also thinkers, philosophers and ideologues draw on reflections and representations of ideological points of view scattered throughout cultural production. There is both an active and retroactive mechanism essential to the découpage that is required. In the following discussion, I will seek to discover this ideological content as it appears in Portuguese literary criticism.