Conferência de encerramento

• Autores: Jorge A. Osório
• Localización: Península: revista de estudos ibéricos, ISSN 1645-6971, Nº. 1, 2004, págs. 351-378
• Idioma: portugués
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• Resumen

  • Silence", the absence of the word, seems to contradict the notion of the materialization of a literary expression. We understand "literary", here, in a broad sense: it refers both to what is created as art and to the material sign within a conventional system which has as its background (and in its functional projection) an enactment of a linguistic kind.

    That is why "silence" as the absence of the word or of the presence of the voice before the receptor has been part, since Antiquity, of the procedures of rhetorical strategy, namely of an argumentative kind. But the material absence of the "littera" may be due to a variety of causes, ranging from the gaps in the transmission of a text, usually due to a copier, to the absences attributed to the "author". Within this framework, Menina e Moça is a unique case in 16th century Portuguese literature. In this work, silence is part of the construction of the "literary work of art" itself and, at the same time, it is a feature of the text as we know it in its different versions.