Resistência e utopia: a arte cartográfica de Antônio Vieira

Abstract

This study aims to examine some aspects of the Writing Letters Art of Antonio Vieira. The main focus of this research includes Vieira s thoughts, related to Poetic Resistance and Utopia. Furthermore, we consider some of his biggest questions and cartographic influences of his authorial outsiderismo with readers, in the context of seventeenth-century baroque. The main body of research is the set of Vieira s letters, called Cartas do Brasil, as a Rhetoric Map in development, as a continuous synthesis of its official correspondence with royalty, colonial society and the Company of Jesus, which was admitted member. Therefore, it is from this corpus that we can verify their theories, perspectives, and the very root of Brazilian Literature Information. The main target of this dissertation is to understand his ideas, resistances and utopias, or the reasons that make Padre Vieira, prefer a libertarian position to the pacific Ignatian Letter Writing Pact. These and other questions are based on the theoretical line of Alfredo Bosi (the Resistance) and Thomas Moore (as the universal basis of Utopia). This research finds that the key to understanding the Vieira s great poetic strength is his outsiderism, alma-mater of his rhetorical strategies