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All the boat is a stage: classical tragedy meets American narrative – re-reading Melville’s Billy Budd, Sailor

dc.contributor.authorSarmento, Clara
dc.date.accessioned2012-09-17T16:46:28Z
dc.date.available2012-09-17T16:46:28Z
dc.date.issued2010
dc.description.abstractBilly Budd, Sailor, obra derradeira de Herman Melville, situa-se, desde o subtítulo An inside narrative, num plano de interioridade. No interior de um navio de guerra ou no interior da alma humana, navegando pelos mares e pelas contradições, indecisões e instintos incompatíveis do homem. Através desta obra, Melville reescreve a tragédia atemporal e universal do Bem e do Mal, em eterno confronto, recuperando na América do séc. XIX o espírito também ele atemporal e universal da tragédia clássica. Melville reescreve na sua tragédia velhos mitos e arquétipos, com uma sensível objectividade. Da cultura clássica, Melville recupera as leis trágicas do destino, da honra, do comedimento e da obediência aos deuses. Em Billy Budd, reiventa simbolicamente as leis – não menos trágicas – da guerra e das instituições, e também da Natureza e dos mais puros sentimentos humanos.por
dc.description.abstractWith Billy Budd, Sailor: An Inside Narrative, Herman Melville rewrites the eternal and universal tragedy of good and evil at fight, recovering, in the 19th century America, the likewise eternal and universal spirit of classical tragedy. Billy Budd‟s plot is staged inside a HMS man-of-war and, simultaneously, inside human soul, sailing through the seas and through the contradictions and incompatible instincts of mankind. Melville founds his tragedy on a new myth, recycled from the Ancients. A myth expresses the rules of conduct of a certain social or religious group. Among the Greeks, the laws of destiny, honour, moderation and obedience to the Gods. In Billy Budd, not only the laws of war and institutions, but also the laws of nature and purest human feelings.
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dc.identifier.citationSARMENTO, Clara - All the boat is a stage: classical tragedy meets American narrative – re-reading Melville’s Billy Budd, Sailorpor
dc.identifier.doi10.34632/mathesis.2010.5183
dc.identifier.issn0872-0215
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10400.14/9147
dc.language.isoengpor
dc.peerreviewedyespor
dc.publisherUniversidade Católica Portuguesapor
dc.titleAll the boat is a stage: classical tragedy meets American narrative – re-reading Melville’s Billy Budd, Sailorpor
dc.typejournal article
dspace.entity.typePublication
oaire.citation.endPage111por
oaire.citation.issue19
oaire.citation.startPage97por
oaire.citation.titleMáthesispor
rcaap.rightsopenAccesspor
rcaap.typearticlepor

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