The Question of Mimesis in Brazilian Colonial Literature

The Question of Mimesis in Brazilian Colonial Literature

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This paper aims to investigate Glass Blunts how mimesis rules Brazilian colonial literary production, considering a tension between its understanding as an imitation of nature or human actions and as an emulation of canonical authors and rhetorical topics.We propose that the crossing of those two understandings causes a transformation of the classical topics, without thereby considering colonial literature as original or Rolling Papers detached from European literary series.