The Land of Carnival: grotesque manifestations in two utopias of the baroque Germany
Paraphrase search: Michael Hamburguer and poetry translation
Grant number: | 16/11825-9 |
Support type: | Scholarships abroad - Research Internship - Doctorate |
Effective date (Start): | September 01, 2016 |
Effective date (End): | November 30, 2016 |
Field of knowledge: | Linguistics, Literature and Arts - Literature - Classical Languages |
Principal researcher: | Paulo Martins |
Grantee: | Lya Valéria Grizzo Serignolli |
Supervisor abroad: | Andrew Feldherr |
Home Institution: | Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil |
Research place: | Princeton University, United States |
Associated to the scholarship: | 13/07303-9 - Bacchus, the symposium, and the poets, BP.DR |
Abstract Bacchus (also called Liber/Lyaeus/Lenaeus) plays different roles in Augustan poetry, being often depicted as a sympotic and orgiastic divinity, a patron of poetry and a deified hero. This research will analyse the associations between Bacchus and patronage in Augustan poetry, approaching issues of sympotic celebration and Dionysiac poetics. I will be particularly interested in Liber as an allegory for the powers of the real patrons of poetry in Augustan Rome. I will investigate: how the relationship between poets and patrons unfold through the identification with - or the mediation of - the ambivalent Bacchus; and also the symposium (presided over by Liber) as a metaphorical setting for the relationship of amicitia between poets and patrons. Friendship (amicitia) among the participants of a symposium presupposed libertas, which was also a prerogative of the poet. Libertas has strong political connotations in the Roman Republic. In the sense of freedom of speech, it is also a technical word of poetic genres. Bacchus, as tongue-loosener, provides libertas at the symposium, which can have different implications, and this makes him a relevant figure for the Augustan poets, who struggled to reconcile panegyric with free speech. | |
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