Criando uma literatura nacional: a participação estrangeira e seus reflexos na crítica de José de Alencar

Abstract

This article aims to stand out the foreign critical texts importance, of romantic period, for the Brazilian literature development, as the texts written by Ferdinand Denis and Santiago Nunes Ribeiro, showing them the indirect influence in the Jose de Alencar critical work. Thus, was compared the literary perspectives of each author, in order to detach the influence of the foreign critical texts in the construction of Brazilian literature and in the Jose de Alencar aesthetic thought.