Alencar: A Nação em Cartas

Abstract

This study makes a reading of critical studies of theory and literary criticism that José de Alencar wrote especially about for his work of fiction, with the following purposes: to demonstrate the technical-literary knowlegde of the Ceara writer on the construction of his fiction as a realization of a project of literary nationalism and examine the relationship between his writings about literature and his own work of literary creation. To this end we established a cut on the studies literary writings by Alencar, and was chosen the following texts corpus for this research: Cartas à Confederação dos Tamoios, Cartas de Erasmo, “Como e porque sou romancista”, “Bênção paterna” and “Carta ao Dr. Jaguaribe”. The analysis of this corpus allowed us to evaluate the literary knowlegde of the author and his nationalist ideas, as well as possible to prove the intimate relationship between the texts that make up the corpus and the work of creation alencariana alluded to.