Reflexos da recepção no texto literário latino: a partir da Ars poética de Horácio

Abstract

This work revisits Latin literature throwing a glance based on a recent tendency of literary research: the interaction text-receiver. The theories and methods which develop such tendency converge to the horizon of a poetics of reading. Following this line, the aesthetics of reception and the theory of aesthetic effect stand out: the first current analyses the historical reception of literary works and the aesthetic effects they produce on receivers; the second starts from these principles, but is more oriented towards the text, and allows the examining of artistic procedures oriented to the interaction with the receiver. Grounded on these two approaches, we comment on the reception of literary works in the Roman universe of the beginning of the Empire and the artistic procedures conditioned by this interaction. At the end, the reflections weaved throughout the work are supported by Horatio’s Ars poetica.