Intenção e recepção em Iracema, de José de Alencar

Abstract

The meaning of a text surpasses its author's intentions, as interpreters and readers to come will have an amount of additional historical accumulation towards it. That does not mean interpreters understand it better, despite their historical superiority over the author, but they understand in differently. This paper intends to show how, regardless of all his care and explanations, José de Alencar could not avoid new visions and interpretations of Iracema along time.