A retórica de Padre Antônio Vieira no Sermão de Santo Antônio aos Peixes

Abstract

The present work seeks to objectify an analysis of the Santo Antônio Sermon to the Fishes in order to identify the rhetorical resources that Padre Antônio Vieira had used in the process of building his text. It is in this way that this bibliographic research can be subdivided in two blocks, the first one will be in charge of understanding the historical and cultural moment experienced by the society of the time, therefore it will deal with the historical context, the baroque aesthetic current in the period, and the dichotomous literary way of doing, conceptism and gongorism. The second will focus on the analysis of resources that must be understood as elements that make the sermon in question a work of rhetorical content, that is, rhetorical; thus, the biography, the structure of the text, the allegory and the language will be worked here as elements that serve the speaker in this systemic process, versed in a cutting logic, structured in a very modern syntax that characterizes the Viemasian sermons. All of these elements must be listed in this research and worked separately for a better understanding of what is sought, and, in a way, describes the paths that must be followed when what one tries to achieve with writing is a persuasive, convincing text. and dynamic