Antônio Vieira e seu duplo: análise da exemplaridade nos sermões de Santo Antônio

Abstract

This paper analyzes the exemplary sermons of Father Antonio Vieira (1608- 1697), as well as its various developments in the discourse of this respected Jesuit preacher. Such research is focusing to study the process of creating stylistic Vieira's speech from the place of rhetorical exemplum, more specifically the function that holds the exemplary hagiographic discourse in the preparation of sermons. In this case, do an exemplary analysis of the sermons on St. Anthony, considering that the intertextuality intersection established by Vieira with the image of St. Anthony in his sermons is due to a semantic link is established between their exemplary lives (the Holy and Vieira) , and, in the sermon, it develops through relationships allegorical, metaphorical and metonymic. The research aims to demonstrate that the process of creating the exemplary sermonística Vieira takes a prominent position as intertextuality rhetorical device of literary activity, which allows an analysis of the function of the exemplum as a procedure stylistic / literary, more than mere ideological foundation for the development sermon. For this study I serve the methodological relationship between literature and history.