Friedrich Schlegel’s romantic irony and its presence in Pepetela’s Mayombe
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Friedrich Schlegel, Romantic irony, Pepetela, Contemporary Angolan literatureAbstract
Friedrich Schlegel’s romantic irony assimilates the ancient Socratic irony and reinterprets its meaning, inserting it as one of the nuclear elements of his theory of literary criticism. As a kind of logical beauty and form of the paradox, irony is an instrument of metacritics and locus of philosophical self-reflexion and literary criticism. This article analyses and discusses the romantic irony and its insertion in the novel Mayombe (1980) by Pepetela. It seeks to understand how romantic irony transforms the work in a space of reflexion about the social problems of its time, enabling the objective exteriorization and at the same time the dialectical incorporation of history.
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