The empire of eloquence: rhetoric and poetics in 19th century Brazil

Abstract

To read the archives of our history, as a polemical space of different readings produced in a chronological time, 'is to enter into another temporality, the discursive - historical and unconscious - in which the memory of the saying goes placing and re-placing itself in the ever-present game between memorable things, which are said and registered, and non-memorable things, which are not said but erased, producing the same and the different.