O que a “primeira novela brasileira” pode nos dizer sobre o papel das letras coloniais no estudo de literatura?

Abstract

This article discusses the peripheral position of the colonial letters in schools and universities, alongside its relation with the study of literature and its methods. The discussion focuses on the analysis of the História do Predestinado Peregrino e de seu irmão Precito, composed according to rhetorical, poetical, and theologicalpolitical precepts by the Jesuit Alexandre de Gusmão, in 1682.