Ascensão e queda de filemon e báucis: swift subverte Ovídio

Abstract

The satirical poem Baucis and Philemon by the Irish writer Jonathan Swift (1667 – 1745) retrieves the title, plot and main characters’ names of the mythological story originally narrated by the Roman poet Ovid, on the eighth book of his Metamorphosis. The intertextuality between the poems, considered under the perspective of “allusive art” perspective, in other words, an intentional and explicit reference to an ancestor text, will be thoroughly explored in this work, based on our own translation for Swift’s burlesque poem in Portuguese.