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[pt] Essa tese visa compreender como o escritor francês Georges Bernanos (1888 - 1948) construiu uma história da decadência da tradição francesa e da liberdade ao estabelecer sua crítica a modernidade no contexto da primeira metade do século XX. Na busca por compreender o argumento de Bernanos, diante de um cenário mais amplo de autores que não interpretavam a modernidade a partir do viés otimista de desenvolvimento do gênero humanos, tradição associada ao iluminismo, analisamos seus escritos de combate Carta aos Ingleses, A França contra os Robôs, Liberdade, para quê? e os artigos publicados no periódico O Jornal. Identificamos como o autor buscou tecer essa narrativa a partir da descrição da formação do mundo moderno como um processo de desvalorização de valores da cristandade e como um processo constante de perda das liberdades individuais devido a centralização do Estado e multiplicação das máquinas. Nesse sentido, ao longo da tese buscamos refletir como o autor operava com conceitos como progresso, revolução, liberdade, totalitarismo para construir sua da história da decadência da civilização europeia. / [en] In this thesis, we propose that the French writer Georges Bernanos (1888 - 1948) built a history of the decay of European civilization by establishing his critique of modernity in the context of the first half of the twentieth century. In the quest to understand Bernanos argument, in the face of a broader scenario of authors who did not interpret modernity from the optimistic point of view of the development of humankind, a tradition associated with the Enlightenment, we analyzed his combat writings Letter to the British, France against Robots, Freedom, what for? and the articles published in the newspaper O Jornal. We identified how Bernanos sought to weave this narrative from the description of the formation of the modern world as a process of disenchantment of the world, of devaluation of Catholic values and as a constant process of loss of individual freedoms due to the centralization of the State and the multiplication of machines. In this sense, throughout the thesis we seek to reflect on how the author operated with concepts such as progress, revolution, freedom, totalitarianism to build his history decay of European civilization.

The PhD. dissertation Written Voice examines how Walt Whitman and Henry Miller through books, confined textual products of modernity, strive to awaken the reader to a more perceptive and courageous life, provided that the reader is willing to suspend hermeneutics of suspicion and approach Leaves of Grass and Tropic of Cancer with hermeneutics of hunger. This is examined from linguistic, anthropological and theological vantage point of oral theory (M. Jousse, M. Parry, A. Lord, W. Ong, E. Havelock, J. Assmann, D. Abram, C. Geertz, T. Pettitt, J. Nohrnberg, D. Sölle, etc.). This work thus compares Leaves (1855) and Tropic of Cancer examining their paratextual, stylistic features, their genesis, the phenomenology of their I's, their ethos and story across the compositions. By "voluntary" usage of means of oral mnemonics such as parallelism/bilateralism (Jousse) - along with present tense, imitatio Christi and pedagogical usage of obscenity - both authors in their compositions attack the textual modern discourse, the posteriority, nostalgia and confinement of literature, restore the body, and aim for futurality of biblical kinetics. It is the reader's task, then, to hermeneutically resurrect the dead printed words of the compositions into their own "flesh" and action. The third part of the thesis...