Alan Sokal has questioned the postmodern assertion that 'science is ... a "myth'', a "narration" ... a "social construction'" (1998: x). This dissertation examines his reasons for rejecting this allegedly postmodern declaration. Firstly, it suggests that the basis for Sol'1ll's contention that a 'true' world exists beyond one's awareness of it extends to an attack on modem philosophy, and is not limited to its postmodern component. Then, it describes defences of the 'linguistic construction' of science as thinly veiled attempts at emulating scientific discourses. In a more speculative vein, the dissertation goes on to evaluate claims made against science in terms of its connection to warfare; its insensitivity to mythology, and its generally misdirected values. It is in terms of value that the dissertation detects an analogous relationship between the discourses of mythology and science. Finally, a playful 'postmodern' reading is attempted of Sol'1ll's use of fiction in establishing the truth of his assertions. / English Studies / M.A.(English)

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Informada pelos pressupostos da área interdisciplinar conhecida como estudos animais, esta tese propõe uma leitura a contrapelo das figuras animais na literatura, na qual elas não são entendidas apenas como metáforas de certos aspectos da vida humana, mas como presenças textuais com um estatuto de personagens e, nessa condição, são interrogadas em sua alteridade. A questão central em pauta é: o que a metáfora diz sobre os animais e sobre a relação entre os animais e os seres humanos e o que significa des-figurar a metáfora e explorar a possibilidade de re-significar, a partir da textualidade ficcional, a relação humano-animal. Para tanto, desenho um panorama dos estudos animais, abordando o estado da arte no Brasil, inserindo tais estudos nas possibilidades de inovação no campo da literatura comparada. A seguir, elaboro um aporte teórico a partir da filosofia animal de Jacques Derrida, ao qual incorporo e coloco em discussão posicionamentos teóricos de Calarco (2008), Krell (2013), Lawlor (2007) e Naas (2010) sobre a questão em pauta. Por fim, realizo leituras comparadas entre A metamorfose (1915), de Franz Kafka, e Porcarias (1996), de Marie Darrieussecq, ambos sobre o tornar-se animal, e entre Flush (1933), de Virginia Woolf, e Timbuktu (1999), de Paul Auster, ambos sobre a domesticação de animais. / Following the tenets of the interdisciplinary area of animal studies, this dissertation presents a reading of animal figures in literature against the grain, which means that they are not taken only as metaphors of certain aspects of human life but as textual presences with a status assigned to characters and, in this condition, are interrogated in their alterity. The central question to be explored is: what the animal metaphor says about animals and the relation of animal and human beings and what it means to de-figure the metaphor in order to explore the possibility of re-signifying, in ficcional textualities, the human/animal relation. In order to address these issues, I draw a panorama of animal studies, including the state of the art in Brazil, to contend that this area adds to the possibilities of innovation in the field of comparative literature. Then, I consider a theoretical framework of Jacques Derrida’s animal philosophy, also discussing theoretical positions of Calarco (2008), Krell (2013), Lawlor (2007) and Naas (2010) on this topic. Finally, I propose comparative readings of Franz Kafka’s The metamorphosis (1915) and Marie Darrieussecq’s Pig tales (1996), from the perspective of becoming animal, and of Virginia Woolf’s Flush (1933) and Paul Auster’s Timbuktu (1999), both on domesticating animals.

A partir da ideia de uma imanência materialista, a tese procura esboçar um sistema estético que se contraponha aos sistemas estéticos românticos e idealistas (principalmente confrontando-­se com noções provenientes do platonismo e do idea-­ lismo alemão e, também, com algumas noções de M. Heidegger). No percurso da tese são centrais as discussões sobre a possibilidade de se pensar por imagens e so-­ bre as implicações filosóficas, políticas, ideológicas e históricas da necessidade de se embaralhar ciência com poesia. O trabalho, pensado a partir de Ulysses de James Joyce, procura compreender o que as concepções de história, filosofia e política po-­ dem aprender com a experiência da literatura e para isso, a tese analisa principalmente as obras de Homero, Platão, G. Vico, Th. Adorno e B. Espinosa; além desses autores, há uma presença forte das obras de K. Marx e S. Beckett. O trabalho se desdobra a partir do capítulo doze de Ulysses, em que Leopold Bloom se confronta com o cidadão. Este confronto, em um pub de Dublin, é a uma espécie de me-­ tempsicose anacrônica do confronto ente Odisseu e Polifemo na caverna homérica. A tese analisa cinco reencarnações históricas deste confronto cavernoso, respecti-­ vamente seguindo a ordem dos capítulos, temos: cap. I -­ Ulysses de Joyce; cap. II a Dialética do Esclarecimento de Adorno e Horkheimer, principalmente Ulisses ou Mito e Esclarecimento; Cap. III a Ciência Nova de Vico, principalmente A descoberta do Verdadeiro Homero; Cap. IV -­ a Odisséia de Homero interpretada por meio da astu-­ ciosa inteligência da Métis grega; Cap. V -­ Ulysses de Joyce, principalmente o cap. XII do romance. A conclusão procura retraçar o percurso da tese, demonstrando como uma ideia de imanência materialista com base na filosofia de Espinosa esteve implíci-­ ta como o fundamento de nossa proposta de uma Estética da Imanência. / Centred on an idea of materialistic immanence, the thesis aims to outline an aesthetic \"system\" in opposition to the romantic and idealistic aesthetic systems (confronting mainly with aesthetic notions from Platonism and German idealism, but also with some notions from M. Heidegger). In the course of the thesis it is central to discuss about the possibility of thinking through images and the implications for philosophical, political and historical need to mix up science with poetry. The work, conceived regarding James Joyce\'s Ulysses, aims to understand what the conceptions of history, philosophy and politics can learn from the experience of literature, for this, the thesis analyses the works of Homer, Plato, G. Vico, Th. Adorno and B. Spino-­ za, in addition to these authors, there is a strong presence of K. Marx and S. Beckett. The work unfolds from the 12th chapter of Ulysses, where Bloom confronts the citi-­ zen. This confrontation in a Dublin pub is an anachronic \"metempsychosis\" of the confrontation between Odysseus and Polyphemus in the Homeric cave present in the Odyssey. The thesis examines five historical \"reincarnations\" of this cavernous confrontation, following the order of the chapters, we have: ch. I -­ Joyce\'s Ulysses; ch. II -­ Dialectic of Enlightenment, especially \'Odysseus or Myth and Enlightenment\' by Adorno and Horkheimer; ch. III -­ New Science, especially \'The discovery of the True Homer\' by Giambattista Vico; ch. IV -­ Homers Odyssey interpreted through the cunning intelligence of the Greek Métis; ch V -­ Joyce\'s Ulysses, especially chap. XII of the novel. The conclusion of the work aims to retrace the course of the thesis demonstrating how an idea of materialistic immanence based on the philosophy of Spinoza was implicitly the fundament of our Aesthetics of Immanence.

Informada pelos pressupostos da área interdisciplinar conhecida como estudos animais, esta tese propõe uma leitura a contrapelo das figuras animais na literatura, na qual elas não são entendidas apenas como metáforas de certos aspectos da vida humana, mas como presenças textuais com um estatuto de personagens e, nessa condição, são interrogadas em sua alteridade. A questão central em pauta é: o que a metáfora diz sobre os animais e sobre a relação entre os animais e os seres humanos e o que significa des-figurar a metáfora e explorar a possibilidade de re-significar, a partir da textualidade ficcional, a relação humano-animal. Para tanto, desenho um panorama dos estudos animais, abordando o estado da arte no Brasil, inserindo tais estudos nas possibilidades de inovação no campo da literatura comparada. A seguir, elaboro um aporte teórico a partir da filosofia animal de Jacques Derrida, ao qual incorporo e coloco em discussão posicionamentos teóricos de Calarco (2008), Krell (2013), Lawlor (2007) e Naas (2010) sobre a questão em pauta. Por fim, realizo leituras comparadas entre A metamorfose (1915), de Franz Kafka, e Porcarias (1996), de Marie Darrieussecq, ambos sobre o tornar-se animal, e entre Flush (1933), de Virginia Woolf, e Timbuktu (1999), de Paul Auster, ambos sobre a domesticação de animais. / Following the tenets of the interdisciplinary area of animal studies, this dissertation presents a reading of animal figures in literature against the grain, which means that they are not taken only as metaphors of certain aspects of human life but as textual presences with a status assigned to characters and, in this condition, are interrogated in their alterity. The central question to be explored is: what the animal metaphor says about animals and the relation of animal and human beings and what it means to de-figure the metaphor in order to explore the possibility of re-signifying, in ficcional textualities, the human/animal relation. In order to address these issues, I draw a panorama of animal studies, including the state of the art in Brazil, to contend that this area adds to the possibilities of innovation in the field of comparative literature. Then, I consider a theoretical framework of Jacques Derrida’s animal philosophy, also discussing theoretical positions of Calarco (2008), Krell (2013), Lawlor (2007) and Naas (2010) on this topic. Finally, I propose comparative readings of Franz Kafka’s The metamorphosis (1915) and Marie Darrieussecq’s Pig tales (1996), from the perspective of becoming animal, and of Virginia Woolf’s Flush (1933) and Paul Auster’s Timbuktu (1999), both on domesticating animals.

Orientador: Fabio Akcelrud Durão / Tese (doutorado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Estudos da Linguagem / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-13T23:14:32Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Telles_LuisFernandoPrado_D.pdf: 2751775 bytes, checksum: 8a0fcc134efdb76f5f2bd139c83bc1f5 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2009 / Resumo: Esta tese consiste numa interpretação sobre o discurso teórico e o ficcional. Num primeiro momento, são trabalhados os discursos constitutivos das teorias sobre a modernidade e sobre o romance; num segundo, aborda-se o discurso ficcional da obra do autor português António Lobo Antunes. O ponto em comum que orienta a interpretação nas diferentes frentes diz respeito ao interesse em investigar o estatuto da narrativa no âmbito desses discursos. Pretende-se demonstrar um fenômeno coincidente nos três campos de investigação, que diz respeito ao fato de a narrativa ser colocada em xeque, isto é, de o seu estatuto e a sua validade serem questionados e, concomitantemente, esse mesmo questionamento apontar para um retorno de sua validade e, conseqüentemente, para uma sua permanência. Isto é o que se procurou demonstrar pelo trabalho de interpretação de alguns discursos teóricos que buscaram pensar a passagem da modernidade à pósmodernidade, bem como daqueles que procuraram se constituir enquanto teorias do romance. O questionamento a respeito da possibilidade da morte da narrativa acabou demonstrando, paradoxalmente, um retorno ao narrativo; principalmente pelo fato de os próprios discursos que afirmaram isso acabarem se revelando, eles próprios, como construtos narrativos. Essa investigação de cunho teórico se mostra organizada na primeira parte do trabalho, intitulada A modernidade e a narrativa sobre o romance. Esta parte é composta por dois capítulos. No primeiro, procura-se construir um quadro compreensivo das principais questões pertinentes ao debate sobre a modernidade, o fim da modernidade e a pós-modernidade; em especial, dá-se relevância ao trabalho com as teorias de Gianni Vattimo e de Fredric Jameson. Este capítulo inicial intitula-se Mais uma pequena narrativa sobre o fim das grandes narrativas. O segundo capítulo, intitulado Romance: ou sobre como narrar um "mundo abandonado por deus", configura-se como um desdobramento das discussões apresentadas no primeiro e constitui-se de uma interpretação que se faz a partir da articulação da leitura de alguns dos principais estudos pertinentes à teoria do romance. Esta interpretação deve ser entendida como resultado de um construto narrativo também, tal como o que foi realizado no primeiro capítulo. A segunda parte da tese, intitulada A modernidade e a narrativa do romance, é composta pelo terceiro capítulo, em que se pretende construir uma interpretação sobre as variações formais das narrativas de António Lobo Antunes. Por esta, procura-se demonstrar como o já referido fenômeno paradoxal da negação e afirmação da narrativa ocorre no âmbito do discurso ficcional das obras do autor português, de modos distintos e em diferentes níveis. Nas duas últimas seções desse terceiro capítulo, busca-se uma articulação entre essa interpretação da obra de Lobo Antunes e aquelas realizadas nos dois capítulos anteriores. Não há um capítulo conclusivo / Abstract: This thesis consists of an interpretation about theoretical and fictional speech. In a first part, they are worked out as through several theories of the modernity and novel; after this, the work of the Portuguese author António Lobo Antunes is approached. The common point that guides the interpretation in such different fronts concerns the interest in investigating the statute of narrative in the realm of those discourses. It intends to demonstrate a coincident phenomenon in the three investigation fields, that concerns the capacity of the narrative to keep in check, that is, its statute and its validity they be questioned and, concomitantly, this questionment points for a return of its validity and, consequently, for its permanence. That was she tried to demonstrate for the work of interpretation of some theoretic speeches that looked for think about the passage of modernity to post-modernity, as well as those that sought to constitute as novel theories. The questionment regarding the possibility of the death of the narrative ended up demonstrating, paradoxically, a return to the narrative; mainly for the fact of the speeches that affirmed that ended up revealing theyself, as narrative constructs. This investigation of theoretic stamp is shown organized in the first part of the work, entitled The modernity and the narrative about the novel. This part is composed by two chapters. In the first, it tries to build an understanding picture of the main pertinent subjects to discussion about the modernity, the end of modernity and the post-modernity; specially, it feels relevance to the work with Gianni Vattimo's and Fredric Jameson's theories. This initial chapter is entitled One more little narrative about the end of the great narratives. The second chapter, entitled Novel: or about how to narrate an "abandoned world by god", it is configured as an unfolding of the discussions presented in the first and constituts of an interpretation that is done starting from the articulation of the reading of some of the main pertinent studies to the theory of the novel. This interpretation should be understood as a result of a narrative construct also, as what it was accomplished in the first chapter. The second part of theory, entitled The modernity and the narrative of the novel, is composed by the third chapter, which intends to build an interpretation about the formal variations of António Lobo Antunes' narratives. By this, it tries to demonstrate as the already referred paradoxical phenomenon of the denial and statement of the narrative happens in the extent of the fictional speech of the Portuguese author's works, of different ways and in different levels. In the last two sections of that third chapter, an articulation is looked between that interpretation of Lobo Antunes' work and those accomplished in the two previous chapters. There is no conclusive chapter / Doutorado / Literatura Portuguesa / Doutor em Teoria e História Literária

Este trabalho examina os estudos literários que se seguem, publicados em meados de 1970: A perversão do trapezista: o romance em Cornélio Penna (1976), de Luiz Costa Lima; Verso Universo em Drummond (1975) de José Guilherme Merquior; Ao vencedor as batatas (1977), de Roberto Schwarz; Fundamentos da investigação literária (1974), de Eduardo Portella e Carlos Drummond de Andrade (1976) de Silviano Santiago. Nosso objetivo é investigar de que modo a produção do conhecimento sobre literatura e a produção do valor literário se deram nesses trabalhos, bem como indicar algumas transformações no campo literário naquele período. / This academic work examine the literary studies that follows, all published in the mid-1970s: A perversão do trapezista: o romance em Cornélio Penna (1976), by Luiz Costa Lima; Verso Universo em Drummond (1975), by José Guilherme Merquior; Ao vencedor as batatas (1977), by Roberto Schwarz; Fundamentos da investigação literária (1974), by Eduardo Portella e Carlos Drummond de Andrade (1976), by Silviano Santiago. Our purpose is to investigate how the production of knowledge about literature and the production of literay value is given in this work, as well as indicate somes changes in the literary field in that period.

Que signifie repenser l’Histoire littéraire et l’Histoire du roman comme Histoire culturelle ? Le point de départ de notre questionnement sur les formes de représentation adoptées par l’Histoire littéraire porte sur la doxa critique selon laquelle il existe une relation génétique entre l’épopée et le roman, dont la source se trouve dans ce qu’il est convenu de voir comme le texte fondateur de la littérature, l’épopée d’Homère et celui de la théorie littéraire, la Poétique d’Aristote. Si l’épopée homérique est une œuvre de la tradition orale, quelle est sa relation avec le roman, issu, lui, de la scripturalité et de l’émergence de la prose ? Si les récits en prose narrative de fiction apparaissent dans des civilisations sans épopée, quelle est la condition nécessaire pour leur émergence ? Si, de plus, l’apparition d’une prose narrative de fiction est précédée de plusieurs siècles de celle d’une historiographie et que ce phénomène se répète aussi bien dans la Grèce classique qu’au Moyen Âge européen, ou encore en Chine, quelle est la condition nécessaire pour l’essor du roman ? Nous présentons ici l’ébauche d’une Histoire alternative des origines du roman dans la Weltliteratur, en relation avec l’émergence de la scripturalité et la prose et l’essor de l’historiographie À la croisée de plusieurs disciplines académiques, notamment entre les sciences humaines et sociales, notre recherche fait appel d’une part à la théorie et à l’Histoire de la littérature, d’autre part à l’Histoire de l’historiographie, ainsi qu’à la théorie et la philosophie de l’Histoire. / Is it possible to rethink Literary History and in particular the History of the Novel as Cultural History which seeks to differentiate between an historical object and it’s representation? Considering the critical doxa, according to which, there exists a genetic link between epics and the novel, leads to one of Western thinking’s most stubborn myths. If epics, and particularly Homer’s, is seen as the novel’s ascendant , although it belongs to oral tradition, how does it explain the fact that as Ancient civilizations as Egypt or China or Israel developed sophisticated prose narratives without having epics? Moreover, if Western literary history refers to Aristotle’s Poetics as it’s foundational text, although by the time it was written, fictional prose didn’t exist yet, and was only to develop a few centuries later, shouldn’t we seek for the missing link between the oral tradition and the rise of the novel? As against this hegemonic and unhistorical representation that considers the novel genre as a Western invention, and as opposed to the historical circumstances that gave birth to the novel, we consider that the key to understanding this phenomenon lies in the emergence of literacy and prose. Indeed, in all civilizations that developed fictional prose writing, it was systematically preceded, not by epics, but by historiography. Our PHD dissertation presents an alternative History of the novel, whose angle is intercultural and interdisciplinary, aiming at recreating a new chronology of the emergence of the novel as a an inevitable historical genre in world’s literature.

This thesis examines the creation of character in the work of Theodor Fontane. Although he is repeatedly praised as a great writer of human character, there is no comprehensive analysis of how Fontane's characters work. This thesis is intended to fill this surprising gap in Fontane research. Its analyses do not focus on the author-text interaction as many traditional critical approaches do, but instead look at what takes place between the text and the reader. The first section, entitled 'Character in Theory', has two chapters presenting my concept of literary character. It draws on the findings of cognitive studies, including formerly neglected aspects such as affective reading and empathy. The second section, 'Character in Practice', contains four chapters. Chapter three demonstrates how our emotions can contribute to our understanding and what role is played by empathy. Chapter four shows the active role readers are required to play when putting together information about characters in Fontane's polyphonous novels. Chapter five focuses on character speech, and chapter six asks to what extent Fontane's characters can be seen to develop. The third section, 'Character in Context', takes a less hermeneutic approach. Chapter seven asks what our expectations of Realist characters are and how these influence our reading of Fontane. Chapter eight examines how our access to these characters has changed compared to the author's contemporary readership. Chapter nine presents an excursus, looking at the author's development from renditions of 'real' people to fictional characters. The last section compares this author's creations to the tentatively Modernist characters of Thomas Mann's Buddenbrooks. My findings show that Fontane's characters demand and support a more active reading than Realism is usually given credit for. They suggest that the concept of Realist characters as largely descriptive creations needs to be examined critically.

L’adaptation existe depuis les débuts du cinéma. Dès lors, le nombre de versions filmiques d’œuvres littéraires ne cesse de croître et l’adaptation reste au cœur de la production cinématographique partout dans. Toutefois nous constatons que l’adaptation se trouve dans une situation quelque peu paradoxale. Ce qui motive sa conception est également à l’origine de la majeure partie des critiques. D’une part, le bénéfice économique est évident. La notoriété d’un roman à succès garantit un public nombreux. D’autre part, le contexte créatif se révèle difficile car, du point de vue ontologique, l’adaptation préserve la comparaison traditionnelle en s’appuyant sur un paradigme oppositionnel des arts où le film se doit de se justifier face au texte source. Se situant à la croisée des arts, l’adaptation focalise un débat sur une hiérarchie notionnelle des arts où la narration à travers des images serait toujours perçue comme inférieure aux autres formes. Dans cette thèse, nous étudions ce phénomène dans le contexte de la résurgence de la fantasy lors des années 2000. Ce fait culturel du monde anglophone atteindra un niveau inattendu au cinéma avec le succès des adaptations des romans de J. R. R. Tolkien et de J. K. Rowling tandis que la réception des versions filmiques des œuvres de C. S. Lewis peut paraître mitigée. À partir de ces constats, nous nous interrogeons parallèlement sur le processus et le produit de l’adaptation en plaçant notre corpus au centre du débat à travers une approche descendante de comparaison. Nous espérons ainsi pouvoir apporter quelques éléments de réflexion sur l’engouement du public pour ces histoires et sur l’adaptation comme domaine d’étude. / Adaptation has been a part of cinema since its very beginning. Since then, the number of film versions of literary works which appear on screen has never ceases to increase and adaptation is still at the heart of cinematic production around the world. Adaptation actually exists in a rather paradoxical situation. What motivates its conception is also the source of the majority of criticism against it. On one hand, the economic advantage is clear. The fame of a popular novel guarantees a large audience. On the other hand, its creative context can prove to be difficult since ontologically adaptation serves to preserve the traditional comparison based on an oppositional paradigm of the arts where the film has to justify itself in front of the source text. Standing at a crossroads between the arts, adaptation is the focus of a debate on a notional hierarchy within the arts where narration through images could still be perceived as inferior compared to other forms.We wanted to study this phenomenon within the context of the resurgence of fantasy witnessed in the 2000’s in this thesis. In the English-speaking world this cultural event reached an unexpected level with the success of the adaptations of J. R. R. Tolkien and J. K. Rowling’s novels while the film versions of C. S. Lewis’ works were less well received. With these points in mind, we consider the process and the product of adaptation in order to situate our corpus in the debate through a top down approach of comparison. We thus hope to bring some elements of reflections on the craze for these stories and the domain of adaptation studies.