Thesis (M.C.S.)--Regent College, Vancouver, B.C., 1998. / Abstract and vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 159-165).

Esta dissertação analisa a representação da ambição no romance O pai Goriot, de Honoré de Balzac. A partir da análise da descrição do protagonista desta obra, Eugène de Ratignac, buscamos, com este conceito, expandir a compreensão da mimesis operada por Balzac, em diálogo com a tradição crítica iniciada com Platão e Aristóteles e revista por Erich Auerbach, e com as outras obras do escritor francês compostas no começo da década de 1830, especialmente Eugênia Grandet. / This dissertation analyzes the representation of ambition in the novel O pai Goriot (Father Goriot), by Honoré de Balzac. From the analysis of the description of the protagonist of this work, Eugène de Ratignac, we aim, with this concept, expand the understanding of how Balzac operated his mimesis, in dialogue with the critical tradition started with Plato and Aristotle and reviewed by Erich Auerbach, and the other works of the French writer, mainly Eugênia Grandet, composed in the early 1830s.

Em Machado de Assis, a representação da realidade é desfigurada através da forma literária marcada pelo binômio precisão versus imprecisão. Essa desfiguração surge na representação do cotidiano sério e trágico (elementos constitutivos do Realismo moderno, segundo Erich Auerbach) que, no Brasil, são afetados pela mescla de percepções de ordem política, econômica e religiosa, causando uma falta de posicionamento social claro. O presente trabalho tem a intenção de analisar o romance Dom Casmurro (obra que possui um narrador comprometido tanto pelo discurso jurídico quanto pelo discurso religioso) à luz do método que Auerbach desenvolveu para compreender a forma como é apresentada a condição humana através do tempo, especialmente nas obras Figura (1944) e Mimesis (1946), a fim de demonstrar como se dá a representação da realidade em um país periférico e pautado por valores arcaicos, gerando a quebra da seriedade e o afastamento da precisão realista. / In Machado de Assis work, the representation of reality is disfigured through the literary form determined by the precision vs. imprecision binomial. Such disfiguration emerges from the representation of the serious and tragic everyday (constitutive elements of Modern Realism, according to Erich Auerbach), which in Brazil is affected by the miscellany of political, economic and religious perceptions, causing an absence of a clear social positioning. The current work intends to analyze the novel Dom Casmurro (story that has a committed narrator both for the juridical speech and the religious one) making use of the method Auerbach developed to comprehend the form the human condition is present through time, specially in the works Figura (1944) and Mimesis (1946), in order to demonstrate the representation of reality in a peripheral country ruled by archaic values, generating the break of seriousness and the dismissal of realist precision.

Esta dissertação analisa a representação da ambição no romance O pai Goriot, de Honoré de Balzac. A partir da análise da descrição do protagonista desta obra, Eugène de Ratignac, buscamos, com este conceito, expandir a compreensão da mimesis operada por Balzac, em diálogo com a tradição crítica iniciada com Platão e Aristóteles e revista por Erich Auerbach, e com as outras obras do escritor francês compostas no começo da década de 1830, especialmente Eugênia Grandet. / This dissertation analyzes the representation of ambition in the novel O pai Goriot (Father Goriot), by Honoré de Balzac. From the analysis of the description of the protagonist of this work, Eugène de Ratignac, we aim, with this concept, expand the understanding of how Balzac operated his mimesis, in dialogue with the critical tradition started with Plato and Aristotle and reviewed by Erich Auerbach, and the other works of the French writer, mainly Eugênia Grandet, composed in the early 1830s.

Em Machado de Assis, a representação da realidade é desfigurada através da forma literária marcada pelo binômio precisão versus imprecisão. Essa desfiguração surge na representação do cotidiano sério e trágico (elementos constitutivos do Realismo moderno, segundo Erich Auerbach) que, no Brasil, são afetados pela mescla de percepções de ordem política, econômica e religiosa, causando uma falta de posicionamento social claro. O presente trabalho tem a intenção de analisar o romance Dom Casmurro (obra que possui um narrador comprometido tanto pelo discurso jurídico quanto pelo discurso religioso) à luz do método que Auerbach desenvolveu para compreender a forma como é apresentada a condição humana através do tempo, especialmente nas obras Figura (1944) e Mimesis (1946), a fim de demonstrar como se dá a representação da realidade em um país periférico e pautado por valores arcaicos, gerando a quebra da seriedade e o afastamento da precisão realista. / In Machado de Assis work, the representation of reality is disfigured through the literary form determined by the precision vs. imprecision binomial. Such disfiguration emerges from the representation of the serious and tragic everyday (constitutive elements of Modern Realism, according to Erich Auerbach), which in Brazil is affected by the miscellany of political, economic and religious perceptions, causing an absence of a clear social positioning. The current work intends to analyze the novel Dom Casmurro (story that has a committed narrator both for the juridical speech and the religious one) making use of the method Auerbach developed to comprehend the form the human condition is present through time, specially in the works Figura (1944) and Mimesis (1946), in order to demonstrate the representation of reality in a peripheral country ruled by archaic values, generating the break of seriousness and the dismissal of realist precision.

Em Machado de Assis, a representação da realidade é desfigurada através da forma literária marcada pelo binômio precisão versus imprecisão. Essa desfiguração surge na representação do cotidiano sério e trágico (elementos constitutivos do Realismo moderno, segundo Erich Auerbach) que, no Brasil, são afetados pela mescla de percepções de ordem política, econômica e religiosa, causando uma falta de posicionamento social claro. O presente trabalho tem a intenção de analisar o romance Dom Casmurro (obra que possui um narrador comprometido tanto pelo discurso jurídico quanto pelo discurso religioso) à luz do método que Auerbach desenvolveu para compreender a forma como é apresentada a condição humana através do tempo, especialmente nas obras Figura (1944) e Mimesis (1946), a fim de demonstrar como se dá a representação da realidade em um país periférico e pautado por valores arcaicos, gerando a quebra da seriedade e o afastamento da precisão realista. / In Machado de Assis work, the representation of reality is disfigured through the literary form determined by the precision vs. imprecision binomial. Such disfiguration emerges from the representation of the serious and tragic everyday (constitutive elements of Modern Realism, according to Erich Auerbach), which in Brazil is affected by the miscellany of political, economic and religious perceptions, causing an absence of a clear social positioning. The current work intends to analyze the novel Dom Casmurro (story that has a committed narrator both for the juridical speech and the religious one) making use of the method Auerbach developed to comprehend the form the human condition is present through time, specially in the works Figura (1944) and Mimesis (1946), in order to demonstrate the representation of reality in a peripheral country ruled by archaic values, generating the break of seriousness and the dismissal of realist precision.

Esta dissertação analisa a representação da ambição no romance O pai Goriot, de Honoré de Balzac. A partir da análise da descrição do protagonista desta obra, Eugène de Ratignac, buscamos, com este conceito, expandir a compreensão da mimesis operada por Balzac, em diálogo com a tradição crítica iniciada com Platão e Aristóteles e revista por Erich Auerbach, e com as outras obras do escritor francês compostas no começo da década de 1830, especialmente Eugênia Grandet. / This dissertation analyzes the representation of ambition in the novel O pai Goriot (Father Goriot), by Honoré de Balzac. From the analysis of the description of the protagonist of this work, Eugène de Ratignac, we aim, with this concept, expand the understanding of how Balzac operated his mimesis, in dialogue with the critical tradition started with Plato and Aristotle and reviewed by Erich Auerbach, and the other works of the French writer, mainly Eugênia Grandet, composed in the early 1830s.

En prenant comme point de départ l'interprétation de l'épopée homérique par Erich Auerbach, ce mémoire se consacre à la notion d'immersion fictionnelle, non sous son versant psychologique de phénomène contingent de la conscience imageante, mais sous son versant imaginaire, en tant que mythe sociétal d'immédiateté déterminant des stratégies esthétiques et médiatiques concrètes, que j'articule autour des poétiques contemporaines de construction de mondes (world building). L'enjeu est de saisir les répercussions esthétiques de ce fantasme d'une représentation qui occulterait à la fois sa médiateté et le réel-sensible, à une époque où la transfictionnalité et la transmédiaticité s'élèvent tranquillement comme modes narratifs dominants de notre culture occidentale contemporaine. Avec cette conviction que le terme d'immersion doit être replacé dans le cadre de ses effets, le premier chapitre s'affairera à démêler quelques difficultés théoriques que pose la notion en la problématisant sous l'égide des questions ontologiques de vérité et de la position phénoménologique de Sartre sur l'imaginaire. Tout en posant les outils théoriques nécessaires aux analyses subséquentes, le deuxième chapitre approfondit cette problématisation en empruntant aux théories modales des mondes possibles un cadre conceptuel opératoire, qui amènera, notamment grâce au concept formalisé de «~monde~», à concevoir la fiction comme un mouvement de distanciation. Appuyé par la lecture du roman tolkienien, le troisième chapitre tourne le fantasme d'immersion du côté d'une pulsion encyclopédique de complétude, concrétisée par des stratégies textuelles d'accumulation informationnelle et de virtualisation de données diégétiques laissées en suspens -- effets d'actualité que je qualifie d'extra-narratifs en les présentant en contraste des principes prescriptifs du \emph{muthos} aristotélicien formant une chaîne causale téléologique fondée sur une loi d'économie narrative. Le quatrième et dernier chapitre, articulé autour de la notion encore trop peu étudiée de canonicité, observe les poétiques de construction de mondes telles qu'elles se désamorcent elles-mêmes, dans le contexte des univers partagés, en engendrant des incohérences logiques donnant lieu à la tenue d'un discours auctorial-éditorial régissant les vérités fictionnelles comme moyen de maintenir l'immersivité de la représentation. L'analyse générique des comic-books de superhéros et une enquête sur la gestion éditoriale de l'univers de Star Wars permettront d'identifier les multiples modalités de délimitation de la frontière entre canon et apocryphe. En conclusion, je reviens brièvement sur la notion d'immersion, ainsi exemplifiée, en la resémiotisant comme une médiation compétitive de mise en présence de l'être. / Starting from Erich Auerbach's interpretation of the Homeric epic, this master's dissertation studies the notion of fictional immersion, not in its psychological aspect of a contingent phenomena of human consciousness, but rather in its collective imaginary sense, as a societal myth of immediacy generating concrete aesthetic and media strategies that I investigate from the standpoint of contemporary poetics of world building. The objective is to apprehend the aesthetic repercussions of this desire for a mediation that would conceal both the real and its own mediacy, in a time where transfictionality and transmedia storytelling are becoming more and more the dominant narrative modes of our contemporary western culture. Under the conviction that immersion must be looked at as a set of cultural strategies, the first chapter unravels some theorical difficulties bounded to the term by problematizing it towards ontological questions of truth and Sartre's phenomenological stance on the imaginary. While laying a necessary theorical toolset for subsequent analyses, the second chapter examines these problems by borrowing to possible worlds modal theories a set of working concepts, which will lead to the assumption that fiction is a movement of distanciation, notably with the aide of the formal concept of ``world''. Through a reading of the tolkienian novel, the third chapter directs the desire for immersion towards an encyclopedic impulsion for completeness, embodied by textual strategies such as informational proliferation and allusion to virtual diegetic data -- strategies leaving an impression of the actual that I describe as extra-narrative in contrast to Aristote's \emph{muthos} forming a teological causal chain based on a principle of an unitary narrative. The fourth and final chapter, articulated around the still too little studied notion of canonicity, observes poetics of world building as they neutralize themselves, particularly with shared universes, by generating logical inconsistencies giving birth to authorial and editorial discourses stating fictional truths as a way of maintaining the mediation's immersivity. The analysis of the superhero comics genre and an inquiry of the editorial management of the Star Wars universe will exemplify the multiple modalities of this delimitation between the canon and the apocryphal. As a conclusion, I briefly come back to the notion of immersion itself by redescribing it as a competitive mediation of presence.

Tese (doutorado)—Universidade de Brasília, Departamento de Teoria Literária e Literaturas, 2012. / Submitted by Alaíde Gonçalves dos Santos (alaide@unb.br) on 2013-08-02T12:41:31Z No. of bitstreams: 1 2012_EilikoLutzPfeifferFlores.pdf: 1118832 bytes, checksum: 7eba18b86b00f7bb99e7828f47ef0fc0 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Guimaraes Jacqueline(jacqueline.guimaraes@bce.unb.br) on 2013-08-02T15:24:08Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 2012_EilikoLutzPfeifferFlores.pdf: 1118832 bytes, checksum: 7eba18b86b00f7bb99e7828f47ef0fc0 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2013-08-02T15:24:08Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 2012_EilikoLutzPfeifferFlores.pdf: 1118832 bytes, checksum: 7eba18b86b00f7bb99e7828f47ef0fc0 (MD5) / Este estudo apresenta um diálogo entre obras de escritores brasileiros atuantes na década de setenta, durante a ditadura militar brasileira pós-64, e livros de escritores anteriores cujas obras estão situadas no âmbito do século XX. Procura-se expor a relação produtiva, intrínseca à sua realização estética, formal e temática, que esses romances estabelecem entre si, e seu significado amplo em termos de crítica e historiografia literária. Os escritores abordados são: Machado de Assis, Graciliano Ramos, Guimarães Rosa, Clarice Lispector, Antonio Callado, Osman Lins e João Ubaldo Ribeiro. A base teórica fundamental para o estudo dessas relações está baseada na obra de Erich Auerbach e de estudiosos brasileiros, como Antonio Candido. _______________________________________________________________________________________ ABSTRACT / This study presents a dialogue between works of Brazilian writers working in the seventies, during the post-64 military dictatorship, and previous books by writers whose works are located within the twentieth century. It seeks to expose the productive relationship, intrinsic to their aesthetic, formal and thematic achievement, that these novels establish amongst themselves and the broader significance of this relationship in terms of criticism and literary historiography. The writers addressed are Machado de Assis, Graciliano Ramos, Guimarães Rosa, Clarice Lispector, Antonio Callado, Osman Lins and João Ubaldo Ribeiro. The fundamental theoretical basis for the study of these relationships is based on the work of Erich Auerbach and Brazilian scholars such as Antonio Candido.