Submitted by Jailda Nascimento (jmnascimento@pucsp.br) on 2016-10-06T20:47:55Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Márcia Carolina Mariotto.pdf: 2155019 bytes, checksum: b085c9dcb65cbe11c19e0481986463f4 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2016-10-06T20:47:55Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Márcia Carolina Mariotto.pdf: 2155019 bytes, checksum: b085c9dcb65cbe11c19e0481986463f4 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2016-08-12 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / The devotion to Our Lady of Remedies left Portugal and landed on Brazilian soil around the eighteenth century. It came to the village of Taubaté by a route used for internal commerce, mainly gold, between Minas Gerais and the Vale do Paraíba. In Taubaté, there was a rural neighborhood called Vale do Itaim that, from the arrival of the image around 1750 and because of the great devotion raised, now it is called neighborhood Nossa Senhora dos Remédios or, as the local people say, Remédios. From the assumption that Our Lady of Remedies belongs to the cultural imagination of the local population, the purpose of this research is understand how it is constructed and how it operates religious social imaginary in the neighborhood. For this we use authors as Claude Levi-Strauss, Marcel Mauss, Mircea Eliade, Pierre Bourdieu, Michel Foucault, among others, as well as newspapers of the nineteenth century and interviews with local residents in order to see how this Christian myth and their meanings act in the system beliefs of Our Lady of Remedies neighborhood population / A devoção a Nossa Senhora dos Remédios saiu de Portugal e aportou em terras brasileiras por volta do século XVIII. Chegou a então vila de Taubaté por um caminho de comércio interno, principalmente ouro, entre Minas Gerais e o Vale do Paraíba. Em Taubaté, havia um bairro rural chamado Vale do Itaim que, a partir da chegada da imagem por volta de 1750 e devido a grande devoção que suscitou, passou a ser chamado bairro Nossa Senhora dos Remédios ou, como dizem, bairro dos Remédios. A partir do pressuposto de que Nossa Senhora dos Remédios pertence ao imaginário cultural da população local, a proposta desta pesquisa é procurar compreender como é construído e como atua o imaginário social religioso no bairro. Para tanto utilizamos autores como Claude Lévi-Strauss, Marcel Mauss, Mircea Eliade, Pierre Bourdieu, Michel Foucault, entre outros, além de jornais do século XIX e entrevistas com moradores locais a fim de verificar como este mito cristão e seus significados atuam no sistema de crenças da população do bairro Nossa Senhora dos Remédios

The reading of four contemporary novels, namely: Credo by Melvyn Bragg, The Catastrophist by Ronan Bennett, Everything You Need by A.L. Kennedy and American Gods by Neil Gaiman explores the prominent position of mythification and remythification in contemporary literature. The discussion of Bragg's novel examines the significance of Celtic mythology and folklore and to what extent it influenced Christian mythology on the British Isles and vice versa. The presentation of the transition from a cyclical, pagan to a linear, Christian belief system is analysed. My analysis of Bennett's novel supports the observation that political myth as myth transformed contains elements and qualities embodied by sacred myths and investigates the relevance of Johan Degenaar's observation that "[p]ostmodernism emphasises the fact that myth is an ambiguous phenomenon" and practices an attitude of "eternal vigilance" (1995: 47), as is evident in the main protagonist's dispassionate stance. My reading of Kennedy's novel explores the bond that myth creates between the artist and the audience and argues that the writer as myth creator fulfils a restorative function through the mythical and symbolic qualities embedded in literature. Gaiman's novel American Gods focuses on the function of meta/multi-mythology in contemporary literature (especially the fantasy genre) and on what these qualities reveal about a society and its concerns and values. The thesis contemplates how in each case the original myths were substituted, modulated or transfigured to be presented as metamyth or myth transformed. The analysis shows that myth can be used in various ways in literature: as the data or information that is recreated and transformed in the creative process to establish a common matrix of stories, symbols, images and motifs which represents a bond between the author and the reader in terms of the meaning-making process; to facilitate a spiritual enrichment in a demythologized world and for its restorative abilities. The study is confirmed by detailed mythical reference. / English Studies / (D. Litt. et Phil. (English))

The reading of four contemporary novels, namely: Credo by Melvyn Bragg, The Catastrophist by Ronan Bennett, Everything You Need by A.L. Kennedy and American Gods by Neil Gaiman explores the prominent position of mythification and remythification in contemporary literature. The discussion of Bragg's novel examines the significance of Celtic mythology and folklore and to what extent it influenced Christian mythology on the British Isles and vice versa. The presentation of the transition from a cyclical, pagan to a linear, Christian belief system is analysed. My analysis of Bennett's novel supports the observation that political myth as myth transformed contains elements and qualities embodied by sacred myths and investigates the relevance of Johan Degenaar's observation that "[p]ostmodernism emphasises the fact that myth is an ambiguous phenomenon" and practices an attitude of "eternal vigilance" (1995: 47), as is evident in the main protagonist's dispassionate stance. My reading of Kennedy's novel explores the bond that myth creates between the artist and the audience and argues that the writer as myth creator fulfils a restorative function through the mythical and symbolic qualities embedded in literature. Gaiman's novel American Gods focuses on the function of meta/multi-mythology in contemporary literature (especially the fantasy genre) and on what these qualities reveal about a society and its concerns and values. The thesis contemplates how in each case the original myths were substituted, modulated or transfigured to be presented as metamyth or myth transformed. The analysis shows that myth can be used in various ways in literature: as the data or information that is recreated and transformed in the creative process to establish a common matrix of stories, symbols, images and motifs which represents a bond between the author and the reader in terms of the meaning-making process; to facilitate a spiritual enrichment in a demythologized world and for its restorative abilities. The study is confirmed by detailed mythical reference. / English Studies / (D. Litt. et Phil. (English))