Este trabalho traz a análise da obra Um Castelo no Pampa, de Luiz Antonio de Assis Brasil, examinando as relações entre Literatura, História e Mito. Para tanto, direcionados pelos sinais míticos presentes na obra, investigamos, em um primeiro momento, o significado desses aspectos. Disso resultou a identificação dos mitos de origem. A seguir, empreendemos a pesquisa da História do Rio Grande do Sul, o que nos fez comprovar que a obra em análise faz a releitura crítica dos modelos consagrados pela historiografia positivista. Como as questões da História, na narrativa, sinalizam para a realização de uma escrita que tem como forma a metaficção historiográfica, nos termos de que nos fala Linda Hutcheon (Poética do Pós-Modernismo,1991), averiguamos sua íntima relação com a redação pósmoderna. Contemplamos o aspecto da historicidade pelo viés crítico, estabelecendo elos entre a Sociologia literária, a Crítica literária e a Literatura Comparada. Mostramos, enfim, como o autor imbricou fatos e personagens históricas do Rio Grande do Sul com sua narrativa ficcional para inverter as nossas expectativas e para que dialoguemos com o passado, que se apresenta fragmentado, em perspectiva com um tempo que ainda será construído, ou seja, um porvir mais real, menos fantasioso e, por isso mesmo, mais factível. / This paper analyzes the book Um Castelo no Pampa, written by Luiz Antonio de Assis Brasil. It examines the relations among Literature, History and Myth. In the beginning, directed by the mythic signals present in the book, we analyzed the meaning of these aspects. And the result was the identification of of the myths of origin. Next we researched the history of Rio Grande do Sul. And this made us prove that the book rereads in a critical way the positivist historiography consacrated models. As History´s issues, the narrative signals to the writing in a metafiction historiographic way, as spoken by Linda Hutcheon (A Poetics of Postmodernism, 1991). And we also verified its intimate relation with post-modern writing. We contemplated the historicity issue by the critical bias, estabilishing links among Literary Sociology, Literary Criticism and Compared Literature. We concluded that the writer imbricated historical facts and historical characters of Rio Grande do Sul State in his fictional narrative to invert our expectancies. And also to make us dialogue with the past, which presents itself in a fragmented way, in a perspective that is yet to come and will be traced, more realistic, less imaginative, but more possible.

O presente trabalho analisa a presença do tema do olhar em dois contos fantásticos: "El Aleph", de Jorge Luis Borges, e "Las babas del diabo", de Julio Cortázar. Com base nas teorias da intertextualidade e da interdisciplinaridade, o trabalho trata de efetuar uma aproximação entre a Literatura e as teorias do cinema. À luz das reflexões de Serguei Eisenstein e André Bazin sobre a montagem e o plano-seqüência, este trabalho termina por comparar as concepções de realidade e ficção que norteiam as estéticas de Borges e de Cortázar. / This thesis analyses the act of gazing as a literary theme within two short stories of the fantastic genre: "El Aleph", by Jorge Luis Borges, and "Las babas del diablo", by Julio Cortázar. Based on the intertextuality and interdisciplinarity theories, the work tries to perform an approximation between Literature and film theory. After considering the reflections by Serguei Eisenstein and André Bazin on editing and the long-shot, this work finishes by drawing a comparison between the distinct conceptions of fiction and reality, which conforms different sets of literary aesthetics within the works of Borges and Cortazar.

Made available in DSpace on 2014-07-29T16:19:09Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Dissertacao Elisangela Martins.pdf: 701510 bytes, checksum: 2b98acaae608951043b7cfd35a8cc854 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2008-10-03 / This dissertation is aimed at analyzing Encarnação, José de Alencar s last novel, which was, at first, read as a pamphlet, but after the author s death, it was published as a novel. To do so, we inserted this novel in the fantastic tradition, and because of it, we also intend to discuss about This genre, as well as Romanticism, a literary school in which both the author and his novel belong to. We compared Alencar s narrative to many others, which can be included in the fantastic genre and which have similarities with the author on focus. We set intratextual and intertextual relationships with Brazilian and international authors. The myth of the double, present in the fantastic genre, whose boom took place in Romanticism, drew our attention and we made a comparative study, linking Alencar and Edgar Allan Poe, through this theme. / Este trabalho tem por intuito realizar um estudo sobre Encarnação, último romance de José de Alencar, que circulou como folhetim e foi publicado como livro somente após sua morte. Para tanto, inserimos esse romance na literatura de cunho fantástico e por isso discorreremos sobre esse gênero e também sobre o Romantismo, época literária em que autor e seu romance estão enquadrados. Traçamos uma linha de comparação entre essa narrativa de Alencar e várias outras que também fazem parte da literatura fantástica, e que possuem semelhanças com a do autor estudado. Fizemos relações intratextuais e intertextuais com escritores nacionais e estrangeiros. O tema do duplo presente nas narrativas fantásticas, que teve seu boom à época do Romantismo, chamou nossa atenção e tecemos um estudo comparativo, unindo Alencar e Edgar A. Poe através desse tema.

Abstract During the last decade many female writers of British decent have focused on identity construction and coming of age. These writers have been especially interested in exploring how people living in the diaspora are trying to cope with their ambivalent feelings towards their mixed cultural heritage. Helen Oyeyemi's The Icarus Girl is one of these novels. The novel depicts a young girl's struggle with the dualism within her, being both British and Nigerian, that threatens to dissolve her self-identity. This essay will explore how The Icarus Girl deals with the theme “double consciousness” (imposed binaries) and how the narrative's structure and stylistic devices enable the story to be read (interpreted) from two different perspectives, thus the narrative's structure offers an ambiguous double reading that corresponds to Jessamy's unresolved doubleness. The first reading suggests that the traumatic experience of “double consciousness“ is left in a status quo, or even being fatal, which in the essay is called the Western reading. The second reading suggests a recovery, i.e. that the young protagonist comes to terms with her mixed cultural heritage, the so-called West-African reading. In pursuing this aim I discuss how “double consciousness” in this novel is a traumatic state of mind transferred from mother to daughter, but also how stylistic devices, belonging to the genre of the fantastic, are used to emphasize the theme and make possible the two different readings.

My research on Victor Brauner’s work in the first two decades of his affiliation with the Surrealist group in Paris re-establishes the role played by the Romanian Jewish artist in the definition of automatic Surrealist procedures of painting and mixed-technique objects that relied upon a new and unconventional understanding of the occult. In the three chapters of this study of Victor Brauner’s work in the 1930s and early 1940s, I analyse key notions, such as the fantastic, animal magnetism, and the occult practices of art making in a Surrealist context. The fantastic is discussed in the first chapter of the thesis from a literary perspective with political connotations in Surrealism, which resulted from a debate engaged in nineteenth-century French literature on the issue of the marvellous versus the fantastic. Due to the Surrealists’ interest in the fantastic a new category emerged, the fantastic art, which is examined in this first chapter in connection with Brauner’s artworks in the 1930s. The incursion into the fantastic, with focus on the premonition of the painter’s left eye loss in his artworks of the 1930s is completed with an approach to spiritualism that had a revival at the time. The second chapter of the thesis investigates the doctrine of animal magnetism and the state of magnetic somnambulism in eighteenth-century scholarship and shows how this experimentation had influenced the development of a new branch of the science, metapsychics or psychical research at the end of the nineteenth century and the beginning of the twentieth one. I take into account and demonstrate that these outdated and modern domains of enquiry into the unknown and beyond reality were appealing to Surrealists, in particular to Brauner, due to their research into unconscious processes of the mind. I argue that through the attainment of a condition similar to the one of the somnambulist in sessions of magnetic sleep, the Surrealists aimed to generate automatic procedures of painting and object making. In the third chapter of the thesis I discuss Victor Brauner’s technique of drawing with a candle, or le cirage, as an automatic procedure of art developed in connection with the occult. This final part of the thesis makes also manifest the association of Brauner’s artworks in the early 1940s with practices of the occult in the near and centuries before past.

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Le but de ce mémoire est d’analyser deux oeuvres de Marguerite Duras : L’Amant et La Pluie d’été. L’étude est effectuée avec l’aide des éléments d’un genre littéraire précis : le fantastique. Ce mémoire examine les conditions pour qu’une oeuvre puisse appartenir à ce genre littéraire ; il en liste les critères, et étudie comment ces derniers sont en partie applicables à ces deux oeuvres. Le mémoire examine les prérequis pour qu’une oeuvre soit considérée comme fantastique, ainsi que les éléments qui placent une oeuvre à la limite de divers genres, tels que le conte, le merveilleux ou encore le réalisme magique. Une analyse des stratégies narratives employées pour persuader le lecteur à hésiter entre le réel et l’irréel est ici appliquée à L’Amant et La Pluie d’été, ainsi qu’une mise en avant des éléments qui peuvent faire entrer ces oeuvres dans la catégorie du fantastique. Les deux oeuvres sont ensuite étudiées séparément. Des personnages sont analysés, ainsi que les lieux, le temps et les actions. La technique narrative, avec la frontière floue entre rêve, retours en arrière et souvenirs, participe du genre fantastique. Les personnages phares, ainsi que des objets classiques du registre du fantastique, peuvent participer eux aussi de cette classification. Bien que les deux oeuvres ne soient pas explicitement classifiées par l’auteur comme appartenant au genre fantastique, il en émane une certaine atmosphère qui permet de mettre en avant des éléments qui contribuent au genre étudié, mais aussi au mode merveilleux, du réalisme merveilleux ou encore du conte. / The aim of this study is to analyze two works by Marguerite Duras: The lover and Summer rain. The study is carried out using elements of a specific literary genre: the fantastic (le fantastique). This study presents the elements needed for a work to belong to this literary genre; it lists the criteria, and studies how they partially are applicable to these two works. The conditions for a work to be considered fantastic, as well as the elements that place a work at the border of various genres, such as the folk tale, the marvelous (le merveilleux) or even the magic realism. This text presents an analysis of the narrative strategies, showing how the reader is led to doubt what is real and what is not. This study investigates The lover and Summer rain. It also highlights the elements that classify a book in the fantastic category. The two works are then studied separately. The characters are analyzed, as well as the setting, the time and the plot. The narrative technique, with the blurry borders between dreams, flashbacks and memories, belongs to the fantastic genre (le fantastique). The most important fictional4characters, as well as classic objects, can also contribute to the classification of the texts in the fantastic genre. Although the two works are not precisely classified by the author as belonging to the fantastic genre, a certain atmosphere created by Duras makes it possible to highlight elements that contribute to the genre studied, but also to the folk tale or the magic realism.

Mémoire en recherche-création / Ce mémoire a pour objectif d’explorer les différents moyens cinématographiques mis en place par le cinéaste américain David Lynch afin de comprendre comment ce dernier parvient à transporter son audience dans un monde fantastique et bien sûr, étrange. En nous appuyant sur les premières définitions freudiennes de ce que représente l’inquiétante étrangeté (Das Unheimliche), nous explorerons les codes et images récurrentes dans la cinématographie lynchéenne qui font des films du réalisateur des œuvres aux caractères étranges, après avoir étudié en détail les éléments qui nous permettent de classer les œuvres de l’auteur dans la catégorie des œuvres fantastiques. / This thesis aims to explore the different cinematographic means implemented by David Lynch in order to understand how he manages to transport his audience in a fantastic and of course, strange world. By informing ourselves about the first Freudian definitions of what represents the uncanny (Das Unheimliche), we will explore the recurrent codes and images in Lynchian cinematography which make the director’s films works uncanny, right after having studied in detail the elements that allow us to classify the author’s works in the fantastic genre section.

This thesis investigates the intertextual links between The Sufferings of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang Goethe, which was published originally in 1774, and Utrpení knížete Sternenhocha (The Sufferings of Prince Sternenhoch) by Ladislav Klíma. Their affinities remained unnoticed when the latter text was published for the first time in 1928, although the texts share topics as well as narrative strategies. In both texts, the presence of the beloved person is suplemented by writing, their bodies by a simulacrum. Goethe aestheticises the love suffering drawing on the sentimental tradition of the epistolary novel, whereas Klíma transforms it in his palimpsest employing manneristic techniques and parodies it by excessively thematising the body. In both cases is the writing of the heroes - work, but also fabrication of memory - works as an evidence and a constructed phantasm of their love, the only thing that survives its author in order to preserve the testimony of the love for the reader. The thesis is divided into two parts. The first part, called Convergence, show explicit as well as implicit links between the analysed texts. The second, called Divergence, contextualises both texts to find their position within several relevant theoretical categories, such as the fantastic, the gothic and mannerism....

This dissertation presents a holistic framework for approaching fantastic school stories: that is, narratives which feature the protagonist’s education in magic. This three-part framework attends to the ways in which the fantastic school story subgenre draws upon the characteristics and possibilities of the school story genre, fantastic literature, and representations of education – in which a hidden curriculum is always inherently present – to create unique opportunities for representing and foregrounding issues and structures within educational institutions and the relationship between education and power. Employing this lens allows for a more nuanced and complex consideration of the impact of fantastic elements in these narratives, examining the ways in which such elements exaggerate, embody, or enforce underlying ideologies and norms and offer encouragement to readers to interrogate these aspects of the text and the mundane educational experiences they encounter. This framework is then used to analyse representative texts in the subgenre and explicate the hidden curriculum of each: ideologies of immutable gender and identity in Jane Yolen’s Wizard’s Hall; the use of testing as a gatekeeping measure to reinforce Pureblood supremacy in J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter series; the prerequisite of economic capital to access education, undermining the myth of post-secondary studies as social mobility, in Patrick Rothfuss’s Kingkiller Chronicles; the violence of imperial educational institutions in Lev Grossman’s Magicians trilogy; and the vocational habitus of witchcraft, including gendered divisions and expectations of personal sacrifice, on the Discworld in Terry Pratchett’s “Tiffany Aching” quintet. This framework and these illustrative analyses, by explicating the structures underlying the protagonists’ education and the ways in which they are thereby limited, participate in the projects of developing an emancipatory approach to children’s literature and in consciousness-raising regarding hidden curricula in education. / Dissertation / Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) / Texts in the fantastic school story subgenre – that is, narratives about a young person learning how to use magic, often at a school – are a valuable opportunity to explore the relationship between power and education. Here, I present a three-part approach for reading these texts which looks at how these narratives combine elements of the school story genre, fantasy literature, and representations of education to create a unique format. This unique format makes it easier for readers to see underlying structures and issues in education by making familiar elements feel unfamiliar through the addition of magic. I then use this three-part approach to analyse fantastic school stories by Lev Grossman, Terry Pratchett, Patrick Rothfuss, J.K. Rowling, and Jane Yolen. Reading the texts through this lens brings forward issues related to education like gate-keeping, socioeconomic status, imperialism, and gendered norms and divisions.