O presente trabalho tem como objetivo analisar a trajetória dos protagonistas dos contos O ataque, de Luiz Ruffato; e Frontal com Fanta de Jorge Furtado. As personagens principais do conto, ao vivenciarem uma experiência com o insólito, veem-se obrigadas a lidar com os mais variados julgamentos por parte da sociedade, os quais não parecem, precisamente, contemplar a verdadeira realidade vivida por elas. Diante disso, à luz da crítica materialista e das teorias do fantástico, este trabalho procura investigar como o percurso desses protagonistas denuncia mecanismos ideológicos que não necessariamente determinam uma verdade coletiva, mas regulam e fazem prevalecer os valores sociais dominantes em cada um dos contextos abordados. Com base nessa análise literária, a pesquisa ainda avança sobre a hipótese da literatura fantástica não estar desvinculada do diálogo com a realidade e com as representações da vida em sociedade. / The present paper aims to study the trajectorie of the protagonists of the short stories \"O attack\", by Luiz Ruffato; And \"Frontal com Fanta\" by Jorge Furtado. The main characters of the stories, when they live an experience with the unusual, are forced to deal with the most varied judgments on the part of the society, which do not seem, precisely, to contemplate the true reality lived by them. Faced with this, in the light of materialist criticism and theories of fantasy, this work aims to investigate how the protagonists\' path denounces ideological mechanisms that do not necessarily determine a collective truth, but regulate and prevail the dominant social values in each of the contexts addressed. Based on this literary analysis, the research still advances on the hypothesis that fantastic literature is not disconnected from the dialogue with reality and the representations of life in society.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-03-15T19:45:35Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Marinice Argenta2.pdf: 736406 bytes, checksum: 67a3d76d27b6c8f9365698497a7d60ee (MD5) Previous issue date: 2007-02-02 / Fundo Mackenzie de Pesquisa / This dissertation analyzes three literary aesthetics: symbolism, surrealism, and "fantastic , willing to point out the dialogue established among them. The spoken dialogue can be evidenced not exclusively when the same thematic is applied, but also when some resources are (re)used and (re)meant. Both of them bring new ways of looking and interpreting the world. In order to observe how the aesthetic-philosophical features can be easily taken from literary texts, at the end of each chapter there will be an examination of a poem concerning the aesthetics studied. That will be the moment to check on the way the meaning effects generated from the specific features are made up in the text. By the comparison between the three literary aesthetics, not only ways to create the artistic object will be discovered, and consequently new ways of thinking, as well as the manner some contact points among the aesthetics, will be presented. / Esta dissertação analisa três estéticas literárias: simbolismo, surrealismo e fantástico, com a intenção de mostrar o diálogo que elas estabelecem entre si, quer mediante a retomada de certas temáticas, quer em virtude da presença de recursos que são (re)elaborados e (re)significados. Ambos os expedientes são portadores privilegiados de expressão de novas perspectivas de olhar e de interpretar o mundo. Para observar como os traços estético-filosóficos podem ser facilmente depreendidos dos textos literários, examina-se, ao final de cada capítulo, um poema relativo à estética estudada, momento em que se oferece a oportunidade de observar os efeitos de sentido que os aludidos recursos criam nas malhas do texto. Do cotejo entre as três manifestações literárias, descobrem-se não apenas maneiras diferentes de criação do objeto artístico e, por extensão, de novos direcionamentos do pensamento humano, como também se lêem pontos de contato entre as estéticas apresentadas.

Latin American literary criticism has traditionally underestimated the significance of the Gothic aesthetic, in spite of the rich Gothic literary tradition of Latin America. Specifically in the Southern Cone - the focus of my research - there is a particular recurrence and consumption of this genre, not only in literature but also in cinema, which has not been deeply analyzed. I argue that a close examination of the Gothic and Fantastic elements in these novels and films unveils anxieties, repressions and manifestations of social decay that underlie common codes of social decency and the conventions of maintaining an oppressive social tradition. My analysis of particular novels extends from the beginning of the twentieh-century through the Boom; my discussion then extends to film productions from the 1960s to the present. In the first chapter I explore the dissemination of Gothic figures and forms from their eighteenth-century origins to the present. In the second chapter I discuss how the Gothic aesthetic was used at the beginning of the twentieth-century to comment on the effects of modernization and scientific/psychological discoveries in the Southern Cone. I also analyze the Gothic as a powerful feminist discourse. Chapter three focuses on the way the Gothic aesthetic is employed as a mechanism to communicate social and moral decay in a typical Southern Cone family. I also explore how the Gothic is used to question a political-social repression or a dictatorship. In chapter four I focus on cinema in an aesthetically and technically diverse selection of filmes. All of them employ vampirism to comment on different sexual issues, such as repression, incest, homosexuality, fetishism, sadism, and other sexual-social taboos. Finally, the conclusion demonstrates that, while the Gothic aesthetic maintains certain constants throughout the twentieth-century, its underlying meaning shifts to reflect the dominant political-social themes of each era, thus ensuring its continued relevance to popular audiences.

In the Western cultural tradition there is a particular aspect of consciousness discernable in certain fictive literature; mythopoeic literary consciousness (MLC), the evolution of which may be traced back to its earliest manifestation in the cave paintings of the Upper Palaeolithic period in Europe. Researchers agree that those cave paintings are indicative of shamanic activity, which suggests an interesting relationship between shamanic consciousness and MLC. This research investigates contemporary experiences of this relationship in the context of place and the Imaginal Realm using a combination of empirical and textual methods. The evolution of the narrative psyche is described; beginning with recent interpretations of the aetiology and meaning of the European Upper Palaeolithic cave paintings. Shamanism is then examined and linkages are made with subsequent esoteric traditions such as Gnosticism, Hermeticism, the Imaginal Realm of the Sufi mystics, and the Romantic Movement in European literature. The Imaginal Realm, as a metaphysical construct, is posited in relationship to de Chardin’s Noosphere, Sheldrake’s Morphic Resonance, the Celtic Web of Wyrd and Jung’s Collective Unconscious. Empirical research is presented on contemporary expressions of this tradition. Three internationally recognised Australian authors, David Malouf, Thomas Keneally and Colleen McCullough, were either interviewed or completed a questionnaire on their backgrounds, the role of place relationships, states of consciousness when writing and reading, the role of literature and related questions. Five dedicated readers and two professionally credentialed practicing shamans completed similar questionnaires on their experiences and views on literature, the act of reading, and shamanic and creative consciousness. The responses are accompanied by textual analysis of the work of the three authors, drawing out themes of importance. Further discussion of the empirical and textual material in the context of broader literature establishes the epistemological dimensions of both mythopoeic literary consciousness and shamanic consciousness. The nature and relationship of consciousness and soul are examined from a perspective that unites them with the anima mundi and posits them in relationship with place and elsewhere-place. The concluding section revisits core themes to posit the mythopoeic writer and MLC within the heritage of a metaphysical tradition that delineates the existential boundaries of the psyche. It is argued that MLC is a manifestation of the narrative imperative of the psyche or soul to orientate itself along a place-elsewhere-place continuum, a continuum that parallels states of consciousness from the participation mystique to the de-centred self. / Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)

The original thesis contains the novel "Stranger, I" as an integral part of the thesis. However this novel has been omitted in this digital copy. / Thesis (MA (Hons))--Macquarie University, Division of Humanities, Department of English, 2006. / Bibliography: p. 93-97. / On divergence in fantasy -- Introduction -- Preliminary -- The thousand and one definitional nights -- Characteristic works: inclusions and exclusions -- Critical objections to fantasy -- Conclusion. / On Divergence in Fantasy explores the ways in which fantasy criticism continually redefines its boundaries, without arriving at agreement. The paper draws on Foucault to suggest that these disputes and dispersions are characteristic of the operation of fantasy critisim as a discursive formation. / Mode of access: World Wide Web. / 97 p

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / Compreender o caráter ambíguo da temática de Oswaldo Goeldi é o grande desafio proposto pelo artista a todos que, de forma geral, estão inseridos em uma compreensão mediana e superficial dentro do cotidiano. Numa atmosfera fantástica, Goeldi procura tornar as paisagens, seus seres e objetos mais ambíguos ainda. E devido à perplexidade que seus trabalhos causam aos espectadores torna-se impossível fechar um único conceito ou opinião sobre o caráter dos desenhos e gravuras deste artista situado entre os extremos da luz e das sombras. Comparando as obras de Goeldi com o gênero literário fantástico, que é caracterizado por um mundo individual regido pelas incertezas de cada um, segundo Tzvetan Todorov em sua obra Introdução à Literatura Fantástica, pode-se vislumbrar nas obras de Goeldi duas condições: ou o ser estranho é uma ilusão, um ser imaginário, ou então existe realmente, exatamente como os outros seres vivos, mas com a ressalva de que raramente o encontramos. Vida ou morte? Real ou irreal? Dessa forma, podemos dizer que Goeldi foi um expressionista que viveu uma realidade fronteiriça entre o interior e exterior, a qual não era menos fantástica do que real. Uma questão que permanece atemporal até os dias de hoje conforme veremos nas obras de Nuno Ramos, José Rufino e William Kentridge / To grasp the ambiguous nature pertaining Oswaldo Goeldis theme is a challenge the artist poses to those who are somewhat involved in an ordinary and superficial approach of everyday life. In creating a fantastic atmosphere, Goeldi manages to make its scenery, beings and objects even more unclear. Moreover, because viewers are struck with the perplexity of his artwork, it is impossible to adopt a definite concept on the character of this artists drawings and prints which lies between the borders of lights and shadows? In comparison with fantastic literary genre, which features a world ruled by individual uncertainties, according to Tzvetan Todorov in his Introduction to Literature Fantastic, one may glimpse two conditions into Goeldis art: either his depicting element is an illusion or imagination or it actually exists just like other living beings despite being hardly ever found. Life or death? Real or unreal? Therefore, Goeldi may be regarded as an expressionist painter living an inward and outward boarding reality. So far such an issue has remained timeless as it may be seen in the works by Nuno Ramos, José Rufino and Willian Kentridge

Made available in DSpace on 2014-06-11T19:25:23Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2011-05-23Bitstream added on 2014-06-13T20:53:09Z : No. of bitstreams: 1 machado_dl_me_arafcl.pdf: 665674 bytes, checksum: 848577b81299938ae333362f7d3babe6 (MD5) / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES) / Edgar Allan Poe afirma a respeito de seu poema The raven, em seu ensaio The philosophy of composition, que “[...] nenhum ponto de sua composição se refere ao acaso, ou à intuição, que o trabalho caminhou, passo a passo, até completar-se, com a precisão e a sequência rígida de um problema matemático”, demonstrando, por isso, que ele entendia ser o processo criativo um ato puramente lógico, consciente e analítico. E, de fato, a análise de seus textos comprova a proposição citada. Além disso, o autor americano é considerado por grande parte da crítica literária como o mestre do horror, figurando alguns de seus textos no cânone das obras primas do fantástico, sendo quase que indispensável a presença de algum de seus contos em uma coletânea dessa categoria literária. Partindo-se, então, desses elementos foi possível levantar a hipótese de que, como a obra poeana está tão intimamente relacionada ao fantástico, a análise de seu racional e sistemático método composicional poderá conduzir à inclusão de novos elementos à estrutura já existente da literatura fantástica. Assim, a presente pesquisa procurou sistematizar o peculiar modus operandi de Poe através da análise de seus contos The black cat, The fall of the house of Usher, The oval portrait, The man of the crowd, William Wilson, Ligeia, e ensaios The philosophy of composition Philosophy of furniture e The poetic principle, para em seguida contrastar os resultados obtidos com as teorias do fantástico, em especial a de Todorov, permitindo estabelecer, dessa forma, pouco a pouco, outra leitura da literatura fantástica, sob a ótica da própria teoria pessoal de Edgar Allan Poe / Edgar Allan Poe said about his poem The Raven, in his essay The philosophy of composition, that [...] no one point in its composition is referrible either to accident or intuition - that the work proceeded, step by step, to its completion with the precision and rigid consequence of a mathematical problem. thereby demonstrating that he understood the creative process is a purely logical, conscious and analytical. And indeed, analysis of his texts proves the proposition cited. In addition, the american author is seen by much of literary criticism as the master of horror, featuring some of his texts in the canon of masterpieces of fantastic, with almost indispensable the presence of some of his tales in a collection of this literary category. Starting from those factors, it was possible to hypothesize that as the Poe‟s work is so closely related to the fantastic, the analysis of their rational and systematic compositional method may lead to inclusion of new elements the existing structure of fantastic literature. Thus, this research sought to systematize the peculiar modus operandi of Poe through the analysis of his short stories The black cat, The fall of the house of Usher, The oval portrait, The man of the crowd, William Wilson, Ligeia, and the essays The philosophy of composition, Philosophy of furniture and The poetic principle, then to contrast the results with the theories of fantastic, particularly Todorov‟s, establishing, thus, little by little, another reading of fantastic literature, from the perspective of their own Edgar Allan Poe‟s personal theory

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / Compreender o caráter ambíguo da temática de Oswaldo Goeldi é o grande desafio proposto pelo artista a todos que, de forma geral, estão inseridos em uma compreensão mediana e superficial dentro do cotidiano. Numa atmosfera fantástica, Goeldi procura tornar as paisagens, seus seres e objetos mais ambíguos ainda. E devido à perplexidade que seus trabalhos causam aos espectadores torna-se impossível fechar um único conceito ou opinião sobre o caráter dos desenhos e gravuras deste artista situado entre os extremos da luz e das sombras. Comparando as obras de Goeldi com o gênero literário fantástico, que é caracterizado por um mundo individual regido pelas incertezas de cada um, segundo Tzvetan Todorov em sua obra Introdução à Literatura Fantástica, pode-se vislumbrar nas obras de Goeldi duas condições: ou o ser estranho é uma ilusão, um ser imaginário, ou então existe realmente, exatamente como os outros seres vivos, mas com a ressalva de que raramente o encontramos. Vida ou morte? Real ou irreal? Dessa forma, podemos dizer que Goeldi foi um expressionista que viveu uma realidade fronteiriça entre o interior e exterior, a qual não era menos fantástica do que real. Uma questão que permanece atemporal até os dias de hoje conforme veremos nas obras de Nuno Ramos, José Rufino e William Kentridge / To grasp the ambiguous nature pertaining Oswaldo Goeldis theme is a challenge the artist poses to those who are somewhat involved in an ordinary and superficial approach of everyday life. In creating a fantastic atmosphere, Goeldi manages to make its scenery, beings and objects even more unclear. Moreover, because viewers are struck with the perplexity of his artwork, it is impossible to adopt a definite concept on the character of this artists drawings and prints which lies between the borders of lights and shadows? In comparison with fantastic literary genre, which features a world ruled by individual uncertainties, according to Tzvetan Todorov in his Introduction to Literature Fantastic, one may glimpse two conditions into Goeldis art: either his depicting element is an illusion or imagination or it actually exists just like other living beings despite being hardly ever found. Life or death? Real or unreal? Therefore, Goeldi may be regarded as an expressionist painter living an inward and outward boarding reality. So far such an issue has remained timeless as it may be seen in the works by Nuno Ramos, José Rufino and Willian Kentridge

O presente trabalho tem como objetivo analisar a trajetória dos protagonistas dos contos O ataque, de Luiz Ruffato; e Frontal com Fanta de Jorge Furtado. As personagens principais do conto, ao vivenciarem uma experiência com o insólito, veem-se obrigadas a lidar com os mais variados julgamentos por parte da sociedade, os quais não parecem, precisamente, contemplar a verdadeira realidade vivida por elas. Diante disso, à luz da crítica materialista e das teorias do fantástico, este trabalho procura investigar como o percurso desses protagonistas denuncia mecanismos ideológicos que não necessariamente determinam uma verdade coletiva, mas regulam e fazem prevalecer os valores sociais dominantes em cada um dos contextos abordados. Com base nessa análise literária, a pesquisa ainda avança sobre a hipótese da literatura fantástica não estar desvinculada do diálogo com a realidade e com as representações da vida em sociedade. / The present paper aims to study the trajectorie of the protagonists of the short stories \"O attack\", by Luiz Ruffato; And \"Frontal com Fanta\" by Jorge Furtado. The main characters of the stories, when they live an experience with the unusual, are forced to deal with the most varied judgments on the part of the society, which do not seem, precisely, to contemplate the true reality lived by them. Faced with this, in the light of materialist criticism and theories of fantasy, this work aims to investigate how the protagonists\' path denounces ideological mechanisms that do not necessarily determine a collective truth, but regulate and prevail the dominant social values in each of the contexts addressed. Based on this literary analysis, the research still advances on the hypothesis that fantastic literature is not disconnected from the dialogue with reality and the representations of life in society.

Orientador: Suzi Frankl Sperber / Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Estudos da Linguagem / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-05T13:08:06Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Miguel_AlcebiadesDiniz_M.pdf: 7463751 bytes, checksum: 83ea4d9e3c61ddc864ad448512443693 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2006 / Resumo: O horror ficcional é uma das constantes na produção cultural do século XX, como um reflexo que acompanha o horror político. Esse horror culturalmente produzido, que é estético, podemos vislumbrar em vasta produção da indústria cultural ¿ que cobre as mais diversas mídias e formas de representação ¿, tendo seu momento inicial na ficção fantástica dos séculos XVIII-XIX. Na década de 1920-30, o escritor norte-americano Howard Phillips Lovecraft retomaria essa tradição do fantástico, acrescentando novos significados, formas, usos e estratégias. Neste trabalho, nossa meta foi realizar um panorama da ficção de horror abordando analiticamente elementos das narrativas de seu criador, H. P. Lovecraft / Abstract: An persistent principle in the contemporary cultural productions, as a reflection and a shadow of certains aspects of the reality, are the fictional horror. These horror, a cultural product as well, esthetical in its essence, can be discerned at wide areas of mass culture ¿ including several medias and representations ¿ and its start point are the fantastic fictions on the 18-19th centuries. Howard Phillips Lovecraft, in the first decades of the 20th century, retrivied this tradiction of the fantastic fictions, adding new meanings, forms, usages and strategies. In our work, the goal are made something like a panorama of the horror fiction through the analisys of H. P. Lovecraft fiction key-elements / Mestrado / Literatura em Lingua Inglesa / Mestre em Linguística