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Ao longo desta dissertação, submeterei as três obras indianistas de José de Alencar O guarani, Iracema e Ubirajara a uma leitura ossianizada, em que tentarei enxergar a presença de idéias e estilos hauridos dos Poemas de Ossian, pretensamente traduzidos por James Macpherson, na Escócia do século XVIII. Esta abordagem se concentrará, de um lado, na linguagem e na sensibilidade que se atribuía, de acordo com os preceitos do nacionalismo, aos povos primitivos. De outro lado, também se analisará a maneira como se interpreta o destino de indígenas e celtas em face de mudanças sociais, políticas e econômicas trazidas ou pela modernização capitalista ou pelo sistema colonial. / Throughout this dissertation, the indianist works of José de Alencar (The Guarany, Iracema, and Ubirajara) are given an ossianic reading: I seek to reveal in those writings the presence of the ideas and styles of the Poems of Ossian, translated by the eighteenth-century highlander, James Macpherson. Our reading will focus, on the one hand, on the language and the sensibility attributed (often from a nationalistic standpoint) to primitive peoples. On the other hand, I will analyze Macphersons and Alencars expectations regarding the fate of such peoples, as they face the social, political and economic upheavals brought about by colonial rule or the economic development of modern western societies.

Correlaciona-se a síntese antitética havida nas narrativas longas de Ossian, Fingal e Temora, com a ascensão do romance no século XVIII. Conforme Hugh Blair inadvertidamente nos mostra em sua Dissertação sobre os Poemas de Ossian, as traduções de James Macpherson combinam os discursos incompatíveis do primitivismo e do neoclassicismo, a emergir como epopeias fraturadas, caso leiamos tais obras sob o signo de sua designação genérica ostensiva. No entanto, postula-se que a forma contraditória de Fingal e Temora captura a instabilidade intrínseca às narrativas novelísticas do século XVIII, que problematizam a distância entre o narrador e o narrado. / This dissertation is invested in correlating the antithetical synthesis brought about by Ossians longest narratives, Fingal and Temora, to the rise of the eighteenth-century novel. As Hugh Blair inadvertently showed in his Dissertation on the Poems of Ossian, James Macphersons most ambitious translations conflate opposing primitivistic and neoclassical discourses, thereby emerging as unredeemably fractured and unstable epics, if one reads them in compliance with their ostensive generic label. Instead, I argue that the contradictory form of Fingal and Temora re-enacts that of eighteenthcentury novelistic narratives, which problematize the distance between narrator and narrated.

Thesis (PH. D.)--Columbia university, 1901. / Published also as no. 2, vo.1. of the Columbia university Germanic studies. Also available in digital form on the Internet Archive Web site.

Correlaciona-se a síntese antitética havida nas narrativas longas de Ossian, Fingal e Temora, com a ascensão do romance no século XVIII. Conforme Hugh Blair inadvertidamente nos mostra em sua Dissertação sobre os Poemas de Ossian, as traduções de James Macpherson combinam os discursos incompatíveis do primitivismo e do neoclassicismo, a emergir como epopeias fraturadas, caso leiamos tais obras sob o signo de sua designação genérica ostensiva. No entanto, postula-se que a forma contraditória de Fingal e Temora captura a instabilidade intrínseca às narrativas novelísticas do século XVIII, que problematizam a distância entre o narrador e o narrado. / This dissertation is invested in correlating the antithetical synthesis brought about by Ossians longest narratives, Fingal and Temora, to the rise of the eighteenth-century novel. As Hugh Blair inadvertently showed in his Dissertation on the Poems of Ossian, James Macphersons most ambitious translations conflate opposing primitivistic and neoclassical discourses, thereby emerging as unredeemably fractured and unstable epics, if one reads them in compliance with their ostensive generic label. Instead, I argue that the contradictory form of Fingal and Temora re-enacts that of eighteenthcentury novelistic narratives, which problematize the distance between narrator and narrated.

Ao longo desta dissertação, submeterei as três obras indianistas de José de Alencar O guarani, Iracema e Ubirajara a uma leitura ossianizada, em que tentarei enxergar a presença de idéias e estilos hauridos dos Poemas de Ossian, pretensamente traduzidos por James Macpherson, na Escócia do século XVIII. Esta abordagem se concentrará, de um lado, na linguagem e na sensibilidade que se atribuía, de acordo com os preceitos do nacionalismo, aos povos primitivos. De outro lado, também se analisará a maneira como se interpreta o destino de indígenas e celtas em face de mudanças sociais, políticas e econômicas trazidas ou pela modernização capitalista ou pelo sistema colonial. / Throughout this dissertation, the indianist works of José de Alencar (The Guarany, Iracema, and Ubirajara) are given an ossianic reading: I seek to reveal in those writings the presence of the ideas and styles of the Poems of Ossian, translated by the eighteenth-century highlander, James Macpherson. Our reading will focus, on the one hand, on the language and the sensibility attributed (often from a nationalistic standpoint) to primitive peoples. On the other hand, I will analyze Macphersons and Alencars expectations regarding the fate of such peoples, as they face the social, political and economic upheavals brought about by colonial rule or the economic development of modern western societies.

Inaug.-diss.-- Heidelberg. / Curriculum vitae. "Littérature": p. [111]-112.

Student Number : 0009509E - MA research report - School of Arts - Faculty of Humanities / This research report examines the phenomenon of Ossianic poetry and its widespread, if not always palpable, impact on the cultural life of Europe. This ‘trace’ of Ossian extends to several piano compositions of Robert Schumann. Divided into three sections, the first of these describes and explains the genesis of the poems, their possible political background and their wide-ranging influence throughout Europe and even North America, despite the scathing exposé of James Macpherson written by Dr. Samuel Johnson. For one-and a-half centuries the poems continued to kindle the imaginations of artists, writers and musicians in works that either directly cite Ossian or Ossianic characters in their titles or texts or are virtual clones of this spurious but popular body of literature. Section B, ‘Interlude’, deals specifically with aspects of the life of Robert Schumann and engages in a hermeneutic reading of many of his musical compositions. Referring to the Derridean concept of arche-writing and ‘the trace’ as well as the Foucauldian theory of polysemia (1969: 123), the report offers a number of alternative interpretations of standard repertoire. Section C highlights four works; Exercices (Variationen über einem thema von Beethoven), Op. Post, Phantasie in C major, Op. 17, Waldszenen, Op. 82 and Gesänge der Frühe, Op. 133. It also touches on a number of other works that reveal his conscious and unconscious awareness of Ossianic imagery and narrative.