Em agosto de 1985, mesmo ano da publicação de Abacaxi, Reinaldo Moraes escreveu uma autocrítica capciosa sobre o seu segundo romance. Disfarçado com um pseudônimo, o autor matreiramente elevava sua obra como legítima representante do legado machadiano. Apesar do tom brincalhão e da ironia motora do texto que são traços estilísticos do escritor , a farsa do artigo pode ser lida no pormenor como um esboço de projeto literário. A questão central de tal esboço parece ser a procura de uma estratégia narrativa capaz de dar conta minimamente do contexto em que está inserida. O objetivo desta dissertação é descrever o caminho do dispositivo literário perseguido pelo autor desde o seu primeiro romance, Tanto faz (1981), e que se desdobra numa espécie de continuidade cindida em Abacaxi (1985), até encontrar o prumo e a régua na confecção de Pornopopeia (2009). No vértice histórico de vinte oito anos, que ata a produção das obras, está a gestação do horizonte de expectativas reduzidas, possível de ser apreendido na dinâmica interna dos romances. Os narradores de Reinaldo Moraes estão em fuga; e figuram sempre o encontro do impasse. / In August 1985, the same year Abacaxi was published, Reinaldo Moraes wrote a very tricky review of his second novel. Disguised under a pseudonym, the author regarded his work as a legitimate representative of Machado de Assis\' legacy. Despite the playful tone and the text\'s purposed irony which are stylistic traits of the author , the falacious article may be read as an outline for a literary project. The central idea behind Moraes\' literary project seems to be the search for a narrative strategy that is able at least in part to give form to the context in which it operates. The aim of this work is to describe how the literary form pursued by the author evolves from his first novel, Tanto Faz (1981) unfolding into Abacaxi (1985), in a kind of icontinuous trajectory just to find its final form in the making of Pornopopeia (2009). As it may be seem in the internal dynamics of the novels, a horizon of reduced expectations is carefully laid out over the twenty eight years periode that lead to the production of Reinaldo Moraes\' works. His narrators are on the run; and always represent the meeting of the impasse.

Orientador: Isabella Tardin Cardoso / Tese (doutorado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Estudos da Linguagem / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-26T06:53:49Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Costa_LilianNunesda_D.pdf: 2914692 bytes, checksum: 7790a7f30cd6441d68b56c4fb18a7cf8 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2014 / Resumo: A obra do comediógrafo romano Tito Mácio Plauto (c. 254 ¿ 184 a.C.) é marcada pela presença dos gêneros trágico, épico e mesmo lírico em determinadas passagens, que têm sido identificadas por diversos critérios, como menção, alusão e associação por paralelos formais. Estudos teóricos sobre "mescla" ou "cruzamento de gêneros" vêm se desenvolvendo ao menos desde a proposição do conceito de "Kreuzung der Gattungen" por W. Kroll (Studien zum Verständnis der römischen Literatur, 1924). No entanto, estudiosos como A. Barchiesi ("The crossing", 2001) passam a questionar premissas do trabalho do filólogo alemão, que tomava a "miscigenação" como "decadência" da cultura literária helenística e romana. Em nossa pesquisa sobre as mesclas genéricas na comédia plautina, também nos afastamos da perspectiva de W. Kroll e não propomos, como ponto de partida, que as peças que abrigam outros gêneros resultem necessariamente em híbridos. Na verdade, preferimos uma abordagem como a de S. J. Harrison, que lida com a noção de "generic enrichment" (Generic enrichment in Vergil and Horace, 2007). A sistematização da presença de outros gêneros poéticos no corpus de Plauto selecionado (a peça Cativos, bem como passagens de Báquides, O cabo, O soldado fanfarrão, dentre outras) nos interessa no sentido de explorar o quanto a comédia é enriquecida precisamente por meio de elementos perceptíveis pelo público plautino como "alheios" a esse gênero. Assim, nosso método envolve a identificação de aspectos (temáticos e formais) sob os quais esses gêneros aparecem ou transparecem, bem como uma reflexão sobre a possibilidade de, a partir da observação das convenções poéticas com que ele brinca em seus textos, pensar em uma poética imanente em Plauto / Abstract: The presence of the tragic, the epic, and even the lyric genre in the work of the Roman comic poet Titus Maccius Plautus (c. 254 ¿ 184 BC) has been already noted in the field of classical studies. Among the various criteria used in the identification of those poetic genres there is not only direct mention of elements of the works pertaining to them, but also (thematic or formal) allusion to such elements. Theoretical studies about "genres miscellany" or "genres crossing" have been developed at least since the proposition of the concept of "Kreuzung der Gattungen" by W. Kroll (Studien zum Verständnis der römischen Literatur, 1924). However, scholars such as A. Barchiesi ("The crossing", 2001) now question premises from Kroll¿s work, which considered the "miscegenation" as a "decadence" on the Hellenistic and Roman literary cultures. The present research does not assume Kroll¿s perspective, i.e. it does not presuppose that the plays in which the presence of other genres is evinced are necessarily hybrids. Rather, it favors an approach like that of S. J. Harrison, which deals with the notion of "generic enrichment" (Generic enrichment in Vergil and Horace, 2007). While systematizing such a presence of different poetic genres in the selected Plautine corpus (the play Captiui, as well as passages from Bacchides, Miles gloriosus, Rudens, among others) this study intends to appreciate to what extent comedy is enriched precisely by the elements perceived by the plautine public as extraneous to this genre. The method is based on the identification of (thematic and formal) aspects under which such genres emerge as the play goes on. The observation of the poetic conventions with which the Roman dramatist plays in his texts may also provide a reflexion on an imanent poetics in Plautus / Doutorado / Linguistica / Doutora em Linguística

Orientador: Francisco Foot Hardman / Tese (doutorador) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Estudos da Linguagem / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-22T06:08:41Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Cerqueira_Rodrigo_D.pdf: 1297838 bytes, checksum: 59ecbe7fd91604ff9043f4d00262cebb (MD5) Previous issue date: 2013 / Resumo: Nessa tese eu tento explicar uma mudança formal importante no primeiro romance de Joaquim Manuel de Macedo, aquele que ele escreveu entre os anos 1844 e 1855, antes de abandonar o gênero por uma década. A meu ver, o que acontece é uma progressiva desfuncionalização da "extravagância" - termo mais do que comum nos seus livros -, que servia para caracterizar uma juventude inserida numa nova sociabilidade, mais moderna, que o país passou a viver após 1808 e, principalmente, 1822. Marcados que eram por uma polarização geracional - jovens com suas novas atitudes, de um lado, e velhos um tanto receosos dessas mudanças, do outro -, a desfuncionalização acaba por roubar o protagonismo real daqueles jovens e atribuí-los aos velhos, um movimento de que Vicentina (1853) talvez seja o melhor exemplo. Na esteira de Franco Moretti, para quem a literatura é uma das maneiras pelas quais atribuímos sentido a processos de transformações históricas, leio esse deslocamento na esteira da injunção conservadora por que passa o país nesse período: um momento que acaba por atribuir uma importância muito grande a uma autoridade centralizadora. Como resultado, o romance brasileiro atinge, em meados dos anos 1850, é um impasse formal: não há mais como Macedo reduzir o espaço dos jovens sem que isso signifique uma completa substituição dessa função literária; ou seja, sem que o protagonismo passasse efetivamente para os mais velhos, transformando o romance brasileiro no depositário de uma tradição abertamente anti-moderna. Uma perspectiva, a meu ver, nada atraente para uma nação recém-emancipada e desejosa de fazer parte do concerto do mundo / Abstract: In this PhD dissertation I try to explain an important formal change in Joaquim Manuel de Macedo's first novels, which were written between 1844 and 1855, before he abandoned the genre for almost a decade. What occurred was a progressive de-functionalization of "extravagance" - a very common expression in his books -, that was used to portray a youth inscribed in a new kind of sociability, more modern, which Brazil experienced after 1808 and mainly after 1822. As those narratives were composed according to a generational opposition - young characters behaving in accordance with a new set of rules, on one side; and the old ones a bit apprehensive about these changes, on the other -, that defunctionalization ended up stifling the real protagonism of the youth, a process of which Vicentina (1853) may be the best example. Following the steps of Franco Moretti, for whom literature is one of the ways we use to master and to understand historical changes, I read that process in the light of a conservative shift that occurred in that period: a moment which ascribed a major importance to a centralized authority. As a result, the Brazilian novel reached, around 1850's, a formal impasse: Macedo could not reduce even more the space assigned to the youth without modifying its literary function; in other words, without giving the protagonism of the narrative to the older characters, transforming the Brazilian novel into a depository of an openly anti-modern world view. This is not an attractive perspective to a nation recently emancipated and anxious to be a part of the "civilized" world / Doutorado / Literatura Brasileira / Doutor em Teoria e História Literária

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This study of Zakes Mda's life and sixteen of his plays and seven novels, written from 1966 to the present day, set in South Africa, Lesotho and the United States of America, shows how his life and works interweave, and how his defamiliarisation mode, his magic realism and his juxtaposed timeframes stimulate reader response and self-realisation, bringing about change. Experiences of marginalisation due to early childhood sexual abuse, exile, and being banished from church, and his involvement in political movements outside the mainstream, have caused him to be an astute observer of life. He is sceptical of authority and power, and is as critical of those who seek power, becoming intoxicated thereby, as of those who give away their power and so perpetuate unacceptable institutions and their own victimisation. At all times though, his writing style is creative and entertaining, rooted in the African oral tradition from which he springs, but also portraying international influences to which he has been exposed over the years. / English Studies / M.A. (English)

This study is an interpretive analysis of Zimbabwean political auto/biographical narratives in contexts of changing culture, race, ethnicity and gender identity images of the self and nation. I used eclectic theories of postcolonialism to explore the fractured nature of both the processes of identity construction and narration, and the contradictions inherent in identity categories of nation and self. The problem of using autobiographical memory to recall the momentous events that formed the contradictory identities of self and nation in the creative imagination of the lives of Ian Smith, Maurice Nyagumbo, Abel Muzorewa, Joshua Nkomo, Doris Lessing, Fay Chung, Judith Garfield Todd, Tendai Westerhof and Lutanga Shaba have been highlighted. The study concluded that there are narrative and ideological disjunctures between experiencing life and narrating those experiences to create approximations of coherent identities of individual selves and those of the nation. The study argued that each of the stories analyzed in this study contributed a version of the multiple Zimbabwean narratives that no one story could ever tell without being contested by others. Thus the study explores how white Rhodesian auto/biographies depend on the imperial repertoire to construct varying, even contradicting, images of white identities and the Rhodesian nation, which are also contested by black nationalist life narratives. The narratives by women writers, both white and black, introduced further instabilities to the male authored narratives by moving beyond the conventional understanding of what is ‘political’ in political auto/biographies. The HIV and AIDS narratives by black women thrust into the public sphere personalized versions of self so that the political consequence of their inclusion was not only to image Zimbabwe as a diseased society, but one desperately in need of political solutions to confront the different pathologies inherited from colonialism and which also have continued in the post-independence period. / English Studies / (D. Litt. et Phil. (English))

This dissertation offers an examination of Delany's critical trajectory from structuralism to poststructuralism and postmodernism across a gamut of genres from SF to sword-and-sorcery, pornography, autobiography and literary criticism. Delany's engagement with semiotics, Foucault and deconstruction form the theoretical focus, together with his own theories of how SF functions as a literary genre, and its standing and reception within the greater realm of literature. The impact of Delany as a gay, black SF writer is also examined against the backdrop of his varied output. I have used the term 'dislocation' to describe Delany's tackling of traditional subjects and genres, and opening them up to further possibilities through critical engagement. Lastly, Delany is also examined as a postmodern icon. A frequent participant in his own texts, as well using pseudonyms that have developed into fully-fledged characters, Delany has become a critical signifier in his own work. / English Studies / M. A. (English)

Este trabalho propõe uma interpretação da obra Memórias do cárcere (1953), de Graciliano Ramos, tendo como eixo de análise a configuração do narrador no relato. Por meio dela, o estudo busca desentranhar, do texto que propõe a confissão do sujeito à beira da cova, os materiais trabalhados pelo escritor. Desse modo, pode-se apreender a estruturação interna desse material como sedimentação de uma realidade historicamente pautada. A hipótese é a de que a reconstrução da experiência de cadeia por parte do narrador situado entre os anos 1940 e 1950 permite-lhe, a partir da fusão de vozes e temporalidades e da reflexão contundente sobre uma situação-limite, pôr em questão aspectos da sociabilidade brasileira, impasses situados no âmbito da política partidária e dilemas que caracterizam a complexa situação, na modernidade, do intelectual dependente e empenhado. / This study intends to offer an interpretation of the work Memórias do cárcere (1953), by Graciliano Ramos, having as its axis of analysis the configuration of the narrator throughout the account. By means of this configuration, the study aims at extracting, from the text that offers the confession of a subject who has one foot in the grave, the materials that were addressed by the writer. In this way, its possible to apprehend the internal structuration of this material as the sedimentation of a historically determined reality. The hypothesis is that, between the 1940s and 1950s, the narrators reconstruction of his experience in jail enables him, through the fusion of voices and temporalities and by means of an incisive reflection on a limit-situation, to question aspects of the Brazilian sociability, vicissitudes pertaining to the realm of party politics and dilemmas that characterize the complex situation of the dependent and engaged intellectual in modernity.

A pedra de toque do bom falar de Eulálio, narrador de Leite derramado, romance de Chico Buarque publicado em 2009, está nas reminiscências desse oligarca cuja família sempre teve o Brasil nas mãos. À primeira vista, a narrativa poderia ser lida, portanto, como uma espécie de romance de formação da nação brasileira a partir do olhar de um respeitável membro de sua elite. A deriva dos pensamentos de Eulálio, porém, cujo vai e vem começa logo nas primeiras páginas do romance, já demonstra minimamente que na formação do Brasil nunca houve nada linear e, em especial, que o poderio da elite familiar ao narrador foi mudando de mãos ao longo dos séculos, por mais que ele teime em manter potente sua voz de mando no presente narrativo. Não é possível ignorar o lugar de onde Eulálio narra sua história: a cama de um hospital público e decrépito. Leite derramado está, então, mais próximo de uma história do país a contrapelo, montada a partir dos dizeres de um senhor outrora poderoso que, no hoje, é todo mambembe. O que se encontra entre a potência das memórias de um oligarca e seu lugar no hoje, ao lado de toda a sorte desvalidos de quem não se veem os rostos, mal se escutam as vozes, mas cuja presença se faz, de alguma forma quase surda, também potente ao redor do narrador? É o modo como se estrutura a sobreposição entre a memória cheia de posses e a emergência do pronto-socorro (a televisão ligada; as vozes sem rosto que rodeiam Eulálio; toda violência que tenta empurrar os que nunca tiveram lugar para uma marginalidade cada vez mais distante), um dos grandes problemas críticos do livro. Tal sobreposição, cristalizada na forma do romance, joga luzes sobre o nosso tempo contemporâneo. Neste trabalho, abordaremos especialmente o que se concentra entre dois polos: o modo como o Golpe Militar de 1964 é narrado por Eulálio de Assumpção, como atinge a ele e a seus herdeiros; a maneira como a força de trabalho é retratada. A não ser pelo narcotráfico, ela é também um vulto sem forma acompanhando aqueles que rodeiam o narrador cambaio mas que, afinal, teve berço. / Buarque\'s novel published in 2009, is reminiscent of this oligarch whose family always had Brazil in his hands. At first glance, the narrative could therefore be read as a kind of novel of formation of the Brazilian nation from the look of a respectable member of its elite. The derivation of Eulalio\'s thoughts, however, whose beginning and end starts at the very beginning of the novel, already demonstrates in the least that in the formation of Brazil there has never been anything linear and especially that the power of the family elite to the narrator has changed from hands over the centuries, no matter how much he tries on keeping powerful his voice command in the present narrative. Speaking about the presente time, it is not possible to ignore the place from where Eulalio tells his story: the bed of a public and decrepit hospital. Leite derramado is then closer to a story of the country against the grain, built from the words of a once powerful oligarch who, in the present day, is all mambembe. What lies between the power of the memories of an oligarch and where he lies today, beside all the luck of those who do not see the face, hardly hear the voices, but whose presence is made, somehow almost deaf, also potent around the narrator? It is the way in which the overlap between the memory of possessions and the emergence of the emergency room (the television on, the faceless voices that surround Eulalio, the violence that tries to push the ones that have never taken place for a marginality more and more distant), one of the great critical problems of the book. Such overlap, crystallized in the form of the novel, throws light on our contemporary time. In this text, we will especially focus on what is concentrated between two poles: the way the 1964 Military Coup is narrated by Eulalio de Assumpção, how it affects him and his heirs; the way the workforce is portrayed. Except for the drug traffickers, she is also a formless figure accompanying those who surround the narrator who, after all, had a cradle.