SOUZA, Francisco Renato. A Fúria do Corpo, de João Gilberto Noll, sob o signo da Santíssima Trindade: errância, sexo e escrita. 2010. 113f. Dissertação (Mestrado em Letras) – Universidade Federal do Ceará, Departamento de Literatura, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Letras, Fortaleza-CE, 2010. / Submitted by Liliane oliveira (morena.liliane@hotmail.com) on 2012-06-28T13:59:24Z No. of bitstreams: 1 2010_DIS_ FRSOUZA.pdf: 709473 bytes, checksum: 2ee198c2d8027fe940c99a2a52d8bd26 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Maria Josineide Góis(josineide@ufc.br) on 2012-07-23T12:20:43Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 2010_DIS_ FRSOUZA.pdf: 709473 bytes, checksum: 2ee198c2d8027fe940c99a2a52d8bd26 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2012-07-23T12:20:43Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 2010_DIS_ FRSOUZA.pdf: 709473 bytes, checksum: 2ee198c2d8027fe940c99a2a52d8bd26 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2010 / Esta dissertação analisa a obra A fúria do corpo, do escritor João Gilberto Noll, a partir de três perspectivas: primeira, o estudo da obra dá-se através do pensamento do filósofo francês Maurice Blanchot, no qual discutimos a construção da linguagem do texto nolliano nos seguintes aspectos: a fragmentação da autoria do texto, a impossibilidade da escrita manter-se estável, a impossibilidade da morte no espaço literário e a errância dos personagens como modo propulsor dos sucessivos movimentos da elaboração da narrativa, dentre outros. Segunda, fazemos um contraponto entre a narrativa nolliana em análise e a mitologia cristã e, em determinados momentos, com a mitologia grega, uma vez que observamos, em A fúria do corpo, a dessacralização dos sagrados mitos cristãos, como por exemplo, o Pecado Original, o nascimento, crucificação, morte e ressurreição de Jesus Cristo e o Juízo Final; bem como a dessacralização do mito grego de Afrodite, no que se refere à sua significação. Ao tirar o caráter sagrado desses mitos, a escrita de Noll os reveste com uma nova leitura, que subverte o que deles conhecemos comumente. Terceira, por ser o primeiro romance de Noll, A fúria do corpo apresenta a maioria dos temas vindouros da extensa obra do escritor, ora seguindo um ritmo em comum à obra em análise, ora distinguindo-se dela. Desse modo, fazemos um jogo de espelhos, no qual investigamos as recorrências dos temas que aparecem na obra A fúria do corpo e que podem ser observadas em outras obras do mesmo escritor a fim de constatarmos um percurso dessa escrita tão arrebatadora.

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In line with Wittgenstein's axiom that "what the solipsist means is quite correct; only it cannot be said, but makes itself manifest," this thesis aims to demonstrate how the gulf between analytic and continental philosophy can best be bridged through the mediation of art. The present thesis brings attention to Markson's work, lauded in the tradition of Faulkner, Joyce, and Lowry, as exemplary of the shift from modernity to postmodernity, wherein the human heart is not only in conflict with itself, but with the language out of which it is necessarily constituted. Markson limns the paradoxical condition of the subject severed from intersubjectivity, and affected not only by the grief of bereavement, which can be defined in Heideggarian terms as anxiety for the ontic negation of a being (i.e., death), but by loss, which I assert is the ontological ground for how Dasein encounters the nothing in anxiety proper.

Mémoire en recherche-création / Sōma, c’est le temps de l’inscription de l’écrit sur et dans le corps, c’est le temps de la somatisation, de la révélation de l’affect comme symptôme, du corps qui réplique à la violence extérieure. C’est également un recueil de fragments qui se suivent comme tant de scènes et qui, à la manière d’un « corps sans organes », se lient les uns aux autres selon des connexions productives, « des circuits de conjonctions, des étagements et des seuils, des passages et des distributions d’intensité, des territoires et des déterritorialisations […] ». Un peu comme chez Collobert, l’aventure des fragments s’inscrit avant tout dans un parcours phénoménologique, dans les moyens que se donne le texte pour traduire l’expérience corporelle de la souffrance. Dans Sōma, la narration oscille entre le passé, temps de l’enfermement, de la maladie, des premiers balbutiements de l’écriture, et le présent de l’écriture, source de maux comme de soulagement, qui préside à la création du recueil. Grâce à l’enchevêtrement de ces deux temps narratifs, le je poétique explore les différents états du corps féminin souffrant, qu’il s’agisse de souffrance physique comme de souffrance psychologique. « Corps là, noué aux mots » : plasticité de l’écriture et voilement du je dans Dire II de Danielle Collobert interroge d’abord la plasticité à l’œuvre dans le recueil Dire II de Danielle Collobert. Grâce à une étude approfondie du concept de plasticité tel qu’explicité par la philosophe Catherine Malabou, qui emprunte la notion à Hegel, il nous est permis d’en dégager quelques fonctions : potentiel de donation et d’explosion de la forme, du corps et du sujet. Formellement à l’œuvre dans le recueil à l’étude, ces fonctions innervent et décrivent la nature scripturaire du passage de Dire I à Dire II et qualifient, avec justesse, les métamorphoses internes qui ont lieu dans Dire II. Ces fonctions s’incarnent concrètement grâce à un changement de paradigme textuel : la parataxe remplace la phrase longue, l’horizontalité laisse place à la verticalité, les vers deviennent de plus en plus hachurés, le sujet morphologique semble progressivement disparaître. Ce dernier point ouvre la réflexion sur le second pan principal de l’essai, soit, le voilement du je au sein du recueil. Intrinsèquement reliée à la question de la plasticité, l’apparition et la disparition du sujet poétique soulèvent celle de l’assujettissement, c’est-à-dire de la formation du sujet qui, elle aussi, s’inscrit sous le signe de la plasticité puisque le sujet poétique est en constant devenir, il n’est jamais stable, pareil et identique à lui-même. Les métamorphoses ainsi que les différents états du sujet mènent à une étude approfondie des liens qui existent entre celui-ci et son corps, dont la représentation hante le texte. Examinant les liens entre texte, sujet et corps, l’essai esquissera, notamment grâce à l’apport de Maurice Blanchot, Évelyne Grossman, Gilles Deleuze de Jacques Derrida, une pensée de l’écriture comme souffrance corporelle, de la souffrance comme inscription textuelle. / Sōma is the time of an inscription of the text on and in the body, it is the time of somatization, of the revelation of the affect as a symptom, of the body responding to external violence. It is also a collection of fragments which follow one another like so many scenes and which, like a body without organs, are linked to each other according to productive connections, " circuits of conjunctions, stages and thresholds, passages and distributions of intensity, territories and deterritorializations […]2 ". A bit like with Collobert, the adventure of fragments is first and foremost part of a journey towards a phenomenological writing, in the means that the text gives itself to translate the bodily experience of suffering. In Sōma, the narration oscillates between the past, a time of confinement, illness, the beginning of writing, and the present of writing, a source of pain and relief, which governs the creation of the collection. Through the entanglement of these two narrative tenses, the poetic subject explores the different states of the suffering female body, whether it is physical suffering or psychological suffering. " Body There, Tied to Words " : Plasticity of Writing and Veiling of the I in Dire II by Danielle Collobert first questions the plasticity at work in Danielle Collobert's Dire II. Thanks to an indepth study of the concept of plasticity as explained by the philosopher Catherine Malabou, who borrows the notion from Hegel, we are able to identify some functions: potential for donation and explosion of form, the body and the subject. Formally at work in the work under study, these functions innervate and describe the scriptural nature of the passage from Dire I to Dire II and aptly qualify the internal metamorphoses that take place in Dire II. These functions are concretely embodied thanks to a change of textual paradigm: the parataxis replaces the long sentence, horizontality gives way to verticality, the lines become more and more hatched, the morphological subject seems to gradually disappear. This last point opens the reflection on the second main part of the essay, that is, the veiling of the I within the collection. Intrinsically linked to the question of plasticity, the appearance and disappearance of the poetic subject raises that of subjugation, that is to say of the formation of the subject which, too, is inscribed under the sign of plasticity since the poetic subject is in constant evolution: it is never stable, the same and identical to itself. The metamorphoses as well as the different states of the subject lead to an indepth study of the links that exist between him and his body, the representation of which haunts the text. Examining the links between text, subject and body, the essay will sketch, thanks in particular to the contributions of Maurice Blanchot, Évelyne Grossman, Gilles Deleuze and Jacques Derrida, a thought of writing as bodily suffering, of suffering as textual inscription.

Marguerite Duras a assurément pensé à la littérature en se mesurant sans cesse à sa production littéraire et plus amplement, à sa production artistique. Littérature, cinéma, théâtre font en effet l’objet d’une réflexion constante chez l’écrivain qui montre par là une tendance certaine pour la pensée théorique. Si Marguerite Duras a pu s’exprimer négativement vis-à-vis de la théorie, c’est parce qu’elle redoute les dérives de l’esprit théorique qui peut parfois se révéler dogmatique. L’adhésion à l’idéologie du PCF d’abord partagée puis contestée, fait ainsi l’objet de sévères critiques qui donneront raison dans son œuvre à des textes littéraires traversés par cette épreuve du théorique doctrinaire. D’autres engagements théoriques et politiques prouveront en revanche incontestablement l’attrait intellectuel de l’écrivain envers une époque qui, entre les années 1960 et 1980, fait avancer le discours de la théorie et notamment de la modernité littéraire. Cette thèse se propose de montrer que la théorie occupe sans cesse l’esprit de l’auteur, qu’elle se révèle particulièrement sous la forme d’une tentation à laquelle l’écrivain ne succombe jamais définitivement, et qui donc revient comme une obsession habiter et interroger son œuvre. Cette tentation s’intègre d’abord à la vie de Duras qui évolue au sein d’une génération fortement politisée et marquée par la pensée critique. Elle saura ensuite s’incorporer à l’activité créatrice de l’auteur et, dès lors, à sa pratique littéraire et artistique. La tentation du théorique suit ainsi deux directions. Elle passe par une aventure publique, sans pour autant jamais témoigner d’une voix chorale désireuse de se joindre notamment aux nouvelles tendances du Nouveau Roman. Elle se manifestera plutôt comme une voix solitaire, une voix qui s’exprime à travers la confidence privée. Cette voix murmure dans son œuvre ses critères conceptuels personnels qui accompagneront néanmoins la modernité littéraire. La voix de la tentation théorique se confondra enfin à la voix poétique de l’auteur qui révélera, à travers un jeu réflexif, la force productive de son écriture. Vouée sans cesse à faire résonner le mouvement du dernier mot, dépassant les cloisons génériques, la puissance créatrice prodigieuse de Marguerite Duras ira nourrir le paysage à plusieurs facettes de son œuvre ainsi que celui de l’Ecriture moderne. / For sure Marguerite Duras always thought about literature by comparing herself to the rest of literature and the artistic production of her time. Indeed, literature, cinema and theater are the reflexive centers of a constant thinking which shows how much theory is a main issue for the writer herself. Her apparent and negative odds against theory in general are all because of the wanderings of the dogmatic way of the theoretical spirit. Being an active member of the French Communist Party (PCF), sharing its ideological point of view and then quitting it made way for a severe criticism and gave to her literary works a doctrinal trial. Others theoretical and political commitments may decidedly show in contrast her intellectual attraction of the writer for her age which, between the 1960s and the 1980s, made theory and literary modernity look forward. This essay will show how theory is always on Duras’s Mind as it is for her such a temptation that she never totally succumbs to, and that came back as an obsession to haunt and question her works. This temptation marks at first place her life that went through a harsh political generation that also dealt with criticism and thinking. This temptation would also be an important part of her creativity process and made her way unto literary and artistic technicals. The Theoretical temptation she dealt with went on two different ways. She went on a public adventure but without never belonging to the chorus of her times or explicitly belonging to the New Novel too. She stood as a solitary voice, a voice of her that expressed herself as a intimate confidence. This voice whispered in her writings her personal and conceptual thoughts that escorted modernity in literature. Her voice made of theoretical temptation would mingle at last with her poetical voice which reveals, through a reflexive game, the productive strengh of her writing. Vowed to a never-ending movment unto the last word, beyond the walls of all genres, the tremendous creativity of Marguerite Duras will give birth to a mesmerizing landscape in her works that goes unto the modern writing.

A Sceptical Aesthetics of Existence: The Case of Michel Foucault Emmanouil Simos (Hughes Hall) Michel Foucault's genealogical investigations constitute a specific historical discourse that challenges the metaphysical hypostatisation of concepts and methodological approaches as unique devices for tracking metaphysically objective truths. Foucault's notion of aesthetics of existence, his elaboration of the ancient conceptualisation of ethics as an 'art of living' (a technē tou biou), along with a series of interconnected notions (such as the care of the self) that he developed in his later work, have a triple aspect. First, these notions are constitutive parts of his later genealogies of subjectivity. Second, they show that Foucault contemplates the possibility of understanding ethics differently, opposed to, for example, the traditional Kantian conceptualisation of morality: he envisages ethics in terms of self-fashioning, of aesthetic transformation, of turning one's life into a work of art. Third, Foucault employs these notions in self-referential way: they are considered to describe his own genealogical work. This thesis attempts to show two things. First, I defend the idea that the notion of aesthetics of existence was already present in a constitutive way from the beginning of his work, and, specifically, I argue that it can be traced in earlier moments of his work. Second, I defend the idea that this notion of aesthetics of existence is best understood in terms of the sceptical stance of Sextus Empiricus. It describes an ethics of critique of metaphysics that can be understood as a nominalist, contextualist, and particularist stance. The first chapter discusses Foucault's late genealogy of the subject. It formulates the interpretative framework within which Foucault's own conceptualisation of the aesthetics of existence can be understood as a sceptical stance, itself conceived as nominalist, contextualist and particularist. As the practice of an aesthetics of existence is not abstract and ahistorical but the engagement with the specific historical circumstances within which this practice is undertaken, the second chapter reconstructs the intellectual context from which Foucault's thought has emerged (Heidegger, Blanchot, and Nietzsche). The third chapter discusses representative examples of different periods of Foucault's thought -such as the "Introduction" to Binswanger's "Traum und Existenz" (1954), Histoire de la folie (1961), and Histoire de la sexualité I. La volonté de savoir (1976)- and shows in which way they constitute concrete instantiations of his sceptical aesthetics of existence. The thesis concludes with responses to a number of objections to the sceptical stance here defended.