Submitted by Maike Costa (maiksebas@gmail.com) on 2016-06-15T13:17:40Z No. of bitstreams: 1 arquvototal.pdf: 2626006 bytes, checksum: e28101f265a19805ecf4703879117e44 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2016-06-15T13:17:40Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 arquvototal.pdf: 2626006 bytes, checksum: e28101f265a19805ecf4703879117e44 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2013-05-06 / The investigation of metafictional narratives undoubtedly plays a relevant role for the comprehension of artistic work fictionality, as it may directly interfere in the theory and criticism of fiction. The novel Atonement, by Ian McEwan, and its adaptation, by Joe Wright, are characterized by a metafictional and parodic aesthetics. Having in mind the premise that metafictional narratives tend to be resistant to film adaptation, due to the complex articulation between metafiction and enunciation, we aim to investigate how the metafictionality of Atonement is materialized in the novel and to show how the transposition of this metafictionality occurs in the process of adaptation. Besides, since in Atonement the metafictional aesthetics is implicated with an ethics, we also aim to understand how this relation is approached in both works. To do so, our theoretical support draws mainly from the studies postulated by Linda Hutcheon, Patricia Waugh, Robert Stam, and Seymour Chatman. Through a comparative and intertextual analysis, we conclude that the materialization of the novel metafictionality required expressive creativity from both the verbal and filmic authors and originated interesting aesthetic, thematic and cinematic innovation; even though the filmic text is intentionally very close to the literary text in terms of form and content. As for the debate between ethics and aesthetics, we observed that McEwan, through his character Briony, argues for an ethics of alterity to help the individual face the paradox of post-modernity. McEwan‟s ethically implicated fiction approaches the contingency, the heterogeneity and the contradictory of the post-modern era, points to a possible way out of the crisis through an ethics of alterity, but does not impose it as a paradigm. / A investigação das narrativas metaficcionais tem, inegavelmente, um papel relevante na compreensão da ficcionalidade da obra artística, pois incide diretamente na teoria e na crítica da ficção. O romance Atonement, de Ian McEwan, e sua adaptação fílmica, dirigida por Joe Wright, caracterizam-se por uma orientação estética metaficcional e paródica. Partindo da premissa de que as narrativas de romances metaficcionais são consideradas resistentes à adaptação fílmica, devido à articulação complexa entre metaficção e enunciação, os objetivos desta pesquisa são investigar como a metaficcionalidade se configura em Atonement e demonstrar como se dá a transposição da metaficcionalidade do romance para o filme no processo de adaptação. Uma vez que a estética metaficcional em Atonement está imbricada com a ética, objetivamos também entender como se pronuncia a relação entre ética e estética nas duas obras. Visando alcançar nosso alvo, escolhemos como embasamento teórico-metodológico principalmente os postulados de Linda Hutcheon, Patricia Waugh, Robert Stam e Seymour Chatman. Adotando um viés comparativo e intertextual, concluímos que a materialização da metaficcionalidade exigiu expressiva inventividade de ambos os autores verbal e fílmico e apresentou interessantes inovações estéticas, temáticas e quanto ao uso das técnicas cinematográficas; apesar de uma aproximação intencional do texto fílmico ao texto literário em termos de forma e conteúdo. Concernente ao debate entre ética e estética, observamos que McEwan, através da personagem Briony, argumenta a favor de uma ética da alteridade para o enfrentamento do indivíduo diante dos paradoxos da pós-modernidade. A ficção eticamente engajada de Ian McEwan contempla a contingência, a heterogeneidade e o contraditório da era pós-moderna, aponta uma possível saída para a crise através da ética da alteridade, mas não se coloca como um paradigma.

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Souvent conceptualisée comme l’envers ou l’opposé de la raison, la folie, presque toujours synonyme de débordement, semble vouée à outrepasser toute limite définitoire ou conceptuelle posée par la pensée rationnelle. Cette pulsion de délimitation ou de classification inhérente à la rationalité, trouve dans le genre l’une de ses expressions les plus représentatives. Partant du constat que la folie ne cesse de transgresser les frontières traditionnelles de genre, ce travail étudie les liens entre les représentations littéraires de la maladie mentale et les questions de genre sexué (« gender ») comme littéraire, dans un corpus composé de romans, nouvelles et pièces de théâtre de six auteurs (Janet Frame, Jenny Diski, Sarah Kane, Ian McEwan, Anthony Neilson et Will Self), publiés entre 1951 et 2004. Animées par une dynamique toujours renouvelée de subversion des catégories établies, ces oeuvres invitent à une réflexion sur le rapport particulier qu’entretient la folie à la frontière, qui de simple ligne de démarcation ou de séparation se fait point de contact, puis espace à part entière. À travers leurs représentations de la folie, les récits étudiés privilégient le plus souvent, en effet, une esthétique et une épistémologie de l’entre. Cette réflexion s’articule donc principalement autour des images et des usages de la liminalité dans ces histoires de fous et de folles qui, au fil de leur (re)définition de l’appartenance et de l’identité des textes et des individus, esquissent une cartographie mobile des « contrées à venir » dont Deleuze et Guattari font la destination de toute écriture. / Traditionally conceptualised as the underside or the outside of reason, madness most often rhymes with excess; as such, it continually threatens to transgress all definitional or conceptual limits set by rational thought. Indeed, at the core of rationality is an impulse to delimit and classify, of which categories of genre and gender are quintessential examples. Starting from the observation that depicting madness regularly entails crossing, questioning and redefining genre and gender boundaries, this work investigates how literary representations of madness relate to the classification and conceptualisation of gender and genre in a selection of novels, short stories and plays by six different writers – Janet Frame, Jenny Diski, Sarah Kane, Ian McEwan, Anthony Neilson, and Will Self – published between 1951 and 2004. With the subversion of established categories as their central aim and dynamics, these works call for an exploration of the specific way in which depictions of madness, by using the border as one of their core motifs, impact the conceptualisation of borders. No longer a mere demarcation or dividing line between spaces, or simply a meeting point, the border becomes a full-blown space for individuals and texts to inhabit. Indeed, through their representations of madness, the borderline stories under study seem to embrace and promote both an aesthetics and an epistemology of the in-between. This work therefore focuses on the images and uses of liminality in stories of madmen and madwomen that, by remapping textual and sexual identities, have begun to chart these “lands to come” which, according to Deleuze and Guattari, are the true destination of all writing.

<p>The concept of distorting the line between fiction and reality appears to be one of the main themes in Ian McEwan’s <em>Atonement </em>(2001) as well as in Joe Wright’s screen adaptation of the novel, released in 2007. With the focus on the main character Briony Tallis this essay explores the influence that literature and fiction have on her, how they bring her to blur the line between them and reality and, to a lesser extent, the different ways in which the novel and its screen adaptation address this issue. Briony is first introduced as an author, underlining the importance that imagination holds for her, and it is this overactive imagination that causes her to misinterpret real events and thus accuse Robbie Turner for a crime he did not commit. To redeem herself Briony turns to fiction in an attempt to re-write the past; by blurring the line between fiction and reality, as defined by the restrictions of her novel, Briony gives Robbie and Cecilia a future within the pages of her book. The literary motifs and symbols, that are present within her novel, enhance the influence fiction and literature have on her. This is also emphasized by her characters’ relationship with literature, their use of literary works, and their characters.  Briony, the character, strives to become Briony the author, thus emphasizing the importance that literature holds for her. Because Briony is trapped within the boundaries of her own imagination she has, in writing her novel, managed to hold Robbie and Cecilia captive in her imaginative world. Thus, finally achieving what she has been striving to do for during the greater part of her life: Briony, the author, can atone for the terrible ordeals that she caused decades previously.</p>

Zugl.: Mannheim, Univ., Diss., 2008

The concept of distorting the line between fiction and reality appears to be one of the main themes in Ian McEwan’s Atonement (2001) as well as in Joe Wright’s screen adaptation of the novel, released in 2007. With the focus on the main character Briony Tallis this essay explores the influence that literature and fiction have on her, how they bring her to blur the line between them and reality and, to a lesser extent, the different ways in which the novel and its screen adaptation address this issue. Briony is first introduced as an author, underlining the importance that imagination holds for her, and it is this overactive imagination that causes her to misinterpret real events and thus accuse Robbie Turner for a crime he did not commit. To redeem herself Briony turns to fiction in an attempt to re-write the past; by blurring the line between fiction and reality, as defined by the restrictions of her novel, Briony gives Robbie and Cecilia a future within the pages of her book. The literary motifs and symbols, that are present within her novel, enhance the influence fiction and literature have on her. This is also emphasized by her characters’ relationship with literature, their use of literary works, and their characters.  Briony, the character, strives to become Briony the author, thus emphasizing the importance that literature holds for her. Because Briony is trapped within the boundaries of her own imagination she has, in writing her novel, managed to hold Robbie and Cecilia captive in her imaginative world. Thus, finally achieving what she has been striving to do for during the greater part of her life: Briony, the author, can atone for the terrible ordeals that she caused decades previously.

Utgångspunkten för uppsatsen är att studera relationen mellan vissa aspekter av form och innehåll i tre kortare prosatexter. Dessa aspekter är framförallt berättarinstans, berättelsens uppbyggnad, och det i två av texterna utryckliga temat förändring. De valda texterna är kortromanen På Chesil Beach av Ian McEwan (2007), novellen ”Döden i Damaskus” av Anna-Karin Palm (2001) och kortromanen Berömmelse av Daniel Kehlmann (2010). Litteraturvetenskapliga perspektiv och analysredskap är valda med tanke på att en av texterna påstår något om berättarens funktion, och att en av de andra texterna resonerar kring vad en berättelse är. De narratologiska verktygen faller sig därför naturliga. Den hermeneutiska metoden används i begränsad utsträckning för tolkningen av texterna. Resultatet av studien visar att texternas uppbyggnad i två av fallen tydligt medverkar till att gestalta texternas teman. Den vid första anblicken postmoderna texten Berömmelse – Roman i nio historier (2010) visar sig ha en mer sammanhängande struktur än som kanske märks vid en första snabb genomläsning. I samtliga tre texter är karaktärerna bärare av temat.

There is a consensus today that we have witnessed the end of postmodernism in both fiction and theory. Due to contemporary fiction’s break with postmodernism being recent, little research has been done to outline the parameters of what exactly this break entails and its relationship to theory and current socio-political issues. The aim of this thesis is to attempt to differentiate between postmodernist fiction and contemporary fiction that was produced from the late 90’s up to today, outline its main characteristics and suggest alternative ways theory may be used to critically analyse fiction. We will be looking at how Habermas’s, Agamben’s, Žižek’s and Badiou’s theories, as well as, a reconsideration of some of Derrida’s and Baudrillard’s theories, can help elucidate certain aspects of contemporary fiction and vice versa. Some of the novelists that will be considered in this discussion are Paul Auster, Don DeLillo, Douglas Coupland, J G Ballard, Julian Barnes, Jonathan Coe and Michel Houellebecq due to their close association with postmodernism and its aftermath. The thesis is divided thematically in five chapters. In the first chapter we will be discussing the impact of 9/11 on contemporary fiction in relation to Derrida’s, Habermas’s, Baudrillard’s and Žižek’s responses to the attacks. The second chapter is concerned with notions of reality and its representations in contemporary fiction. It will be discussed how they differ from Baudrillard’s conceptualisation of hyperreality during postmodernity in light of Badiou’s and Žižek’s theory mainly. The realist/antirealist debate will also be addressed. The third chapter is a consideration of notions of subjectivity in both contemporary theory and fiction and how they may be said to differ from playful, schizophrenic representations of the subject during postmodernity. The fourth chapter is concerned with the return of the political in both theory and fiction after the supposed apoliticality of the postmodern novel, which we will also be addressing. The final chapter is an investigation of the re-emergence of the religious in contemporary culture, including the novel, which proves that the death of meta-narratives may not have been that final after all.