A presente dissertação propõe um estudo do espaço literário no romance A House for Mr. Biswas (1961), do escritor indo-caribenho V. S. Naipaul. Num primeiro momento, pautamos nossa leitura na relação constituída entre o espaço e o sujeito por meio do estudo dos cronotopos, de Bakhtin, verificando a presença de dois principais temas espaciais: o da clausura, sobre como o espaço influi na constituição da subjetividade dos personagens e o de transição, sobre o deslocamento do protagonista, Mr. Biswas, do espaço rural para o urbano, despertando nele um vislumbre de agência. Realizamos uma análise detalhada do jornal e da educação colonial e, em seguida, enfocamos a casa e seus constituintes estruturais, bem como as possessões que o protagonista acumula ao longo de sua vida. Concluímos que A House for Mr. Biswas é um romance metaficcional que utiliza a metáfora da escrita e da construção da casa para representar o processo de sua própria construção. A metaficção se manifesta por meio da paródia do gênero do romance de formação, já incorporado pela literatura inglesa dos séculos XVIII e XIX, resultando na criação de um novo romance que almeja pertencer à tradição literária estabelecida, mas que, ao mesmo tempo, encontra-se em dívida em relação a ela. / This dissertation examines the concept of literary space in the novel A House for Mr. Biswas (1961), by the Indo-Caribbean writer V. S. Naipaul. We have based our reading upon the relationship between space and subject by means of Bakhtins chronotopes, verifying the presence of two major themes: that of closure, related to the way in which space affects the constitution of the subjectivity of the characters, and that of transition, about the displacement of the protagonist, Mr. Biswas, from a rural to an urban space, awakening in him a glimpse of agency. We have conducted a detailed analysis of the newspaper and of colonial education, and then the focus shifts to the house and its structural components, as well as to the possessions which the protagonist accumulates throughout his life. We conclude that A House for Mr. Biswas is a metafictional novel that uses the metaphor of writing and that of the building of the house in order to represent the process of constructing the novel itself. Metafiction is disclosed through the parody of the formation novel, already incorporated by English literature of the 18th and 19th centuries, resulting in the creation of a new novel, which aspires to become part of the established literary tradition, but that is still, at the same time, is indebted to it.

A presente dissertação propõe um estudo do espaço literário no romance A House for Mr. Biswas (1961), do escritor indo-caribenho V. S. Naipaul. Num primeiro momento, pautamos nossa leitura na relação constituída entre o espaço e o sujeito por meio do estudo dos cronotopos, de Bakhtin, verificando a presença de dois principais temas espaciais: o da clausura, sobre como o espaço influi na constituição da subjetividade dos personagens e o de transição, sobre o deslocamento do protagonista, Mr. Biswas, do espaço rural para o urbano, despertando nele um vislumbre de agência. Realizamos uma análise detalhada do jornal e da educação colonial e, em seguida, enfocamos a casa e seus constituintes estruturais, bem como as possessões que o protagonista acumula ao longo de sua vida. Concluímos que A House for Mr. Biswas é um romance metaficcional que utiliza a metáfora da escrita e da construção da casa para representar o processo de sua própria construção. A metaficção se manifesta por meio da paródia do gênero do romance de formação, já incorporado pela literatura inglesa dos séculos XVIII e XIX, resultando na criação de um novo romance que almeja pertencer à tradição literária estabelecida, mas que, ao mesmo tempo, encontra-se em dívida em relação a ela. / This dissertation examines the concept of literary space in the novel A House for Mr. Biswas (1961), by the Indo-Caribbean writer V. S. Naipaul. We have based our reading upon the relationship between space and subject by means of Bakhtins chronotopes, verifying the presence of two major themes: that of closure, related to the way in which space affects the constitution of the subjectivity of the characters, and that of transition, about the displacement of the protagonist, Mr. Biswas, from a rural to an urban space, awakening in him a glimpse of agency. We have conducted a detailed analysis of the newspaper and of colonial education, and then the focus shifts to the house and its structural components, as well as to the possessions which the protagonist accumulates throughout his life. We conclude that A House for Mr. Biswas is a metafictional novel that uses the metaphor of writing and that of the building of the house in order to represent the process of constructing the novel itself. Metafiction is disclosed through the parody of the formation novel, already incorporated by English literature of the 18th and 19th centuries, resulting in the creation of a new novel, which aspires to become part of the established literary tradition, but that is still, at the same time, is indebted to it.

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Made available in DSpace on 2014-06-11T19:32:48Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2009-01-22Bitstream added on 2014-06-13T19:22:27Z : No. of bitstreams: 1 arias_mhm_dr_assis.pdf: 422514 bytes, checksum: f3410816bc66fd9029f832323edaff3f (MD5) / O presente trabalho tem por objetivo o estudo do romance Cães da Província, de Luiz Antonio de Assis Brasil, publicado em 1987, que tem como protagonista o dramaturgo José Joaquim Campos de Leão, o Qorpo-Santo. O cenário é a cidade de Porto Alegre das últimas décadas do século XIX, época em que Qorpo-Santo viveu e criou o seu teatro, reconhecidamente inusitado e, por isso, incompreendido. Este romance apresenta elementos instigantes como, por exemplo, a freqüente utilização da intertextualidade, principalmente com a obra do dramaturgo gaúcho. Sendo assim, pretendemos abordar as características gerais que determinam o fator estético, no âmbito do novo romance histórico, contempladas em Cães da Província, para mostrar como a literatura, valendo-se da elaboração da linguagem, trabalha os elementos da história, ordenando-os e reescrevendo-os de modo particular. Ainda que, sem furtar-se a discutir os problemas do homem em sua relação com seus semelhantes, e com o contexto em que está inserido, o novo romance histórico não pretende apresentar verdades absolutas, mas verdades relativas que, pela plurissignificação da linguagem, possibilitam ao leitor confrontar essas variantes para poder escolher dentre elas a que mais se aproxime de seu desejo. / This paper aims to study the novel Cães da Província of Luiz Antonio de Assis Brasil, published in 1987, whose protagonist is the playwright José Joaquim Campos de Leão, the Qorpo-Santo. The setting is the city of Porto Alegre in the last decades of the nineteenth century, when Qorpo-Santo lived and created his theater, admittedly unusual and so misunderstood. This novel presents instigating elements such as the frequent use of intertextuality, especially with the work of the south Brazilian playwright. Therefore, we intend to address the general characteristics that determine the aesthetic factor, in the context of new historical novel, contained in Cães da Província, in order to show how the literature, considering the development of language, works with the elements of History, ordering them and rewriting them in a particular way. Even if, without discussing the problems of man in his relationship with his peers, and with the context in which it is inserted, the new historical novel does not intend to present absolute truths, but relative truths that, by the plurisignification of language, enable the reader to confront these variants to choose, among them, the one that comes closest to his desire.

Entre autobiographie et fiction, le terme « autofiction », inventé par Serge Doubrovsky, est un « genre » qui s'est surtout épanoui à la fin du XIXe siècle avec « la transposition en fiction des fragments d'une expérience » (Hubier), devenue de plus en plus populaire au fil du temps. La recherche entreprise dans cette thèse porte sur la forme contemporaine de ce mélange entre autobiographie et fiction que l'on trouve chez Paul Auster. Notre corpus principal est composé de ses romans dits de la « maturité », publiés entre 1991 et 2008 : Leviathan, The Book of Illusions, Oracle Night, The Brooklyn Follies, Travels in the Scriptorium et Man in the Dark. Nous nous poserons ainsi la question de l'évolution de l'autofiction mais également de la métafiction chez cet auteur. Divisé en trois parties, notre travail porte dans un premier temps sur les repères spatiotemporels dans les romans de Paul Auster avant de se concentrer sur les éléments métafictionnels présents dans les romans de notre corpus. Dans notre première partie, nous distinguerons deux espaces : l'espace intérieur et l'espace extérieur. Nous verrons comment ces deux espaces cohabitent. Dans une deuxième partie, nous nous intéresserons aux repères temporels, qu'ils soient d'ordre mémoriel ou en rapport direct avec la structure du récit. Nous examinerons le rôle que jouent certains repères empruntés à l'Histoire contemporaine dans l'histoire personnelle des personnages, en observant qu'ils occupent une place toujours plus importante au fur et à mesure que l'oeuvre austérienne progresse, en particulier à partir des attentats du onze septembre. Enfin, nous étudierons la mise en scène de l'écriture chez Paul Auster et la façon dont elle alimente l'autofiction en mettant l'accent sur l'identité d'écrivain de notre auteur. Nous nous intéresserons à son emploi du langage, à l'évolution des supports d'écriture chez ses personnages, à la description de la méthodologie du travail de l'écrivain mais également à l'intratextualité qui met en avant le lien entre tous ses romans. / Between autobiography and fiction, the term “autofiction”, invented by Serge Doubrovsky, is a “genre” which started to flourish at the end of the 19th century and has become more and more popular ever since. Our research focuses on the contemporary form of this mixture of autobiography and fiction which can be found throughout Paul Auster's works. Our main corpus is based on the author's later works, published between 1991 and 2008 : Leviathan, The Book of Illusions, Oracle Night, The Brooklyn Follies, Travels in the Scriptorium and Man in the Dark. Our aim is to study the evolution of autofiction but also metafiction in Auster's works. Divided into three parts, our research focuses first on the representation of space and time before concentrating on the metafictional side of Auster's novels. In our first part, we distinguish between two distinct spaces : the inside world and the outside world. We analyse the way in which these two spaces co-Exist side by side in the novels. In our second part, we study time by analysing the themes of memory, narrative structure but also history which inserts itself into the personal stories of the characters. We will see how these historical dates become more and more contemporary throughout the novels, especially since 9/11. In our third and last part, we focus on the way in which the author presents his identity as a writer by studying the way in which he presents language, writing format, the description of his writing methodology but also intratextuality which shows the way in which all his novels are linked together.

Este trabalho pretende comparar e analisar a intertextualidade e a paródia que se realizam nas obras Em Liberdade e Espingardas e Música Clássica, de Silviano Santiago, brasileiro, e de Alexandre Pinheiro Torres, português. Pretende, ainda, mostrar os aspectos históricos, políticos e culturais ocorridos em Portugal e no Brasil, e que estão presentes em ambos os discursos literários. / This work inteds to compare and analyze the intertextual and the parodic process in Em Liberdade and in Espingardas e Música Clássica, whose authors are Silviano Santiago and Alexandre Pinheiro Torres, Brazilian and Portuguese writers, respectively. It also attempts to make a discussion around the historical, political and cultural aspects revealed in both texts, in order to show the relation between the literature and History, about the events occured in the countries of these authors and in wich they process their discourses.

The classic slave narrative recounted a fugitive slave’s personal story condemning slavery and hence working towards abolition. The neo-slave narrative underlines the slave’s historical legacy by unveiling the past through foregrounding African Atlantic experiences in an attempt to create a critical historiography of the Black Atlantic. The neo-slave narrative is a genre that emerged following World War II and presents us with a dialogue combining the history of 1970 - 2000. In this thesis I seek to explore how the contemporary counter-part of the classic slave narrative draws, reflects or diverges from the general conventions of its predecessor. I argue that by scrutinizing our notion of truth, the neo-slave narrative remains a relevant, important witness to the history of slavery as well as to today’s still racialized society. The historiographic metafiction of the neo-slave narrative rewrites history with the goal of digesting the past and ultimately leading to future reconciliation.

This dissertation is an exploration of relationships between fiction and history as illuminated by historiographic fiction in general and the historiographic novel in particular. Here the term historiography is employed particularly in several of its many meanings: as the study of the materials and techniques of history, the study of what it means to be a historian, and the study of the philosophy of history. All of these are comprehended in the larger definition of issues pertaining to the writing of history. Four twentieth-century novels are presented and analyzed as historiographic novels. The common element in analysis of all the novels is the examination of historiographic material encoded in narrative, plot, characters, theme, structure or style. Each analysis focuses on one historiographic assumption or problem and brings in perspectives of historians or theorists of history as well as non-novelistic, critical perspectives of the authors themselves. E. M. Forster's Howards End (1910) is analyzed as an imaginative exposé of causality in historical thinking. All the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren (1946) is presented as a gloss on Isaiah Berlin's critique of Leo Tolstoy's second epilogue to War and Peace. Several essays by philosopher Eric Voegelin provide the theoretical framework for a historiographic analysis of Milan Kundera's The Book of Laughter and Forgetting (1978). The historiographic reading of Graham Swift's Waterland (1983) turns on the convergence of tensions between natural and human history with conflicting ideas of what constitutes revolution. In the process of these analyses, the study establishes general properties of the historiographic novel, as opposed to related categories (historical novel, nonfiction novel, and historiographic metafiction, for example). The isolation, description, and examination of historiographic novels as a category of history is offered as a contribution to the debate about the relationships, respectively, between narrative and objectivity, and experience and representation.

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Partant du constat de l'omniprésence de Lucien dans son corpus, notre thèse se propose de dresser un panorama des autoreprésentations auctoriales dans l'ensemble de l'œuvre de Lucien de Samosate, mais dans une perspective résolument théorique. En effet, parce qu'il se constitue comme point focal de sa propre œuvre, Lucien a souvent tendance à faire l'objet d'une lecture biographique de la part de la critique. Cette thèse se donne pour objet de redonner à l'autoreprésentation de l'auteur son sens de geste poétique. En choisissant le terme de figure, auquel on donne ici un sens plus restreint qu'à celui de persona, on s'intéressera uniquement aux moments où l'auteur fait explicitement l'objet de son propre discours.La première partie de notre thèse consiste donc en une importante typologie des mises en scène de soi chez Lucien: on part des apparitions les plus explicites de l'auteur en contexte référentiel, dans le corpus oratoire ou biographique, pour traiter ensuite de la partie fictionnelle du corpus. L'un des objectifs de ce travail est en effet de redonner à Lucien sa place de pionnier dans l'invention de l'autofiction.La seconde partie de notre thèse tire les conclusions poétiques de cette typologie, en dégageant aux autoreprésentations de l'auteur une double fonction : d'abord, elles doivent dire l'individu social et intellectuel, mais dans une démarche qui transcende les genres et la séparation traditionnelle entre référentialité et fiction. Ensuite, les figures de l'auteur ont pour fonction de servir de vecteur à un message métapoétique extrêmement riche, qui va de la théorie de la fiction à celle de la réception. / The starting point of this PhD thesis was the constatation of Lucian's omnipresence within his own corpus. This phenomenon often led critics to have an excessively biographical approach to this author. The aim of this thesis is thus to give an account of the vast scope of self-representations within Lucian's corpus, in a theoretical perspective, in order to show that the staging of the self can be seen as a poetical gesture. The first part of this work thus consists in a typology of all the auctorial self-representations that can be found within Lucian's œuvre. It ranges from the most explicit forms of authorial presence, in referential works, such as prolaliai and biographies, to the most fictional part of the corpus. The aim of this work is to establish Lucian's position as a pioneer in the invention of autofiction.The second part of this thesis draws the theoretical conclusions of this typology, by showing that authorial self-representations have two main functions : first, they help defining Lucian's social and intellectual identity, beyond generic boudaries ; second, they serve a metaliterary purpose : as vicarious surrogates, Lucian's doubles appear as a powerful means of expressing his aesthetical views.