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Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Western Australia, 2008.

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Thesis (M.A.)--Ohio University, June, 2005. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 85-92)

Thesis (B.A.)--Haverford College, Dept. of English, 2005. / Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (B.A.)--Haverford College, Dept. of English, 2006. / Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (M.A.)--Ohio University, June, 2005. / Title from PDF t.p. Includes bibliographical references (p. 85-92)

Thesis (M.A.)--Victoria University of Wellington, 2009. / Includes bibliographical references.

Este trabalho tem como percurso de pesquisa o estudo de algumas ambiências críticas ao conceito de representação no Ocidente, desde suas origens na tradição platônico- aristotélica até o posterior desenvolvimento na contemporaneidade, com suas implicações inerentes nas artes e no pensamento. Na contemporaneidade, observamos os estatutos de validação e imposição epistêmica do conceito referido, através de um princípio teleológico de auto-afirmação, assim como as contribuições que os filósofos Vilém Flüsser e Jacques Derrida trazem à discussão. Colocamos, também, em evidência, algumas propostas de Deleuze e Bergson para um pensamento que ultrapassasse os princípios constitutivos da razão representativa. Por fim, tentamos comentar algumas relações entre os principais conceitos vistos e a ficção literária em especial. / This piece of work has as its course of research the study of some critical ambiences of the representation concept in the Occident, from its origins in the platonic and aristotelian tradition till its ulterior development in the contemporaneity, with its inherent implications in arts and though. In the contemporaneity, we observe its validation statute and epistemic imposition through a self affirming teleological principle, as well as the contributions which the philosophers Vilém Flusser and Jacques Derrida bring to the discussion. Weve put in evidence some of the proposals from Deleuze and Bergson for a thought that surpasses the constituted principles of representative reason. Lastly, weve tried to produce relations between the main concepts weve seen and literary fiction in especial.

Starting from the notion of hyperbole as rhetoric figure and philosophical concept, my dissertation places Pynchon's and Bolaño's maximalist novels in a wider context shaped by the emergence of the Anthropocene as a new historical and geological epoch, by the return of realism in the humanities, by the renewed philosophical interest for ontological and metaphysical questions, by the possibility of a posthumanist phenomenology and by literature's 'anxiety of obsolescence' in a post-literate age. In this context, I examine a variety of literary questions (such as abundance as a modality of uncertainty, the dramaturgy of light and darkness, metaphors, ekphrasis etc.) to reveal the novels' hyperbolic structures that can nevertheless be inscribed within a realist framework. In Pynchon's and Bolaño's novels, hyperbolic doubts and linguisticuncertainty punctuate the narrative universes. If these doubts and uncertainties are over and over again vanquished by the adventurous labor of figuration, they are never fully abolished, but form the dark core of literary discourse and, after all, any linguistic act. / En partant de la notion de l'hyperbole comme figure rhétorique et concept philosophique, ma thèse de doctorat analyse les deux romans maximalistes de Pynchon et Bolaño dans un contexte marqué par l'émergence de l'Anthropocène comme nouvelle époque historique et géologique, par le retour du réalisme dans les sciences humaines, par le nouvel intérêt pourl'ontologie et la métaphysique en philosophie, par le détournement de certains projets phénoménologiques de l'humanisme, et par la possibilité d'anachronisme qui pèse aujourd'hui sur le genre littéraire. Dans ce contexte, j'examine les différentes questions de l'analyse littéraire (la copia, la dramaturgie du clair-obscur, la métaphore, l'ekphrasisetc.) pour révéler les structures poétiques hyperboliques qui sont quand même inscrites dans un cadre réaliste. Ces romans mettent en scène la permanence du doute hyperbolique dans l'univers narrative et au sein même du langage, mais ils effectuent en même temps le dépassement aventureux et laborieux de ce doute sans intention de nier les incertitudesfondamentales sur lesquelles sont fondés tout discours littéraire et, à la fin, toute acte linguistique.