Traversant un ample corpus textuel rédigé en de nombreuses langues, ce travail interroge les rapports peu explorés entre littérature et sculpture, à partir d’un objet, le monument, « fait social total » mêlant enjeux politiques, idéologiques, religieux et esthétiques. Dispositif autoritaire, le monument exerce une efficace pour dominer et transformer celui qui le rencontre. La littérature accompagne, s’approprie, contre au moyen de stratégies d’iconoclasme textuel, dévoie, et renouvelle les actes accomplis par les monuments : glorifier les héros, signifier l’histoire, édifier la société, répondre à la détresse. Dans l’épreuve du réel, le monument se montre pourtant incapable de tenir ces promesses exorbitantes. La littérature l’en délie et l’allège via l’ouverture d’une finitude et d’une compassion. Le monument est réinventé jusqu’à devenir le lieu d’une nouvelle magie ou d’un élan vers le sacré. La littérature rend ainsi un dispositif monosémique à un pluriel des significations. / Bringing together a broad corpus of texts written in many different languages, this dissertation explores the intersections between literature and sculpture. The starting point is the monument, an object that stands as a “social total fact”, condensing politics, ideologies, religion and aesthetics. Literature can help monuments to alter their beholders, to glorify heroes, to signify history, to build up and edify society, or to respond to distress. More often, it appropriates, subverts or debunks those acts via strategies of “textual iconoclasm”, proving that monuments cannot withstand the test of reality and fail to keep their promises. Literature aims therefore at renewing monuments, making them lighter by opening them to compassion and finitude. Thus recreated, statues in cities can point the beholders towards the sacred, or accommodate magic. Literature manages so to reinvent a polysemy around devices designed to hold an authority, and that were supposed to reinforce a monosemy.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-03-15T19:44:07Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Marcelo Campos Tiago.pdf: 1608705 bytes, checksum: b866d8a76303061b9e803a8f3c3117cf (MD5) Previous issue date: 2012-02-10 / This work has the main purpose to understand the ways space and time conceptions are represented in A Talk Picture , Manoel de Oliveira`s picture and Voyage to Portugal , José Saramago s book. The concept of voyage is analysed through different perceptions constructed by the travelers when visiting Portugal or the Mediterranean World . So,the investigative eye required to this research becomes an unique moment to analyse different roles History plays in Portuguese society. / Este trabalho tem como objetivo a compreensão dos processos de representação espaço- temporal presentes em Um Filme Falado (obra cinematográfica de Manoel de Oliveira) e Viagem a Portugal (obra literária de José Saramago) , desvendando suas implicações sócio-culturais. O tema da viagem , eixo central de ambas as narrativas, é analisado tendo em vista as percepções construídas pelas personagens / viajantes sobre os lugares visitados, seja em Portugal, seja no Mundo Mediterrânico. O olhar investigativo sobre as duas obras torna-se assim um momento privilegiado para a análise sobre os diferentes papéis simbólicos atribuídos pelos autores à presença da reflexão histórica na sociedade portuguesa contemporânea.