Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-26T18:12:55Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Nelma Aronia Santos.pdf: 1368034 bytes, checksum: 9ca57f61e44700af4fc485fde5c05d89 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2013-05-09 / The purpose of this study is to analyze the processes of the media discourse present in the works of Rubem Fonseca. Among these processes, emphasis will be placed on the aesthetics of the grotesque and the spectacular, present both in his printed works and in the language used in its inner workings. The text corpus researched here covers the following sample of short stories by Fonseca: Livro de ocorrências, Corações solitários, Relato de ocorrência, Dia dos namorados, Duzentos e vinte e cinco gramas, Nau Catrineta and A arte de andar nas ruas do Rio de Janeiro. This text corpus was published between 1963 and 1992. It was selected due to the fact that its production provides a kind of narrative of the consolidation of mass communications media in our country. The main theoretical references on which our research is based include Mikhail Bakhtin, Wolfgang Kayser and Muniz Sodré, notable scholars of the grotesque; Guy Debord, a scholar of the society of the spectacle; Patrick Charaudeau, who describes and analyzes media discourse and is staging and expression strategies; Rildo Cosson, a scholar of hybrid texts, above all those that involve Brazilian journalism; David le Breton, who studies contemproary culture from the perspective of the body; and Zygmunt Bauman, for insight into human coexistence in the urban space. Our methodological procedure consists of allusive bibliographical research on the state of the art in studies and Brazilian media. The primary result is intended to be an observation of the potential for exchange between the spheres of literature and more popular media forms. We also intend to contribute to research that tries to comprehend the processes of literary creation from an inter-semiotic perspective / O objetivo desta pesquisa é analisar os procedimentos do discurso midiático presentes na obra de Rubem Fonseca. Dentre tais procedimentos, dar-se-á ênfase a estética do grotesco e do espetacular presentes tanto na mídia impressa, quanto na linguagem utilizada nos seus bastidores. O corpus da pesquisa compreende o seguinte recorte de contos fonsequianos: Livro de ocorrências, Corações solitários, Relato de ocorrência, Dia dos namorados, Duzentos e vinte e cinco gramas, Nau Catrineta e A arte de andar nas ruas do Rio de Janeiro. Trata-se de um corpus publicado entre 1963 e 1992. Sua seleção deve-se ao fato de sua produção ser concomitante com a consolidação dos meios de comunicação de massa em nosso país. Os principais referenciais teóricos sobre os quais nossa pesquisa está amparada contemplam Mikhail Bakhtin, Wolfgang Kayser, e Muniz Sodré, notórios estudiosos do grotesco; Guy Debord, estudioso da sociedade do espetáculo, Patrick Charaudeau que descreve e analisa as especificidades do discurso midiático e suas estratégias de encenação e enunciação; Rildo Cosson, estudioso dos textos híbridos, sobretudo daqueles que envolvem a Literatura e o jornalismo Brasileiro, David Le Breton, que estuda a cultura contemporânea sob a perspectiva do corpo, e Zygmunt Bauman, para compreensão da convivência humana no espaço urbano. Nosso procedimento metodológico constitui-se de pesquisa bibliográfica alusiva ao estado da arte dos estudos e à mídia brasileira. Ambicionase como principal resultado o apontamento das relações de intercâmbio possíveis entre as esferas da literatura e àquelas das mídias mais populares. Pretendemos contribuir também com as pesquisas que buscam compreender os processos de criação literária numa perspectiva intersemiótica

Made available in DSpace on 2016-03-15T19:46:50Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Patricia Azevedo.pdf: 641329 bytes, checksum: 2516084aa7af7b09ac799026ef9c585a (MD5) Previous issue date: 2006-05-26 / This dissertation aims at presenting an interpretative analysis of female characters in Memórias póstumas de Brás Cubas, by Machado de Assis, by examining the theoretical perspectives of those characters and of the grotesque images especially focusing Virgília and Eugênia establishing a paradigm with the remaining female characters in the novel. In order to weave Machado de Assis diversity while composing these characters, we present the subsidies pertaining not only to character composition, but also to the grotesque per se. This can be found in the first chapter of this dissertation. To discuss the grotesque and the characters in literature, we used theories such as those presented by Foster, Bakhtin, Rosenfeld, Antonio Candido and Kayser, among other authors. Our assumption is that the female characters in Machado de Assis are strong-minded. Some are always in the command of the situations that they live; others, though presenting less selfexpression, also make a stand wherever they go. Virgília and Eugênia, the female characters studied here, as well as others in Machado de Assis s work and here analyzed are not the main characters in the plot, but to such extent are they strongly portrayed in the novel, that they stand out even more than Brás Cubas himself. This occurs due to their behavior, their social position and the extent of the decision they make under the conditions they are forced to face. The analysis carried out here shows that Machado is the first author to innovate in the composition of female characters, especially in terms of autonomy provision. For this reason, though written in the late nineteenth century, the novel investigated passionately surprises its reader at every new perusal. / Esta dissertação tem como objetivo apresentar uma análise interpretativa das personagens femininas que compõem o universo de Memórias póstumas de Brás Cubas, de Machado de Assis, sob as perspectivas teóricas das personagens e das imagens grotescas, com enfoque no par de personagens Virgília e Eugênia, estabelecendo um paradigma com as demais personagens femininas presentes neste romance. Para tecer a diversidade utilizada por Machado de Assis na constituição dessas personagens femininas, apresentamos, no capítulo teórico, os subsídios referentes não só à construção da personagem, como também ao grotesco. Na construção das personagens e do grotesco na literatura, utilizamos as teorias apresentadas por Foster, Bakhtin, Rosenfeld, Antonio Cândido e Kayser, entre outros escritores. Partimos do pressuposto de que as personagens femininas machadianas têm forte personalidade. Algumas delas estão sempre no comando da situação em que vivem; outras, embora com menor expressividade, também deixam suas marcas significativas por onde passam. As personagens femininas Virgília e Eugênia, bem como as outras por nós analisadas, presentes no romance, nem sequer são as protagonistas da história, mas são tão marcantes que sobressaem mais do que o próprio Brás Cubas, pela maneira como se comportam, pela posição que ocupam na sociedade e pelo poder das decisões que tomam perante as circunstâncias que a vida lhes impõe. A análise das personagens femininas mostra que Machado é o primeiro autor a inovar na constituição dessas mulheres, principalmente em termos de autonomia. Por isso o romance em pauta, mesmo tendo sido escrito nos fins do século XIX, a cada leitura surpreende seu leitor de maneira apaixonante.

Each painting in this exhibition is a transformed documentation of a specific experience culled from my daily, ordinary life. These encounters are not monumental; however their impact is significant because of their disturbing, disgusting, puzzling and humourously entertaining qualities. The awkwardness and resulting ambiguity of my imagery is defined through connections to the uncanny, the surreal, the grotesque and the literary genre of tragicomedy. The work also acknowledges a strong relationship to historic traditions within painting and aspires to use comedy to provide an opportunity for viewers to retrieve and recreate a moment of personal history.

Graham Swifts novel Last Orders has yet to be viewed as containing carnivalesque elements as defined by Mikhail Bakhtin in Rabelais and His World. Through the examination of Bakhtins theory of the carnivalesque and through a corresponding close reading of Last Orders, this article details the carnivalesque nature of the locations visited by the characters in the narrative, of the grotesque incidents that occur in these locations, and of the narrative style and structure of the novel itself.

Thesis (M.A.)--North Carolina State University, 2002. / Title from PDF title page (viewed Apr. 2, 2005). Includes vita. Includes bibliographical references (p. 86-88).

This work attemptes to disclose the aspects of Catholicism, Grotesque and Southernism in Flannery O’Connor’s short stories. It proves that the author used the three aspects in order to reveal the core of Southern society through the looking-glass of Catholicism for that purpose that employing grotesque characters and situations, which also provided the tools for a critique. Catholic, grotesque and southern aspects, although sometimes in disguise, are the subject freely canvassed in Flannery O'Connor's fiction because she was in the position to see things in a way that was denied to many others. She was a devout Catholic all her life; she possessed a gift for writing coupled with emotional maturity; and overriding all, she had both vision and humility. She was also born and raised in the American South (Georgia) and lived most of her adult life there. Consequently, as a fiction writer, O'Connor was furnished with the unique opportunity to both observe and record the Protestant South with its Calvinist backdrop, through the lens of her Catholic faith. The stories O'Connor wrote are a valuable testament to a region that she once described as "no longer Christ centred but still Christ haunted". (62, 527) She saw the South as a region where most people were merely grotesque in the way they lived, thought and acted lacking a central authority that unified faith, morals and liturgical practice, but with definite empathy, she saw those same people attempting to wrestle in various and... [to full text]

Honoré de Balzac est aujourd’hui connu pour être le père du roman moderne et l’écrivain de La Comédie humaine. Mais nous oublions souvent qu’entre 1830 et 1832, au début de sa carrière, l’auteur a écrit, comme plusieurs écrivains de son temps, des contes. De multiples facteurs peuvent expliquer cet intérêt : les Contes fantastiques d’Hoffmann sont traduits de l’allemand en français et leur succès est immédiat. De plus, les nouveaux modes de publication littéraire, dans les revues et les journaux, favorisent la prolifération du genre. Un corpus retiendra notre attention : Les Cent Contes drolatiques, un projet, impopulaire en son temps, avec lequel Balzac souhaite « restaurer l’école du rire » en France. Au milieu du dix-neuvième siècle, l’auteur recrée des contes comme ceux que Rabelais, Verville et la reine de Navarre écrivaient en leur temps, trois ou quatre siècles auparavant. Pour ce faire, Balzac invente un langage qui simule le vieux français et crée des personnages grotesques. Qu’est-ce, dans l’écriture balzacienne, que l’esthétique du rire, et comment l’auteur exprime-t-il ce concept dans ses Cent Contes drolatiques? Pour répondre à ces questions, nous étudierons les manifestations du grotesque dans l’ensemble de l’œuvre de l’auteur. Aussi, selon Mikhaïl Bakhtine, dans L’Œuvre de François Rabelais et la culture populaire au Moyen Âge et sous la Renaissance , le grotesque, uni au rire, est relié au corps : « Le trait marquant du réalisme grotesque est le rabaissement, c’est-à-dire le transfert de tout ce qui est élevé, spirituel, idéal et abstrait sur le plan matériel et corporel. » Par conséquent, ce sont les représentations du corps que nous examinerons dans ce travail. Finalement, l’étude du corps grotesque dans Les Cent Contes drolatiques montrera une autre facette de l’écriture balzacienne, souvent ignorée par les chercheurs : l’importance du rire et la vision du monde que celui-ci communique à travers la littérature. / Honoré de Balzac is mostly acknowledged, today, as the father of the novel and as the writer of La Comédie humaine. But we often forget that between 1830 and 1832, at the beginning of his career, the author wrote, mainly and like many writers of his time, short stories. Multiple factors can explain that interest, for example, Hoffman’s Contes fantastiques had been translated from German to French and their success was immediate. Moreover, the new mediums of literary publication, in magazines and newspapers, favoured the proliferation of the genre. One corpus will keep our attention through these pages: Les Cent Contes drolatiques, a project, unpopular in his time, with which Balzac aimed to « restaurer l’école du rire » in France. In the middle of the nineteenth century, the author recreated short stories like the ones that Rabelais, Verville and the reine de Navarre have written in their time, three or four centuries before. To do so, Balzac invented a language that simulated the old French and created grotesque characters. What is, in Honoré de Balzac’s work, the aesthetic of laugh, and how does the author express that concept in his Cent Contes drolatiques? To answer these questions, we will study the manifestations of the grotesque in the entire production of the writer. Also, according to Mikhaïl Bakhtine, in L’Œuvre de François Rabelais et la culture populaire au Moyen Âge et sous la Renaissance , the grotesque, linked to laugh, is related to the body : « Le trait marquant du réalisme grotesque est le rabaissement, c’est-à-dire le transfert de tout ce qui est élevé, spirituel, idéal et abstrait sur le plan matériel et corporel. » Consequently, it is the representations of the body that, in a further reflection, we will examine. Finally, the study of the grotesque body in Les Cent Contes drolatiques will show another facet of Balzac’s writing, often ignored by researchers : the importance of laughter and the vision of the world that it communicates through literature.

This research uses the interpretive framework of the Psychological Grotesque to address a protagonist's response when she is unable to integrate the experience of interpersonal trauma into her psyche. The framework reveals a survival mechanism, identity incorporation, with roots in the transgressive and evolutionary nature of the grotesque as discussed in the work of Mikhail Bakhtin, Mary Douglas and Leonard Cassuto. The psychological grotesque is explicated using Stvgo by Laura Hendrie, The Life Before Her Eyes, by Laura Kasischke, and Linden Hills by Gloria Naylor.The psychological grotesque reveals how the protagonist within each of these novels, when positioned within a specific matrix of contributing factors engages in flawed survival strategies to reconcile psychic fragmentation. Drawing on theories of trauma from the work of Bessel Van Der Kolk, Dori Laub, Sigmund Freud, Mardi Horowitz, Ronnie Janoff-Bulman, Laurie Vickroy, Cathy Caruth, Peter Woods and Tim Middleton, the definition of the matrix includes: interpersonal trauma, prior history of emotional problems, no social support network, and self-perceived complicity in the violence. Where these criteria are present, the protagonist is incapable of achieving the repair of her damaged psyche in order to reintegrate into society and relief from the pain of trauma. In an effort to repair her brokeness through the incorporation of parts of the identity of others, the protagonist creates a grotesque mental hybrid living in fractured time. The protagonist experiences destabilization of time due to incorporating the temporal perspective of the other identities. A flawed survival strategy, identity incorporation leads to further psychic fragmentation.The psychological grotesque takes up the challenge of communicating the effects of trauma and addresses the lack of a literary interpretive mechanism for trauma literature in which a critical component of the narrative is the story of female victims of interpersonal violence. This framework confronts the fact that representations of women and trauma are problematic due to how trauma resists linguistic representation and because women have historically been denied a voice in the canon. Therefore, by drawing on elements of the grotesque, specifically hybridity and transgression, this interpretive framework recuperates the experiences of traumatized protagonists. / Department of English

Each painting in this exhibition is a transformed documentation of a specific experience culled from my daily, ordinary life. These encounters are not monumental; however their impact is significant because of their disturbing, disgusting, puzzling and humourously entertaining qualities. The awkwardness and resulting ambiguity of my imagery is defined through connections to the uncanny, the surreal, the grotesque and the literary genre of tragicomedy. The work also acknowledges a strong relationship to historic traditions within painting and aspires to use comedy to provide an opportunity for viewers to retrieve and recreate a moment of personal history.

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / This dissertation examines the novel Os tambores silenciosos (1977), by Josué Guimarães, and attemps to verify how the elements of the grotesque, the satire and carnivalization are used to construct the characters and the plot with the purpose of a critical representation of two critical historical periods corresponding with each other: the 1930 s and the contemporary construction of the text - the 1970 s. The censorship, the authoritarianism and the political repression are common to both periods. These aspects are dramatized in Os tambores silenciosos, which employs satirical elements and the construction of unusual situations that represent military and their arbitrary attitudes, flattering and weak politicians and violent policemen, denouncing the arbitrariness of a dictatorial regime. This work aims to highlight the grotesque, the carnivalization and the menippean satire, based on the Mikhail Bakhtin s theoretical formulations, in order to understand adequately the relations suggested by the presence of comic and unusual events in the novel under consideration. / Esta dissertação analisa o romance Os tambores Silenciosos (1977) e busca verificar como os elementos do grotesco, da sátira e da carnavalização são utilizados na construção das personagens e do enredo com vistas à representação crítica de dois períodos históricos correspondentes entre si: a década de 1930 e a época contemporânea à construção do texto década de 1970. A censura, o autoritarismo e a repressão política são comuns aos dois períodos. Tais aspectos são tematizados em Os tambores silenciosos, que se vale de elementos satíricos e insólitos na construção de personagens e situações que representam militares e suas atitudes arbitrárias, políticos impotentes e bajuladores e policiais violentos, denunciando a arbitrariedade de um regime ditatorial. Esta dissertação, ao destacar o grotesco, a carnavalização e a sátira menipéia, com base nas formulações teóricas de Mikhail Bakhtin, busca compreender adequadamente as relações sugeridas pela presença do cômico e do insólito na obra de Josué Guimarães.