The dissertation seeks to take account of the implications of Jacques Derrida's deconstructive philosophy for literary theory and criticism through analysis of the work of non-deconstructionists theorists and critics. In particular, the dissertation deals with the attempt by much traditional Anglo-American literary theory to articulate what might be called a lq'logic of criticism' - an attempt evident in the use made by this theory of oppositions such as intrinsic/extrinsic, structural/genetic, essential/contingent, and so on. The attempt is considered with respect to three concerns of modern literary theory: organic form, authorial intention and the question of value. On the first issue, it is argued that the organicist's construal of the relation of form and content in poetry is analogous to Husserl's construal of the relation of signifier and signified in speech, and that Derrida's deconstruction of Husserl's privileging of voice provides the model for the deconstruction of organicism. In the case of intention, it is argued that modern criticism and theory has characteristically relied on a notion of the literary work as saturated by a fully conscious intention, a reliance which marks a succumbing to what Derrida calls 'the structural lure of consciousness'. Concerning the question of value, the target is the attempt to defend value by locating it as the ground, the centre, the telos or origin of the phenomenon to be accounted for. The dissertation concludes by broaching the question of the nature of a properly deconstructive literary criticism. It is argued that so-called deconstructionist criticism involves a neutralization of deconstruction, a defect which Derrida avoids in his own literary criticism.

Submitted by Renata Lopes (renatasil82@gmail.com) on 2016-07-15T15:10:27Z No. of bitstreams: 1 raquelperalvamartinsdeoliveira.pdf: 423135 bytes, checksum: 936dc9680038ecba9d4af58f966164fc (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Adriana Oliveira (adriana.oliveira@ufjf.edu.br) on 2016-07-22T14:56:52Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 raquelperalvamartinsdeoliveira.pdf: 423135 bytes, checksum: 936dc9680038ecba9d4af58f966164fc (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Adriana Oliveira (adriana.oliveira@ufjf.edu.br) on 2016-07-22T14:57:31Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 raquelperalvamartinsdeoliveira.pdf: 423135 bytes, checksum: 936dc9680038ecba9d4af58f966164fc (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2016-07-22T14:57:31Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 raquelperalvamartinsdeoliveira.pdf: 423135 bytes, checksum: 936dc9680038ecba9d4af58f966164fc (MD5) Previous issue date: 2011-10-25 / Apesar da vasta obra de Machado de Assis, há poucas publicações suas explicitamente dedicadas à crítica literária. No entanto, muitas das narrativas ficcionais machadianas se oferecem como possibilidades de compreensão acerca das suas concepções teóricas e críticas. A relevância dessa pesquisa está, justamente, em investigar e aprofundar os conhecimentos a respeito dos posicionamentos de Machado sobre questões referentes à teoria e à crítica literária, demonstrando também em que medida este entrelaçamento entre o texto ficcional e o teórico pode representar uma afinidade (antecipada) com o conceito de escritura formulado por Roland Barthes no século XX. Através deste mapeamento a ser realizado nos textos ficcionais machadianos, objetivo ressaltar, sobretudo, alguns de seus pensamentos a respeito do fazer literário e dos papéis distribuídos ao autor, ao crítico/teórico e ao leitor. Além disso, a visualização de determinados posicionamentos teóricos e críticos de Machado permite o aprofundamento do debate a respeito do frequente atributo de precursor de tendências, o qual foi muito bem sintetizado por Merquior em De Anchieta a Euclides: breve história da literatura brasileira: “Machado de Assis teve a intuição da crítica moderna.” (1979, p. 162). / Despite the extensive work of Machado de Assis, he has few publications devoted to explicit literary criticism. However, many of the Machado’s fictional narratives are offered as possibilities for understanding his theoretical and critical conceptions. The relevance of this research is precisely to investigate and improve the knowledge about the positions of Machado around issues of theory and literary criticism, demonstrating how this interweaving of theoretical and fictional texts may represent an early affinity with some concepts formulated by Roland Barthes in the twentieth century. Through this analysis of Machado’s fictional texts, I aim to emphasize, above all, some of his thoughts about the literary production and the roles occupied by the author, the critic/theoretic and the reader. Furthermore, the visualization of certain theoretical and critical positions of Machado allows a deeper debate about the common attribute of a trendsetter, which was well summarized by Merquior, in, De Anchieta a Euclides: breve história da literatura brasileira: "Machado de Assis had the insight of modern criticism."

Made available in DSpace on 2014-07-29T16:29:28Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 FLAVIO PEREIRA CAMARGO.pdf: 1480039 bytes, checksum: 36569b5479da5d28b954010a35fed89b (MD5) Previous issue date: 2012-08-24 / In our research, we propose initially to rescue some of the current trends of contemporary Brazilian prose fiction in order to introduce the reader to some of its main lines of force, especially a metafictional narrative, produced in the late twentieth century and early twenty-first century. To accomplish this bibliographical study, we chose to divide it into two parts. In the first part, entitled A narrativa brasileira contemporânea, comprising two chapters, we have made some considerations about the concept of contemporary literature, as we did a rescue of the critical reception of Brazilian literature produced in recent decades, followed by an extensive discussion on the issues constituent of metafictional narrative. In the second part, titled A encenação do fazer literário na prosa de ficção brasileira contemporânea, we propose to effectively analyze narrative and discursive strategies employed by Sérgio Sant'Anna, Antonio Fernando Borges and Rubem Fonseca in the preparation of his metafictional novels, respectively: Um crime delicado (1997), Braz, Quincas & Cia (2002), e Diário de um fescenino (2003), dedicating to each of these works a specific chapter in which we seek to highlight the discursive and narrative strategies employed by the authors in the construction process and elaboration of his novels, in order to explain the different manifestations of the contemporary metafictional narrative. / Em nossa pesquisa, nos propomos, inicialmente, a resgatar algumas das tendências da prosa de ficção brasileira contemporânea com o objetivo de apresentar ao leitor algumas de suas principais linhas de força, com destaque para a narrativa metaficcional, produzida no final do século XX e início do século XXI. Para realizar esse estudo de cunho bibliográfico, optamos por dividi-lo em duas partes. Na primeira parte, intitulada A narrativa brasileira contemporânea, composta por dois capítulos, tecemos algumas considerações acerca do conceito de contemporâneo em literatura, assim como faremos um resgate da recepção crítica da literatura brasileira produzida nas últimas décadas, seguido de uma ampla discussão sobre os aspectos constitutivos da narrativa metaficcional. Na segunda parte, intitulada A encenação do fazer literário na prosa de ficção brasileira contemporânea, nos propomos a analisar efetivamente as estratégias narrativas e discursivas empregadas por Sérgio Sant Anna, Antonio Fernando Borges e Rubem Fonseca na elaboração de seus romances metaficcionais, respectivamente: Um crime delicado (1997), Braz, Quincas & Cia (2002), e Diário de um fescenino (2003), dedicando a cada uma dessas obras um capítulo específico nos quais procuramos evidenciar as estratégias narrativas e discursivas empregadas pelos autores no processo de construção e de elaboração de seus romances, de modo a explicitar as distintas manifestações da narrativa metaficcional na contemporaneidade.

El problema a tratar o la reflexión sobre una redefinición o reestructuración de la ciencia literaria (crítica académica literaria, estudios literarios, CL) y estudios culturales (EC) es un fenómeno global obvio cuando, por ejemplo, en la propuesta para este volumen de reflexiones conjuntas, se pregunta "¿cómo reaccionar frente a la disminución de estudiantes subgraduados y graduados de literatura y al incremento de los abocados a los estudios culturales?" Esta pregunta revela un fenómeno que se está dando masivamente en todos aquellos países en cuyas universidades se han introducido los estudios culturales, así en Alemania, así en el Instituto de Romanística y en el Centro de Investigación Iberoamericana de la Universidad de Leipzig.:Introducción al problema: estudios culturales (EC) y crítica literaria (CL). - Prolegómenos: algunas reflexiones básicas. - "Hibridez" – "transversalidad" – "transmedialidad" – "cuerpo"/ "sexualidad". -