Modern Chinese poetry has since its inception been subjected to unfavourable comments as compared to classical Chinese poetry, which can be construed as the result of the alleged unintelligibility problem encountered in interpretation of poetry. This thesis attempts to find out if it is justified to attribute modern poetry’s poorer reception to the alleged unintelligibility problem. Accordingly, a purported criterion of poetry assessment, shiyi 詩意 (literally “poeticalness”), as well as a theoretical framework based on shiyi, is formulated primarily in light of Dan Sperber and Deirdre Wilson’s relevance theory and Paul Ricoeur’s hermeneutics. Whereas relevance theory is a cognitive pragmatic approach focusing on recovery of meanings of an utterance by tracing the authorial intention through relevance, Ricoeur’s hermeneutics sees textual interpretation as relying on a hermeneutical circle through which a reader produces a world of the text, itself also a means by which the reader attains or enriches self-understanding. To incorporate the speaker-centred relevance theory, Ricoeur’s comparatively reader-oriented model, as well as other related text-focused approaches into the proposed framework, the central concept of shiyi is put forward with a view to bridging the distance between emphasis on author, reader and text. The framework formulated should be more applicable to literary texts and less vulnerable to the intriguing authorship problematic. In addition, a “subtlety-unintelligibility continuum” is posited and developed within the framework to identify and account for the differences in shiyi, as well as to provide a clear characterisation of shiyi. The framework thus represents an interface between the linguistic, the philosophical and the literary perspectives. The overall objectives of this thesis are: (1) to prove that the proposed theory of shiyi and its underlying framework are theoretically and practically valid by putting the framework to the test through thoroughly analysing a number of representative modern Chinese poems, and (2) to justify or refute the propriety of attributing modern poetry’s poorer reception to the alleged unintelligibility problem based on findings of the analysis of poetry mentioned in (1).

Submitted by Maike Costa (maiksebas@gmail.com) on 2016-06-14T12:08:10Z No. of bitstreams: 1 arquivo total.pdf: 3671987 bytes, checksum: 5ea1bc149b47c2fc011e1cd390abc337 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2016-06-14T12:08:10Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 arquivo total.pdf: 3671987 bytes, checksum: 5ea1bc149b47c2fc011e1cd390abc337 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2015-04-23 / The films A teta assustada (2009), directed by Claudia Llosa, Whisky (2003), directed by Juan Pablo Rebella and Pablo Stoll and O segredo de seus olhos (2009), by Juan José Campanella, as any artistic text, exist ―only in the spirit which endows them with reality‖ (AUMONT, 1995, p. 225). The strategies adopted by each filmmaker have impregnated the narratives with poetical quality and opened a space for a politics of fiction. These narratives have functioned as windows which allowed us to think about the common human being; these were deliberate partial choices pregnant of an affective and a political perspective, whose aim was to under-stand the vicissitudes of our everyday life, through the stories of singular subjects/characters. Aiming to amplify the understanding of this issue, we carried out analyses of various fictional texts, through which we discussed the theoretical principles of poeticalness and metafiction, based on Jacques Rancière, Roman Jakobson, Linda Hutcheon, Patricia Waugh and texts by the Russian formalists. The objective of this research was therefore to investigate how Latin-American cinema, represented in three early films of the twenty-first century has proposed new ways of thinking about politics and subjectivity through a poetical action and vision. / Las películas La teta asustada (2009), Claudia Llosa, Whisky (2003), de Juan Pablo Rebella y Pablo Stoll, y El secreto de sus ojos (2009), de Juan José Campanella, como todo texto artísti-co, existen ―solo en el espíritu que le(s) da su realidad‖ (AUMONT, 1995, p. 225). Las estra-tegias de cada cineasta proporcionaron poeticidad a las narrativas y abrieron espacio para una política de la ficción. Estas narrativas nos sirven como ventanas para pensar el cotidiano del hombre común, opciones declaradamente parciales y que están imbuidas de una perspectiva afectiva y política que busca comprender nuestras dificultades de todos los días a partir de la historia de ―seres‖ (personajes) singulares. Con el objetivo de ampliar la comprensión de este tema, hicimos análisis de varias obras de ficción a partir de las cuales discutimos los princi-pios teóricos de la poética y de la metaficción a luz de Jacques Rancière, Roman Jakobson, Linda Hutcheon, Patricia Waugh y de textos de formalistas rusos. El objetivo de este estudio fue, por tanto, investigar como el cine latinoamericano, representado en tres películas de este inicio de siglo, propone nuevas formas de pensar lo político y la subjetividad política desde un hacer y mirar poéticos. / Os filmes A teta assustada (2009), de Claudia Llosa, Whisky (2003), de Juan Pablo Rebella e Pablo Stoll, e O segredo de seus olhos (2009), de Juan José Campanella, como todo texto ar-tístico, existem ―somente no espírito que lhe[s] proporciona[m] sua realidade‖ (AUMONT, 1995, p. 225). As estratégias de cada cineasta dotaram as narrativas de poeticidade e abriram espaço para uma política da ficção. Tais narrativas serviram-nos como janelas para pensar o cotidiano do homem comum, tendo sido escolhas declaradamente parciais, impregnadas de um olhar afetivo e político que buscou compreender as agruras nossas de cada dia a partir da história de ―seres‖ (personagens) singulares. Visando ampliar a compreensão dessa questão, realizamos análises de textos de ficção diversos a partir dos quais discutimos os princípios teóricos de poeticidade e metaficção, à luz de Jacques Rancière, Roman Jakobson, Linda Hut-cheon, Patricia Waugh e de textos dos formalistas russos. O objetivo dessa pesquisa foi, por-tanto, investigar como o cinema latino-americano, representado em três filmes deste início de século, vem propondo novas formas de pensar o político e a subjetividade a partir de um fazer e olhar poéticos.