scholarly journals O mito ressignificado em Neil Gaiman: diálogos entre direito animal e literatura

2020 ◽  
pp. 101
Author(s):  
Sarah Maria Borges Carneiro
Keyword(s):  
Michel De Montaigne ◽  
Neil Gaiman ◽  
John Berger

O presente trabalho tem o objetivo específico analisar de que maneira as representações dos personagens não-humanos na obra de Neil Gaiman questionam o direito animal, não apenas no que concerne às leis, mas também no que diz respeito às justificativas formuladas pelo homem ao longo da história para garantir a si mesmo um lugar acima dos animais e da própria natureza. As mudanças tecnológicas e culturais desgastaram a relação entre o homem e o mundo natural, levando-nos a associar a identidade do homem moderno à domesticação e ao rebaixamento daquilo que remete à animalidade. Destacamos a importância da relação entre infância e animalidade pela aproximação entre personagens crianças e animais desde as narrativas mitológicas, até as obras literárias contemporâneas estética e tematicamente elaboradas para o público infantojuvenil. Portanto, fazer um apanhado das narrativas escritas por Neil Gaiman, voltadas teoricamente para o leitor adulto ou para o público infantojuvenil, que trazem em seus enredos personagens não-humanos e crianças, revela-se pertinente para que se possa compreender as tentativas de sondagem da outridade animal que nunca deixaram de instigar a imaginação humana ao longo da história. Partimos da hipótese de que o contato do jovem leitor com os animais de Gaiman contribuiria para uma tomada de consciência dos direitos dos animais, levando o leitor a respeitar a natureza e valorizá-la não apenas em termos de sua utilidade para nós, mas pelos valores e saberes intrínsecos ou inerentes da própria natureza. Para tanto, nos fundamenta-remos nos ensaios de Michel de Montaigne (1987), John Berger (1980), Jacques Derridas (1997), e J. M. Coetzee (1999), nos estudos de Greg Garrard (2006) acerca da Ecocrítica, nas obras de Maria Esther Maciel sobre Literatura e animalidade (2011; 2016) e no estudo de Rutineia Rossi sobre Direitos dos Animais e Ecologia Profunda (2016).

Speculative Realism and Science Fiction

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brian Willems
Keyword(s):  
Science Fiction ◽  
Identity Formation ◽  
Cormac Mccarthy ◽  
Doris Lessing ◽  
Speculative Realism ◽  
Neil Gaiman ◽  
The World ◽  
The Difference ◽  
Quentin Meillassoux

A human-centred approach to the environment is leading to ecological collapse. One of the ways that speculative realism challenges anthropomorphism is by taking non-human things to be as valid objects of investivation as humans, allowing a more responsible and truthful view of the world to take place. Brian Willems uses a range of science fiction literature that questions anthropomorphism both to develop and challenge this philosophical position. He looks at how nonsense and sense exist together in science fiction, the way in which language is not a guarantee of personhood, the role of vision in relation to identity formation, the difference between metamorphosis and modulation, representations of non-human deaths and the function of plasticity within the Anthropocene. Willems considers the works of Cormac McCarthy, Paolo Bacigalupi, Neil Gaiman, China Miéville, Doris Lessing and Kim Stanley Robinson are considered alongside some of the main figures of speculative materialism including Graham Harman, Quentin Meillassoux and Jane Bennett.

Pierre Michel et Michel de Montaigne

Moreana ◽  
1983 ◽  
Vol 20 (Number 79-8 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 201-202
Author(s):  
Germain Marc’hadour
Keyword(s):  
Michel De Montaigne

A Study in Four Colours: The Case of the Chameleon Detective

2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 25-41
Author(s):  
Lucyna Krawczyk-Żywko
Keyword(s):  
Short Story ◽  
First Century ◽  
First Episode ◽  
Sherlock Holmes ◽  
Neil Gaiman ◽  
Award Winning ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
Literary Characters

Sherlock Holmes, one of the world's most famous detectives, is skilled at disguising himself and adjusting to different circumstances and yet remaining himself. Few literary characters lose so little in the process of adaptation, be it cinematic or literary, and I propose calling him a cultural chameleon: regardless of the palette and colour against which he is positioned – warm (scarlet and pink), cold (emerald), or black – he remains a brilliant sleuth. This paper compares four titles and four colours: A Study in Scarlet (1887), the first of the long-running series of texts by Doyle, and three instances of Holmes's adaptability to twenty-first century standards and expectations: ‘A Study in Emerald’ (2003), an award-winning short story by Neil Gaiman, ‘A Study in Pink’ (2010), the first episode of the BBC series Sherlock, and ‘A Study in Black’ (2012–13), a part of the Watson and Holmes comics series. Each background highlights different aspects of the detective's personality, but also sheds light on his approach to crime and criminals.

Radical Moderation

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Douglas I. Thompson
Keyword(s):  
Civil Conflict ◽  
Michel De Montaigne ◽  
Dual Roles

Renaissance theories of diplomacy seek to address the tension between the ambassador’s dual roles as mediator between princes and representative of one prince exclusively. Michel de Montaigne transposes this concern onto the question of how to negotiate the resolution of civil conflict when one is a partisan within the conflict. In his view, moderation is the capacity that this activity demands. This is a deeply paradoxical virtue: if one is to be moderate and not overly hostile toward all signs of partisanship, one must retain some contact with partisan extremes. Montaigne argues that one should handle this paradox by acknowledging the customary, habitual aspects of one’s partisan attachments, so that one may affirm them without incapacitating oneself politically. The chapter then compares Montaigne’s conception of moderation with William Connolly’s conception of “bicameral citizenship,” which also seeks to enable non-incapacitating partisanship.

Introduction

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Douglas I. Thompson
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
First Century ◽  
The Political ◽  
Michel De Montaigne ◽  
Political Actors ◽  
Northern European ◽  
Political Conception ◽  
Legal Principle ◽  
Ethical Disposition

In academic debates and popular political discourse, tolerance almost invariably refers either to an individual moral or ethical disposition or to a constitutional legal principle. However, for the political actors and ordinary residents of early modern Northern European countries torn apart by religious civil war, tolerance was a political capacity, an ability to talk to one’s religious and political opponents in order to negotiate civil peace and other crucial public goods. This book tells the story of perhaps the greatest historical theorist-practitioner of this political conception of tolerance: Michel de Montaigne. This introductory chapter argues that a Montaignian insistence that political opponents enter into productive dialogue with each other is worth reviving and promoting in the increasingly polarized democratic polities of the twenty-first century.

Philosophers in the New World: Montaigne and the Tradition of Epideictic Rhetoric

2012 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
pp. 22-36 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eric MacPhail
Keyword(s):  
New World ◽  
Michel De Montaigne ◽  
Epideictic Rhetoric ◽  
Ethical Norms ◽  
The Relationship

This article studies the essays of Michel de Montaigne in the context of the tradition of epideictic rhetoric from antiquity to the Renaissance, with particular attention to the humanist reception of Aristotle's Rhetoric. The focus of this attention is the relationship between epideictic and consensus, which proves to be more problematic than Aristotle seems to have anticipated. If we read Montaigne's essay “Des Cannibales” as a paradoxical encomium and compare it to Plutarch's declamation on the fortune of Alexander, we can see how epideictic works to undermine consensus and even to challenge the very impulse to conform to social and ethical norms.

scholarly journals A meditatio mortis montaigniana

2012 ◽  
Vol 53 (126) ◽  
pp. 463-481 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eduino José Orione
Keyword(s):  
Michel De Montaigne

Este artigo investiga o ensaio "Que philosopher c'est apprendre a mourir", de Michel de Montaigne. Trata-se de um texto que é um bom exemplo da forma como o filósofo rejeita a tradição metafísica na qual o problema da morte sempre foi pensado. Mostramos que a originalidade deste ensaio reside no fato de Montaigne nos aconselhar a seguir a natureza, que, em seu pensamento, se confunde com o costume.

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