scholarly journals Física e literatura: construindo uma ponte entre as duas culturas

2006 ◽  
Vol 13 (suppl) ◽  
pp. 55-70 ◽  
Author(s):  
João Zanetic
Keyword(s):  
William Faulkner ◽  
Edgar Allan Poe ◽  
Gustave Flaubert ◽  
Emile Zola ◽  
Gaston Bachelard

Este artigo defende a aproximação entre física e literatura como uma forma útil de interpretar o mundo. Utilizo nessa aproximação a filosofia de Gaston Bachelard, explorando sua discussão sobre perfis epistemológicos em que comparecem doutrinas filosóficas que vão do realismo ingênuo ao ultra-racionalismo, compreendendo entre elas o empirismo determinista da física clássica e a indeterminação da física contemporânea. Destaco estas últimas porque analiso, de forma metafórica, os perfis epistemológicos de alguns escritores importantes do século XIX e início do século XX que são exemplos de transição entre aquelas duas doutrinas filosóficas. A ponte aqui será mais explicitamente a transformação do papel do escrito literário na passagem da visão de mundo influenciada pela física clássica, representada pelos escritores Edgar Allan Poe, Gustave Flaubert, Emile Zola e Augusto Zaluar, para aquela que nasceria influenciada pela física contemporânea, exemplificada pelos escritos de Fiódor Dostoiévski e William Faulkner.

American Obscurantism

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Lurie
Keyword(s):  
American Literature ◽  
William Faulkner ◽  
Herman Melville ◽  
Edgar Allan Poe ◽  
Hart Crane ◽  
Stanley Kubrick ◽  
Early Twenty ◽  
Racial History ◽  
Late Twentieth ◽  
Ongoing Development

American Obscurantism argues for a salutary indirection in U.S. culture. From its earliest canonical literary works through films of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, the most compelling manifestations of America’s troubled history have articulated this content through a unique formal and tonal obscurity. Envisioning the formidable darkness attending racial history at nearly every stage of the republic’s founding and ongoing development, writers such as William Faulkner and Hart Crane, and directors like the Coen brothers and Stanley Kubrick, present a powerful critique of American conquest, southern plantation culture, and western frontier ideology. American Obscurantism engages the basis of these explorations in Edgar Allan Poe and Herman Melville, each of whom present notable occlusions in their characters’ racial understanding, an obtuseness or naivety that is expressed by a corresponding formal opacity. Such oblique historicity as the book describes allows a method at odds with—and implicitly critical of—the historicizing trend that marked literary studies in the wake of the theoretical turn. The book thus restores an emphasis on aesthetic and medium-specific features to argue for a formalist historicity. Working through challenges to an implicitly white, bourgeois, heteronormative polity, American Obscurantism posits an insistent, vital racial otherness at the heart of American literature and cinema. It examines this pattern across a canon that shows more self-doubt than assuredness, arguing for the value of openness and questioning in place of epistemological or critical certainty.

scholarly journals Fiction as a Medium of Social Communication in 19th Century France

2014 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 123-144
Author(s):  
Sabina Pstrocki-Sehovic ◽  
Sabina Pstrocki-Sehovic
Keyword(s):  
19Th Century ◽  
Social Communication ◽  
Gustave Flaubert ◽  
Emile Zola ◽  
Charles Baudelaire ◽  
Madame Bovary ◽  
Comedie Humaine ◽  
19Th Century France ◽  
The 19Th Century ◽  
Fleurs Du Mal

This article will present the extent to which literature could be viewed as means of social communication – i.e. informing and influencing society – in 19thcentury France, by analysing the appearance of three authors at different points:  the beginning, the middle and the end of the century. The first is the case of Balzac at the beginning of the 19th Century who becomes the most successful novelist of the century in France and who, in his prolific expression and rich vocabulary, portrays society from various angles in a huge opus of almost 100 works, 93 of them making his Comédie humaine. The second is the case of Gustave Flaubert whose famous novel Madame Bovary, which depicts a female character in a realist but also in a psychologically conscious manner, around the mid-19th century reaches French courts together with Les Fleurs du Mal by Charles Baudelaire and is exposed as being socially judged for its alleged immorality. The last is the political affair of Dreyfus and its defender Emile Zola, the father of naturalism. This case confirms the establishment of more intense relations between writer and politics and builds a solid way for a more conscious and everyday political engagement in the literary world from the end of the 19th century onwards. These three are the most important cases which illustrate how fiction functioned in relation to society, state and readership in 19th century France.

Houses and the Fate of Families : A Comparison of “The Fall of the House of Usher” by Edgar Allan Poe and Absalom, Absalom! by William Faulkner

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-14
Author(s):  
Eszter Enikő Mohácsi
Keyword(s):  
Short Story ◽  
William Faulkner ◽  
Edgar Allan Poe ◽  
The People ◽  
The Family

In Poe’s short story “The Fall of the House of Usher” the house where the events unfold is described as a sentient being, and its first description forebodes the occurrence of dark events. In addition, Poe utilizes the house of Usher to show how the fate of the house and its inhabitants are connected. The House of Usher stands for the building itself as well as the family, and Usher himself believes that the house is alive and can also exert its influence on the people living in it. The house of Thomas Sutpen in Faulkner’s Absalom, Absalom! is equally significant and is used to symbolize Sutpen’s will to establish his dynasty. The house is furnished luxuriously to establish his reputation in society, and Sutpen finally succeeds in bringing home a wife to the completed house. However, after the war the house is in ruins and Sutpen is unable to defy his fate anymore: he cannot rebuild the house, which – several years later – is burnt down by his own daughter, the partly black Clytemnestra. This paper compares and contrasts the houses and their function in the two works.

Flaubert, Gustave (1821–1880)

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adam R. McKee
Keyword(s):  
Henry James ◽  
Marcel Proust ◽  
Gustave Flaubert ◽  
Emile Zola ◽  
Close Friend ◽  
Law School ◽  
Guy De Maupassant ◽  
Modern Novel ◽  
Jean Paul ◽  
French Writer

A primary innovator of the modern novel, French writer Gustave Flaubert was one of the most influential literary artists of the nineteenth century. Primarily associated with Realism, Flaubert is best remembered for his magnum opusMadame Bovary (1857). A close friend of many of his contemporaries including Ivan Turgenev, Henry James, and Guy de Maupassant, Flaubert was one of the moving forces in the early stages of modern literature. He is widely acknowledged as one of the originators of the modern novel’s form, and his work has influenced such literary figures as Émile Zola, Franz Kafka and Jean-Paul Sartre. Perhaps his legacy is best understood through Marcel Proust, who referred to Flaubert as a ‘génie grammatical’ (grammatical genius). Born in the northern French city of Rouen in 1821, Flaubert was the second of three children. Flaubert’s father was a surgeon in Rouen. After attending secondary school at Collège Royal de Rouen, Flaubert enrolled in law school in Paris in 1842. He would spend almost two years living in Paris before suffering the first epileptic seizure of his life in January 1844. As a result, Flaubert’s career as a writer would begin as he moved to a family property in Croisset, outside Rouen. Here Flaubert would write his masterpieces.

scholarly journals ESPAÇO E INSPIRAÇÃO EM “CANTIGA DE ESPONSAIS” DOI: 10.5216/lep.v17i1.30435

2014 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Luciana Moura COLUCCI DE CAMARGO ◽  
Ana Carolina SANCHES BORGES
Keyword(s):  
Edgar Allan Poe ◽  
Machado De Assis ◽  
Gaston Bachelard

No presente artigo, pretende-se analisar o conto de Machado de Assis, “Cantiga de esponsais”, a partir da construção do espaço sob uma perspectiva topoanalista. Para tanto, estudos críticos de teóricos como Edgar Allan Poe (1997), Gaston Bachelard (1989), Iuri Lotman (1978) e Borges Filho (2007), entre outros, serão de grande valia uma vez que todos esses pesquisadores tratam o espaço como uma categoria extremamente relevante para o texto literário. Ademais, será enfatizada a escritura contística de Machado no sentido de demonstrar como o pensamento desse escritor em relação à abordagem espacial coaduna-se com as reflexões dos teóricos antes mencionados. Em conjunto, teórica e artisticamente, esses pensadores valoram sobremaneira o espaço literário.

scholarly journals In the Land of Pain

2016 ◽  
Vol 22 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Asnia Latif ◽  
M Faisal Amir Malik ◽  
Ali Madeeh Hashmi
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Gustave Flaubert ◽  
Emile Zola ◽  
Life Time ◽  
General Paresis ◽  
Edmond De Goncourt ◽  
Early Nineteenth Century ◽  
Resulting Condition ◽  
The Central Nervous System ◽  
Alphonse Daudet

<p>(<em>Authors' Note</em>: Alphonse Daudet (1840-1897) was a nineteenth century French novelist. A contemporary of Gustave Flaubert, Edmond de Goncourt and Emile Zola, among others, he achieved much fame and renown in his life time. He contracted syphilis sometimes in his twenties. In the last ten years of his life, he suffered from the effects of neurosyphilis. “In the Land of Pain” is a personal account of his struggle with the illness which eventually took his life).</p><p>      In the early nineteenth century, the tertiary form of syphilis began to be recognized. After lurking in the victim’s blood for several years, syphilis attacked the central nervous system. The resulting condition, called neurosyphilis, was invariably fatal. It usually manifested in two major forms: Locomotor ataxia (also called tabesdorsalis) or general paresis (also called general paresis of the insane).</p>

Edgar Allan Poe Matches Wits With One of the First Identified Serial Killers!

PsycCRITIQUES ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 59 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
James F. Iaccino ◽  
Jennifer Dondero
Keyword(s):  
Edgar Allan Poe ◽  
Serial Killers
Sign in / Sign up

Export Citation Format

Share Document