scholarly journals Imaginação poética e técnica neobarroca no romance A serviço del-Rei, de Autran Dourado / Poetic Imagination and Neo-Barroque Procedures in the Novel A serviço del-Rei, Written by Autran Dourado

2021 ◽  
Vol 30 (2) ◽  
pp. 76
Author(s):  
Thaís Seabra Leite
Keyword(s):  
The Novel ◽  
Critical Reading ◽  
Severo Sarduy ◽  
Gaston Bachelard ◽  
Western Literature ◽  
Ongoing Work ◽  
Poetic Imagination ◽  
Alter Ego

Resumo: O presente estudo consiste em uma leitura crítica de A serviço del-Rei, de Autran D/ourado, contemplando o caráter metaficcional da mediação narrativa e a formulação de um alter ego do autor. Além desses pontos, recebe destaque o diálogo que o volume estabelece com outras obras do escritor mineiro e da literatura ocidental a partir da composição de metáforas. A fim de cumprir a finalidade a que se propõe, a pesquisa tem como fundamento teórico os estudos sobre metáfora e imaginação poética de Philip Wheelwright (1968) e Gaston Bachelard (1990, 2001, 2002), e as reflexões sobre a ficção do século XX que Haroldo de Campos (1972) e Severo Sarduy (1972) denominam neobarroca.Palavras-chave: Autran Dourado; ficção brasileira; metáfora; imaginação; neobarroco.Abstract: The ongoing work aims at presenting a critical reading of A serviço del-Rei, written by Autran Dourado. Throughout the analysis, we focus on the metafictional characteristics of the narrative status as well as on some formulation of the author’s alter ego and on the dialogue established by the volume with other works also written by Dourado. Regarding the metaphorical construction, another relevant connection is with Western literature. In order to follow the purpose of this research on the topic, we rely on Philip Wheelwright’s studies and Gaston Bachelard’s thoughts about metaphor and poetic imagination. In addition, we consider Haroldo de Campos and Severo Sarduy’s reflections on Neo-Baroque tendencies of the twentieth century.Keywords: Autran Dourado; Brazilian fiction; metaphor; imagination; neo-barroque.

Little Dorrit

2018 ◽  
pp. 244-259
Author(s):  
Francesca Orestano
Keyword(s):  
Collective Identity ◽  
Cultural Memory ◽  
Visual Studies ◽  
Critical Reception ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Critical Reading ◽  
Contemporary Politics ◽  
History Of ◽  
Critical Enquiry ◽  
Narrative Function

By dwelling first on the ‘faults’, then on the ‘excellencies’ remarked by reviewers and critics of Little Dorrit, this chapter also traces the history of that novel’s critical reception as it evolved from a close focus on contemporary politics and economics toward a study of the writer’s Hogarthian skill at building a visual satire. Subsequently the characters’ psychology as well as Dickens’s became the object of critical enquiry. When visual studies brought to the fore the import of perception and its narrative function, another area of investigation opened, in this chapter specifically connected with, and culturally encoded in, the technique of the stereoscope and the scientific notion of the binocularity of vision. Implemented by Dickens in the construction of Little Dorrit, this notion allows for a further critical reading of the novel as lieu de mémoire where real and imagined imprisonments, inscribed in history, also conjure the scene where cultural memory rewrites individual and collective identity in the present.

scholarly journals Profesor Camilleri i pan Caravaggio. Multimodalne studium twórczości i psychozy

2019 ◽  
pp. 121-144
Author(s):  
Ksenia Olkusz
Keyword(s):  
Mental State ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Modal Frame ◽  
Alter Ego ◽  
Research Studies

Multimodal techniques (meaning the use of narrative modes signalised by various typographies etc.) enable a fuller presentation of Caravaggio’s mental dysfunction (in the novel the focalizing role is performed by, among others, the notes of the painter who is falling into obsession and madness – it is these that form his internal storyworld). Confrontation with the journalistic account, provided by the alter ego of the very author of the novel (so called sylleptic narrator) – that is the second level of narration – constitutes the modal frame for the presentation of the artist’s fate and contributes to showing the mental state of Caravaggio who is obsessed with “black sun” (this obsession might be the source of the chiaroscuro technique), and who sees in hallucinations his own severed head. This way, Camilleri creatively exploits the motif of decapitation, found in Caravaggio’s paintings, following many research studies showing that the heads found in the paintings could have been the painter’s self-portraits and expressions of his expiation. This context is supplemented by reproductions of Caravaggio’s paintings, which are embedded in the narration and “commented upon” in his fictional journal, thus constituting yet another layer registering (and illustrating) what takes place in the artist’s mind.

scholarly journals Acido, ergo sum: Holger Hydén – the neuroscientist in Cortázar's Hopscotch

2013 ◽  
Vol 71 (6) ◽  
pp. 408-410 ◽  
Author(s):  
Guillermo Delgado ◽  
Bruno Estanol
Keyword(s):  
San Francisco ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Chemical Theory ◽  
Italian Author ◽  
Alter Ego ◽  
The University

The fictional Italian author Morelli is throughout the novel “Hopscotch” (1963) Julio Cortázar's alter ego. This character proposes an unoriginal literary hypothesis in chapter 62. There is an allusion to a particular Swedish that ‘is working on a chemical theory of thought.’ The Swedish neuroscientist under analysis is Holger Hydén (1917-2000), by then professor and chairman of the Department of Histology at the University of Göteborg. Hydén, who was the first to work in neurobiological micromethods, is mentioned by Morelli due to his participation in a symposium held at the end of January 1961, in San Francisco. His pioneering work will never be completely forgotten, because Hydén's neuroscientific legacy lives and will live in Cortázar's “Hopscotch”.

scholarly journals CHILDHOOD IN THE SHADOW OF A LIME AND ORANGE BLOSSOM

2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (22) ◽  
pp. 112-135
Author(s):  
Ozaias Antonio Batista ◽  
Ana Laudelina Ferreira Gomes
Keyword(s):  
The Novel ◽  
Creative Movement ◽  
Poetic Imagination ◽  
Literary Images

Understanding imagination as an anthropological faculty capable of instigating the being to completely recreate itself, this paper aims to present some experiences lived by Zezé, a protagonist of the novel “O meu pé de laranja-lima” (my lime-orange blossom) in order to problematize the role of the imagination in the constitution of the being, also embracing their sociocultural reality. To accomplish this purpose, we have adopted the phenomenology of Gaston Bachelard's poetic imagination in dialogue with literary images in the “Poetics of reveries” as a theoretical and methodological assumption, since this research is restricted to the novel mentioned. We were able to identify that the images conceived by Zeze enabled another understanding of himself and his reality, due to the creative movement provided by the imaginative. Keywords: My lime and orange blossom. Imagination and poetic. Imagination and poetic images. Oneiric childhood.

scholarly journals FEMALE CHARACTER AS AUTHOR'S ALTER EGO IN IRENA KARPA'S NOVEL "GOOD NEWS FROM THE ARAL SEA"

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (11(79)) ◽  
pp. 163-165
Author(s):  
Myroslava Krupka
Keyword(s):  
Role Models ◽  
Life Story ◽  
Aral Sea ◽  
Good News ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Love Stories ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Alter Ego ◽  
Life Roles ◽  
Autobiographical Narrative

The study investigates the problem of representation of the female image in the autobiographical paradigm of Irena Karpa's novel “Good News from the Aral Sea” because the tendencies of subjectivism describe the writer's work as a manifestation of generational and gender identities. Thus, the modern cultural process is marked by the active presence of writers not only through their texts, but also through various public activities and social networks, which allows the reader to have an idea of the author's private history and accordingly correlate it with artistic narrative. Therewith, the form of the autobiographical narrative is considered as a way for the writer to articulate her experience as gender-marked and is a form of constructing the identity of the character – the author's alter ego. Irena Karpa's book simulates four types of modern heroines, united by common topos of birth and residence, but it is Rita's plot line that is considered as the embodiment of an autobiographical narrative. The figure of this heroine is shown at the junction of two cultures: Ukrainian and European. However, the drama of her life story is provoked by the self-identification of the mistress, who is always in a relationship with two men at the same time, which determines her identity. In the novel, it is love stories that unfold the dynamism of the heroine' s character: she mimics each subsequent man, changing role models from victim to muse. Other life roles: mother, wife, daughter are secondary, and are outside the priority zone. The correlation of the artistic world of the novel with the actual biography of the writer gives grounds to interpret the novel as an autofiction.

scholarly journals Racism in Arabic literature: Glimpses from Poetry, novel and folklore: ظواهر عنصرية في الأدب العربي - ملامح من الشعر والرواية والسير الشعبية

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Alaa Fahti El-Gabry, Mohamed Ibrahim Elaskary
Keyword(s):  
Black People ◽  
Arabic Literature ◽  
People Of Color ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Western Literature ◽  
Subjective Representation

This paper discusses the idea of racism in Arabic literature. It mainly focuses on the subjective representation of black people as early as the pre-Islamic era until the modern ages. We trace the subjective representation of black people in poetry, the novel and folklore. In this paper, we do not intend we defend the Arabic culture or Arabic literature, nor do we aim to beautify the biased representation of people of color in Arabic writings. Rather, we will try to study this phenomenon in an objective and balanced way. In this regard, we would like also to reiterate the fact that the image of black people in Western literature is not in any way brighter than their depiction in Arabic literature.

scholarly journals La cita y la reminiscencia como formas de intertextualidad en El recurso del método de Alejo Carpentier

2015 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 13
Author(s):  
María Salvadora Ortiz
Keyword(s):  
Alejo Carpentier ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Severo Sarduy

En este artículo voy a explorar dos de los recursos literarios del discurso barroco: la cita y reminiscencias. Analizo estos dos recursos en la novela El recurso del método, por el autor cubano Alejo Carpantier. Teóricamente concibo el texto como una construcción dialógica del tipo propuesto por Severo Sarduy y Michael Bajtín.In this article I explore two of the literary resources of baroque discourse: the quote and reminiscences. I analyze these two resources in the novel El recurso del método, by Cuban author Alejo Carpantier. Theoretically I conceive of the text as a dialogic construction of the type proposed by Severo Sarduy and Michael Bakhtin.

scholarly journals Sir Walter Scott, Benito Pérez Galdós y la sátira quijotesca de la erudición

2019 ◽  
Vol 22 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alfredo Moro Martín
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Present Article ◽  
Sir Walter Scott ◽  
Benito Perez Galdos ◽  
Dramatic Literature ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Western Literature ◽  
Profound Influence ◽  
Benito Pérez Galdós

The satire on excessive erudition counts with a long-standing tradition in Western Literature. From its Classical origins, the figure of the ridiculous erudite dunce exhibited a notable presence in the dramatic literature of the seventeenth century, being absorbed by the novel in the eighteenth, where it merges with the figure of the Quixote. The present article tries to relate the figures of Jonathan Oldbuck of Sir Walter Scott’s The Antiquary (1816) and José Augusto Becerro, of Benito Pérez Galdos’ El caballero encantado (1909) with this literary archetype, revealing the profound influence of the eighteenth-century Cervantean tradition in the work of both authors, who employ the Quixotic erudite dunce in similar ways in order to satirize an outdated approach towards the study of history and its narrative embodiment.

Cannibalism and cultural manipulation: How Morier is received in the Persian literary canon

Human Affairs ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 28 (2) ◽  
pp. 141-159
Author(s):  
Moslem Fatollahi
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Values ◽  
Literary Translation ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Literary Canon ◽  
Persian Literature ◽  
Colonial Era ◽  
Western Literature ◽  
Post Colonial ◽  
Post Colonialism ◽  
Persian Translation

Abstract Post-colonialism and orientalism have inspired literary scholars to study various aspects of literature and literary translation in the post-colonial era. One of the implications of post-colonialism for literature as a discipline is the idea of cannibalism and cultural manipulation. This corpus-based study aims to analyze the notions of “cultural manipulation” or “cannibalism” in the Persian translation of Haji Baba by Mirza Habib Isfahani, to explore the translator’s strategy, as an intercultural mediator, in modulating the source novel’s colonial stance and adapting it to the religious, literary and cultural tastes of the Iranians. Our findings reveal that two main techniques—of omission and euphemism—have been applied in rendering the novel into Persian. Using these techniques, the translator has attempted to challenge the imperial stance of the main writer and come up with a version of the source novel which is much less insulting to Iranians’ cultural values. That is why this translation has been widely received as a literary masterpiece in Persian literature. One implication is that it might be claimed that cannibalism and cultural manipulation can be used to explain the trend of manipulating western literature in countries which have never been colonized, but that have suffered from the colonial stance of colonial writers.

Ludic Limbos

2018 ◽  
Vol 30 (2) ◽  
pp. 353-364
Author(s):  
Ayten Tartici
Keyword(s):  
The Novel ◽  
Critical Reading ◽  
Literary Authority ◽  
Rhetorical Strategy ◽  
Minor Character

Abstract The minor character of Belacqua from Dante’s Purgatorio recurs often in Beckett’s early work. This article emphasizes the comic in its critical reading of Molloy, by studying how Beckett both adapted and parodied the language of the Commedia. Such an approach reveals the complex tension created by Beckett’s simultaneously parodic yet reverential appropriation of Dante’s language. This rhetorical strategy also points to a larger theme in the novel: subversive laughter aimed at theological, philosophical and literary authority.

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