Eternal Return: biography as an area of memory and reflection

• Grant number: 10/14081-4
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Master
• Start date: August 01, 2011
• End date: July 31, 2013
• Field of knowledge: Linguistics, Literature and Arts - Literature - Comparative Literature
• Principal Investigator: Aparecida de Fatima Bueno
• Grantee: Edimara Lisboa
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil

Abstract

The film Palavra e Utopia (2000), a sort of Father Antonio Vieira biography, will be the Manoel de Oliveira cinematography's guideline, based, mainly, on the nietzschean eternal return issue. Following this philosophical concept, we will manage to clarify the assumption (and persistence) of a handful of evident motives brought by the portuguese film-maker; essencially, we will research Antonio Vieira's bibliography, managing to retain his mentioning texture (directly or undirectly) on this or others films of this same film-maker. By doing so, we expect to contribute in the research of Manoel de Oliveira's work, such as to expose his objective reading of the text to the context of the seventeenth-century author. The meditation will be around the narrative structure of the filmic biography, wich will allow, still, the approach of the inner characteristics of this literary genre "borrowed" from cinema. (AU)

Academic Publications

(References retrieved automatically from State of São Paulo Research Institutions)

LISBOA, Edimara. Eternal Return: biography as an area of memory and reflection. Portugal surcadrage by Manoel de Oliveira. 2013. Master's Dissertation - Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH/SBD) São Paulo.