The irony's voice and the voice's irony: the problem of enunciation in Machado de Assis

• Grant number: 12/24470-3
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Doctorate
• Effective date (Start): November 01, 2013
• Effective date (End): November 30, 2016
• Field of knowledge: Linguistics, Literature and Arts - Literature
• Principal Investigator: Verónica Galíndez
• Grantee: Luciana Antonini Schoeps
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil

Abstract

The purpose of this research is the study of irony in the work of Machado de Assis, done through the investigation of the enunciation. Thus, we intend to see how the issue of the construction of the narrator's place and the narrative voice makes the definition of the ironic discourse outlines and the observation of an ironic ethos complex, through the examination of the enunciative characteristics of irony, the narrator and the free indirect speech, found in the published novel Esaú e Jacó and in its manuscript. This investigation aims to describe the irony, its effects and its functions, concerning Machado's literary production.

Academic Publications

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

SCHOEPS, Luciana Antonini. Voices without mouth in the scenographer Machado de Assis manuscript: Esau and Jacob. 2016. Doctoral Thesis - Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH/SBD) São Paulo.