The runaway mother-in-law: women, poetry and humour in Hecyra
The irony and grotesque in the poetry of Christian Morgenstern and Sebastião Uchoa...
The anecdotal humor in 'Aletria e hermenêutica' by Guimarães Rosa
Grant number: | 15/21129-7 |
Support Opportunities: | Scholarships abroad - Research Internship - Master's degree |
Start date until: | February 04, 2016 |
End date until: | July 27, 2016 |
Field of knowledge: | Humanities - Philosophy |
Principal Investigator: | Oliver Tolle |
Grantee: | Juliana Ferraci Martone |
Supervisor: | Wilhelm Schmidt-Biggemann |
Host Institution: | Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil |
Institution abroad: | Freie Universität Berlin, Germany |
Associated to the scholarship: | 15/03046-7 - Jean Paul's travels through the galaxy of German literature, BP.MS |
Abstract The primary intention of this research project is to investigate how Jean Paul's theory of humor and therefore literary prose is based on a particular idea of problematic analogy, physiognomic/pathognomonic conceived between Janus' two faces of man, one that reaches out to his infinite, other to his finite side; and between the earthily and heavenly aspect of creation itself. To understand how this subtle mechanism works an excursion into Herder's ideas concerning language, poesy and natural mythology would be very helpful to locate Jean Paul's discussion on humor. Besides, I intend to show, using Erich Auerbach's categories of modern realism and mixture of genres (Mimesis), how Jean Paul's "realism" fits exactly the description of comedy Auerbach gives of Dante; "comedy is, inter alia, a didactic poem", in which all possible elements of reality (mythology, history, cosmology, legend, sublime, man, landscape etc.) find a voice. Humor permitted Jean Paul's amazing creativity and genius to manifest itself and to create his own way of Polyhistor or Allwissenheit. | |
News published in Agência FAPESP Newsletter about the scholarship: | |
More itemsLess items | |
TITULO | |
Articles published in other media outlets ( ): | |
More itemsLess items | |
VEICULO: TITULO (DATA) | |
VEICULO: TITULO (DATA) | |