Boredom and Novel

• Grant number: 15/21668-5
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Post-Doctoral
• Start date: January 01, 2016
• End date: January 17, 2019
• Field of knowledge: Linguistics, Literature and Arts - Literature - Literature Theory
• Principal Investigator: Antonio Alcir Bernardez Pecora
• Grantee: Daniel Reizinger Bonomo
• Host Institution: Instituto de Estudos da Linguagem (IEL). Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Campinas , SP, Brazil
• Associated scholarship(s): 17/01833-7 - Mouth wide open: Camilo Castelo Branco between yawn and astonishment in the rise of the Portuguese novel, BE.EP.PD

Abstract

The proposal is to investigate the relationship between boredom and novelistic fiction by considering subject, textual elements, historical and contemporary issues concerning the novel as a literary genre. Boredom acquires here more than one sense: it serves as a counterpart to the ideological entertainment often associated with literary experience; it gives shape to form and specific temporalities of the novel; it is a thematic field mainly present from 19th century novels onwards. The objective is to establish a theoretical framework by investigating one constitutive aspect of the novel therefore proper to its comprehension and reading.