Mouth wide open: Camilo Castelo Branco between yawn and astonishment in the rise of the Portuguese novel

• Grant number: 17/01833-7
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships abroad - Research Internship - Post-doctor
• Start date: April 03, 2017
• End date: August 02, 2017
• Field of knowledge: Linguistics, Literature and Arts - Literature - Literature Theory
• Principal Investigator: Antonio Alcir Bernardez Pecora
• Grantee: Daniel Reizinger Bonomo
• Supervisor: Abel José Barros Baptista
• Host Institution: Instituto de Estudos da Linguagem (IEL). Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Campinas , SP, Brazil
• Institution abroad: Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal
• Associated to the scholarship: 15/21668-5 - Boredom and Novel, BP.PD

Abstract

The proposal requests an internship in the Universidade Nova de Lisboa in order to prepare and write an essay about Camilo Castelo Branco's novel trilogy composed of Onde está a felicidade? Um homem de brios and Memórias de Guilherme do Amaral. The essay, planned to be a chapter of the main research "Aborrecimento e romance", aims at analyzing one exemplary episode regarding narrative forms which represent and induce yawns and passional astonishments during the so-called rise of the Portuguese novel. The internship also includes the work on bibliographical research for two other stages of the same study: the essay on A cidade e as serras by Eça de Queiroz and the conceptual definition of "aborrecimento" ("abhorrence" and related meanings like "disgust" and "boredom"). (AU)