From James Joyce's love letter: confession, eroticism, pornography and profanation

• Grant number: 16/10664-1
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Scientific Initiation
• Start date: December 01, 2017
• End date: November 30, 2019
• Field of knowledge: Linguistics, Literature and Arts - Literature - Modern Foreign Literatures
• Principal Investigator: Adalberto Luis Vicente
• Grantee: Rangel Gomes de Andrade
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Ciências e Letras (FCL). Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP). Campus de Araraquara. Araraquara , SP, Brazil

Abstract

The following project has the intention of analysing the amatory correspondence of James Joyce, departing from some thematics to be emphasized: the pornographic and erotic element, the confessional content, and the profane subversion of Christian motives through parody and/or satire. In order to establish this analysis, we will try to understand the thematic and formal particularities which define and singularize the love letter as a subgenre (CARVALHO, 2005) at the core of the epistolary genre, and in which way the mentioned themes integrate themselves to this subgenre and define the distinctive content of Joyce's amatory correspondence. We have selected an average of 40 letters among the most representative ones, which comprehend the years of 1904, 1909 and 1912. (AU)