| Grant number: | 17/22998-4 |
| Support Opportunities: | Scholarships abroad - Research |
| Effective date (Start): | August 21, 2018 |
| Effective date (End): | February 20, 2019 |
| Field of knowledge: | Linguistics, Literature and Arts - Literature - Brazilian Literature |
| Principal Investigator: | Marcos Roberto Flamínio Peres |
| Grantee: | Marcos Roberto Flamínio Peres |
| Host Investigator: | Thomas Pavel |
| Host Institution: | Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil |
| Research place: | University of Chicago, United States |
Abstract This project intends to cope with romance, a major mode of the theory of narrative which affects especially 19th century literature, as Walter Scott´s Waverley, Balzac´s Le père Goriot and Victor Hugo´s Les misérables effectivelly shows (Frye; Brooks). In this case, one shall concentrate on two of the most important Brazilian novelists of that period, José de Alencar and Machado de Assis, especially O guarani (1857) and Esaú e Jacó (1904), respectively. Despite being considered historical novels, all of them bring romance into the center of the plot, not only as "formulaic techniques" (Frye) but also and mainly as a normative issue, working as a "contre-modèle de la réalité" (Schaeffer) and a sign of a "difficulté axiologique" (Pavel). In this sense, romance represents the quintessence of possible worlds since it boosts the "world-creating powers of imagination" (Pavel). This is entirely true for the novels studied, as this research intends to prove. | |
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