The symbolic motif in the construction of the diegese of poetic realism in Romeo and Juliet in the village by Gottfried Keller

• Grant number: 19/17672-8
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Master
• Start date: December 01, 2019
• End date: February 28, 2022
• Field of knowledge: Linguistics, Literature and Arts - Literature - Modern Foreign Literatures
• Principal Investigator: Helmut Paul Erich Galle
• Grantee: Juliana Daniele Aparecida Lopes
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil

Abstract

This research proposes the analysis of the novelistic composition of Gottfried Keller's Romeo and Juliet in the village (Romeo und Julia auf dem Dorfe), and the elements that determine its position as a work belonging to Poetic Realism. To this end, the fundamental assumptions of german novelism and realistic aesthetics will be resumed, taking into account, above all, the symbolic motives that seem to be essential for the creation of meanings within the narrative. The symbolic language used in this novella leads to questions about the representation of reality and the interaction between symbolic structure and realistic diegesis. Trying to understand the narrative of Romeo and Juliet in the village as a novella of Poetic Realism is a way of understanding how Keller and his artistic procedures are part of the novelist and realistic discourse of the second half of the nineteenth century, and how they can establish possibilities and/or openings within this same speech. (AU)

Academic Publications

(References retrieved automatically from State of São Paulo Research Institutions)

LOPES, Juliana Daniele Aparecida. The realist symbol: an analysis of the leitmotifs in Gottfried Keller's A village Romeo and Juliet. 2022. Master's Dissertation - Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH/SBD) São Paulo.