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| Author(s): |
Roberta Almeida Prado de Figueiredo Ferraz
Total Authors: 1
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| Document type: | Doctoral Thesis |
| Press: | São Paulo. |
| Institution: | Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH/SBD) |
| Defense date: | 2016-10-11 |
| Examining board members: |
Lilian Jacoto;
Jose Horacio de Almeida Nascimento Costa;
António Maria Maciel de Castro Feijó;
Caio Márcio Poletti Lui Gagliardi;
Sofia Maria de Sousa Silva
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| Advisor: | Lilian Jacoto |
| Abstract | |
Teixeira de Pascoaes body of work, when observed as a whole, evokes a romantic conception of novels, as the absolute text, and suggests to readers a romance da saudade, for the author, saudade being absences potential to validate existence. In this regard, Pascoaes is connected to bigger questions in early Romanticism: the juxtaposition of the subject to the landscape as art close to nature; the dilution of the self when in written form; the dream as access to reality; the foundation of the world in poetry; and irony as an ambiguity device. These aesthetic issues and themes are revisited under his poética da saudade, a yearning for the absent love, present throughout his work, resulting in potent intratextuality. Saudade is, above all, the way to understand a person through the signs left by his or her absence. Literature offers the environment for the encounter of subject and phantasmagoria. These principles grant pascoesian texts a metalinguistic dimension, as talking about phantoms also refers to images as a support for the written text. It is therefore here, an essay about literature and absence, encompassing Pascoaes body of work, featuring its complexity beyond simplistic ideological (saudosista) or anachronic (counter positioning to Fernando Pessoas modernity) understandings. This thesis aims to examine the totality of Pascoaes oeuvre, highlighting its poetic density, the paradoxical characteristic of existence described by him, and stressing the complex positioning of the author in the aesthetic debate at the time when the world discovered electricity, psychoanalysis, and the nocturnal mystery of individuals was questioned incisively, outside religious spheres, in pure aesthetic experiment. (AU) | |
| FAPESP's process: | 12/20296-9 - Teixeira de Pascoaes revisited: an essay on literature and absence |
| Grantee: | Roberta Almeida Prado de Figueiredo Ferraz |
| Support Opportunities: | Scholarships in Brazil - Doctorate |