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| Author(s): |
Janaina Tatim
Total Authors: 1
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| Document type: | Master's Dissertation |
| Press: | Campinas, SP. |
| Institution: | Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Instituto de Estudos da Linguagem |
| Defense date: | 2018-02-28 |
| Examining board members: |
Jefferson Cano;
Paulo Franchetti;
Antônio Marcos Vieira Sanseverino
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| Advisor: | Jefferson Cano |
| Abstract | |
This dissertation addresses psychology and the concept of the moral and hu-man person as fundamental aesthetic mediations of Machado de Assis¿s real-ism. It takes the novel Quincas Borba, in its first version, as the main corpus for the research. Although I mainly use the novel¿s text as it was published in the magazine A Estação between the years 1886 and 1891, my research inquiry is more grounded in the intellectual and historical dimension of the novel¿s ap-pearance than in its editorial aspect. The dissertation addresses aesthetic fea-tures that permeate the novel¿s first version and examines them in light of a constellation of issues that exceed this particular novel and refers to the epis-temological framework of the literary and the notion of person-like characters. I aim to understand how aesthetic assumptions raised from the writer¿s critiques become inner mechanisms for the novel¿s composition. Machado¿s poetics are concerned with the process of subjection and intersubjective relationships, and with what makes possible, in the literary construction, for that the quality of the "moral and human" person to emerge as an effect of relationality, rather than as a quality defined by metaphysics or scientific determinants. This way, cen-tering the mimesis in this conception of moral and human person contradicts determinisms established outside the aesthetic composition. I develop this is-sue, first, based on Machado de Assis¿ works, such as novels, critiques, short stories, and chronicles, and, secondly, based on books from his personal library, which help to map his references on human psychology. I pay special attention to the idea of the unconscious in his literature, which I also map and interpret. I aim to understand how, by showing from the inside the psychology and inter-subjective relationship of his characters as people-like, Machado ties them to the social and economic process of a society changing from one based on slavery to one based on the modern and capitalistic order of monetized relationships. The notion of property becomes central to Quincas Borba, and it appears both to express patriarchal sexual domination, and the arrival of capitalism in that slave-based society. The relationships within the novel also show the contradic-tions of the individual conception, a model of subjection where subjects define themselves and their relations to other by means of possessive relations. By accessing the way person-like characters operate and contradict the grammar of their own domination, I discuss, finally, how the novel erodes the validation of relationships based on the property in the person (AU) | |
| FAPESP's process: | 15/12780-6 - Psychology and concept of person as aesthetic issues in the first version of Quincas Borba |
| Grantee: | Janaína Tatim |
| Support Opportunities: | Scholarships in Brazil - Master |