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From periodical press into books: the boom of the brazilian short story from the 1950's to the 1970's

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Author(s):
Leandro Henrique Aparecido Valentin
Total Authors: 1
Document type: Doctoral Thesis
Press: São José do Rio Preto. 2020-10-12.
Institution: Universidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp). Instituto de Biociências Letras e Ciências Exatas. São José do Rio Preto
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Advisor: Arnaldo Franco Junior
Abstract

This work presents an extensive study of the rewriting of short stories by Dalton Trevisan, Lygia Fagundes Telles, Breno Accioly, and Clarice Lispector, aiming to understand how the rewriting process is linked to the consolidation of the Brazilian short story in the transition of stories from newspapers and magazines into books. This thesis defends the idea that the rewriting made by such representative short story writers largely consists in an enhancement of important features of the modern short story in the midst of a process of its rise and consolidation in the Brazilian modernization. In this sense, aspects of the transition of Brazil into an urban and industrial society in the mid-twentienth century, especially the modernization of journalism and the rise of the book publishing market, were crucial to the shape of the modern Brazilian short story. Starting from an adaptation of the method of historical textual pragmatics on the author's own texts, by Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht (2002), which organizes its macrostructure, this work analyzes the rewriting of short stories by mobilizing aspects of the short story theory since Edgar Allan Poe and narratology. This research concludes that the boom of the modern Brazilian short story from the 1950s to the 1970s was intrinsically linked to broader modernization processes in the country, and the genre was consolidated along with the epistemological modernization (GUMBRECHT, 1998) of Brazil in the same period. (AU)

FAPESP's process: 16/20464-0 - From periodical press into books: the boom of the Brazilian short story from the 1950's to the 1970's
Grantee:Leandro Henrique Aparecido Valentin
Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Doctorate