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The case of Humberto de Campos: literary authorship and mediunity

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Author(s):
Alexandre Caroli Rocha
Total Authors: 1
Document type: Doctoral Thesis
Press: Campinas, SP.
Institution: Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Instituto de Estudos da Linguagem
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Examining board members:
Haquira Osakabe; Ingedore Grunfeld Villaça Koch; Sandra Jacqueline Stoll; Jose Miguel Soares Wisnik; Alexander Moreira de Almeida
Advisor: Maria Betânia Amoroso; Haquira Osakabe
Abstract

Between 1937 and 1969, the medium Francisco Xavier published 12 books that he attributed to Humberto de Campos and Brother X. The purpose of this doctoral thesis is to investigate the authorial functioning of this system. The present work is divided into five chapters: a presentation of Humberto de Campos; a short historical overview of the socalled authorship attribution; an analysis of the construction of a spiritual author; a critical reading of five texts taken from the mediunic set of writings; and an interpretation of the authorial notions suscitated by such books (AU)