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| Author(s): |
Melissa Raquel Zanetti Franchi Christofoletti
Total Authors: 1
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| Document type: | Doctoral Thesis |
| Press: | Campinas, SP. |
| Institution: | Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Instituto de Estudos da Linguagem |
| Defense date: | 2022-06-24 |
| Examining board members: |
Jefferson Cano;
Mario Luiz Frungillo;
Beatriz Cerisara Gil;
Silvana Mota Barbosa;
Izabel Andrade Marson
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| Advisor: | Jefferson Cano |
| Abstract | |
The thesis explores the connection between inner self, literature and history in the Mémoires d’outre tombe (1849), by François-René de Chateaubriand, one of the pioneers of the French Romanticism. The work follows three main perspectives: the permeability between the writer’s self-portrayal and his image that was constructed and disseminated by his contemporaries; the importance of the idea of vanity, applied to natural and human landscape, to the refinement of the subjectivity of the memorialist, who understands his oeuvre as a way of inscribing himself in History; and the metaphor of the world as a theater and the thoughts on the need to play a role in it, when the feeling of obsolescence and impermanence was more and more sensitive in that society, despite all the vain attempts to overcome it. It is scope of this work to approach how the intersectional aspect of the memoirs, in between subjectivity, fiction and history, contributes to a glance at the consolidation of the writer’s representation and at the shift of the literary and historiographical fields, deeply influenced by the revolution. Chateaubriand, by simultaneously claiming the singularity and the exemplarity of his own path, resorts to his diversified and expressive life experience to report, in a literary registration, collective events that are intertwined with personal affairs, his writings’ débuts and his political performance. Finally, the research investigates how the confrontation between public and private sphere, crucial to the fabrication of Chateaubriand’s romantic subjectivity, also founds the dynamics of the politics during Restoration, when the author had his expectations of conciliating grandiosity, tradition and modernity frustrated (AU) | |
| FAPESP's process: | 18/13314-7 - History and memory: the self, the writer and the society in Mémoires d'Outre-Tombe |
| Grantee: | Melissa Raquel Zanetti Franchi Christofoletti |
| Support Opportunities: | Scholarships in Brazil - Doctorate |