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| Author(s): |
Guaraciara R. Loterio
Total Authors: 1
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| Document type: | Master's Dissertation |
| Institution: | Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Instituto de Estudos da Linguagem |
| Defense date: | 2013-00-00 |
| Examining board members: |
Edson Rosa da Silva;
Luiza Margareth Rago
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| Advisor: | Márcio Orlando Seligmann Silva |
| Abstract | |
The original intention of this research was to examine how the subject constitutes itself through the confessional writings of Walter Benjamin, taking into consideration the movements and possible changes that would be essential to it. Therefore, I wanted to take into account the peculiar way in which Benjamin constitutes it as a subject into these narratives, i.e., rupturing the idea of linearity and transparency of it. Thus, the author appears to enable the development of competence in a read image and a representation of the subject within his 'self writing'. This reading aims to deal with the constant transformations - which sometimes even expresses contradictions - suffered by Benjamin's subject over the texts. At the beginning, I staged the hypothesis that the term "confessional" and the term "autobiographical" were synonymous. Thus, the question of Benjamin's "confessional writing" became merged with the matter of autobiography in his works. Later, as a paradigm regarding the working process, I realized that Benjamin's 'self writing' and its subject merge confessional and testimonial moments, presenting what I think it is a new bias into the autobiographical writing. I propose to develop this work from the following works of Walter Benjamin: Berlin Childhood around 1900 (Berliner Kindheit one Neunzehnhundert); Berliner's Chronicle (Berliner Chronik) and Moscow's Diary (Moskauer Tagebuch). This selection was done by taking the base held by Gerhard Richter in his article "Acts of Self-Portraiture: Benjamin's Confessional and Literary Writings", first published in 2004 in The Cambridge Companion to Walter Benjamin.2 (AU) | |
| FAPESP's process: | 10/04402-8 - An Autobiographic Question: The Subject on Walter Benjamin s Confessional Writings |
| Grantee: | Guaraciara Roberta Loterio |
| Support Opportunities: | Scholarships in Brazil - Master |