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| Author(s): |
Hebe Cristina da Silva
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: | 2009-02-18 |
| Examining board members: |
Márcia Abreu;
Alessandra El Far;
Sandra Guardini Teixeira Vasconcelos;
Eduardo Vieira Martins;
Marisa Lajolo
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| Advisor: | Márcia Abreu |
| Abstract | |
This thesis discusses part of the formation of Brazilian novel from the study of the works and trajectory of Antonio Gonçalves Teixeira e Sousa, considered, by many specialists, the first Brazilian novelist. In the twentieth-century literary historiography, this writer is usually referred as a secondary author whose published stories were lacking in aesthetic qualities. However, the number of editions and auspicious critics that his work obtained during the nineteenth century indicates that, despite the formal problems, Teixeira e Sousa's novels had a good reception by his contemporaries. The study of his texts helps us to verify that the author put the emphasis on the aspects greatly appreciated by the novel criticism of that period and by the first Brazilian writers: morality and local color. The analysis of Teixeira e Sousa's narratives allow us to know part of the issues in vogue during the period of the formation of Brazilian novel, as well as observe the difficulties faced by and the solutions found by the first Brazilian fiction writers in the first national narratives (AU) | |