AN ANALYSIS OF THE NOVEL “A GENTLE CREATURE”

This paper has the objective to analyze the novel “A Gentle Creature”, of the Russian novelist Fyodor Dostoevsky, using the theoretical concepts covered in the text “1874 – Three Novellas, or ‘What Happened?’” (1996), which makes up the volume 3 of the work A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia, of the French philosophers Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari. These concepts can be triggered to realize the approach of the question about the segmentarity lines, which make it possible to make the observation of the changes of state that have occurred with the characters in a literary work, of the ways how undertake movements of territorialization, deterritorialization and reterritorialization in development of such segmentarity lines, which are termed as hard or molar, molecular or malleable, and trail, having the view that it is through them that these characters go through this transformation process. Starting from this analysis, will pick up, too, to connect the theory of these two French philosophers with polyphonic theory presented by Russian philosopher and theorist of language Mikhail Bakhtin in the book Problems of Dostoevsky's poetics (1997), which investigate the concept of polyphony, from Dostoevsky's work, being, among other texts analyzed the Russian novelist, novel to be studied in this work. And the perspective that arises in the analysis proposed in this article, what is sought is to conduct a parallel investigation of how both theories have the possibility of development work in the observation of the characteristics of a literary work, and these characteristics likely to these concepts are related to the lines of segmentarity deleuzo-guattarianas and Bakhtin's polyphony.

A GENERAL VIEW ON LANGUAGE ACQUISITION

A pesquisa em aquisição da linguagem é importante para que possamos entender o ser humano como um todo e, particularmente, o desenvolvimento intelectual da criança. A pesquisa nessa área aborda grandes questões sobre a natureza do homem, questões estas que continuam gerando inúmeros debates vigorosos e, muitas vezes, acirrados ao longo dos séculos entre filósofos, psicólogos e lingüistas. Pesquisadores e escritores destacam a importância da linguagem da criança no processo de socialização e adaptação ao seu meio-ambiente. O modo como a criança entende e utiliza a linguagem fornce elementos para compreendermos o desenvolvimento do seu pensamento e raciocínio. As crianças omitem palavras e terminações de palavras, utilizam a ordem das palavras de maneira distinta da dos adultos e as combinam de forma diferenciada. Estes e outros aspectos serão aqui discutidos para mostrar, de uma forma geral, como as crianças adquirem a sua língua materna.