Melodrama, folhetim e teledramaturgia: de Alexandre Dumas a Gilberto Braga, a interseção entre os gêneros

O presente trabalho tem como objetivo estabelecer, pelo viés da Literatura Comparada, pontos de interseção entre o plano de vingança engendrado pelas personagens, Edmond Dantès, no romance-folhetim O Conde de Monte-Cristo de Alexandre Dumas, e Norma Pimentel na telenovela Insensato Coração de Gilberto Braga e Ricardo Linhares. Além de apresentar um histórico da formação, assim como a evolução dos gêneros, melodrama, folhetim e teledramaturgia. Este trabalho surgiu da vontade de revolver intertextos de obras, em diferentes gêneros, que até hoje garantem uma continuidade de aspectos de absorção do grande público. Princípios teóricos como aqueles de Julia Kristeva sobre intertextualidade, assim como os princípios de arquitexto e hipertexto, propostos por Gérard Genette são tomados como norteadores da análise. Pretendemos, também, refletir a respeito das ideias trabalhadas por Pierre Bourdieu sobre o capital simbólico e o capital econômico das obras, trazendo à tona uma discussão sobre o valor da produção artística, considerando a sua recepção pelo seu respectivo público

Signos incógnitos: marcas da poética de João Cabral na obra de Ana Cristina Cesar

O trabalho tem por objetivo identificar eventuais marcas da poética de João Cabral de Melo Neto na obra de Ana Cristina Cesar. Pertencente ao grupo de poetas que ficou conhecido, em meados da década de 1970, como geração mimeógrafo ou grupo da poesia marginal, a autora de A teus pés, assim como seus demais companheiros, afirmava, publicamente, que fazia uma poesia anticabralina por excelência. No entanto, sua obra parece desmentir essas afirmações, por meio de um diálogo tenso e desviante embora de incorporação e recusa simultâneas com a poesia cabralina, o que motivou a poeta carioca a, inclusive, reescrever, à sua maneira, diversos poemas de João Cabral. A presente dissertação investiga e analisa essas questões, revisa parte da fortuna crítica dos dois autores e realiza um histórico do panorama cultural carioca da época. No plano teórico, são utilizados, principalmente, conceitos da teoria da influência e do mapa da desleitura, formulados por Harold Bloom, bem como as ideias da verneinung freudiana e do movimento de absorção/destruição textual, descrito por Julia Kristeva. Adotou-se como metodologia a análise comparativa de determinados textos dos poetas estudados

L’isola delle madri assenti: tracce di presenza femminile nella narrativa storica siciliana contemporanea (1990-2007)

The watershed constituted by the historical novels of Leonardo Sciascia (1921- 1989), Vincenzo Consolo (1933-2012) and Andrea Camilleri (born 1925), are starting points for analysing subsequent writings of history in Sicily, particularly those that deal with the hermeneutical function of literature as a means of critically reading official historiography. Nevertheless, whereas ample critical attention has been paid to male writers, whose work is deemed ‘mainstream’, there has been insufficient analysis of the role of female authors in relation to literary representations of Sicilian history. By considering the distinctiveness of the Sicilian literary tradition, the thesis identifies a series of transformations of the genre which have occurred in recent years within the context of feminine writing, and examines the historical narratives of contemporary Sicilian writers Maria Attanasio, Silvana La Spina and Maria Rosa Cutrufelli produced between 1990 and 2007. The study problematizes the lack of critical debate about feminine narratives in Sicily, and places these works in relation to developments in gender and genre theory, focusing particularly on Margherita Ganeri’s studies on the historical genre and the canon. After an introductory chapter which argues the case for examining Sicilian female historical fiction as a distinct literary practice, the subsequent chapters feature textual analyses of each author’s main historical fiction works, supporting the reading of the texts with theoretical readings, including the micro-history of Carlo Ginzburg, the écriture féminine of Hélène Cixous, the abjection theory of Julia Kristeva, the theoretical propositions on “experience” by Joan Wallach Scott and Teresa De Lauretis, and the theory of gender as performance proposed by Judith Butler. The analyses underline the importance of the authors’ distinct feminine perspective over Sicilian history and ultimately suggest that the three writers represent significant examples of a “nomadic writing” to be placed outside the Sicilian male literary tradition.

C. G. Jung and literary theory: the challenge from fiction

C.G. Jung and Literary Theory remedies a significant omission in literary studies by doing for Jung and poststructuralist literary theories what has been done extensively for Freud, Lacan and post-Freudian psychoanalysis. This work represents a complete departure from traditional Jungian literary criticism. Instead, radically new Jungian literary theories are developed of deconstruction, feminist theory, gender and psyche, the body and sexuality, spirituality, postcolonialism, historicism and reader-response. As well as linking Jung to the work of Derrida, Kristeva and Irigaray, the book traces contentious occult, cultural and political narratives in Jung's career. It contains a chapter on Jung and fascism in a literary context. [From the Publisher]

‘Close as a kiss’: Gyn/Affection in Margaret Atwood’s The Penelopiad

Margaret Atwood’s novella The Penelopiad (2005) seemingly celebrates Penelope’s agency in opposition to Homer’s myth in The Odyssey. However, the twelve murdered maids steal the book to suggest the possibility of what Janice Raymond calls gyn/affection, a female bonding based on the logic of emotion that, in Atwood’s revision, verges on Kristevan abjection, the sinister and the fantastic, and serves a cathartic effect not only in the maids but also in the reader. This essay aims to question the generally accepted empowerment of Atwood’s Penelope and celebrates the murdered maids as the locus of emotion, where marginal aspects of gender and class merge to weave a powerful metaphorical tapestry of popular and traditionally feminized literary genres that, in plunging into and embracing the semiotic realm, ultimately solidify into an eclectic but compact alternative tradition of women’s writing and myth-making.

Death Aesthetization in Contemporary Artistic Practices

Starting from the famous and enigmatic quotation of the Aristotle’s Poetics, who argues that the human has a natural desire and pleasure to see corpses if mediated by art, is intended to show the relationship between the attraction for the horror and some contemporary art practices surrounding the depiction of death, particularly with regard to the ultimate use of the human corpse as an artistic resource. Avoiding any kind of ethical approach or questioning of the limits of the artistic production, is meant to highlight the phenomenon through the examples brought out by the work of some contemporary artists such as Andy Warhol, Eric Fischl, Damien Hirst, Von Hagens, Andres Serrano, Joel-Peter Witkin and Teresa Margolles: From those who use the corpse in and turn it in something aesthetically pleasant, to others who turn human corpses in sculptures of scientific value, and further other kind of artists who assume the morbid and dramatic life of the corpse in their art production as something structural.

Vom Innen und vom Aussen. Zum Raum in der Poetik Paul Celans

This article deals with the conception of space in the poetics of Paul Celan in relation to French theory (Kristeva, Blanchot, Foucault). It analyses in detail one poem to show how Celan constructs his concept of space in the poetic form, relating it to Martin Buber dialogical thinking.

Travestismos e intertextualidades em Orlando de Virginia Woolf e na obra homónima de Sally Potter

Dissertação de mest., Literatura Comparada, Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Universidade do Algarve, 2005

Radical interiors: Cindy Sherman's ‘Sex pictures’ and Kathy Acker's 'My mother: demonology'

In 1989, the American visual artist Cindy Sherman produced her ‘Sex Pictures’, a number of photographic images of two medical mannequins whose bodies had been dismembered and reconstructed to form abstract configurations that alluded to pornographic poses. Sherman's series was a response to the National Endowment for the Arts controversy, in which American artists such as Andres Serrano and the late Robert Mapplethorpe, whose work was considered obscene by the Republican Congress, were censored. Many artists in the culture-war period had their grants rescinded. The American avant-garde writer Kathy Acker published My Mother: Demonology in 1993. A prominent concern of Acker's in the work is what she termed her ‘writing freedom’ in a climate of cultural expurgation by the Republican elite. In particular, Acker was worried that she was ‘internalizing certain censorships’. This article addresses Sherman's and Acker's work in a comparative context to explore, through the theoretical work of Julia Kristeva, the ways in which their responses to a climate of political censorship can be read as forms of intimate revolt. Kristeva's notion of ejection—the act of placing something beyond the scope of the possible—transpires as ‘a condition of art's creation’ in Sherman's and Acker's work. Acker and Sherman use the pornographic reference in their work to disrupt and dislocate the narrative and image from convention in order to de-eroticize the body, against heteronormativity's terms, and empower the female sex organs. Eversion—that is, in Sherman's and Acker's works, the act of turning the institutional and maternal body inside out—emerges as a mode of resistance to the danger of the writer and the artist internalizing cultural restrictions. The everted body creates a site of radical interiority which becomes the (impossible) site for the radical (re-)embodiment of the feminine subject.

Lier les présents aux absents : regards sur la condition d’exilé dans les littératures libano-québécoise et arabe contemporaine

Les paramètres de l’exil, comme déplacement, se transforment aujourd’hui dans un contexte de mondialisation, interrogeant le rôle des nations alors que les sociétés impliquent de plus en plus de mobilité et de diversité culturelle. Cette condition d’exilé aux repères mouvants, inscrite dans une temporalité discontinue et dont l’expérience est toujours douloureuse, a donné lieu à une littérature prolifique dans le domaine des études littéraires au cours du 20e siècle. En quoi le 21e propose-t-il un regard différent sur cette condition ? Dans ce mémoire nous analyserons quatre œuvres contemporaines qui nous proposent différentes variations des transformations identitaires profondes qui caractérisent la condition d’exilé. Deux des grands axes autour desquels s’est articulée la condition d’exilé ont été développés par Edward Said, qui propose une posture critique et politique, et Julia Kristeva, qui présente l’exil comme une condition plutôt psychique. Suivant cette perspective analytique, l’autobiographie de Mourid Barghouti fait écho à la compréhension de l’exil telle que l’entend Said, en pleine autonomie instauratrice. Puis, le roman de Rawi Hage dans une expérience plus psychique de l’exil, plus traumatique et plus violente du vécu avant l’exil, suggère que le rapport avec le milieu environnant a un impact sur l’expérience de l’exil, alors que dans ce cas il reste dysfonctionnel, et qu’un rapport pathologique à l’existence peut ensuite se manifester. Ensuite, le roman d’Abla Farhoud expose la possibilité d’un dépassement de cette expérience pathologique de l’exil par la distance, celle de l’âge et de la prise de parole. Finalement, dans la pièce Incendies de Mouawad, l’expérience psychique de l’exil est dépassée à la fois par une traduction de l’indicible de la violence, par un retour sur les traumas précédant l’exil, et par un travail collectif – comme autres formes de distances. Cette dernière œuvre est donc porteuse d’une compréhension de l’exil impliquant une dimension psychique, tout en devenant critique et politique, telle que le révèlent les écrits de Jacques Rancière. À la lumière de ces analyses, la condition d’exilé réclame d’urgence un retour sur les traumas précédents, le trauma qu’est l’exil, afin qu’une autonomie, une créativité et un engagement s’en dégagent, dans une société, dans un monde plus grand que soi. Pour les trois derniers auteurs, c’est la société québécoise qui révèle à la fois une compréhension des problématiques majeures de la condition d’exilé et une ouverture face à celles-ci, en ce début de 21e siècle.

Literatur und Intertextualität

Als Intertextualität bezeichnet men die Interferenz und Interdependenz literarischer Texte und das daraus entstehende kommunikative Potential. Der ursprünglich von Kristeva stammende Begriff geht auf die Erkentnis zurück, dass Texte nicht in einem Vakuum entstehen und existieren, sondern immer sie beeinflussende Vorläufer haben, wie sie auch selbst spätere Texte beeinflussen. Dabei ist das Erkennen und Entwickeln von Intertextualitäten nicht allein auf den Verfasser beschränkt, sondern gehört auch zu den konstruktivistischen Tätigkeiten eines aufmerksamen Lesepublikums. In diesem Aufsatz werden drei Typen von Intertextualität unterschieden: Gattungs-Intertextualität, Archäologische Intertextualität und Schöpfungs-Intertextualität. Unter Gattungs-Intertextualität fasst man Texte mit gleichen Grundstrukturen, Erzählmustern und Motiven zusammen. Der Begriff Gattung meint dabei nicht die großen Gattungen wie Roman oder Short Story, sondern Untergattungen wie Utopien oder Robinsonaden, die hier beispielhaft diskutiert werden. Archäologische Intertextualität entstammt der Theorie Foucaults und entspricht dem Palimpsest-Begriff Genettes, nach dem eine oft wesentlich ältere Vorlage in einem Text als Hintergrund erkennbar wird. Als schöpferische Intertextualität wird die Entwicklung neuer, experimenteller Texte zur Autorenproduktivität aus gemachten Leseerfahrungen bezeichnet. Eine wichtige, im Text verwendete, Metapher ist die des Eisbergs, zu deren Erläuterung am Ende des Textes eine erläuternde Grafik angehängt ist.

Aproximación a la noción de mujer-objeto. Consideraciones entre las teorías feministas y la teoría del intercambio simbólico de Jean Baudrillard.

El propósito del presente texto es problematizar la noción de mujer-objeto bajo la perspectiva de las teorías feministas y los trabajos de Jean Baudrillard. Esto con el fin de mostrar que en los tres modos de producción como son el intercambio primitivo, el capitalismo y el post-fordismo, se identifican diferentes procesos de simbolización –prácticas y relaciones sociales– que son agenciados por la mujer durante los intercambios. Agenciamientos que demuestran como la definición economicista de mujer-mercancía es excedida por los matices de mujer-símbolo y mujer-signo. En ese sentido, se afirma que la desacreditada noción de mujer - objeto no se reduce a la noción de mujer-mercancía o mujer-objeto-sexual, ni a la historia de dominación y opresión en la que usualmente se le encasilla.

Un comentario sobre el intertexto discursivo : el caso de Laluna.com.

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David Ledesma Vázquez: la conciencia de ser abyecto (Crítica)

Este ensayo examina la obra poética del ecuatoriano David Ledesma Vázquez desde algunos conceptos teóricos propuestos por Kristeva y Butler, que permiten entender cómo se va consolidando una conciencia de ser abyecto ante el otro, y cómo desde ahí, y a partir de un muy cuidado manejo de la palabra poética y de ciertos recursos tipográficos, se construye un universo amatorio que se opone al aparato heteronormativo y se enfoca en los afectos. También se destaca, en esta misma línea de resistencia, cómo en la poesía de Ledesma Vázquez se erige un cuestionamiento a la violencia uniformadora de la vida moderna y al impulso teleológico del capitalismo, en particular, al contraponer la hostilidad de la ciudad real –dibujada en varios textos– con la armonía de Sodoma.

Rethinking 'Inside the Visible'

This essay appears in the first book to examine feminist curatorship in the last 40 years. It undertakes an extended reading of Cathy de Zegher's influential exhibition, Inside the Visible, An Elliptical Traverse of 20th Century Art. In, of and From the Feminine (1995) which proposed that modern art should be understood through cyclical shifts involving the constant reinvention of artistic method and identified four key moments in 20th century history to structure its project. The essay analyses Inside the Visible's concept of an elliptical traverse to raise questions about repetitions and recurrences in feminist exhibitions of the early 1980s, the mid 1990s and 2007 asking whether and in what ways questions of feminist curating have been continuously repeated and reinvented. The essay argues that Inside the Visible was a key project in second wave feminism and exemplified debates about women's time, first theorised by Julia Kristeva. It concludes, however, that 'women's time' has had its moment, and new conceptions of feminism and its history are needed if feminist curating is not endlessly to recycle its past. The essay informs a wider collaborative project on the sexual politics of violence, feminism and contemporary art, in collaboration with Edinburgh and one of the editors of this collection.