Novas formas da escrita de Clarice Lispector: o manuscrito Objeto gritante e a ficção tardia clariciana

Clarice Lispector foi uma das maiores escritoras brasileiras e, por essa razão, uma das mais estudadas. Muitas relações se fizeram entre sua escrita e a de alguns dos principais ícones da literatura mundial. Entretanto, o mesmo não aconteceu com seus textos produzidos aproximadamente a partir da década de 1970, a ficção derradeira da autora. As obras produzidas principalmente durante essa década, com algumas consagradas exceções, foram um tanto negligenciadas pela crítica. As pesquisadoras Marta Peixoto e Sônia Roncador procuraram provar que a pouca atenção às obras da ficção tardia da autora se deve ao fato de que as mesmas apresentam tendências que vão contra as características do que Clarice produziu anteriormente, como se a escritora tivesse desejado criar um repertório de formas que contradiziam sua produção de antes de 1970. Para demonstrar tal intenção de Lispector, este trabalho procura analisar as características do manuscrito Objeto gritante nunca publicado , o qual, após uma série de alterações significativas, acabou por se transformar na obra Água viva. Caso o projeto do manuscrito não tivesse sofrido redirecionamentos substanciais, teria sido a primeira ocorrência, em livro, das novas formas da escrita clariciana que começavam a se manifestar naquela época, mas que vieram a se consolidar nas suas obras posteriores

Demetrio Aguilera-Malta: Los que se van: inicios y retornos (Dossier: Cuatro narradores del 30, relecturas en su centenario)

La autora revisa los relatos de Aguilera-Malta incluidos en Los que se van. Ellos anticipan los contenidos y rasgos de su narrativa posterior, constituyendo un verdadero «octamerón de las pasiones» humanas. Sentimientos existenciales complejos animan a los personajes: una amistad llevada a sus límites, el autoengaño en relación al objeto amoroso, la autoexpiación de una vieja culpa, un «Don Juan» de las islas, que súbitamente, al encontrar el amor por primera vez, castiga al mal que lo posee mediante la autocastración y la muerte (el mal como algo intrínseco y extrínseco, a la vez). Una estructura compleja, intensidad en la forma, economía de recursos, claro sentido de fabulación: todos estos elementos, presentes en su narrativa posterior, se evidenciaban ya, con precoz maestría, en los cuentos incluidos en Los que se van.

Bystander Narratives: The Fiction of J.M. Coetzee and the Holocaust

J.M. Coetzee’s novels are suffused with a pervasive, though often oblique, Holocaust awareness. Direct references to the event and to the historical era to which it belongs, subtle stylistic and thematic echoes of Holocaust writing, and the recurrent mobilization of Holocaust imagery in Coetzee’s novels all contribute to suggest the significance of the event to the author’s work and thought. Providing Coetzee with a lens through which to view the contemporary situation, both local and global, the Holocaust offers Coetzee a means by which difficult and complex questions of ethics and historiographical truth may be approached. Above all, the Holocaust and its representation contribute to Coetzee’s exploration of the dilemmas of translating the traumatic lived experience of atrocity – including, but not limited to, life in apartheid South Africa – into narrative form. Taken as a whole, Coetzee’s oeuvre initially anticipates and later responds to, in characteristically oblique fashion, the narrative project(s) facing post-apartheid South Africa as the newly-democratic nation sought to make sense of its past through a variety of means, the most important of which was the country’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission. Implicitly challenging the TRC’s findings as well as its narrative assumptions, the Coetzean oeuvre accordingly invites being read as offering a continuous and evolving counter-narrative to the TRC and its construction of a narrative of the apartheid past for the post-apartheid nation. In utilizing the Holocaust, its representations, and the reception thereof to frame his response to apartheid, Coetzee implicates both in a critique of the Western model of modernity, suggesting, in the process, the importance of reconfiguring modernity in a more ethical shape.

De la télé-oralité à la télé-visualité : évolution de la fiction télévisuelle québécoise du téléroman à la sérietélé (1953-2012)

La thèse comporte deux parties. Dans la première, constatant, d’une part, que les publications de référence à l’égard de la fiction télévisuelle québécoise sont rares, et que, d’autre part, les études télévisuelles souffrent d’un manque à penser l’esthétique de la fiction, elle avance une approche nouvelle. La fiction télévisuelle est l’objet d’une évolution esthétique portée par ses deux dispositifs et scandée en trois degrés d’expression. Elle évolue d’un dispositif où le son prévaut dans le cadre de la télé-audition à un autre dispositif où l’image prédomine au sein de la télé-vision. La fiction télévisuelle réalise ce parcours en trois degrés d’expression: du degré zéro, la monstration de la parole, nommé la télé-oralité, au second degré, l’image énonciative, nommé la télé-visualité, en passant par le premier degré, une oscillation transitoire, nommé la télé-dualité. Elle remédiatise le trajet du cinéma de fiction des premiers temps à l’auteurielité, un demi-siècle plus tard. Dans la seconde partie, la thèse applique le modèle théorique au corpus téléromanesque. Elle démontre que la fiction télévisuelle québécoise connait une évolution du téléroman à la sérietélé, en passant par la télésérie et par une trilogie épistémique. Au terme du parcours réflexif, une conclusion s’impose: le téléromanesque actuel participe de plain-pied à ce qui semble être, depuis le nouveau millénaire, l’Age d’art de la fiction télévisuelle.

Entre histoire et fiction: la représentation du règne d'Arthur dans le manuscrit enluminé du Brut en prose, Londres, Lambeth Palace 6 (c. 1480)

The manuscript London, Lambeth Palace 6, contains the Middle English prose Brut, a text which benefited from a great popularity throughout the fifteenth century. It was copied by an English scribe and richly illuminated by the Master of Edward IV and his assistants at Bruges around 1480. This article studies the representation and integration of the reign of Arthur in the historical framework of the Brut or Chronicles of England, including its fictional aspects: Arthur emerges as a historical character but also as a chivalric and mythical figure. The analysis covers the miniatures ranging from the plot leading to the conception of Arthur to the end of his reign (fols. 36-66). The textual and iconographic choices of the prose Bruts are highlighted by comparisons with Geoffrey of Monmouth’s Historia Regum Britanniae, Wace’s Brut, and later prose rewritings in the Lancelot-Grail romance cycle, especially Merlin and its Vulgate Sequel. They show the continuous interest raised by Arthur in the aristocratic and royal circles of late fifteenth century England and the relationship be¬tween continental and insular historiographical, literary and artistic traditions.

Syllabus of a course of six lectures on prose fiction in America ...

I. The art of fiction.--II. Washington Irving.--III. James Fennimore Cooper.--IV. Hawthorne and Poe.--V. The realistic movement.--VI. Later tendencies.

Confessions of a too-generous young lady : with a later continuation.

"Confessions of an old woman"--P. [134]-219.

Children's Fiction About 9/11: Ethnic, Heroic and National Identities

In this study, Lampert examines how cultural identities are constructed within fictional texts for young people written about the attacks on the Twin Towers. It identifi es three significant identity categories encoded in 9/11 books for children:ethnic identities, national identities, and heroic identities,arguing that the identities formed within the selected children’s texts are in flux, privileging performances of identities that are contingent on post-9/11 politics. Looking at texts including picture books, young adult fiction, and a selection of DC Comics, Lampert finds in post-9/11 children’s literature a co-mingling of xenophobia and tolerance; a binaried competition between good and evil and global harmony and national insularity; and a lauding of both the commonplace hero and the super-human. The shifting identities evident in texts that are being produced for children about 9/11 offer implicit and explicit accounts of what constitutes good citizenship, loyalty to nation and community, and desirable attributes in a Western post-9/11 context. This book makes an original contribution to the field of children’s literature by providing a focused and sustained analysis of how texts for children about 9/11 contribute to formations of identity in these complex times of cultural unease and global unrest.

The Later Years

Chapter summary • The adolescent and work — Advantages of part-time work — Disadvantages of part-time work — Theory/literature re vocational issues — Influences on vocational choice — How do we prepare young people for thinking about work? • The Education and Training Reforms for the Future (ETRF) in Australia: Learning or earning — What these changes mean for young people — VET (Vocational Education and Training) • Summary • Key points • Further thinking • References Who we are, our self-concept and self-esteem, for many people is tied closely to what we do. Our profession, our employment and our ambitions define us in many ways. In our society we have not yet separated completely the notion of personal worth from social contribution and status. At Australian BBQs, a pretty staple question to ask is ‘So, what do you do?’ when meeting someone new. We are pretty tolerant with a range of responses to that question, but the bottom line is the notion that there ought to be a coherent answer. Adolescents know this, and as they try to define their identity/identities and launch into adulthood they are confronted with the great unknown, the world of work...

Gender Dilemmas in Children's Fiction

Gender Dilemmas in Children's Fiction examines how fictional texts – picture books, novels, and films – produced for children and young adults are responding to the tensions and dilemmas that arise from new gender relations and sexual differences. The book discusses a diverse range of international children's fiction published between 1990 and 2008. Some of the key dilemmas that emerge are around the texts' treatment of romance, beauty, cyberbodies, queer, and comedy.

Girl in the Shadows and resilience and coping strategies in contemporary young adult fiction

The novel manuscript Girl in the Shadows tells the story of two teenage girls whose friendship, safety and sanity are pushed to the limits when an unexplained phenomenon invades their lives. Sixteen-year-old Tash has everything a teenage girl could want: good looks, brains and freedom from her busy parents. But when she looks into her mirror, a stranger’s face stares back at her. Her best friend Mal believes it’s an evil spirit and enters the world of the supernatural to find answers. But spell books and ouija boards cannot fix a problem that comes from deep within the soul. It will take a journey to the edge of madness for Tash to face the truth inside her heart and see the evil that lurks in her home. And Mal’s love and courage to pull her back into life. The exegesis examines resilience and coping strategies in adolescence, in particular, the relationship of trauma to brain development in children and teenagers. It draws on recent discoveries in neuroscience and psychology to provide a framework to examine the role of coping strategies in building resilience. Within this broader context, it analyses two works of contemporary young adult fiction, Freaky Green Eyes by Joyce Carol Oates and Sonya Hartnett’s Surrender, their use of the split persona as a coping mechanism within young adult fiction and the potential of young adult literature as a tool to help build resilience in teen readers.