76 research outputs found
Evandro Affonso Ferreira: vidas desengraçadas e o arquivo debilitado
No full textDissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Centro de Comunicação e Expressão. Programa de Pós-graduação em LiteraturaEsta dissertação investiga procedimentos da escritura de Evandro Affonso Ferreira, autor brasileiro contemporâneo com cinco livros publicados até o momento. Estes procedimentos são estudados a partir de como suas personagens se movem. O trabalho se divide em duas partes: a primeira é um jogo entre uma galeria (possível e falhada) de estúpidos e suas "vidas infames", acerca da experiência e da existência precárias dessas personagens. O jogo se dá num contágio com as artes visuais (Marcelo Coutinho, Elida Tessler e León Ferrari) e com alguns outros textos ficcionais de autores como Gusmán, Kafka, Melville, Walser etc. A segunda é como o autor trabalha com seus textos, seus livros e o léxico que usa - as palavras sonoras -, como se tudo isso formasse um só livro, livre numa biblioteca de babel da língua, da imaginação, da memória, da literatura. O livro como objeto que compõe a trajetória de um autor-leitor, a sua coleção babélica. Para isso faço uso de teóricos como Agamben, Benjamin, Blanchot, Derrida, Deleuze, Foucault entre outros. This dissertation investigates writing procedures by Evandro Affonso Ferreira, a contemporary Brazilian author with five books published so far. These procedures are studied according to the movement of the characters. The work is divided in two parts: the first one is a game for a galery (possible and failed) of stupids and its "infamous lives" regarding the precarious experience and existence of these characters. The game happens in an involvement with the visual arts (Marcelo Coutinho, Elida Tessler and León Ferrari) and with some other fictional texts from authors like Gusmán, Kafka, Melville, Walser etc. The second one is how the author works with his texts, books and the lexicon he uses - the sonorous words -, as all this would form a single (an unique) book, free in a Babel library of the language, of the imagination, of the memory, of the literature. The book as an object that compounds the trajectory of an author-reader, his Babelic collection. For this I use the theories of Agamben, Benjamin, Blanchot, Derrida, Deleuze, Foucault and others
Necrológio de Victor Giudice: artimanhas ficcionais em tempos ditatoriais
No full textTese (doutorado) - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Centro de Comunicação e Expressão. Programa de Pós-Graduação em Literatura.A presente tese tem como objetivo abordar as narrativas de Necrológio, obra inaugural de Victor Giudice, publicada em 1972, em sua relação com o período ditatorial brasileiro. Assim como outros artistas do contexto, o escritor se utiliza de estratégias para driblar a censura da ditadura militar. Com Necrológio, Giudice assume o papel de artífice de sua própria época através da carnavalização da temática da morte, uma protagonista da qual seus personagens se tornam simulacros. Através do fantástico e da metamorfose, o autor expõe personagens que são inquilinos de um universo desumanizado.The present thesis aims to approach Necrológio, Victor Giudice's inaugural book published in 1972, in its relations to Brazilian dictatorship. Victor Giudice, as many other artists in that context, uses strategies to trick censorship in the dictatorial period. With Necrológio, Giudice takes the role of artificer of his own time through the carnavalization of the thematic of death, the main protagonist of his book to which his characters function as simulacra. Through the fantastic and the matamorphosis, the author exposes characters that inhabit a deshumanized universe
The First Cut; the locus of decision at the limits of subjectivity
No full textThis project examines the concept of decision in philosophical writing, in particular the question of whether subjectivity can be said to constitute a ‘locus’ of decision. The writing of Søren Kierkegaard is the main focus of discussion. Giorgio Agamben, Michel Henry and Jacques Derrida also provide important contributions.
Although for Kierkegaard ‘all decisiveness is rooted in subjectivity’, subjective agency takes the form of an active surrendering to an external unknown authority (God). Kierkegaard uses the term ‘leap of faith’ to describe the moment of decision where subjective transformation occurs.
For Derrida, any decision requires an undecidable leap beyond all reasoning made in preparation for that decision. He extends a reading of faith beyond the theistic by suggesting that Kierkegaard’s unknowable God could also be another name for the ‘structure of subjectivity.’
Giorgio Agamben’s writing on the concept of human life situated at the threshold of categories (socio-political, philosophical, physiological and so on), helps to further the exploration of subjectivity as the ‘locus’ of decision. Michel Henry’s work on The Essence of Manifestation provides a focus for a discussion on the ‘radical subjectivity’ that Kierkegaard proposes as the fulcrum of decision.
The research project as a whole maintains a synergy between these philosophical concerns and the form of their explication. The thesis is made up of both written text and DVD documentation of live works. These instances of practice, whose form and mode of presentation were informed by a specific aspect of the research, are integrated into the thesis to constitute ‘chapters’. The practice can and does function independently in other contexts. However, what is presented in this research document constitutes the outcome of my practice-based PhD project and includes both the ‘theoretical’ and ‘practice’ elements.
Supervisors: Neil Cummings and Howard Caygil
Boundless Venus: the Crossover of the Conscious and Unconscious in the Works of Haruki Murakami
No full textThe objective of this thesis, Boundless Venus, is to examine consciousness in the
works of the contemporary Japanese writer Haruki Murakami. Principally the
discussion concerns itself with the unconscious, its conduits, its benefits upon the
conscious; which lead to the transformation of the self and structure of the literature.
Although the subject has been touched upon before, the conscious and unconscious
have previously been examined as exclusive concepts in Murakami. This research
will be looking at the recent change in the ‘crossover’ between these concepts,
which makes the concepts no longer two mutually exclusive concepts but ‘inclusive
concepts’. This is vital to understanding Murakami’s more recent works and the
nature of his influence on literature.
Boundless Venus explores the entire works of Haruki Murakami, principally his
most recent novel 1Q84 (2011) and his novels Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the
End of the World (1991) and The Wind-up Bird Chronicle (1997). It approaches the
work from a psychoanalytic and critical point of view and focuses on significant
narrative techniques, character development, and themes such as sex, music, and
dreams, used by Murakami to explore the relationship between the conscious and
unconscious and to narrate the crossover between the two
On the Representation of ‘Worst Case Scenarios’ in Kafka’s Short Stories “Metamorphosis” and “A Hunger Artist’’
No full textIn occasione del centenario della morte di Franz Kafka, il presente documento affronta la questione del perché questo autore appartenga ancora agli scrittori più affascinanti del mondo di lingua tedesca. Oltre agli aspetti generali della ricezione letteraria della sua opera, vengono esaminate questioni fondamentali riguardanti il rapporto tra rappresentazione letteraria e realtà. In questo contesto, l'attenzione si concentra su due dei suoi racconti più letti, “Metamorfosi" (Die Verwandlung) e “Il digiunatore" (Ein Hungerkünstler). L'approccio teorico è integrato da una sezione più storica e descrittiva, in cui vengono presentate la biografia e le opere di Kafka. Dopo una valutazione degli approcci interpretativi alle due opere selezionate per la nostra analisi, ci concentriamo in particolare sulla descrizione progressiva delle catastrofi. La sequenza degli eventi negativi per i protagonisti descritti nei racconti di Kafka viene sistematicamente registrata ed elaborata per fornire ulteriori argomenti che caratterizzano Kafka oggi, a cento anni dalla sua morte, come un importante autore moderno.On the occasion of the 100th anniversary of Franz Kafka's death, this document presents some reasons why this author is still one of the most fascinating writers in the German-speaking world. The document examines the general principles of Franz Kafka's literary work together with some fundamental questions such as the relationship between literary representation and reality in two of his most-read stories, “Metamorphosis” and “A Hunger Artist”. Some important aspects of literary reception are considered and the theoretical approach is complemented by a more historical and descriptive section, in which Kafka's biography and his works (literary history) are presented. The focus is on the evaluation and interpretative approaches to the two works selected for our analysis, in particular on the progressive description of catastrophes (literary criticism). The sequence of negative events for the protagonists described in Kafka's stories are systematically recorded and processed to provide additional arguments that characterize Kafka today, one hundred years after his death, as an important modern author
Polypedilum (Polypedilum) solimoes Bidawid-Kafka, sp. n.
No full textPolypedilum (Polypedilum) solimoes Bidawid-Kafka (Figs 17–32) Polypedilum (Polypedilum) solimoes Bidawid-Kafka, 1996: 228. Polypedilum solimoes Bidawid-Kafka; Spies & Reiss (1996). Polypedilum sp. n. 3 Pinho et al. (2005). Material examined. 1 male with larval and pupal exuviae, BRAZIL: Santa Catarina State, Florianópolis, Santinho Restinga, 27 ° 28 ’05’’S, 48 ° 22 ’ 58 ’’W, 03.x. 2004, in Aechmea lindenii, F.H. Platt; 1 female with larval and pupal exuviae, same data as previous. 3 males, BRAZIL: Santa Catarina State, Florianópolis, Unidade de Conservação Ambiental Desterro (UCAD), 27 ° 31 ’ 51 ”S, 48 ° 30 ’ 44 ”W, 04– 19.ix. 2003, emergence trap, in Nidularium innocentii, L.C. Pinho & C.B. Marcondes, Code 16. 1 male, same data as previous, except for: Code 12. 2 males, same data as previous, except for: 03– 24.x. 2003, Code 40. 1 male, same data as previous, except for: 24.x– 11.xi. 2003, Code 59. The species was described and figured by Bidawid-Kafka (1996) based on four males collected at Rio Tarumã, a tributary to Rio Negro in the Amazonas. The males are pale with a wing length of about 1.38 mm and an AR of about 1.41. The anal point is long, narrow and parallel-sided and the superior volsella is narrow, curved with strong lateral seta and 3–4 strong setae at base. Head, wing, thorax, apex of fore tibia and hypopygium of the male from Santa Catarina as in Figures 17–22. Below we describe the female and the immatures based on material from Santa Catarina. The female can be recognized on the translucent wings, weakly setose clypeus (<20 setae) and the large subquadrangular dorsomesal lobe of the genitalia. The pupae by its tergite VII, which has an anterior band of very strong shagreen, an antero-median field of finer shagreen and two small postero-lateral patches of fine shagreen. The larvae can be distinguished from other Neotropical species by the combination of having first and third lateral teeth of mentum much lower than median and second lateral teeth, mandible with serrate inner margin, and nonprojected posterior margin of the ventromental plates. Description. Female (n = 4, except when otherwise stated). Total length 1.73–2.14, 1.91 mm. Wing length 1.04–1.33, 1.23 mm. Total length / wing length 1.41–1.65, 1.56. Wing length / length of profemur 1.78–1.90, 1.85. Coloration. Head brown. Thorax brown with darker median vittae, postnotum, scutellum, anepisternum and dorsal one-third of preepisternum; halteres dark brown. Legs yellow with brown fore femur and tibia. Abdominal segments entirely brown. Head. Frontal tubercles absent. AR 0.50–0.53 (3). Temporal setae 8 –9, 9; including 2 inner verticals; 4 –5, 4 outer verticals; and 2 –3, 3 postorbitals. Clypeus with 11 –18, 15 setae. Tentorium 86–121, 109 μm long; 10 –13, 12 μm wide. Palpomere lengths (in μm): 25 –33, 30; 28 –38, 33; 68 –81, 76; 76 –91, 86; 119–167, 142. Third palpomere with 3 –5, 4 sensilla clavata; longest 15 –20, 19 μm long. Wing. VR 1.12–1.19, 1.17. Brachiolum with 2 setae. R with 11 –17, 15 setae; R 1 with 8 –15, 11 setae; R 4 + 5 with 24 –31, 27 setae. Squama with 2 –3, 3 setae. Anal lobe weakly developed. Thorax. Scutum without tubercle. Antepronotals absent; dorsocentrals 7 –10, 9; acrostichals 10 –12, 11; prealars 1 –3, 2. Scutellum with 4–6 (3) setae, uniserial. Legs. Scale of foretibia 21–27 (2) μm long, with rounded apex. Spur of midtibia 48 –59, 54 μm long; including 12 –16, 14 μm long comb. Spur of hind tibia 70 (1) μm long, including 21 (1) μm long comb. Width at apex of foretibia 43–48 (2) μm; of midtibia 43 –48, 45 μm; of hind tibia 54 μm. Lengths (in μm) and proportions of legs as in Table 3. Abdomen. Tergite II with 14–30 (3), III with 15–25 (3), IV with 17–24 (3), V with 16–31 (3), VI with 14–22 (3), VII with 13–14 (3), VIII with 10–13 (3) setae. Genitalia (Figs 23–24). Gonocoxapodeme well sclerotized, slightly sinuous, reaching basis of dorsomesal lobe. Gonocoxite with 2 –3, 2 setae. Tergite IX with 13 –18, 16 setae. Segment X with 3 –4, 4 setae on each side. Postgenital plate triangular. Cercus 81 –89, 83 µm long. Dorsomesal lobe large, subquadrangular. Ventrolateral lobe small, bluntly triangular. Seminal capsules ovoid, 76 –89, 83 µm long. Notum 43 –56, 48 µm long. Pupa. (n = 1–2). Total length 6.53 mm long. Coloration. Exuviae pale with margins of wing sheath, leg sheath and thorax light brown. Cephalothorax. Cephalic tubercles (Fig. 25) bluntly triangular, 114 µm long, 182 µm wide. Frontal setae 24– 27 µm long. Thorax (Fig. 26) 1.59 –2.00 mm long. Abdomen (Fig. 27). Tergite I bare; tergite II–VI with anterior band of very strong shagreen and extensive median field of finer shagreen; tergite VII with anterior band of strong shagreen, antero-median field of finer shagreen and two small postero-lateral patches of fine shagreen; tergite VII with wide, anterior band finer shagreen. Pedes spurii A well developed on segment IV. Pedes spurii B well developed on segment II. Tergite II with 37–80 hooks. Anal comb (Fig. 28) with strong apical tooth and 2–3 lateral teeth. Abdominal setation. Segment I without L setae; segment II–IV each with 3 non-taeniate L setae; segments V– VII each with 3 taeniate L setae; segment VIII with 4 taeniate L setae. Fringe of anal lobe with 13 taeniae. Larva (n = 1–2). Total length not measurable (thorax and abdomen lost). Head capsule 253 (1) µm long. Postmentum 134–137 µm long. Coloration. Head capsule yellowish brown with postoccipital margin, teeth of mentum and mandible brownish black. Head. Antenna as in Figure 31. Length of antennal segments (in µm): 30, 15, 8, 10, 4. Blade 40 µm long. AR 0.83. Lauterborn organs 3 µm long. Pecten epipharyngis (Fig. 32) consisting of 3 platelets, both median and lateral platelets with 3 teeth each. Premandible 48–61 µm long. Mandible (Fig. 30) 91–99 µm long, with serrate inner margin, with apical tooth and 3 inner teeth. Seta subdentalis well developed; seta interna with about 4 branches. Mentum (Fig. 29) 68–71 µm wide, with 8 pairs of mental teeth; first and third lateral teeth much lower than median and second lateral teeth. Ventromental plate 70–72 µm wide, distance between plates 24–26 µm. Distribution. The species is known from Rio Tarumã, Amazonas State, Northern Brazil and Santa Catarina State, South Brazil. Remarks. This species was described originally from black water streams in the Amazon State. But the assumption that the immatures occur in streams was based on the type locality and the author failed to mention the possibility of the species occurring in phytotelmata. The larva will key to dichotomy 7 in Trivinho-Strixino (2011), but does not go further due to the tapering posterior margin of the ventromental plates and the mentum having 16 teeth.Published as part of Pinho, Luiz Carlos, Mendes, Humberto Fonseca, Andersen, Trond & Marcondes, Carlos Brisola, 2013, Bromelicolous Polypedilum Kieffer from South Brazil (Diptera: Chironomidae), pp. 569-581 in Zootaxa 3652 (5) on pages 575-580, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3652.5.6, http://zenodo.org/record/22108
O agressor by Rosário Fusco : evil or paranoia.
No full textO artigo analisa um romance de Rosário Fusco, O agressor, publicado em
1943 e logo resenhado por Antonio Candido em sua coluna no jornal Folha da Manhã.
Diferentemente da avaliação de Candido, no entanto, orientando ao que parece pela defesa
tanto do romance nacional quanto de certo realismo na literatura, e que critica no livro de
Fusco justamente sua suposta desintegração em relação à “experiência brasileira”, o artigo
procura revalorizar O agressor tendo em vista duas aproximações: com Kafka e com o
surrealismo. Para isso, busca-se associar o romance ao “método crítico-paranoico”, tal como
elaborado por Salvador Dalí, resultado por sua vez de uma leitura que fez das primeiras
teorias lacanianas em torno da noção de paranoia, que também são consideradas, em larga
medida, no presente artigo. Como se verá, a exemplo do que argumenta Gunther Anders
a respeito do autor de O processo, por meio de sua técnica própria de estranhamento, a
literatura de Fusco não faz outra coisa senão tocar o cerne da realidade.The article analyzes O agressor (The aggressor), a novel by Rosário Fusco
published in 1943 and reviewed by Antonio Candido shortly thereafter in “Folha da Manhã”.
However, differently from Candido’s assessment, which seems to be guided both by the
defense of the national novel and a certain realism in the literature, then criticizing Fusco’s
book precisely by its supposed disintegration in connection to the “Brazilian experience”,
the article seeks to revalue O agressor taking two approaches into consideration: with
Kafka and with surrealism. For this purpose we try to associate the novel with the “critical-
paranoid method” as elaborated by Salvador Dalí after the spanish painter read first Lacanian
theories around the notion of paranoia, also considered in this article. As will be seen, as
Gunther Anders argues about the author of “The Process”, Fusco’s novel, through its own
technique of estrangement, does nothing but touch the very core of reality
Musikstädte as real and imaginary soundscapes: urban musical images as literary motifs in twentieth-century German modernism
No full textPhDThis study examines German literary images of musical life as part of the wider sound identity of the modern German city at the turn of the twentieth century. Focussing on a forty-year period from 1890 to 1930, synonymous with the emergence of the modern German metropolis as an aesthetic object, the project assesses, compares and contrasts how musical life in the Musikstädte was perceived and portrayed by writers in an increasingly noisy urban environment. How does urban musical life influence and condition city writings? What are the differences and similarities between the writings on various musical cities? Can an urban textual sound identity be derived from these differences and similarities? The approach employed to answer these questions is a new, cross-disciplinary one to urban sound in literature, moving beyond reading the key sounds of the urban soundscape using urban musicology, sensorial anthropology and cultural poetics towards a literary contextualisation of the urban aural experience.
The literary motifs of the symphony, the gramophone and urban noise are put under the spotlight through the analysis of a wide range of modernist works by authors who have a special relationship with music. At the centre of this analysis are the Kaffeehausliteratur authors Hermann Bahr, Alfred Polgar and Peter Altenberg, the then Munich-based author Thomas Mann and the lesser known René Schickele. The analysis of these particular works is framed in the music-geographical context of the Musikstadt and literary underpinnings of this topos, ranging from Ingeborg Bachmann to Hans Mayer and, once again, Thomas Mann. In analysing these texts, the methodological approach devised by Strohm, who identifies the blending of a range of urban sounds as a definition of urban space and identity, is applied. His ideas combine historical literary
analysis, musical history and urban sociology. They are rarely used in the analysis of the auditory environment.Arts and Humanities Research Council
Westfield TrustWestfield Trust Studentship
Arts and Humanities Reseach Council (AHRC
Alcides Buss: pomar de possibilidades
No full textDissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Centro de Comunicação e Expressão. Programa de Pós-Graduação em Literatura.Com o intuito de auxiliar o professor no ensino da Literatura, desenvolveu-se um cederrom literário #Alcides Buss: Pomar de Possibilidades# que abrange os mais de 30 anos de produção artística do poeta catarinense Alcides Buss. Este #pomar# permite a formação de uma dinâmica alternativa no processo ensino-aprendizagem de Literatura, no qual a tecnologia interage com a produção do conhecimento. Usando o computador como ferramenta disseminadora, possibilita-se transmitir a um público diverso, em variadas localidades, o valor da poesia e do poeta catarinense. Intending to help the educator at the Literature teaching, was developed a compact disc #Alcides Buss: Possibilities Orchard# that include all the collection of more than thirty years of artistic production from the poet Alcides Buss. This #orchard# permisses the formation of an alternative dynamic in Literature teaching teaching-andlearning, in that the technology interacts with the knowledge production. Using the computer has a disseminator tool, becomes possible to transmit to a diverse public, in many places, the value of the catarinense author´s poetry
Imagens de Otto Maria Carpeaux: esboço de biografia
No full textTese (doutorado) - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Centro de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas, Programa de Pós-Graduação em História, Florianópolis, 2015.Este esboço de biografia procura citar algumas imagens de Otto Maria Carpeaux: construções biográficas de naturezas múltiplas, elaboradas em contextos, por atores e sob condições igualmente díspares. Está constituído a partir de uma visão crítica da História, o que permite que ?outras imagens?, fragmentárias e não monumentais, também tenham espaço. Em diálogo com o princípio da montagem, este esboço apresenta-se em duas partes. Na primeira, Imagens possíveis, estão citadas as imagens elaboradas em vida e post mortem acerca do austríaco-brasileiro que nasceu em Viena em 1900, se exilou no Brasil em 1939 e morreu no Rio de Janeiro, em 1978. Na segunda, Montagens possíveis, apresentam-se duas possibilidades de exercício biográfico: pela leitura alegórica do documentário O velho e o Novo (Otto Maria Carpeaux), entendido como instrumento de intervenção no contexto ditatorial brasileiro e de uma reelaboração biográfica concernentes às suas experiências europeias; e pelo Caderno de imagens críticas, registro dos encontros em Carpeaux pelo meio de imagens críticas produzidas a partir da cesura do presente.Abstract : This biographical sketch attempts to quote some images of Otto Maria Carpeaux: various types of biographical constructions, carried out in different contexts by disparate authors under conditions just as distinct. It stems from a critical view of history, allowing for ?other images? fragmented and non-monumental ? to share the space.In dialogue with the montage principle, this sketch has two parts. The first, Possible Images, quotes the images produced during and after the life of the Austrian-Brazilian, who was born in Vienna in 1900, went to Brazil in exile in 1939 and died in Rio de Janeiro in 1978. The second part, Possible Montages, presents two possibilities of a biographical exercise: through the allegorical reading of documentary O Velho e o Novo (Otto Maria Carpeaux), understood as an instrument of intervention in the Brazilian dictatorship context and as a biographical retelling of the author?s European experiences; and through my Scrapbook of Critical Images, a record of the encounters in Carpeaux through critical images produced from the caesura of the present
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