Tempo e memória na ficção de William Faulkner
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2011-06-27
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Universidade Federal de Goiás
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This is a study of William Faulkner s works concerning the saga Yonapatawpha. The
works were read from the themes of time and memory. We made a theoretical
trajectory over time and noted the conception assumed in the 18th century novel,
which has a singular and linear time, and in modern novel, in which time is
singular/plural. We consider the narrative, in a general way, as a poetic solution to
the aporetic of time and we point to the bond that the literary work has with the world
and with the reader. For that we made a trajectory on the threefold character of
mimesis, based on considerations of Paul Ricoeur. In this sense, firstly, we point out
the relationship of the saga and the weaving of the plot with the history of the
southern United States. This demonstration has assumed the intersection between
fiction and history, for they, taken together, have the power to refiguring time.
Secondly, we analyzed the novel The sound and the fury. At this point, we confined
ourselves to discussions of Gerard Genette and Robert Humphrey, for beyond
grasping the refiguration of time in the weaving of the plot, we wanted to seize it in
the level of the immanent structure of the narrative. We have used the assumption
that the narrative incorporated the concept of structure of social sciences, and
focusing on the concept of structure, concurrency, that we kept the relationship
between fiction and history. At this point, we demonstrate that the concept
singular/plural time was mimicked in the immanent structure of the narrative. Finally,
we bring to evidence that the relationship between time and memory points to the
historical issues and to metaphysical questions, and to eternity, which is, for Plato
and Augustine, the opposite of time of living, of experience. Moreover, we put into
evidence that both history and eternity also incorporate the concept of singular/plural
time. We return to the ideas of Ricoeur and undertake a discussion on the level of
mimesis III, through dialogue with major critics of the Faulknerian work. We did our
reading seeking convergence between the works The sound and the fury and
Absalom, Absalom. From our reading, this convergence occurs in the interest of the
Quentin for the history of Sutpen s family. These works, without releasing from the
most linear aspects of time, explore the hierarchical levels which constitute the depth
and the complexity of temporal experience. We finish the demonstration of the
character of the threefold character of mimesis, and the levels of critical reading of a
text which should point to two ways: to the configuration level of the work and to the
world that this configuration protrudes out of itself, which is a world vision related to a
temporal experience, which has its roots in the aporiae of St. Augustine, that is, in
great contrast between the distentio and the intentio animi.
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tempo , memória , história , eternidade , narrativa , mimese , William Faulkner , time , memory , history , eternity , narrative , mimesis , William Faulkner
Citação
GRANGEIRO, Alessandra Carlos Costa. Tempo e memória na ficção de William Faulkner. 2011. 240 f. Tese (Doutorado em Linguistica, Letras e Artes) - Universidade Federal de Goiás, Goiania, 2011.