O amor, a morte e o tempo: o mito do vampiro em narrativas dos séculos XIX e XX
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2014-09-26
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Universidade Federal de Goiás
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Since ancient times, the vampire is known in almost every culture, being subject of
legends, literary narratives and others works of art. It is a myth born in orality, which
entered the world of artistic endeavors, reminding us of our subjection to Eros and
the passage of time –and its main consequences: aging and death (Thanatos). This
dissertation outlines the vampire myth, particularly in Literature, and looks into some
specific short stories of the 19th and 20th centuries - "The Vampyre" by John Polidori;
"The Fall of the House of Usher " by Edgar Allan Poe; and "The Horla" (1st and
2nd versions), by Guy de Maupassant; "Eles herdarão a terra" by Dinah Silveira de
Queiroz; "Albino" by Heleno Godoy; and "Potyra" by Lygia Fagundes Telles. These
narratives can offer not only a vision of the vampire’s peculiarities, already established
by tradition, but also they introduce new aspects. With that corpus in mind, we
intend to approach key issues of human nature - love, death and the time - related to
the fascination created through time by the vampire’s myth. Therefore, our goal here
is connected with one question: how the vampire becomes a reflection of mankind’s
journey, and in that way, inspires our hopes and fears related to the obstacles that
have us imprisoned. We rely on the theoretical assumptions of Hans Meyerhoff, Edgar
Morin, Philippe Aries and Françoise Dastur concerning the passing time and the
anguish of man towards death. In addition, we have brought some ideas from Sigmund
Freud and Donaldo Schüler. Through Gaston Bachelard and Mircea Eliade’s
symbolic hermeneutics, we have studied such symbols as the night, the moon, the
water, the blood and the mirror, part of the vampiric imagery detected in the studied
texts, and related to the mentioned themes.
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Mito do vampiro , Hermenêutica simbólica , Amor , Morte , Tempo , Vampire myth , Symbolic hermeneutics , Love , Death , Time
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RODRIGUES, Letícia C. A. O amor, a morte e o tempo: o mito do vampiro em narrativas dos séculos XIX e XX. 2014. 167 f. Dissertação (Mestrado em Letras e Linguística) - Universidade Federal de Goiás, Goiânia, 2014.