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Master's Dissertation
DOI
https://doi.org/10.11606/D.8.2021.tde-29122021-175739
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Author
Full name
José Pereira de Queiroz
E-mail
Institute/School/College
Knowledge Area
Date of Defense
Published
São Paulo, 2021
Supervisor
Committee
Vasconcelos, Sandra Guardini Teixeira (President)
Almeida, Jorge Mattos Brito de
Cardoso, André Cabral de Almeida
Pedreira, Márcia
Title in Portuguese
Forma autorreflexiva e experimentação ensaística em alguns contos de Virginia Woolf
Keywords in Portuguese
Conto
Ensaio literário
Virginia Woolf
Abstract in Portuguese
A presente dissertação analisa alguns contos de Virginia Woolf buscando compreender sua complexidade e diversidade temática e formal. Parte-se da proximidade entre dois contos e a produção ensaística da autora. "An Unwritten Novel" toma como premissa de seu enredo o mesmo argumento básico da anedota usada pela autora em seus ensaios sobre ficção para ilustrar o nascimento de um romance na mente de um escritor. O conto produz no leitor, simultaneamente, um olhar para a história contada e para os modos de apreensão da matéria. "Memoirs of a Novelist" assume a forma dupla de conto e de ensaio que critica a biografia de uma romancista, discutindo temas recorrentes na ensaística de Woolf, como a escrita como ofício para mulheres e os problemas do gênero biografia, além de transformar a autora da biografia em personagem. Em seguida, analisa-se um conjunto de outros contos da autora: "The Shooting Party", "Moments of Being: 'Slater's Pins Have No Points'", "A Lady in the Looking-Glass: A Reflection", "The Journal of Mistress Joan Martyn", "The Legacy", "The Searchlight", "Gipsy, the Mongrel" e "In the Orchard". Nesses textos, a autora explora diferentes maneiras de investigar não apenas os objetos de interesse dos narradores, mas as implicações e os pressupostos (ideológicos, históricos, sociais etc.) das escolhas formais de cada ato narrativo. Em sua ficção curta, Woolf trabalha com certas possibilidades autorreflexivas do conto, investigando e experimentando as formas e, nesse impulso exploratório, aproximando sua contística da forma do ensaio, como compreendida por Adorno.
Title in English
Self-Reflexive Form and Essayistic Experimentation in a Some of Virginia Woolfs Short Stories
Keywords in English
Essay
Short Story
Virginia Woolf
Abstract in English
This dissertation analyzes some of Virginia Woolf's short stories to understand their thematic and formal complexity and diversity. The starting point is the close connection between two short stories and Woolf's essays. The plot of "An Unwritten Novel" shares its basic premises with the anecdote Woolf uses in her essays on fiction to illustrate the birth of a novel in the writer's mind. The short story simultaneously focuses on the story being told and on the modes of representation of the subject matter being used. "Memoirs of a Novelist" is written in the double form of a short story and an essay that critiques the biography of a novelist. Thus, it discusses recurring themes in Woolf's other essays, such as writing as a profession for women and the problems of biography as a literary genre. It also turns the author of the biography under examination into a character by analyzing her writing. Next, a group Woolf's short stories is analyzed: "The Shooting Party", "Moments of Being: 'Slater's Pins Have No Points'", "A Lady in the Looking-Glass: A Reflection", "The Journal of Mistress Joan Martyn", "The Legacy", "The Searchlight", "Gipsy, the Mongrel" and "In the Orchard". In these texts, the author explores different ways to investigate not only the narrators' objects of interest, but the implications and assumptions (be them ideological, historical, social, etc.) of the formal choices of each narrative act. Woolf works with a certain self-reflexive tendency of the short story, allowing her to investigate and to experiment with forms in an exploratory impulse which brings Woolf's short story production close to the essay as a form, in the Adornian sense.
 
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2021-12-29
 
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