Transformações urbanas e psicopatologia na ficção naturalista de Aluísio Azevedo
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2010-08-19
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Universidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp)
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Pensando no tema central da representação da doença no romance naturalista, principalmente no que se refere às moléstias de cunho urbano e de natureza psíquica, e em todas as séries de determinismos fisiológicos, ambientais e sociais, buscamos averiguar em quatro obras de Aluísio Azevedo – O Mulato (1881), O Homem (1887), Casa de Pensão (1884), e O Cortiço (1890) – como o escritor brasileiro incorporou à sua ficção naturalista alguns assuntos patológicos, provenientes, em grande parte, das reflexões sobre as teses cientificistas que inflamaram o final do século XIX. Buscando entender, portanto, como Aluísio Azevedo elaborou artisticamente os temas provenientes da problemática social e das questões médicas em geral, e enfocando as relações entre texto e contexto, temos por objetivo mostrar que, na elaboração desses quatros romances naturalistas, Aluísio Azevedo adotou uma visão artística que enfocou as enfermidades degenerativas da condição humana de seu tempo. Explorando tanto os aspectos das epidemias urbanas como os mecanismos somáticos relacionados à patogenia nervosa, e submetendo seus personagens ao exame social e psíquico minucioso, o romancista aderiu à equação científica, num momento histórico que possibilitou uma aproximação entre ciência e literatura, como alternativa de se aplicar, no campo da ficção, os procedimentos experimentais próprios do método científico
The present work aims to investigate how the Brazilian novelist Aluísio Azevedo has tried and incorporated into his naturalist novels O Mulato (1881), O Homem (1887), Casa de Pensão (1884), and O Cortiço (1890) pathological issues which mostly originate from reflections on the scientificist theses that inflamed the late XIX century. To do so, this research particularly focuses on the representation of the disease in the naturalist novel, precisely on the urban maladies of psychic nature, as well as on all sorts of physiological, environmental and social determinisms. We try and evince how Aluísio Azevedo has artistically elaborated themes concerning the social problematic and medical issues as a whole. Therefore, we aim to ascertain, by laying emphasis on the relations between text and context, that Aluísio Azevedo, has adopted an artistic point of view that focused on the degenerative diseases of the human condition back in his time so as to compose the four novels under scrutiny. By exploring not only aspects of urban epidemies but also the somatic mechanisms related to the nervous pathology, let alone by his submitting the characters to minute social and psychic scrutiny, the novelist adhered to the scientific equation in a historical moment which caused literature to get closer to science. That in turn reveals an attempt to apply the experimental procedures typical of the scientific method to the fictional realm
The present work aims to investigate how the Brazilian novelist Aluísio Azevedo has tried and incorporated into his naturalist novels O Mulato (1881), O Homem (1887), Casa de Pensão (1884), and O Cortiço (1890) pathological issues which mostly originate from reflections on the scientificist theses that inflamed the late XIX century. To do so, this research particularly focuses on the representation of the disease in the naturalist novel, precisely on the urban maladies of psychic nature, as well as on all sorts of physiological, environmental and social determinisms. We try and evince how Aluísio Azevedo has artistically elaborated themes concerning the social problematic and medical issues as a whole. Therefore, we aim to ascertain, by laying emphasis on the relations between text and context, that Aluísio Azevedo, has adopted an artistic point of view that focused on the degenerative diseases of the human condition back in his time so as to compose the four novels under scrutiny. By exploring not only aspects of urban epidemies but also the somatic mechanisms related to the nervous pathology, let alone by his submitting the characters to minute social and psychic scrutiny, the novelist adhered to the scientific equation in a historical moment which caused literature to get closer to science. That in turn reveals an attempt to apply the experimental procedures typical of the scientific method to the fictional realm
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Azevedo, Aluísio, 1857-1913 - Crítica e interpretação, Literatura brasileira - História e crítica, Ficção brasileira - História e crítica, Brazilian naturalism, Urban transformations, Psychopathology, Hysteria
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SILVA, Raquel Lima. Transformações urbanas e psicopatologia na ficção naturalista de Aluísio Azevedo. 2010. 188 f. Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual Paulista, Instituto de Biociências, Letras e Ciências Exatas, 2010.