A linguagem do espaço em Henry James: a fase madura
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2016-04-26
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Costa, Natasha Vicente da Silveira [UNESP]
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Universidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp)
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A postura artística de Henry James (1843-1916) perante o mundo físico se exprime por meio de técnicas narrativas variadas, que tanto refletem uma longa tradição literária quanto apresentam suas contribuições peculiares. Esquivando-se da densidade referencial em favor de uma materialidade sutil, James converte o espaço em símbolo, dota-o de valor psicológico e emprega-o para representar as personagens em suas complexidades humanas. Nesse sentido, esta pesquisa pretende estudar a introdução, descrição e conotação das referências espaciais e espaçotemporais da ficção madura do autor tomando como ponto de partida os romances The wings of the dove, The ambassadors e The golden bowl, publicados respectivamente em 1902, 1903 e 1904. Propomo-nos aqui a examinar a linguagem jamesiana e demonstrar de que forma tais narrativas captam o mundo interior por meio da representação do espaço, principalmente, e do tempo, e engendram o efeito de, por exemplo, subordinar a materialidade do mundo físico às elaborações mentais das personagens, tecer construções sintáticas e semânticas incomuns, sobrepor estratos físicos e psíquicos e desestabilizar a interpretação do leitor. Para isso, buscamos traçar um caminho de análise pautando-nos por uma metodologia paralela baseada nos princípios narratológicos e estilísticos de Gérard Genette (1995, 1969), Dan Shen (2014, 2005a, 2005b) e Leech e Short (1981), dentre outros.
Henry James’s (1843-1916) artistic approach to the physical world is expressed through several narrative techniques which both convey a well-established literary tradition and make their unique contributions. By avoiding referential density in favor of subtle materiality, James turns space into symbol, endows it with psychological value and uses it to represent the characters in their human complexities. Therefore, this research aims to study the introduction, description and connotation of spatial and spatiotemporal references of James’s major phase considering, as its starting point, the novels The Wings of the Dove, The Ambassadors and The Golden Bowl, published in 1902, 1903, and 1904 respectively. We propose to examine the Jamesian language and demonstrate how these narratives capture the inner world through the representation of space, chiefly, and time, and produce the effect, for instance, of subordinating the materiality of the physical world to the mental elaboration of characters, of weaving unusual syntactic and semantic structures, of overlapping physical and psychological strata and of destabilizing the interpretation of the reader. In order to do so, this study is guided by a parallel methodology based on the narratological and the stylistic principles of Gérard Genette (1995, 1969), Dan Shen (2014, 2005a, 2005b) and Leech and Short (1981), among others.
Henry James’s (1843-1916) artistic approach to the physical world is expressed through several narrative techniques which both convey a well-established literary tradition and make their unique contributions. By avoiding referential density in favor of subtle materiality, James turns space into symbol, endows it with psychological value and uses it to represent the characters in their human complexities. Therefore, this research aims to study the introduction, description and connotation of spatial and spatiotemporal references of James’s major phase considering, as its starting point, the novels The Wings of the Dove, The Ambassadors and The Golden Bowl, published in 1902, 1903, and 1904 respectively. We propose to examine the Jamesian language and demonstrate how these narratives capture the inner world through the representation of space, chiefly, and time, and produce the effect, for instance, of subordinating the materiality of the physical world to the mental elaboration of characters, of weaving unusual syntactic and semantic structures, of overlapping physical and psychological strata and of destabilizing the interpretation of the reader. In order to do so, this study is guided by a parallel methodology based on the narratological and the stylistic principles of Gérard Genette (1995, 1969), Dan Shen (2014, 2005a, 2005b) and Leech and Short (1981), among others.
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Henry James, Espaço, Espaçotemporal, Tempo, Estilística, Narratologia, Space, Spatiotemporal, Time, Stylisti, Narratology