Banca de QUALIFICAÇÃO: KLEITON DA SILVA

Uma banca de QUALIFICAÇÃO de MESTRADO foi cadastrada pelo programa.
DISCENTE : KLEITON DA SILVA
DATA : 14/12/2018
HORA: 09:00
LOCAL: Instituto ÁGORA, sala 20
TÍTULO:

MANY ASPECTS OF COSMIC HORROR AS A STYLE IN THE H.P. LOVECRAFT’S WEIRD FICTION

PALAVRAS-CHAVES:

Cosmic horror. The weird tale. Fantastic. Short stories. H.P. Lovecraft

PÁGINAS: 35
GRANDE ÁREA: Linguística, Letras e Artes
ÁREA: Letras
SUBÁREA: Literatura Comparada
RESUMO:

The present study analyzes many aspects of cosmic horror as a style in the short stories: What the Moon Brings (1922), The Colour Out of Space (1927), The Shadow Over Innsmouth (1931) and At the Mountain of Madness (1931) by the American author Howard Phillips Lovecraft (1890-1937). We explore the discourse in the tales of weird fiction, which leads to the cosmic fear conceived by the reader through the categories: phenomenon, oxymorons, verisimilitude, narrator, figures of speech, imagery and symbolism. They contribute to the creation of an atmosphere filled with fear and horror in the plot of the tales proposed. We state that the identification of these categories provides us with the procedures adopted by the author in his writing to establish the cosmic horror in the weird narrative style. Considering the point of view from this literature genre, we try to approach it with the Fantastic, as the destabilization of the real, by Roas’ (2014) perspective and in addition to theoretical principles by Todorov (2010). The work investigates important themes in the configuration and setting of the stories, as well as explores and observes the categories of cosmic horror, as part of the universe of weird fiction, becoming a subgenre of the fantastic literature. We examine the theme of cosmic horror in the short stories, considering the theories referring to the weird tale, by Joshi (2003); the reception theory and the reader, by Jauss (1979) and Iser (1979); the imaginary and symbolism, by Durand (1997) and Frye (2006). Thus, with a focus on the reader, we explore the categories of cosmic horror through the narrator’s discourse and his behavior, the characters, the plot and the language, the form and the body of the text, that integrate the feeling of horror, in opposition between the imaginary and the reality, before an atmosphere that refers to the cosmic horror from the narratives. We have concluded that the cosmic horror is an essential part from the weird fiction. Its perception on the reader’s aspect is presented in the tales through the textual aesthetics, the elements, which are shown in the form of categories, the ability to provide the destabilization of reality known by the reader, so that the reader can question the phenomenon and that the characters can be resources of identification by the reader.

MEMBROS DA BANCA:
Presidente - 1423480 - WIEBKE ROBEN DE ALENCAR XAVIER
Interno - 1299003 - DERIVALDO DOS SANTOS
Interno - 3351552 - ROSANNE BEZERRA DE ARAUJO