Banca de QUALIFICAÇÃO: DERANCE AMARAL ROLIM FILHO

Uma banca de QUALIFICAÇÃO de MESTRADO foi cadastrada pelo programa.
DISCENTE : DERANCE AMARAL ROLIM FILHO
DATA : 30/09/2019
HORA: 09:00
LOCAL: Sala F 4 do Setor II (CCHLA)
TÍTULO:

Taoism and The Left Hand of Darkness: dialogical relations between philosophy and Ursula K. Le Guin’s novel

PALAVRAS-CHAVES:

The Left Hand of Darkness. Dialogic relations. Philosophy. Taoism. Teaching.

PÁGINAS: 78
GRANDE ÁREA: Linguística, Letras e Artes
ÁREA: Letras
SUBÁREA: Literaturas Estrangeiras Modernas
RESUMO:

This work aims to analyze the ideological development of the main character in Ursula K. Le Guin’s science fiction novel The Left Hand of Darkness in order to comprehend to what extent the Chinese philosophy of Taoism is manifested in the novel, and also to be able, then, to contribute to the teaching of literature and philosophy. To do so, a dialogical analysis of the main character’s discourses — the novel’s main narrator — is carried out in order to identify reverberations of the Taoist principles of yin-yang and non-action (inaction, wu wei). Lao Tzu’s millennial Taoist founder text Tao Te Ching is the philosophical corpus. The research makes use of Bakhtin and the Circle’s theoretical-methodological approach which lays out concepts such as discourse, utterance, heteroglossia (heterodiscourse), refraction, otherness, and ideology, thus making possible a comparative analysis through the understanding of Taoist philosophy as an ideological creation, as an ideology in its neutral sense as utilized by Bakhtin and the Circle — as, primarily, a system of ideas. The analysis exposes a discourse strongly marked by the Taoist principles of yin-yang and non-action (wu wei), which informs the novel in several levels: they are in the speech of the main character Genly, in his behavior, actions and non-actions (inactions), in his lexical choices, in the way he structures the novel’s narrative and arranges its chapters, and even in the novel’s setting. The philosophical principles manifest especially in the main character’s relationship with the novel’s other main character Estraven, with whom he shares narration. This relationship transforms as the narrative develops and it represents Genly’s integration with the other, with Estraven; it represents the complementarity of opposites and the full acceptance of the different, the joined duality of yin-yang.

MEMBROS DA BANCA:
Presidente - 1000286 - ORISON MARDEN BANDEIRA DE MELO JUNIOR
Interna - 1149420 - MARIA DA PENHA CASADO ALVES
Externo à Instituição - PABLO MORENO PAIVA CAPISTRANO - IFRN