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Type: | Artigo de Periódico |
Title: | "A castaway's look": the writing of the wreck-metaphor in Catherine Pozzi's diaries |
Other Titles: | “O olhar de um náufrago”: a escrita da metáfora do naufrágio nos diários de Catherine Pozzi |
Authors: | Aline Magalhães Pinto |
Abstract: | French poet and writer Catherine Pozzi is a remarkable figure of the late 19th century and the period between the World Wars. In 1893, at the age of 13, she won a little notebook from her grandmother and started a diary-writing practice she maintained until the end of her life, except for a few interruptions. This research stands at the intersection between intellectual history and literary studies. It is focused on the role played by the “castaway” image, developed by Pozzi as a self-reflexive construction in her diary. As a reflexive and metaphorical image, her castaway’s wreck draws from three main motifs, which are noticeable in her self-referential discourse: the sadness of an ill-fated love affair with one of the most celebrated men of French intelligentsia, namely Paul Valéry; the impact of tuberculosis on her body; and a frustrated intellectual vocation. Based on Hans Blumenberg’s views about metaphors and dialoguing with his theoretical construction, I sought to understand how a self-referential statement acts on a discourse by resorting to the textual composition of a metaphorical image, in order to be capable of representing the experience of a painfully stimulated conscience. This image emerges as an intimate and unique element, which can be interpreted as Pozzi’s entries accept the wreck image as the reflexive form of a metaphorical destiny. |
Subject: | Metáfora |
language: | eng |
metadata.dc.publisher.country: | Brasil |
Publisher: | Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais |
Publisher Initials: | UFMG |
metadata.dc.publisher.department: | FALE - FACULDADE DE LETRAS |
Rights: | Acesso Aberto |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/1843/47889 |
Issue Date: | 15-Jan-2020 |
metadata.dc.url.externa: | https://socialscienceresearch.org/index.php/GJHSS/article/view/102216 |
metadata.dc.relation.ispartof: | Global Journal of Human-Social Science Research |
Appears in Collections: | Artigo de Periódico |
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