"A castaway's look": the writing of the wreck-metaphor in Catherine Pozzi's diaries
| dc.creator | Aline Magalhães Pinto | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2022-12-12T21:03:41Z | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2025-09-09T00:24:59Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2022-12-12T21:03:41Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2020-01-15 | |
| dc.format.mimetype | ||
| dc.identifier.issn | 2249-460X | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/1843/47889 | |
| dc.language | eng | |
| dc.publisher | Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais | |
| dc.relation.ispartof | Global Journal of Human-Social Science Research | |
| dc.rights | Acesso Aberto | |
| dc.subject | Metáfora | |
| dc.subject.other | Self-referential discourse | |
| dc.subject.other | Metaphor | |
| dc.subject.other | Selfreflexivity | |
| dc.subject.other | Catherine Pozzi | |
| dc.title | "A castaway's look": the writing of the wreck-metaphor in Catherine Pozzi's diaries | |
| dc.title.alternative | “O olhar de um náufrago”: a escrita da metáfora do naufrágio nos diários de Catherine Pozzi | |
| dc.type | Artigo de periódico | |
| local.citation.issue | 9 | |
| local.citation.volume | 20 | |
| local.description.resumo | 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. | |
| local.identifier.orcid | http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0164-0061 | |
| local.publisher.country | Brasil | |
| local.publisher.department | FALE - FACULDADE DE LETRAS | |
| local.publisher.initials | UFMG | |
| local.url.externa | https://socialscienceresearch.org/index.php/GJHSS/article/view/102216 |