Percursos critico-teóricos das listas na literatura

Abstract

The present article aims at problematizing the effects of the use of lists in literature and serves to broaden and clarify the formal and interpretative limits of such lists; it broaches questions regarding terminology and definition, dimension issues, closure/openness issues, questions about reading choices, hermeneutical questions. Further questions are raised: does the list carry list carry the reader in or Further questions are raised: does the list carry the departure and arrival points of the use of lists in literature be? In addition, this article reflects on studies conducted by authors who theorized either directly or indirectly on such lists and whose thinking has been a reference in international contexts, authors such as Umberto Eco, Philippe Hamon, Jack Goody, Madeleine Jeay, Bernard Sève, among others, will be considered here. The following conceptual axes guide the intended discussion: order and disorder in lists, lists and their f(r)iction-generating effects, poetics of a list or of the enumeration, enumerative structures and utopian descriptions, lists and parodic enunciation, subversive power of lists, inventory and list archive, accumulation and parodic repetition.