Revista Latino Americana de Estudos em Cultura e Sociedade (Jul 2015)

Literature and Culture: spaces of invention and (Re)invention of the World

  • Ana Lúcia Montano Boéssio

DOI
https://doi.org/10.23899/relacult.v1i1.2
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 1, no. 1
pp. 25 – 40

Abstract

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Thinking literature as an “object of art”, from a comparative approach, this paper proposes the conjunction of two fields: the Cultural Studies, with its contribution for the understanding of the concept of culture, and the Aesthetics, as a way to emphasize the relevance of literary studies as a space of unveiling of the culture and the world, as well. Therefore, this paper has as a theoretical reference the concept of “culture as invention”, as proposed by Roy Wagner, and the works by Vincent Jouve and Jean Grondin, once the literary text is understood as a space of multiple confluences and, consequently, not only a space of unveiling but also of invention and/or reinvention of the culture it is related to, bringing as an example the representation of the feminine in o remorso de baltazar serapião, by Valter Hugo Mãe.

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