LITERATURA GÓTICA E EXPRESSIONISMO LITERÁRIO

MANIFESTAÇÕES ESTÉTICAS DA DENÚNCIA DA OPRESSÃO DO SELF

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https://doi.org/10.20873/porletras/10

Abstract

Possible to be established through multiple forms of violence, self’s oppression is the literary motif that this research claims to be a common thread between both Gothic and Expressionist worldviews and literary materialities. Our aim is to compare both aesthetical projects to understand, in a broader sense, what common points of interlocution they share, whether these features are installed by means of similitude between worldviews or by technical implications that fall upon language construction. We claim that Gothic literature (canonically instituted in 18th century) can be interpreted as proto-Expressionism, considering the shared ontological, thematic, and formal preoccupations with the 20th-century German avant-garde movement (Expressionism). Specifically, considering the wider ongoing research project that we develop within our institutional domain, we reserve special commentary regarding the literary inventory of the American writer William Faulkner (1897-1962) and intend to identify stimulating Expressionist inflections in Faulkner’s modernist Gothic.

Author Biography

Rogério Lobo Sáber, Unespar - Universidade Estadual do Paraná

Professor de Literaturas de Língua Inglesa da Universidade Estadual do Paraná (Unespar) - Campus Apucarana. Chefe da Divisão de Convênios e Mobilidade do Escritório de Relações Internacionais (ERI) da Unespar. Pós-doutor em Estudos Literários (UFMG) e pós-doutor em Filosofia (Faculdade Jesuíta de Belo Horizonte, FAJE). Doutor em Letras - Estudos Literários pela Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (UFMG). Foi bolsista CAPES do Programa Doutorado Sanduíche no Exterior (PDSE), vinculado à Southeast Missouri State University (SEMO, EUA) e ao Center for Faulkner Studies (CFS), tendo sido o primeiro brasileiro a pertencer ao quadro de visiting scholars da instituição. Mestre em Teoria e História Literária pela Universidade Estadual de Campinas (Unicamp). Licenciado em Letras - Português/Inglês e Literaturas, licenciado em Pedagogia e bacharel em Relações Internacionais. Áreas de interesse: Literaturas de Língua Inglesa, Literatura Gótica, Literatura Comparada, Teoria da Literatura, Literatura Infantojuvenil, Estudos Interdisciplinares (Cultura, Arte, Cinema, Música, Teatro, Biografia, Autobiografia, Educação, Educação Superior).

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2025-03-01

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Sáber, R. L. (2025). LITERATURA GÓTICA E EXPRESSIONISMO LITERÁRIO: MANIFESTAÇÕES ESTÉTICAS DA DENÚNCIA DA OPRESSÃO DO SELF. Porto Das Letras, 11(1), 227–253. https://doi.org/10.20873/porletras/10

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Vol. 11 No. 1 (2025): Tapeçarias textuais: estudos em Linguística e Literatura

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ESTUDOS LITERÁRIOS

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