The ethics of the object in modern Brazilian literature
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- The Ethics of the Object in Modern Brazilian Literature examines the status and function of objects in Brazilian literary works spanning the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Each work registers and contends with an uncanny encounter with the object—be it a thing proper, an artistic construction or a disciplinary formulation—through a turn to the aesthetic. "The ethics of the object" describes the process by which these objects-as-agents interrupt and impact the creative process by forcing their observers to negotiate with them as something other than passive recipients of the descriptive gaze. By reading works across various genres—poetry, fiction, nonfiction prose and essays—I show that the attempt to pack a disconcerting experience with agential objects back into language results in the emergence, and even mobilization, of literary techniques that confuse and muddle subject and objects, and place the ontological status of the writing subject in doubt. In focusing primarily on the trouble that many different kinds of encounters with alterity wreak upon narration, and by extension on the reader, this dissertation offers a new mode for analyzing the ways in which Brazilian authors contend with difference
Description
| Type of resource | text |
|---|---|
| Form | electronic resource; remote; computer; online resource |
| Extent | 1 online resource |
| Place | California |
| Place | [Stanford, California] |
| Publisher | [Stanford University] |
| Copyright date | 2020; ©2020 |
| Publication date | 2020; 2020 |
| Issuance | monographic |
| Language | English |
Creators/Contributors
| Author | Schiess, Ami |
|---|---|
| Degree supervisor | Barletta, Vincent |
| Thesis advisor | Barletta, Vincent |
| Thesis advisor | Hoyos Ayala, Héctor |
| Thesis advisor | Rocha, Marília Librandi |
| Degree committee member | Hoyos Ayala, Héctor |
| Degree committee member | Rocha, Marília Librandi |
| Associated with | Stanford University, Department of Iberian and Latin American Cultures |
Subjects
| Genre | Theses |
|---|---|
| Genre | Text |
Bibliographic information
| Statement of responsibility | Ami Schiess |
|---|---|
| Note | Submitted to the Department of Iberian and Latin American Cultures |
| Thesis | Thesis Ph.D. Stanford University 2020 |
| Location | electronic resource |
Access conditions
- Copyright
- © 2020 by Ami Schiess
- License
- This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial 3.0 Unported license (CC BY-NC).
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