Name: JERSON OLIVEIRA MENDES JUNIOR
Publication date: 22/11/2022
Advisor:
Name |
Role |
|---|---|
| WILBERTH CLAYTHON FERREIRA SALGUEIRO | Advisor * |
Examining board:
| Name |
Role |
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| VITOR CEI SANTOS | Internal Examiner * |
| WILBERTH CLAYTHON FERREIRA SALGUEIRO | Advisor * |
Summary: Several and significant publications on aspects of intertextuality in the work of
Machado de Assis and Edgar Allan Poe, considering style and literary aesthetics,
can be cited, however few comparative studies were carried out regarding the
approach to madness and humor in their works. Although they are recurring themes
throughout the production of such writers, their application is diverse (PHILLIPOV,
2011). In this regard, this research aims to identify, through a comparative study, how
the phenomenon of madness in the 19th century was represented by the
aforementioned authors from their characters, as well as discuss the construction of
derision around them in their respective texts: O Alienista (1881) and The System of
Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether (1845). The present analysis is based on the
contributions of Foucault (1978), Carvalho (2018), Schwarz (2000), Botton (2017),
Mabbott (1978) among others and draws on these literary works to reflect upon the
way in which the political, through institutional power, turns what threatens
conservative social norms into a pathology.
KEYWORDS: Comparative Literature; Edgar Allan Poe; Machado de Assis;
Madness.
