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  • CHAMADA PRORROGADA ALETRIA - v. 35, n. 2 (abr. - jun. 2025) Dossiê: James Joyce e Virginia Woolf: Experiências, limites e redefinições do modernismo

    2024-09-06

    Aletria: Revista de Estudos de Literatura

     

    Título do dossiê: James Joyce e Virginia Woolf: Experiências, limites e redefinições do modernismo.

    Organização: André Cabral de Almeida Cardoso (UFF), Daniel Reizinger Bonomo (UFMG), Júlia Braga Neves (UFRJ), Luciana Villas Bôas (UFRJ) e Thiago Rhys Bezerra Cass (USP).

    Previsão de publicação: abril/ 2025
    Prazo para submissão: 5 de outubro de 2024 

    Chamada: Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) e James Joyce (1882-1941) são nomes incontornáveis na história da ficção das primeiras décadas do século XX. A autoconsciência formal de seus romances e contos, marcados por inegável densidade retórica e deliberada exploração de novas possibilidades composicionais, parece simultaneamente determinar e satisfazer a correlação recorrente entre modernismo e o que se convencionou chamar de “estética da dificuldade” (Diepeveen, 2003; Hunter, 2012), investida em afrontar e subverter as práticas e os hábitos do “leitor comum” – para mobilizar uma categoria cara à própria Woolf –, ligados às convenções realistas do século XIX. Passados cerca de cem anos desde o reconhecimento inicial de suas obras, cumpre refletir sobre a validade de análises que vinculam a experimentação técnica ao modernismo e pressupõem a desorientação do público. Essa tradição interpretativa dos textos modernistas determina até hoje uma abordagem da obra de Woolf e Joyce que os associa à produção de efeitos de epifania, fluxos de consciência, instabilidades de foco narrativo e forma espacial (ver McGurl, 2011; Drewery, 2016). No entanto, a ficção de Woolf e Joyce também fornece elementos que convidam à reflexão sobre a historicidade da recepção dos textos, das práticas de leitura e da própria teoria literária. Ulysses (1922) e Jacob’s Room (1922), The Waves (1931) e Finnegans Wake (1939) interrogam os elementos constitutivos do romance como gênero. Embaralham as fronteiras entre os múltiplos subgêneros novelísticos. Salientam a materialidade do meio. Postulam a narrativa como forma de conhecimento. Dialogam com os condicionantes políticos e nacionais da tradição literária. Tematizam os impasses entre a dimensão local e a cosmopolita, num tecido polifônico e por vezes pluringuístico, que impõe imensos desafios à tradução. Assim, neste número da revista Aletria, serão bem-vindas contribuições que discutam a historicidade da própria experiência de leitura e, sobretudo, de releitura da ficção de Woolf e Joyce, propondo a redefinição ou até mesmo a redescoberta de abordagens que as obras dos dois autores, em todo o seu alcance, possam demandar ou interditar. Procura-se, assim, reavaliar as práticas de leitura em torno da obra dos dois escritores, para além daquelas já sedimentadas pela sua fortuna crítica, interrogando-as a partir de um novo contexto cultural e teórico. Artigos que contemplem aspectos temáticos e formais da obra, sua relação com diferentes gêneros literários, além da produção ensaística, correspondência e diário, são igualmente bem-vindos, assim como estudos comparativos entre Woolf e Joyce, ou destes com outros autores.

    Referências bibliográficas
    DIEPEVEEN, Leonard. The Difficulties of Modernism. Nova Iorque – Londres: Routledge, 2003.
    DREWERY, Claire. “The Modernist Short Story: Fractured Perspectives”. In: HEAD, Dominic (ed.). The Cambridge History of the English Short Story. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016, p. 135-151.
    HUNTER, Andrew. “The Short Story and the Difficulty of Modernism”. In: SACIDO, Jorge (ed.). Modernism, Postmodernism and the Short Story in English. Amsterdã – Nova Iorque: Rodopi, 2012, p. 29-46.
    McGURL, Mark. The Program Era: Postwar Fiction and the Rise of Creative Writing. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2009.

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  • CALL FOR PAPERS - v. 35, n. 3 (2025): Comedy: from classics to modernity

    2024-06-05

    CHAMADA ALETRIA - v. 35, n. 3 (jul. - set. 2025) 

    Organizers:

    Elen de Medeiros (UFMG), Rodrigo Alves Nascimento (UFBA)

    Deadline for submission of proposals: December 4, 2024.

     

    Comedy: from classics to modernity

     

    Both underestimated and difficult to grasp, comedy is a genre that has undergone historical transformations in its poetic constitution. Aristotle stated that comedy deals with the “imitation of inferior people” (p. 67), and several scholars have been analyzing the excerpt since. Many of them have taken it as the reason for a historical underestimation of the genre, but Cleise Furtado Mendes (2008, p. 49) observes in her study on the forms of comedy that “Aristotle cannot be considered the ‘origin’ of the critical demotion of which it was a victim”. After all, in Poetics itself, the philosopher argued that: “The successive changes through which tragedy passed, and the authors of these changes, are well known, whereas comedy has had no history because it was not at first treated seriously.” (p. 67). Actually, in drama theory, studies dedicated to comedy are scarce and uneven, even though dramaturgical production is fruitful and always present. It is not surprising that many historians and theater critics would not hesitate to say that comedy of manners was undoubtedly the most flourishing genre in Brazil in the 19th century and played a decisive role in the origins of what was called “Brazilian national dramaturgy.”

    On the other hand, investigations on comedy and laughter are no less complex, and perhaps only in the last two centuries, they have become objects of interest in very different fields, such as medicine, anthropology, history, and philosophy. Overall, although many insist on the search for universal rules, the fact is that comicality and the meanings of laughter cannot handled regardless of contextualization and social dimension.

    In this sense, we invite researchers to think about comedy and comicality both in their tradition and in the light of modern and contemporary transformations. Perhaps even more than tragedy or “serious dramas”, comedy has benefited from rich changes and adaptations throughout history, producing a broad tradition of subgenres: high and low comedy, burlesque, comedy of characters, of manners, cloak and sword comedy, heroic and melodramatic comedies... or even: farces, vaudevilles, and tragicomedies. Therefore, papers that address the genre in its formal constitution or merged by other dramaturgical patterns, from Brechtian epic theater to slapstick comedy, or papers that seek to understand different theatrical comic texts, will be accepted. Aletria also receives texts in a continuous flow, for the “Varia” section, interviews, and reviews.

     

    References:

     

    ARISTÓTELES. Poética. Edição bilingue. Tradução, introdução e notas de Paulo Pinheiro. São Paulo: Ed. 34, 2015.

    MENDES, Cleise Furtado. A gargalhada de Ulisses: a catarse na comédia. São Paulo: Perspectiva/Salvador: Fundação Gregório de Mattos, 2008.

     

     

     

    Comedy: from classics to modernity

     

     

    Both underestimated and difficult to grasp, comedy is a genre that has undergone historical transformations in its poetic constitution. Aristotle stated that comedy deals with the “imitation of inferior people” (p. 67), and several scholars have been analyzing the excerpt since. Many of them have taken it as the reason for a historical underestimation of the genre, but Cleise Furtado Mendes (2008, p. 49) observes in her study on the forms of comedy that “Aristotle cannot be considered the ‘origin’ of the critical demotion of which it was a victim”. After all, in Poetics itself, the philosopher argued that: “The successive changes through which tragedy passed, and the authors of these changes, are well known, whereas comedy has had no history because it was not at first treated seriously.” (p. 67). Actually, in drama theory, studies dedicated to comedy are scarce and uneven, even though dramaturgical production is fruitful and always present. It is not surprising that many historians and theater critics would not hesitate to say that comedy of manners was undoubtedly the most flourishing genre in Brazil in the 19th century and played a decisive role in the origins of what was called “Brazilian national dramaturgy.”

    On the other hand, investigations on comedy and laughter are no less complex, and perhaps only in the last two centuries, they have become objects of interest in very different fields, such as medicine, anthropology, history, and philosophy. Overall, although many insist on the search for universal rules, the fact is that comicality and the meanings of laughter cannot handled regardless of contextualization and social dimension.

    In this sense, we invite researchers to think about comedy and comicality both in their tradition and in the light of modern and contemporary transformations. Perhaps even more than tragedy or “serious dramas”, comedy has benefited from rich changes and adaptations throughout history, producing a broad tradition of subgenres: high and low comedy, burlesque, comedy of characters, of manners, cloak and sword comedy, heroic and melodramatic comedies... or even: farces, vaudevilles, and tragicomedies. Therefore, papers that address the genre in its formal constitution or merged by other dramaturgical patterns, from Brechtian epic theater to slapstick comedy, or papers that seek to understand different theatrical comic texts, will be accepted. Aletria also receives texts in a continuous flow, for the “Varia” section, interviews, and reviews.

     

    References:

     

    ARISTÓTELES. Poética. Edição bilingue. Tradução, introdução e notas de Paulo Pinheiro. São Paulo: Ed. 34, 2015.

    MENDES, Cleise Furtado. A gargalhada de Ulisses: a catarse na comédia. São Paulo: Perspectiva/Salvador: Fundação Gregório de Mattos, 2008.

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

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  • Aletria solves problem to submit articles to the dossier " Nature e violence"

    2022-05-03

    Recentemente, a Aletria: Revista de Estudos de Literatura foi notificada da impossibilidade de submeter artigos ao Dossiê: Natureza e violência, uma vez que esta opção não aparecia no processo de submissão.

    Informamos que o problema foi corrigido e já é possível enviar trabalhos ao dossiê.

    Lembramos ainda que o prazo para submissões se encerra em 15 de junho de 2022.

    Agradecemos a compreensão de todos.

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