Fear, hope and the aesthetic act: metafictional devices in Philip K. Dick's The man in the high castle

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Autor(a) principal: Cardoso, Eduardo Prado
Data de Publicação: 2021
Tipo de documento: Artigo
Idioma: eng
Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10400.14/36226
Resumo: Taking into consideration scenes that evoke either fear or hope in the novel The man in the high castle (1962), this paper argues that Philip K. Dick’s strategy involves the metafictional device of the book-within-the-book precisely because, in using such a foundational event as World War II, he allows for a critical look into different levels of history. These meta-movements that propel multiple readings are mimicked in the two dimensions of the story, by the circulation of objects that hold historicity, which are taken here as an example of how the aesthetic act is crucial to resist in totalitarian times. The apparently paradoxical forces that emanate from artifacts (the power of metaphors resides both in the fictional The Grasshopper lies heavy and the jewel) give room to the construction of different, and imaginative mechanisms to escape a univocal existence.
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spelling Fear, hope and the aesthetic act: metafictional devices in Philip K. Dick's The man in the high castleMedo, esperança e o ato estético: dispositivos meta-ficcionais em O Homem do Castelo Alto, de Philip K. DickMetafictionTotalitarianismAlternate historyMetaficçãoTotalitarismoHistória alternativaTaking into consideration scenes that evoke either fear or hope in the novel The man in the high castle (1962), this paper argues that Philip K. Dick’s strategy involves the metafictional device of the book-within-the-book precisely because, in using such a foundational event as World War II, he allows for a critical look into different levels of history. These meta-movements that propel multiple readings are mimicked in the two dimensions of the story, by the circulation of objects that hold historicity, which are taken here as an example of how the aesthetic act is crucial to resist in totalitarian times. The apparently paradoxical forces that emanate from artifacts (the power of metaphors resides both in the fictional The Grasshopper lies heavy and the jewel) give room to the construction of different, and imaginative mechanisms to escape a univocal existence.A partir de cenas a evocarem ora medo, ora esperança, na obra O homem do castelo alto, o artigo propõe que a estratégia de Philip K. Dick envolve dispositivos meta-ficcionais como o “livro dentro do livro” precisamente em função de sua escolha por um evento tão fundante como foi a Segunda Guerra Mundial, para então possibilitar visões críticas em diferentes níveis históricos. Tais meta-movimentos, que impulsionam múltiplas leituras, são então refletidos nas duas dimensões da estória, através da circulação de objetos a conter historicidade – algo tomado como exemplo da potencialidade do ato estético em meio a tempos totalitários. As forças aparentemente paradoxais a emanarem de artefatos (o fulgor das metáforas reside tanto no fictício O gafanhoto torna-se pesado quanto na joia) abrem espaço para a construção do diferente, e de mecanismos imaginativos que escapam a existências unívocas.Veritati - Repositório Institucional da Universidade Católica PortuguesaCardoso, Eduardo Prado2021-12-21T10:04:07Z2021-03-122021-03-12T00:00:00Zinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersioninfo:eu-repo/semantics/articleapplication/pdfhttp://hdl.handle.net/10400.14/36226eng2596-2817info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessreponame:Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)instname:Agência para a Sociedade do Conhecimento (UMIC) - FCT - Sociedade da Informaçãoinstacron:RCAAP2023-07-12T17:41:44Zoai:repositorio.ucp.pt:10400.14/36226Portal AgregadorONGhttps://www.rcaap.pt/oai/openaireopendoar:71602024-03-19T18:29:24.989978Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos) - Agência para a Sociedade do Conhecimento (UMIC) - FCT - Sociedade da Informaçãofalse
dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Fear, hope and the aesthetic act: metafictional devices in Philip K. Dick's The man in the high castle
Medo, esperança e o ato estético: dispositivos meta-ficcionais em O Homem do Castelo Alto, de Philip K. Dick
title Fear, hope and the aesthetic act: metafictional devices in Philip K. Dick's The man in the high castle
spellingShingle Fear, hope and the aesthetic act: metafictional devices in Philip K. Dick's The man in the high castle
Cardoso, Eduardo Prado
Metafiction
Totalitarianism
Alternate history
Metaficção
Totalitarismo
História alternativa
title_short Fear, hope and the aesthetic act: metafictional devices in Philip K. Dick's The man in the high castle
title_full Fear, hope and the aesthetic act: metafictional devices in Philip K. Dick's The man in the high castle
title_fullStr Fear, hope and the aesthetic act: metafictional devices in Philip K. Dick's The man in the high castle
title_full_unstemmed Fear, hope and the aesthetic act: metafictional devices in Philip K. Dick's The man in the high castle
title_sort Fear, hope and the aesthetic act: metafictional devices in Philip K. Dick's The man in the high castle
author Cardoso, Eduardo Prado
author_facet Cardoso, Eduardo Prado
author_role author
dc.contributor.none.fl_str_mv Veritati - Repositório Institucional da Universidade Católica Portuguesa
dc.contributor.author.fl_str_mv Cardoso, Eduardo Prado
dc.subject.por.fl_str_mv Metafiction
Totalitarianism
Alternate history
Metaficção
Totalitarismo
História alternativa
topic Metafiction
Totalitarianism
Alternate history
Metaficção
Totalitarismo
História alternativa
description Taking into consideration scenes that evoke either fear or hope in the novel The man in the high castle (1962), this paper argues that Philip K. Dick’s strategy involves the metafictional device of the book-within-the-book precisely because, in using such a foundational event as World War II, he allows for a critical look into different levels of history. These meta-movements that propel multiple readings are mimicked in the two dimensions of the story, by the circulation of objects that hold historicity, which are taken here as an example of how the aesthetic act is crucial to resist in totalitarian times. The apparently paradoxical forces that emanate from artifacts (the power of metaphors resides both in the fictional The Grasshopper lies heavy and the jewel) give room to the construction of different, and imaginative mechanisms to escape a univocal existence.
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