Performance, humor, discourse of salvation and eternal return in the novel Miss Lonelyhearts
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Resumo: | This article aims at analyzing the relationship between fiction and salvific discourse in the novel Miss Lonelyhearts (1933), by Nathanael West, understanding this problematic narrative as a liberating performance of the humor classified as black, from which dogmatic contents are dissociated, with a shift beyond the psychological dimension and religious representations that contents take into account. To do so, we carried out our reading by making use of the myth of Dionysus that allows us to articulate the vertiginous logics that takes place in West’s text, leading it to the nonsense that contaminates the religious discourse and deposes it from the sovereign power in this fictional world. Furthermore, our study is grounded on Deleuze’s recreation of Nietzsche’s eternal return. We also resort to the philosophy of religion to understand Nietzsche’s criticism of Christianity and its relation to the myth of Dionysus and eternal return in the analyzed work. The analysis made of such novel points to the insertion of irony and humor in the novel as a constant literary element that causes discursive heterogeneity, pointing the ambivalences and inconsistencies of Christianity conveyed by media in the discourse of messianic metanarrative. |
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Performance, humor, discourse of salvation and eternal return in the novel Miss Lonelyheartsblack humorthe myth of Dionysusredemptive metanarrativethe Christ complexLiteratura Norte-AmericanaThis article aims at analyzing the relationship between fiction and salvific discourse in the novel Miss Lonelyhearts (1933), by Nathanael West, understanding this problematic narrative as a liberating performance of the humor classified as black, from which dogmatic contents are dissociated, with a shift beyond the psychological dimension and religious representations that contents take into account. To do so, we carried out our reading by making use of the myth of Dionysus that allows us to articulate the vertiginous logics that takes place in West’s text, leading it to the nonsense that contaminates the religious discourse and deposes it from the sovereign power in this fictional world. Furthermore, our study is grounded on Deleuze’s recreation of Nietzsche’s eternal return. We also resort to the philosophy of religion to understand Nietzsche’s criticism of Christianity and its relation to the myth of Dionysus and eternal return in the analyzed work. The analysis made of such novel points to the insertion of irony and humor in the novel as a constant literary element that causes discursive heterogeneity, pointing the ambivalences and inconsistencies of Christianity conveyed by media in the discourse of messianic metanarrative.Universidade Estadual De Maringá2015-04-10info:eu-repo/semantics/articleinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersionComparadoapplication/pdfhttp://www.periodicos.uem.br/ojs/index.php/ActaSciLangCult/article/view/2402410.4025/actascilangcult.v37i1.24024Acta Scientiarum. Language and Culture; Vol 37 No 1 (2015); 17-23Acta Scientiarum. Language and Culture; v. 37 n. 1 (2015); 17-231983-46831983-4675reponame:Acta Scientiarum. Language and Culture (Online)instname:Universidade Estadual de Maringá (UEM)instacron:UEMenghttp://www.periodicos.uem.br/ojs/index.php/ActaSciLangCult/article/view/24024/pdf_56Santos, Evaldo Gondim dosSousa, Ilza Matias deinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess2015-06-03T09:31:33Zoai:periodicos.uem.br/ojs:article/24024Revistahttp://periodicos.uem.br/ojs/index.php/ActaSciLangCultPUBhttp://www.periodicos.uem.br/ojs/index.php/ActaSciLangCult/oai||actalan@uem.br1983-46831983-4675opendoar:2015-06-03T09:31:33Acta Scientiarum. Language and Culture (Online) - Universidade Estadual de Maringá (UEM)false |
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Performance, humor, discourse of salvation and eternal return in the novel Miss Lonelyhearts |
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Performance, humor, discourse of salvation and eternal return in the novel Miss Lonelyhearts |
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Performance, humor, discourse of salvation and eternal return in the novel Miss Lonelyhearts Santos, Evaldo Gondim dos black humor the myth of Dionysus redemptive metanarrative the Christ complex Literatura Norte-Americana |
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Performance, humor, discourse of salvation and eternal return in the novel Miss Lonelyhearts |
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Performance, humor, discourse of salvation and eternal return in the novel Miss Lonelyhearts |
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Performance, humor, discourse of salvation and eternal return in the novel Miss Lonelyhearts |
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Performance, humor, discourse of salvation and eternal return in the novel Miss Lonelyhearts |
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Performance, humor, discourse of salvation and eternal return in the novel Miss Lonelyhearts |
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Santos, Evaldo Gondim dos |
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black humor the myth of Dionysus redemptive metanarrative the Christ complex Literatura Norte-Americana |
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black humor the myth of Dionysus redemptive metanarrative the Christ complex Literatura Norte-Americana |
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This article aims at analyzing the relationship between fiction and salvific discourse in the novel Miss Lonelyhearts (1933), by Nathanael West, understanding this problematic narrative as a liberating performance of the humor classified as black, from which dogmatic contents are dissociated, with a shift beyond the psychological dimension and religious representations that contents take into account. To do so, we carried out our reading by making use of the myth of Dionysus that allows us to articulate the vertiginous logics that takes place in West’s text, leading it to the nonsense that contaminates the religious discourse and deposes it from the sovereign power in this fictional world. Furthermore, our study is grounded on Deleuze’s recreation of Nietzsche’s eternal return. We also resort to the philosophy of religion to understand Nietzsche’s criticism of Christianity and its relation to the myth of Dionysus and eternal return in the analyzed work. The analysis made of such novel points to the insertion of irony and humor in the novel as a constant literary element that causes discursive heterogeneity, pointing the ambivalences and inconsistencies of Christianity conveyed by media in the discourse of messianic metanarrative. |
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