From Myth to Novel
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2024
Our Knowledge Publishing (Verlag)
978-620-7-17049-4 (ISBN)
Our Knowledge Publishing (Verlag)
978-620-7-17049-4 (ISBN)
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In this reading of the Gospel, from José Saramago's perspective, the reader finds a way of feeling and thinking about reality from the point of view of man, of human values. This is one of the strengths of this study by Conceição Flores on the controversial novel by the Portuguese author, who won the Nobel Prize for Literature. To this end, the free play of the writer's verbal creation - according to the scholar - calls for de-automatisation and questioning of the established Christian myth, appropriated by religious and political powers. Not to replace it with other dogmatic discourses, but to place it in a critical dialogue with (his) fictional text. In this way, the writer reveals human self-determination against all forms of authoritarianism. The dogmatic discourse of origin, the bearer of a single, essentialist truth, is therefore opposed to the historicity of Saramago's literary discourse. He de-sacralises myth by moving it from the heights to which it has been elevated by the powers that be, to the prosaic nature of human existence. Benjamin Abadla Júnior (USP).
Conceição Flores was born on the island of Faial (Azores) and has lived in Brazil since 1981. She has a degree in Literature from the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte, a Master's in Comparative Literature and a PhD in History of Education from the same university. She is a Literature lecturer on the Literature course at the Universidade Potiguar in Natal.
Erscheinungsdatum | 21.02.2024 |
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Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
Gewicht | 299 g |
Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Sprachwissenschaft | |
Schlagworte | Gospel • Novel • Saramago |
ISBN-10 | 620-7-17049-0 / 6207170490 |
ISBN-13 | 978-620-7-17049-4 / 9786207170494 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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