<b>Performance, humor, discourse of salvation and eternal return in the novel <i>Miss Lonelyhearts
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...
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| description | 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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| spelling | doaj.art-df932fddd94f45aeb006f2f276af9e032022-12-22T02:27:04ZengUniversidade Estadual de MaringáActa Scientiarum: Language and Culture1983-46751983-46832015-04-01371172310.4025/actascilangcult.v37i1.2402411970<b>Performance, humor, discourse of salvation and eternal return in the novel <i>Miss LonelyheartsEvaldo Gondim dos Santos0Ilza Matias de Sousa1Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do NorteUniversidade Federal do Rio Grande do NorteThis 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.http://186.233.154.254/ojs/index.php/ActaSciLangCult/article/view/24024black humorthe myth of Dionysusredemptive metanarrativethe Christ complex |
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| title | <b>Performance, humor, discourse of salvation and eternal return in the novel <i>Miss Lonelyhearts |
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