Literature, History, and Theories on the Imaginary

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The interdisciplinarity of the imaginary

The research projects conducted by the Research Group Literature, History, and Theories on the Imaginary, which includes researchers from PUCRS and other HEIs, are based on interdisciplinary studies of the imaginary, literature, memory, and history. Those projects seek their foundations in anthropological, philosophical, historical, sociological, and psychological theories and methods suggested by the theoretical perspectives of Ernst Cassirer, C. G. Jung, Mircea Eliade, Henry Corbin, Gaston Bachelard, Paul Ricoeur, Jean-Jacques Wunenburger, etc. Such reflections continue and find methods of approach in Gilbert Durand’s figurative structuralism in regard to the specific field of literature and in the studies on symbolic imagination by George Poulet, Pierre Albouy, Raymond Trousson, Jean Rousset, Jean Starobinski, Jean-Pierre Richard, etc.

Within PUCRS, one of the outstanding projects is entitled The self writes: consolidation and profiles of introspective novels in Brazil (1930-1970); this project is coordinated by the group’s chair, Ana Maria Lisboa de Mello, and funded by CNPq. This project focuses on the study of the introspective narrative in Brazil and on representative works of that fictional line concerning the modalities of introspective novel construction, forms of expression of subjectivity, and symbolic language.

Another project entitled The double’s narratives: unfolding of the self in contemporary fiction (1980-2010) is coordinated by researcher Sissa Jacoby. This project investigates the representation of the subject’s duality as a tendency exhibited by contemporary literature within a corpus of narratives, stories and novels. Theoretical updates follow scholars on this subject, such as Juan Bargalló, Yves Pélicier, and Michel Guiomar.

Between 2009 and 2012, the group organized four Meetings on Literature and the Imaginary at PUCRS. At ANPOLL, the group is connected to the imaginary, literary representations, and cultural displacements Working Group, chaired by Ana Maria Lisboa de Mello.