Modern imaginary and scientific appropriation of the world: the trivialization of the monster

Authors

  • Vera Lucia Follain de Figueiredo Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.22409/gragoata.v23i47.33599

Keywords:

monster, body, spirit, imaginary, science, modernity.

Abstract

With modernity, the medieval imagery, populated by the marvelous, by supernatural forces, monsters and aberrations, will be little absorbed by the scientific domain, constituting, from the medical and judicial point of view, the field of anomalies. Having Brazilian fictional narratives as corpus, the article discusses the changes that occurred from the second half of the twentieth century in the technoscientific imaginary, considering the revalidations of the body/spirit dichotomy carried out in the midst of the decline of ancient sense matrices.

 

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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.22409/gragoata.2018n47a1177

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Author Biography

Vera Lucia Follain de Figueiredo, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro

Vera Lúcia Follain de Figueiredo é doutora em Letras, professora Associada do Departamento de Comunicação Social da PUC-Rio e pesquisadora do CNPq.  É autora, dentre outros trabalhos, dos livros: Narrativas migrantes: literatura, roteiro e cinema (PUC/7 letras), Os crimes do texto: Rubem Fonseca e a ficção contemporânea (UFMG) e Da profecia ao labirinto: imagens da história na ficção latino-americana (Imago/UERJ). Organizou os livros Mídia e Educação (Gryphus) e Comunicação, representação e práticas sociais (PUC/ Ideias e Letras), este último com dois outros co-autores.  

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Published

2018-12-29

How to Cite

de Figueiredo, V. L. F. (2018). Modern imaginary and scientific appropriation of the world: the trivialization of the monster. Gragoatá, 23(47), 706-721. https://doi.org/10.22409/gragoata.v23i47.33599

Issue

Vol. 23 No. 47 (2018): Monstrous Organization

Section

Literature Articles

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