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Esta tese estuda o espaço na sua qualidade de constructo cultural. Ou seja, e indo além
de um simples figurino físico, geográfico e natural, o espaço é aqui visto como o resultado e
produto (Lefèbvre, 1991) de práticas culturais que o percebem, concebem e experimentam
precisamente enquanto instância privilegiada de representação, uma superfície não-passiva
onde se vêm inscrever valores histórico-sociais. É o que este trabalho designa como culturas
de espaço, e cujas incidências ele procura analisar em duas obras literárias de narrativa de
ficção: Buddenbrooks, de Thomas Mann, e To the Lighthouse, de Virginia Woolf. Estes
romances são, aqui, a vários títulos paradigmáticos: enquanto peças que permitem observar o
modo como na modernidade o espaço doméstico — a casa, o lar, os décors e envolventes —,
foram alvo de uma discursividade própria, isto num tempo de afirmação das classes burguesas
europeias na transição entre os séculos XIX e XX; mas também, enquanto constituintes, eles
mesmos, de um espaço narratológico, representativo e axiológico, onde se batem aspirações
espirituais, visões artísticas, formas estéticas, matéria simbólica e enunciados políticos.
Desenvolvida no âmbito do campo disciplinar dos Estudos de Cultura, esta análise,
assente no princípio da literariedade da cultura, faz uso de contributos, abordagens e linhas
teóricas multímodas e abrangentes, querendo sobretudo verificar — para o que recorre
metodologicamente a um close-reading — como determinadas figuras do espaço são
culturalmente marcadas. Mais em concreto, a figura da imersão e os espaços interiores.
This thesis works on the notion of space as a cultural construction. What it means is that — beyond its mere physical, geographical and natural aspects — space is the result and product (Lefèbvre, 1991) of cultural practices which lead to its perception, conception and experience, taking it precisely for a privileged instance of representation, a non-passive surface for the inscription of historical-social values. That’s what this work names as cultures of space, and the occurrences of which it aims to analyse in two literary works of narrative fiction: Buddenbrooks, by Thomas Mann, and To the Lighthouse, by Virginia Woolf. These two novels are taken as paradigmatic in several dimensions: as objects that do allow considering the way how domestic space — the house, home, set décors and their surroundings — has been in the Modernity the place of different discourses, particularly in a certain context, that of the affirmation of the European Bourgeoisie in the transition between the 19th and the 20th centuries; but also, as constituting themselves a one time narratological, representative and axiological space, where it comes into the bargain such issues as political enunciations, artistic visions, aesthetical forms, symbolic material and spiritual aspirations. Because it is developed under the disciplinary field of the Study of Culture, this analysis, essentially based on the principle of the literarity of culture, makes uses of multifarious and broad theoretical lines, approaches and contributions. It intends to see, using a close-reading methodology, how some figures and spaces are culturally marked. Namely immersion and interior places.
This thesis works on the notion of space as a cultural construction. What it means is that — beyond its mere physical, geographical and natural aspects — space is the result and product (Lefèbvre, 1991) of cultural practices which lead to its perception, conception and experience, taking it precisely for a privileged instance of representation, a non-passive surface for the inscription of historical-social values. That’s what this work names as cultures of space, and the occurrences of which it aims to analyse in two literary works of narrative fiction: Buddenbrooks, by Thomas Mann, and To the Lighthouse, by Virginia Woolf. These two novels are taken as paradigmatic in several dimensions: as objects that do allow considering the way how domestic space — the house, home, set décors and their surroundings — has been in the Modernity the place of different discourses, particularly in a certain context, that of the affirmation of the European Bourgeoisie in the transition between the 19th and the 20th centuries; but also, as constituting themselves a one time narratological, representative and axiological space, where it comes into the bargain such issues as political enunciations, artistic visions, aesthetical forms, symbolic material and spiritual aspirations. Because it is developed under the disciplinary field of the Study of Culture, this analysis, essentially based on the principle of the literarity of culture, makes uses of multifarious and broad theoretical lines, approaches and contributions. It intends to see, using a close-reading methodology, how some figures and spaces are culturally marked. Namely immersion and interior places.