Poetics of uncertainty: a contrascene in the Age of Enligtenment

Authors

  • Maria Cristina Batalha UERJ/CNPq

Keywords:

poetics of uncertainty, fantastic, the Age of Enlightenment, reason.

Abstract

The fiction that arises at the end of the Age of Enlightenment reflects upon the contradictions inherent to the period and brings to literature the issues that permeate the great debates of the century, promoting the staging of what is later to be called “modernity”. The first manifestation of fantastic fiction is the novella O diabo enamorado, by Jacques Cazotte; it is by the bias of the emblematic and contradictory figure of the devil that the study aims to analyze this example of the poetics of uncertainty that arises in the age of reason.

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Author Biography

Maria Cristina Batalha, UERJ/CNPq

Professora do Instituto de Letras da Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro. Doutorou-se em Literatura Comparada pela Universdiade Federal Fluminense (UFF) e realizou estágio de Pós-Doutorado em Paris III, Sorbonne-Nouvelle. É bolsista de produtividade do CNPq e do Prociência UERJ/FAPERJ. Dentre as publicações, destacam-se O conto fantástico brasileiro: contos esquecidos (Caetés, 2011) e, em co-autoria com Geraldo Pontes, Tradução (Vozes, 2008). É autora de vários artigos em revistas indexadas, no Brasil e no exterior. Seus temas preferenciais são a literatura fantástica, a relação entre literatura maior e literatura menor e a formação de cânones e suas desconstruções.

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Published

2011-12-19

How to Cite

BATALHA, Maria Cristina. Poetics of uncertainty: a contrascene in the Age of Enligtenment. MATRAGA - Journal published by the Graduate Program in Letters at Rio de Janeiro State University (UERJ), Rio de Janeiro, v. 18, n. 29, 2011. Disponível em: https://www.e-publicacoes.uerj.br/matraga/article/view/26065. Acesso em: 18 jun. 2025.

Issue

Vol. 18 No. 29 (2011): The 18th Century

Section

Literature Papers

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