Ciência e literatura em Lima Barreto

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Ano de defesa: 2015
Autor(a) principal: Tavares, Eva Volite Coelho
Orientador(a): Alfonso-Goldfarb, Ana Maria
Banca de defesa: Não Informado pela instituição
Tipo de documento: Dissertação
Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
Idioma: por
Instituição de defesa: Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo
Programa de Pós-Graduação: Programa de Estudos Pós-Graduados em História da Ciência
Departamento: História da Ciência
País: BR
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Link de acesso: https://tede2.pucsp.br/handle/handle/13304
Resumo: This work analyses Brazilian writer Lima Barreto with focus on his scientific view, as shown in his work, and investigates the relationship between Literature and History of Science. It took Triste fim de Policarpo Quaresma (Sad end of Policarpo Quaresma) as a reference, as well as chronicles and other author's productions, regarding the recognition of a dialogue between reality and fiction. It also investigated the writer s passage through the Polytechnic School of Rio de Janeiro and his readings and reflections on certain aspects of the scientific knowledge in vogue, motivated by intellectual sharing with literate men of his time. The analyzed period, between the end of the XIXth and the early XXth century, in the city of Rio de Janeiro, shows a context marked by a belief in progress and appreciation of science that had a profound influence on the creation of the author s characters. However, being a dissonant voice of his time, Lima Barreto reveled a distrust on the modernization discourse at the time and positioned himself critically towards the Republican regime based on positivist ideas