Exposed intimacies: the typographic era, introspection, sincerity, and the novel

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https://doi.org/10.26512/cerrados.v32i63.43109

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grammatology, sincerity, novel

Abstract

The present paper intends to explore the relationships between the emergence of the modern novel, the shift of consciousness promoted by the transformation of a lecto-oral culture into a typographic one, commented upon by Walter Ong, and the rise of the concept of sincerity as a moral value, as described by the work of Lionel Trilling. It remarks on how the value given to sincerity derives from the development of a bourgeois society based on the separation between the public sphere (hostile and marked by the dissimulation of social life) and a private world, understood as a sanctuary and refuge, making it a perfect place not only for the solitary habit of reading novels, but also for promoting introspection. The creation of characters given a complex interior life, such as those that begin to fill the novels of the 18th and 19th century, who keep close contact with the reader, while exposing a certain privacy that didn't even exist as a concept not long before then, is an innovation that derives from such a context, at the same it reinforces it as it leads readers to reflect upon their own life experiences.

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Author Biography

Adriano Scandolara, Universidade Federal do Paraná

Bacharel em Letras - Português e Inglês, com ênfase em Estudos da Tradução (2010) pela Universidade Federal do Paraná. Mestre (2013) e Doutor (2019) em Letras pela mesma instituição.

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Published

2023-12-28

How to Cite

Scandolara, A. (2023). Exposed intimacies: the typographic era, introspection, sincerity, and the novel. Revista Cerrados, 32(63), 142–153. https://doi.org/10.26512/cerrados.v32i63.43109

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Dossier - Epistemology of the novel: dialogues and theoretical approaches