Crítica, romance e gênero: uma perspectiva convergente da obra de Lucia Miguel Pereira

Abstract

This dissertation focuses on the production of the novelist, literary critic and historian of Brazilian literature Lucia Miguel Pereira by the dual perspective of literary theory and feminist criticism. The intersection of these two disciplines is needed to understand the apparent rift between the author‘s fictional work and literary criticism. Based on the observation that a preoccupation with the female condition in the first half of the twentieth century undeniably pervades the whole of her four novels, while her critical output reveals to be almost indifferent to the discredit of female authorship in the canon of Brazilian literature, seeks to investigate ways of increasing convergence between two seemingly contradictory aspects of this production. In a metacritique perspective, the work maps the author's thinking on the exercise of literary criticism and the fictional creation and sets her system and approach to the literature. The category of the novel as a literary genre of particular interest in Lucia‘s studies emerges as key to understand the unity of her work, insofar as it is understood as a field of experimentation on life. In the process, the research followed the intellectual maturation of Lucia Miguel Pereira towards the systematization of her theoretical formulations about the novel and review the place of this intellectual pioneer in the history of Brazilian literature and criticism.