Estrutura e significado em "Uma rosa para Emily", de William Faulkner

Daghlian, Carlos

doi:10.1590/S1984-63982004000100005

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Trata-se de uma análise do consagrado conto "Uma Rosa para Emily", de William Faulkner, voltada para alguns dos principais aspectos de sua estrutura. Após considerarmos o enredo, discutimos a construção das personagens, com destaque para a protagonista, fazendo um levantamento e comentários sobre possíveis fontes de inspiração, destacando, entre outras, aspectos da biografia da poeta Emily Dickinson, a ficção e a poesia de E. A. Poe, romances de Charles Dickens e Henry James, o conto de Sherwood Anderson e a poesia de William Blake, Emily Dickinson, Robert Browning e John Crowe Ransom, acrescentando paralelos com o conto "Bartleby, o escrivão", de Herman Melville. Analisamos, então, o foco narrativo, os símbolos e o significado, ressaltando aqui o desenvolvimento temático da narrativa.

This is an analysis of the well-known short story "A Rose for Emily," by William Faulkner, concentrating on some of the main aspects of its structure. A consideration of the plot is followed by a discussion of characterization, with emphasis on the protagonist, by means of a survey and comments on possible sources of inspiration including, among others, aspects of Emily Dickinson's biography, E. A. Poe's fiction and poetry, novels by Charles Dickens and Henry James, Sherwood Anderson's short stories, and the poetry of William Blake, Emily Dickinson, Robert Browning, and John Crowe Ransom, in addition to Herman Melville's short story "Bartleby, the Scrivener." The narrative focus, symbolism and meaning, stressing the thematic development of the narrative, are then analyzed.

Estrutura e significado em "Uma rosa para Emily", de William Faulkner

Carlos Daghlian

UNESP - S. J. Rio Preto

RESUMO

Trata-se de uma análise do consagrado conto "Uma Rosa para Emily", de William Faulkner, voltada para alguns dos principais aspectos de sua estrutura. Após considerarmos o enredo, discutimos a construção das personagens, com destaque para a protagonista, fazendo um levantamento e comentários sobre possíveis fontes de inspiração, destacando, entre outras, aspectos da biografia da poeta Emily Dickinson, a ficção e a poesia de E. A. Poe, romances de Charles Dickens e Henry James, o conto de Sherwood Anderson e a poesia de William Blake, Emily Dickinson, Robert Browning e John Crowe Ransom, acrescentando paralelos com o conto "Bartleby, o escrivão", de Herman Melville. Analisamos, então, o foco narrativo, os símbolos e o significado, ressaltando aqui o desenvolvimento temático da narrativa.

ABSTRACT

This is an analysis of the well-known short story "A Rose for Emily," by William Faulkner, concentrating on some of the main aspects of its structure. A consideration of the plot is followed by a discussion of characterization, with emphasis on the protagonist, by means of a survey and comments on possible sources of inspiration including, among others, aspects of Emily Dickinson's biography, E. A. Poe's fiction and poetry, novels by Charles Dickens and Henry James, Sherwood Anderson's short stories, and the poetry of William Blake, Emily Dickinson, Robert Browning, and John Crowe Ransom, in addition to Herman Melville's short story "Bartleby, the Scrivener." The narrative focus, symbolism and meaning, stressing the thematic development of the narrative, are then analyzed.

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[1] BLAKE, William. "Rosa Doente", Poesia e Prosa Selecionadas Trad. Paulo Vizioli. São Paulo: Nova Alexandria, 1993. p. 53.

[2] BLOTNER, Joseph. Faulkner, A Biography I-II . New York: Random House, 1974.

[3] BROOKS, Cleanth; WARREN, Robert Penn. Understanding Fiction New York: Appleton-Century-Crofts, 1959. p. 350-354.

[4] BROWNING, Robert. Porphyria's Lover. In: Victorian Poetry London: Penguin, 1995. p. 43-44.

[5] DICKINSON, Emily. The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson. Ed. Thomas H. Johnson. Boston: Little, Brown, 1960.

[6] EVERETT, Walter K. Faulkner's Art and Characters. Woodbury, New York: Barron's Educational Series, 1969.

[7] FAULKNER, William. A Rose for Emily, In: II. The Village, The Penguin Collected Stories of William Faulkner New York: Penguin, 1985. p. 119-130.

[8] FAULKNER, William. Uma rosa para Emily. Trad. Lia Corrêa Dutra. In: O Livro de Ouro dos Contos Norte-Americanos. Coordenação de Vinícius de Morais. Rio de Janeiro: Tecnoprint, s/d. p. 300-306.

[9] FENSON, Harry; KRITZER, Hildreth. Reading, Understanding, and Writing about Short Stories. New York: Free Press, 1966.

[10] JONES, Diane Brown. A Reader's Guide to the Short Stories of William Faulkner. New York: G. K. Hall, 1994. p. 87-141.

[11] KURTZ, Elizabeth Carney. Faulkner's "A Rose for Emily". Explicator 44.2: 40, 1986.

[12] MELVILLE, Herman. Bartleby, o escrivão Prólogo de Jorge Luis Borges. Trad. A. B. Pinheiro de Lemos. Rio de Janeiro: Record, 1982. 99p.

[13] MITCHELL, Lee. In GELFANT, Blanche H., ed. The Columbia Companion to the Twentieth-Century American Short Story. New York: Columbia University Press, 2001.

[14] MULLER, Gil. Faulkner's "A Rose for Emily". Explicator 33: Item 79, 1975.

[15] PETRY, Alice Hall. Faulkner's "A Rose for Emily". Explicator 44.3: p.52-54, 1986.

[16] RANSOM, John Crowe. Emily Hardcastle, Spinster. In: Williams, Oscar; Honig, Edwin (Ed.). The Mentor Book of Major American Poets. New York: Mentor, 1962. p. 391.

[17] SHAKESPEARE, William. Romeu e Julieta, OBRA COMPLETA I. Trad. Oscar Mendes. Rio de Janeiro: Aguilar, 1969. p. 289-352.

[18] WERLOCK, Abby H. P. Companion to the American Short Story. New York: Facts on File, 2000.

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