Banca de DEFESA: NADJARA THAYS TEIXEIRA MARTINS

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STUDENT : NADJARA THAYS TEIXEIRA MARTINS
DATE: 18/07/2025
TIME: 14:00
LOCAL: Google Meet
TITLE:

THE ABSENT HERO: Seymour between the mythical and the mystical in J. D. Salinger's short story cycle Glass Family

KEY WORDS:

 Short Story Cycle; Character; Glass family; Seymour Glass; J. D. Salinger.

PAGES: 172
BIG AREA: Lingüística, Letras e Artes
AREA: Letras
SUBÁREA: Literatura Comparada
SUMMARY:

In A Perfect Day for Bananafish (1948), by J.D. Salinger, recognised as one of the main short stories in 20th century American literature, the reader follows young Seymour Glass on a sunny holiday in Florida, which ends with the character's abrupt and enigmatic suicide in the last lines of the story. Traditionally considered an independent narrative (French, 1965; 1988), Bananafish expands in significance when read in conjunction with other Salingerian works that deal with the same group of characters: the Glass family. In this dissertation, it is proposed that Bananafish is part of a cycle of short stories - a set of ‘independent and interdependent’ stories connected by a common character, structure, theme, narrator and events - also made up of the works Raise High the Beam, carpenters (1955), Seymour an introduction (1959) and Hapworth 16, 1924 (1965). To this end, this work starts with a bibliographical survey on the theories of the short story, the short story cycle, the character and the absent character and the critical reception of Salinger's works, adopting, as methodological axes, the heuristics for analysing short story cycles proposed by Forrest Ingram (1971) and the Character Clock proposed by Jens Eder (2014). Preliminary results show that the ‘absent presence’ of the character Seymour is used to construct an interconnected universe of Glass through which Salinger builds his aesthetic project of not saying, tensioning the boundaries between history and myth, between reality and representation, between whole and fragmentation. In this way, this research makes significant contributions to both the author's bibliography and to Brazilian literary studies, as it works with theoretical categories that are still unpublished in Brazil.

 

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Externo à Instituição - CAETANO WALDRIGUES GALINDO - UFPR
Externo à Instituição - RENATA GONÇALVES GOMES - UFPB
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