Por uma análise do discurso literário: funcionamento da autoria em Oscar Wilde e construção de imagem de autor

Abstract

Guided by the theoretical assumptions of Discourse Analysis proposed by Dominique Maingueneau (2006), this research focuses over two issues: firstly, the functioning of the authorship, and the second one, the construction of author s image. Those issues are take in account in a imbricate manner. We seek to analyze, by the approach of the manuscript De Profundis of Oscar Wilde, how works the functioning of the authorship considering the instances of person, writer and inscritor as postulated by Maingueneau. That done, we try to show that the preface-writers and critics, both English and French ones, who have studied the Wildes work, mobilized these instances of authorship in intensity and different ways to construct images to Oscar Wilde. Concerning to the constitution of the corpus analysis, we chose texts (prefaces, introductions, critics) produced in English and French contexts, because of the proximity and relationship the author had with the literary fields of these two countries. The analyzes showed that, in the different processes of construct images of author to Oscar Wilde, the instance of the person is recurrently mobilized, sometimes to make exceptions to the author\'s biography, sometimes weaving praise of him, and sometimes to effectively separate her to the other two instances (writer, inscritor) considering them as defining of their creative identity. Addressing these key issues and discussing others related to them - this research seeks to sustain fundamentally two theses, namely: i) that the image of the author is intimately linked to the emphasis or predominance that managers of an author\'s work gives to one or other (s) instance (s) of the authorship (person, writer, inscritor), ii) that the author is author of his texts, but he is not the only manager of his work. Beyond that, however, which is presented in the epistemological horizon of this research is the reaffirmation of the relevance and productivity of analysis of literary discourse.