THE DARDELIAN CONCEPT OF GEOGRAPHICITY REPRESENTED IN CONTEMPORARY BRAZILIAN LITERATURE
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.36661/2358-0666.2024v11n1.14250Keywords:
Geography and Literature, Geographycity, Human-Nature Relationship, Reality and RepresentationAbstract
Based on the theorizations of Ernst Cassirer (1874-1945) regarding his philosophy of symbolic forms (Cassirer, 1923) and on the fundamental concepts of Éric Dardel concerning the spatial dimension of reality and geographicity (Dardel, 1952), the present text initially provides a substantive theoretical foundation on the concepts of reality and representation and their developments throughout the history of human thought. Subsequently, a theoretical-conceptual panorama is presented regarding the themes of the spatial dimension of reality present in both geographical reality (Dardel, 1952) and literary reality (Cardoso, 1985). Later on, applying a methodology of analysis somewhat Dardelian, the text presents three distinct analyses of different contemporary Brazilian literary works from the perspective of the representations of the relationships established between human beings and nature, bringing excerpts from the reference works and identifying the possible types of geographicities therein. Finally, ultimately, it is the interest of the authors of this text to promote reflections that address the relationships we currently have established with what we understand as nature based on its literary representations.