Paratextualidade e Cultura em A Nova Heloísa de Rousseau: filosofia, literatura, imagem e geograficidade

Abstract

The present dissertation, has as purpose to undertake an interdisciplinary study involving a paratextual analysis of the images of Jean-Jacques Rousseau's novel Julie or the New Heloise (1761). In this sense, it was necessary a brief exam about the author's writing characteristics involving objects of his reflections, as virtue, feelings and imagination. Nevertheless, it was sought informations about the historical, philosophical and literay moment which was experienced during the creative process of the novel, namely, Pre-Romanticism that had influenced the eighteenth-century culture, so evident in the work. It was drawn a study about the verisimilitude on the Rousseaunian novel and it's relation to the ilustrations. searching for the origin of ilustrations in books and the matter of imagery resources, specifically, to The New Heloise. Then, it was made an analysis about the theme Geographicity in the mentioned novel, punctuating studies of the humanist geographer Yi-Fi Tuan, to indicate Saint-Preux's position in the novel, relating it to the Rousseau’s own identity, as it was highlighted the peculiarities of the virtuous Julie of Wolmar as manager of her home. disregarding the interdisciplinary focus between Literature, Philosophy, Culture and Art.