O romance metaliterário em Northanger Abbey, de Jane Austen

Abstract

This monograph aims to analyze the constitution of the novel, through the categories proposed by Genette (1995) about the heterodiegetic narrator and focusing, understanding the metaliterary phenomenon present in the work Northanger Abbey (1817), by the 19th century English writer Jane Austen. This will be done through a screening of passages that indicate the presence of the metaliterary nature in the referred research object. This research is bibliographic and has as theoretical framework the authors George Luckás (2000), Terry Eagleton (2006) and Ian Watt (2010) who discuss about the formation and rise of the novel, Vasconcelos (1995, 2000, 2009, 2010) that discusses about female acting and how it influenced culturally in society and the literary genre, simultaneously. In addition, for the metaliterary analysis, we use the articles present in Professor Nilson Carvalho's project (2017) and Genilda Azerêdo's theory (2009, 2012) that discusses the characteristics inherent to Austen's style in Your works. We present initially a brief historical, socioeconomic, and cultural context that involves the genesis and some definitions of the novel literary genre and a brief biography of the author, as well as her literary style. The results of this research present some metaliterary elements present in the work in question, considering that the omniscient intruder narrator and the external focus, with the presence of devices such as paralepse, are part of the metaliterary constitution of the work. Moreover, the analyzes point to the ideals of femininity embedded in English culture through reading novels.