THE PLACE OF RESIDUALITY IN MODERN LITERARY CRITICISM

Abstract

The main objective of this work is to highlight some reflections on the interrelationship between the investigative field of Cultural Studies and the area of so-called Comparative Literature, in order to highlight the mutual methodological contributions that have developed between these areas of human knowledge. . Based on this, the systematization of the theory of residuality is presented here as a result of this transdisciplinary dialogue. Designed by the poet, essayist and researcher from Ceará Roberto Pontes, residuality is a theoretical construct set within literary studies, but which uses different perspectives and methodological biases, dialoguing mainly with the field of Cultural Studies based on the thinking of the British theorist Raymond Williams (1979). It is evident, therefore, that the systematization of the Residuality investigative method was the result of these dialogues and contributions from the so-called Cultural Studies to Comparative Literature, a result of modern decentralization and pluralism within the scope of literary studies with a comparative content. The presentation of these methodological interrelations in modern comparative literary criticism is, therefore, the central focus of this work.