%0 Journal Article %T The Paradigm at the Crossroads in the Middle of the Whirlwind: Arnold Schoenberg, Jo o Guimar es Rosa, and the Animating Faust %A Christopher T. Lewis %J Ellipsis %D 2011 %I American Portuguese Studies Association (APSA) %X In the poem Dichtung und Wahrheit, Anthony Hecht explores the limits of representative art in the attempt to transcend the dichotomy between life and fixture, citing the need for a ¡°Faust¡± to animate representation. Through the prism of cyberneticist Gregory Bateson¡¯s theories on advanced levels of learning and controlling paradigm shifts, this article explores how the Austrian composer Arnold Schoenberg and the Brazilian writer Jo o Guimar es Rosa both exemplify Hecht¡¯s concept of an animating Faust. It juxtaposes Schoenberg¡¯s twelve-tone method with Guimar es Rosa¡¯s transrealism in their respective contexts, culminating in a comparison of the latter¡¯s novel Grande sert o: veredas with the former¡¯s opera Moses und Aron in order to show how they break out of the paradigms of their respective periods, transporting the reader/ listener to the unknowable place that Guimar es Rosa called the ¡°third bank of the river.¡± %K Arnold Schoenberg %K Jo o Guimar es Rosa %K Anthony Hecht %K Gregory Bateson %K modernism %K representation %K ¡°As margens da alegria¡± %K Grande sert o: veredas %K Moses und Aron %K Dichtung und Wahrheit %U http://www.ellipsis-apsa.com/Volume_9-Lewis_files/Lewis.pdf