The aim of this dissertation is to study postmodern British Female Gothic fiction in terms of its abject representations of female desire which subvert the patriarchal definition of female sexuality as repressed and female identity as the object of desire. The study analyzes texts from postmodern Female Gothic fiction which are feminist rewritings of the traditional Gothic narratives. The conventional Gothic plot is based on the Oedipal development of identity which excludes the (m)other and deprives the female from autonomous subjectivity. The feminist rewritings of the conventional Gothic plot have a subversive aim to recast the Oedipal identity formation and they embrace the (m)other figure in order to blur the strict boundaries between the subject and the object. Besides, these rewritings aim to destroy the image of the victimized heroine within the imprisoning conventional Gothic structures and transgress the cultural, social and sexual definitions of women constructed by patriarchal sexual politics. The study bases its analyses on Jean Rhys&rsquo / s Wide Sargasso Sea, Angela Carter&rsquo / s The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories, and Emma Donoghue&rsquo / s Kissing the Witch: Old Tales in New Skins as examples in which patriarchal definition of the female desire as passive is destroyed and the female desire as active is promoted by the adoption of abject representations, which challenge the strictly constructed hierarchical relationships between men and women. Basing its argument on Julia Kristeva&rsquo / s psychoanalytical theories, which re-vision the traditional psychoanalytical theories, this study puts forward that by the emergence of postmodernism, which has overtly provided a ground for the marginalized discourses to get into dialogue with the oppressive ones, the abject representations of female desire have gained a positive characteristic that can liberate female body from the control and authority of the male-dominated ideology. Thus, one can chronologically follow the positive development of abject representations of female sexuality in Rhys&rsquo / s, Carter&rsquo / s and Donoghue&rsquo / s works which promote a liberation for the Gothic heroines from patriarchal psychoanalytical identity development, which render female desire active and female body expressive, which rehistoricize female sexuality from a feminist lens and which call for a new world order built upon an egalitarian basis that destroys hierarchically constructed gender roles. As a result, postmodern British Female Gothic Fiction is proved to be offering a utopian ideal of an egalitarian society, but although utopian and radical, not an impossible one to be realized.

This thesis analyzes and compares Angela Carter&rsquo / s Nights at the Circus and Elif Safak&rsquo / s Mahrem (The Gaze) from the perspective of theories of the patriarchal gaze. The study argues that the female protagonists in Nights at the Circus and Mahrem (The Gaze) have a dilemma in relation to the gaze. On the one hand, the gaze makes these characters passive spectacles in front of the audience and objectifies them. On the other hand, the gaze appears to be a necessity for a sense of identity and order. The theoretical framework used to analyze the novels from the perspective of the patriarchal gaze includes John Berger&rsquo / s Ways of Seeing, which is about visual representations in Western art and Laura Mulvey&rsquo / s article &ldquo / Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema&rdquo / , which analyzes women&rsquo / s position in Hollywood movies. In order to explore the dilemma the protagonists find themselves in, on the other hand, Sigmund Freud&rsquo / s theory of scopophilia, Jacques Lacan&rsquo / s discussion of the role of the gaze in psychosexual development and identity formation and Mich&eacute / l Foucault&rsquo / s evaluation of the gaze as a tool for discipline have been made use of. The comparative analysis of the two novels within this theoretical framework aims to demonstrate the complexity and universality of the issue and provide further food for thought for feminist thinking on this topic.

This study sets out from the premise that the fantastic, in the hands of the women writers with feminist awareness,can be used as a tool to subvert patriarchal gender roles that are culturally constructed. The dissertation aims at analysing the fantastic novels by Angela Carter, The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman and Nights at the Circus, and by Jeannette Winterson, The Passion and The.PowerBook as examples in which the transgression of gender roles is achieved through the use of fantastic images. The analysis of the fantastic images in these novels is confined to the definitions by Tzetvan Todorov and Rosemary Jackson. The study asserts that through an efficient use of the fantastic mode, both Carter and Winterson negate culturally dominant notions of reality, whereby they resist the cultural constructions of gender. Within the framework of this dissertation, some concepts like the New Woman, historiographic metafiction, the lesbian continuum and compulsory heterosexualism are also studied where they become indispensable to the role that the fantastic images play. Thus, this study identifies each fantastic image in the novels studied with its possible cultural and political implications so that the &ldquo / un-seen&rdquo / of the culture, a term suggested by Jackson, can be seen. In other words, the study concentrates on the subversive nature of the fantastic images so as to see the ways in which the rigid boundaries of the gender roles in patriarchy can be transgressed

Made available in DSpace on 2014-06-11T19:26:52Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2011-04-25Bitstream added on 2014-06-13T18:30:48Z : No. of bitstreams: 1 rodrigues_ta_me_assis.pdf: 1079958 bytes, checksum: 5b519ada8b640b395ac2c16ad94bab3b (MD5) / Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP) / A presente dissertação pretende realizar uma análise da representação feminina no romance da escritora inglesa Angela Carter intitulado The Magic Toyshop (1967), observando sua relação com os elementos presentes na obra. Tendo em vista a importância desta representação nas obras carterianas, este trabalho pretende elucidar como se realiza a construção das personagens femininas e da ambientação (uma vez que esta também vai contribuir para a representação dessas personagens) da obra referida. As informações colhidas têm o intuito de esclarecer aspectos como, por exemplo, o estilo da autora, frequentemente associado à literatura fantástica e ao pósmodernismo, dialoga com a ideologia presente na obra, a saber, a crítica ao modelo patriarcal de sociedade, o qual muitas vezes impunha estereótipos e certos papéis sociais às mulheres. Assim, ao mesmo tempo em que sua obra se aproxima do caráter fantástico, Angela Carter não dissocia sua escrita do tecido social, criando, assim, um estilo de escrita único. Verifica-se, dessa forma, que assim como suas personagens, a autora, através da subversão, busca seu próprio espaço na Literatura / This dissertation intends to conduct an analysis of the female representation in Angela Carter’s novel The Magic Toyshop (1967), observing its relation with the elements present in the book. Considering the importance of this representation in the writer’s works, this dissertation aims to elucidate how the construction of female characters and the setting (since it will also contribute to the representation of these characters) of the referred narrative is done. The information obtained have the intention of clarifying certain aspects, such as the the dialogue between the author’s style, frequently associated with fantasy literature and post-modernism, and the ideology present in the novel: the critique of the patriarchal model of society, which often imposed stereotypes and social roles for women. Thus, at the same time that her work approaches the fantastic features, Angela Carter doesn’t dissociate her writing of the social context, creating an unique style of writing. One notices that, like her characters, the author seeks, through subversion, her own space in Literature

Made available in DSpace on 2014-06-11T19:26:52Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2010-06-25Bitstream added on 2014-06-13T19:14:15Z : No. of bitstreams: 1 yatsu_rk_me_assis.pdf: 641166 bytes, checksum: 5d7b2ce790cd209f94655f0110c76b1b (MD5) / O presente trabalho apresenta uma análise do romance Noites no circo (1984), da autora inglesa Angela Carter, abordando principalmente a personagem central, Fevvers. No primeiro capítulo tratamos brevemente da vida e obra da autora, e também da fortuna crítica produzida sobre o romance. Ainda neste primeiro capítulo, procuramos analisar algumas das nomenclaturas ligadas à produção carteriana, como realismo mágico, pósmodernismo e feminismo, tendo como referência alguns estudos já realizados. No segundo capítulo, utilizamos teorias acerca da simbologia. O interesse é analisar alguns dos símbolos que aparecem no romance e são relevantes na leitura, pois deixam subentendidos alguns dos sentidos que a autora deseja transmitir. No terceiro capítulo, o interesse é demonstrar que nesta extensa narrativa de Angela Carter, as representações estão presentes e produzem o clima de espetáculo, fazendo do romance um verdadeiro circo / The present work presents an analysis of the novel Nights at the circus (1984), by the English writer Angela Carter, above all approaching the main character, Fevvers. In the first chapter we briefly deal with the writer´s life and work, and also with the critical works produced about the novel. Still in this chapter, we try to analyze some of the terminology related to Carter´s production, such as magic realism, post-modernism and feminism, taking as reference studies already done. In the second chapter, we use theories about symbology. The interest is to analyze some of the symbols which appear in the novel and are important during the reading because they let implicit some of the meanings that the author wants to transmit. In the third chapter the interest is to demonstrate that in this long Carterian narrative the representations are present and produce the spectacle mood, turning the novel into a real circus

Essa dissertação tem como objetivo a leitura comparativa dos contos de fadas da escritora inglesa Angela Carter, contidos no livro O quarto do Barba Azul, e os da ítalo-brasileira Marina Colasanti, presentes em livros como Uma ideia toda azul, Entre a rosa e a espada, Doze reis e a moça no labirinto do vento. Foram analisadas os modos pelo quais as duas autoras, através da reescrita dos contos de fadas, resistem a morte do narrador tradicional descrita por Walter Benjamin e criticam a sociedade patriarcal, revelando, naturalmente, uma postura feminista. Identificou-se, ainda, como estratégias poéticas comuns à escrita de ambas as autoras, aspectos intertextuais como a paródia, o palimpsesto e o pastiche / This dissertation aims to comparative reading of fairy tales English writer Angela Carter, in the book The Bloody chamber, and the Italian-Brazilian Marina Colasanti, present in books like Uma ideia toda azul, Entre a espada e a rosa , Doze reis e a moça no labirinto do vento. We analyze how these authors resist the death of the storyteller described by Walter Benjamin and criticize the patriarchal society, revealing, of course, a feminist stance. Identified also as poetic strategies common to the writing of both authors, intertextual aspects such as parody, pastiche and the palimpsest

Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico / Este trabalho tem como objetivo investigar pontos de convergência nas obras de dois autores britânicos, Angela Carter (1940-1992) e China Miéville (1972- ). Os romances a serem estudados são Nights at the circus (1984) e The infernal desire machines of Doctor Hoffman (1972), de Angela Carter, e Perdido Street Station (2000) e The city & the city (2009), de China Miéville, e, como ponto de partida, ambos demonstram elos representativos com a ficção de gênero, evidenciados pelas obras escolhidas. Ao esmiuçar paralelos entre os romances, busca-se em especial dissecar as interseções temáticas e estilísticas, bem como as divergências e contradições que despertem interesse. Entre os temas investigados está a alteridade e o hibridismo ambos autores fazem uso de personagens ex-cêntricos e usam o hibridismo de modo a acentuar a Alteridade reservada ao Outro. Também será examinada a abordagem dos autores à ficção de gênero e o tratamento reservado aos tropos e clichês da Ficção Científica e da Fantasia. Por fim, a pesquisa observará o conceito que ambos compartilham de que discursos podem não ser uma mera reflexão da realidade, mas também criar e moldar o que tomamos por real. A todos os temas são aplicadas a teoria e crítica do pós-modernismo, além do material específico que lida com a ficção especulativa, Fantasia e Ficção Científica / This research aims at exploring shared themes in works from two British authors, Angela Carter (1940-1992) and China Miéville (1972- ). The novels chosen are Nights at the circus (1984) and The infernal desire machines of Doctor Hoffman (1972), from Angela Carter, and Perdido Street Station (2000) and The city & the city (2009), from China Miéville. As a starting point, both authors exhibit strong links with genre fiction, expressed by the chosen works. In investigating parallels between the novels the focus is going to remain on revising thematic and stylistic intersections, as well as divergences and contradictions. Among explored themes, Alterity and Hybridity are used by both authors in portraying ex-centric characters, Hybridity being used in order to emphasize the Alterity distinctive of the Other. The approach both authors direct towards genre fiction and how they deal with tropes and clichés of Science Fiction and Fantasy is also going to be examined. Finally, the research is going to deal with the concept both authors share that discourses might not be a mere reflection of reality but instead they might create and shape what we accept as real. All themes are going to be studied under the lens of postmodern theory and critic, as well as specific criticism on Speculative Fiction, Fantasy and Science Fiction

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No. of bitstreams: 1 oliveira_ki_dr_assis.pdf: 3106546 bytes, checksum: bddd016363046267ebb5bcda9373faab (MD5) Previous issue date: 2017-02-17 / Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq) / Pretende-se nessa tese discutir como a questão de gênero é representada na literatura apontando as diferenças e proximidades entre a autora brasileira Clarice Lispector e a inglesa Angela Carter em A Cidade Sitiada (1949) e Noites no Circo (1984). Em A Cidade Sitiada (1949), Lucrécia é uma mulher “sitiada”, ela não é apresentada ao leitor como sujeito da sua história, mas, em vez disso, um objeto narrado. É uma estrangeira no mundo onde habita e com o qual não interage, cercada, exilada por muros da cidade. Em seu romance Carter mostra o processo de modernização, o amor, a perspectiva dos marginalizados, as relações humanas e a liberdade feminina. Para colaborar com o efeito de libertação, a autora livra-se de ambientes fechados que faziam parte do cenário de seus romances anteriores e opta pelo espaço exterior. E ainda opta pela protagonista Fevvers, a mulher com asas, que em si carrega uma poderosa imagem de libertação e transformação feminina e tem consciência do que representa. As descobertas das protagonistas estão ambientadas no processo de modernização social de fins do século XIX e início do século XX. Enquanto na Inglaterra a mulher nasce com asas e livre, no Brasil a mulher ainda continua presa no sistema de sociedade patriarcal. Diante do exposto, pretende-se neste trabalho comparar o modo como Clarice Lispector e Angela Carter conseguem discutir a questão de gênero na literatura e transpor as linhas do patriarcado na sociedade. Sob tal prisma a intenção dessa tese é confrontar e aprofundar a construção das personagens femininas nas obras. / The aim of this thesis is to discuss how the gender issue is represented in literature by pointing out differences and similarities between Clarice Lispector’s A Cidade Sitiada (1949) and Angela Carter’s Nights at the Circus (1984). In A Cidade Sitiada (1949), Lucrécia is a "beleaguered" woman; she is not presented to the reader as the subject of her story, but, rather, an object. She is a foreigner in her world, with what she does not interact, surrounded, exiled by city walls. In her novel Carter shows the process of modernization, love, the perspective of the marginalized, human relations and female freedom. To build the effect of liberation, the author frees herself from closed environments that were part of the settings of her previous novels and opts for an exterior space. And she also chooses as protagonist Fevers, a woman with wings, a powerful image of liberation and female transformation and aware of what she represents. The discoveries of the protagonists are set in the process of social modernization of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. While in England the woman is born with wings and free, in Brazil she remains trapped in patriarchal society. Lastly, this research paper intends to compare the way in which Clarice Lispector and Angela Carter can discuss the gender issue in literature and break through the lines of patriarchal society. From this point of view, the intention of this thesis is to confront the construction of the female characters in the works and discuss the process of modernization under the eyes of the protagonists in English and Brazilian literatures. / CNPq: 142328/2013-8

Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico / Este trabalho tem como objetivo investigar pontos de convergência nas obras de dois autores britânicos, Angela Carter (1940-1992) e China Miéville (1972- ). Os romances a serem estudados são Nights at the circus (1984) e The infernal desire machines of Doctor Hoffman (1972), de Angela Carter, e Perdido Street Station (2000) e The city & the city (2009), de China Miéville, e, como ponto de partida, ambos demonstram elos representativos com a ficção de gênero, evidenciados pelas obras escolhidas. Ao esmiuçar paralelos entre os romances, busca-se em especial dissecar as interseções temáticas e estilísticas, bem como as divergências e contradições que despertem interesse. Entre os temas investigados está a alteridade e o hibridismo ambos autores fazem uso de personagens ex-cêntricos e usam o hibridismo de modo a acentuar a Alteridade reservada ao Outro. Também será examinada a abordagem dos autores à ficção de gênero e o tratamento reservado aos tropos e clichês da Ficção Científica e da Fantasia. Por fim, a pesquisa observará o conceito que ambos compartilham de que discursos podem não ser uma mera reflexão da realidade, mas também criar e moldar o que tomamos por real. A todos os temas são aplicadas a teoria e crítica do pós-modernismo, além do material específico que lida com a ficção especulativa, Fantasia e Ficção Científica / This research aims at exploring shared themes in works from two British authors, Angela Carter (1940-1992) and China Miéville (1972- ). The novels chosen are Nights at the circus (1984) and The infernal desire machines of Doctor Hoffman (1972), from Angela Carter, and Perdido Street Station (2000) and The city & the city (2009), from China Miéville. As a starting point, both authors exhibit strong links with genre fiction, expressed by the chosen works. In investigating parallels between the novels the focus is going to remain on revising thematic and stylistic intersections, as well as divergences and contradictions. Among explored themes, Alterity and Hybridity are used by both authors in portraying ex-centric characters, Hybridity being used in order to emphasize the Alterity distinctive of the Other. The approach both authors direct towards genre fiction and how they deal with tropes and clichés of Science Fiction and Fantasy is also going to be examined. Finally, the research is going to deal with the concept both authors share that discourses might not be a mere reflection of reality but instead they might create and shape what we accept as real. All themes are going to be studied under the lens of postmodern theory and critic, as well as specific criticism on Speculative Fiction, Fantasy and Science Fiction

Essa dissertação tem como objetivo a leitura comparativa dos contos de fadas da escritora inglesa Angela Carter, contidos no livro O quarto do Barba Azul, e os da ítalo-brasileira Marina Colasanti, presentes em livros como Uma ideia toda azul, Entre a rosa e a espada, Doze reis e a moça no labirinto do vento. Foram analisadas os modos pelo quais as duas autoras, através da reescrita dos contos de fadas, resistem a morte do narrador tradicional descrita por Walter Benjamin e criticam a sociedade patriarcal, revelando, naturalmente, uma postura feminista. Identificou-se, ainda, como estratégias poéticas comuns à escrita de ambas as autoras, aspectos intertextuais como a paródia, o palimpsesto e o pastiche / This dissertation aims to comparative reading of fairy tales English writer Angela Carter, in the book The Bloody chamber, and the Italian-Brazilian Marina Colasanti, present in books like Uma ideia toda azul, Entre a espada e a rosa , Doze reis e a moça no labirinto do vento. We analyze how these authors resist the death of the storyteller described by Walter Benjamin and criticize the patriarchal society, revealing, of course, a feminist stance. Identified also as poetic strategies common to the writing of both authors, intertextual aspects such as parody, pastiche and the palimpsest