Charlotte Brontë’s problematising of first-person narrative foregrounds the fluidity of the concept of identity and insists on its constructed nature. Brontë uses specific narrative techniques in The Professor, Jane Eyre and Villette to achieve this foregrounding, which leads to a complex and sophisticated exploration of the individual’s relationship to society, and how this influences the way individuals construct their identity. Each of these novels presents a different example of such self-construction through the characterisation of the first person narrator. Brontë’s questioning of the stability of the self encourages readers to be aware of such constructs. In my first chapter, I look closely at how narrative authority is parcelled out in Brontë’s nineteenth-century society, and what influence the conferring or withholding of such authority has on the construction of a narrative self. The next three chapters are devoted to discussion of specific examples of narrative self-construction in Brontë’s first-person novels, how her protagonists deal with narrative authority, and the difficulties inherent in speaking or writing with such authority for nineteenth-century women in particular. Individuals construct a sense of their self through telling stories. Brontë’s fiction asks the question, if “Literature cannot be the business of a woman’s life” is this tantamount to denying women the right to an arena for the construction of a self at all? What role do readers play in the construction of a narrative self for a writer? In the concluding chapter my aim is to open out my analysis of Brontë’s fiction by examining the idea of narrative as a place more generally for imaginative self-construction. I structure the chapter around J. Hillis Miller’s argument in On Literature that the role of reading and writing in this regard has irrevocably changed in the twenty-first century due to the influence and popularity of the on-line world.

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Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-28T19:59:02Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 LCL - Margareth Ramos Teixeira Miyamoto.pdf: 338981 bytes, checksum: d93bee4f5323f9e5969e89b3e130d15e (MD5) Previous issue date: 2006-11-16 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / This study has the aim of investigating the opera's representation in D. Casmurro's speech, as an I mask, which unroll itself in three personas: Casmurro as an author, narrator and as a character, Bentinho. This expansion creates a correlation with the operistic tripartite structure, whose authorship is shared among the playwriter, the librettist and the musician, besides, it appears in the novel in chapters VIII - It's time , IX - The Opera and X Accepted the Theory , in which the narrator approches his life to an operistic spectacle. This operistic drama element in DC's structure, has been the target not only for the critics as we´ll see in chapter 2, but also for composers like João Gomes Jr., who had transformed DC in a theater show. The music score belongs to him, but the libretto was written by Antonio Picarollo, which could be found in the music section of Rio de janeiro's nacional library. To reach our goal and to be able of demonstrating the operistic scene built by the casmurro-author, we started with Machado de Assis' experience in the theater, trying to show to our reader how the author experienced his life that later he wrote in the novel. In chapter 2, we will recuperate the literary censorious' voice, because they analysed the opera that appears inside the novel, giving a special view of the methaphor and alegory that could be seen in DC. In chapter 3, the central focus will be the opera, its parts and relations with DC, showing how the overture, arias, intermezzos, preludes and leitmotifs are written in the narrative. Finally in chapter 4, our target will be to analyse the operistic mask inside the novel's speech through Casmurro's tripartite performance as long as a playwriter, librettist and musician / Este estudo tem por objetivo investigar a representação da ópera no discurso de D.Casmurro, como máscara de um eu , que se desdobra em três personas: a do autor-casmurro, a do narrador e a da personagem Bentinho. Tal desdobramento cria uma correlação com a estrutura tripartite do gênero operístico, cuja autoria, também se divide entre o dramaturgo, o libretista e o músico, além de surgir no romance nos capítulos VIII ( É tempo ), IX ( A Ópera ) e X ( Aceito a teoria ), nos quais o narrador aproxima sua vida de um espetáculo operístico. Esse elemento dramático-operístico na estrutura de DC tem sido alvo não só de posicionamentos críticos, como os que abordaremos no capítulo 2 desta dissertação, mas também de versões operísticas do romance para o palco, como ocorreu em 1922, quando o compositor paulista João Gomes Jr. elaborou a partitura da primeira montagem operística de DC com libreto em italiano de Antonio Piccarollo, que pode ser encontrado na secção de música da Biblioteca Nacional do Rio de Janeiro. Para atingirmos a meta de demonstrar o cenário operístico construído pelo autor-narrador Casmurro, partindo da experiência de Machado de Assis no teatro, procurando mostrar ao leitor como o autor vivenciou o que mais tarde passaria para o romance. No capítulo 2, recuperaremos a voz da crítica literária que analisou a inserção da ópera na narrativa do ponto de vista metafórico-alegórico. No capítulo 3, o foco central será a ópera, suas partes e correlações com DC, mostrando o modo como se inscrevem no romance a abertura, as árias, os intermezzos, os prelúdios e os motivos condutores da partitura. Finalmente, no capítulo 4, nos concentraremos na análise da máscara operística do discurso romanesco por meio da atuação tripartite do casmurro enquanto dramaturgo, libretista e músico