University of Macau / Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities / Department of English

Submitted by Fabiano Vassallo (fabianovassallo2127@gmail.com) on 2017-05-03T18:56:30Z No. of bitstreams: 2 license_rdf: 0 bytes, checksum: d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e (MD5) eduardo graca dissertacao mestadoOKOK2.pdf: 595408 bytes, checksum: 6e6751f6eea0075617111a0afc57394b (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Josimara Dias Brumatti (bcgdigital@ndc.uff.br) on 2017-05-29T17:45:30Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 2 license_rdf: 0 bytes, checksum: d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e (MD5) eduardo graca dissertacao mestadoOKOK2.pdf: 595408 bytes, checksum: 6e6751f6eea0075617111a0afc57394b (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2017-05-29T17:45:30Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2 license_rdf: 0 bytes, checksum: d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e (MD5) eduardo graca dissertacao mestadoOKOK2.pdf: 595408 bytes, checksum: 6e6751f6eea0075617111a0afc57394b (MD5) / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / O objetivo desta dissertação é a abordagem das relações entre os conceitos de mecanismos de poder e de linhas de fuga – concebidos nas obras dos filósofos Michel Foucault e Gilles Deleuze, respectivamente - e os romances de Emily Brontë e Virginia Woolf que intitulam nosso trabalho. Os mecanismos de poder, segundo Foucault, seriam os dispositivos políticos e filosóficos instalados na sociedade e no pensamento com o intuito de conduzir as relações de conhecimento, as disposições, e os desejos humanos à afirmação e à conservação das relações de poder vigentes. Interessados somente na manutenção das estruturas hegemônicas, os mecanismos de poder investiriam no cultivo de nossas potências tristes e servis para subjugarnos aos desígnios dominantes, dirigindo-nos, assim, ora à adequação compulsória e à reafirmação espontânea dos regimes hegemônicos, ora ao desespero, à loucura e à morte. As linhas de fuga deleuzianas constituiriam movimentos de ruptura com tais regimes dominantes, que possibilitariam novas relações com a sociedade, com a subjetividade, com a linguagem e com o pensamento; o cultivo de potências ativas e criadoras; e, afinal, a emergência de uma vida estética. Analisando os materiais narrativos de O morro dos ventos uivantes e Mrs. Dalloway observamos como tanto os jogos narrativos dos dois romances quanto os próprios enredos e personagens narrados se engajam nestas mesmas discussões a respeito do confronto entre forças conservadoras e libertárias, do cultivo de potências diminutivas e aumentativas, e da produção de corpos servis e elétricos / The aim of this dissertation is an approach of the relations between the concepts of mechanisms of power and lines of flight – conceived in the works of Michel Foucault and Gilles Deleuze, respectively – and the novels by Emily Brontë and Virginia Woolf that entitle our work. Mechanisms of power, according to Foucault, would be the political and philosophical devices installed in our society and in our thought with the intent of driving our relations with knowledge, our disposition and our desire towards the affirmation and conservation of established relations of power. Interested only in the maintenance of hegemonic structures, mechanisms of power would invest on the cultivation of our sad and servile potencies to submit us to the dominant designs, driving us either to compulsory adequacy and to the spontaneous reassurance of hegemonic regimens, or to despair, insanity and death. The deleuzian lines of flight would consist in rupturing movements with such dominant regimens, that would enable new relations with society, subjectivity, language and with thought; the cultivation of active and creative potencies; and the eventual emergency of a aesthetic life. Analyzing the narrative materials of Wuthering Heights and Mrs. Dalloway we observe that both the narrative strategies of the novels and their plots and characters engage on these same discussions about the confrontation between conservative and libertarian forces; the cultivation of diminutive and augmentative potencies; and the production of servile and electric bodies

In this studyi apply a feminist-narratological grid to the works under discussion. I show how narration is used as strategy to highlight issues of concern to women, hereby attempting to make a contribution in the relatively new field of feminist narratology. Chapter One provides an analysis of Pride and Prejudice as an example of a feminist statement by Jane Austen. The use of omniscient narration and its ironic possibilities are offset against the central characters' perceptions, presented by means of free indirect style. Chapter Two examines The Tenant of Wildfell Hall as a critique of Wuthering Heights, both in its use of narrative frames and in its at times moralistic comment. The third and fourth chapters focus on Charlotte Bronte. Her ambivalences about the situation of women, be they writers, narrators or characters, are explored. These are seen to be revealed in her narrative strategies, particularly in her attainment of closure, or its lack. Chapter Five explores the increasing sophistication of the narrative techniques of Elizabeth Gaskell, whose early work Mary Barton is shown to have narrative inconsistencies as opposed to her more complex last novel Wives and Daughters. Finally, I conclude that while the authors under discussion use divergent methods, certain commonalities prevail. Among these are the presentation of alternatives women have within their constraining circumstances and the recognition of their moral accountability for the choices they make. / English Studies / D. Litt. et Phil. (English)

In this studyi apply a feminist-narratological grid to the works under discussion. I show how narration is used as strategy to highlight issues of concern to women, hereby attempting to make a contribution in the relatively new field of feminist narratology. Chapter One provides an analysis of Pride and Prejudice as an example of a feminist statement by Jane Austen. The use of omniscient narration and its ironic possibilities are offset against the central characters' perceptions, presented by means of free indirect style. Chapter Two examines The Tenant of Wildfell Hall as a critique of Wuthering Heights, both in its use of narrative frames and in its at times moralistic comment. The third and fourth chapters focus on Charlotte Bronte. Her ambivalences about the situation of women, be they writers, narrators or characters, are explored. These are seen to be revealed in her narrative strategies, particularly in her attainment of closure, or its lack. Chapter Five explores the increasing sophistication of the narrative techniques of Elizabeth Gaskell, whose early work Mary Barton is shown to have narrative inconsistencies as opposed to her more complex last novel Wives and Daughters. Finally, I conclude that while the authors under discussion use divergent methods, certain commonalities prevail. Among these are the presentation of alternatives women have within their constraining circumstances and the recognition of their moral accountability for the choices they make. / English Studies / D. Litt. et Phil. (English)