Focusing attention on a neglected aspect of Renaissance scholarship, this study aims to illuminate the rhetorical role of the body in Renaissance literature by exploring the rhetorical nature of three forms of corporeality: stasis, gesture, and dance. Generally speaking, rhetoric of the body is not lacking in early modern scholarship. However, consideration of the literary body as a rhetorical entity that not only articulates but also creates meaning is indeed a neglected area. The body-as-text paradigm that grounds performance studies provides for a unique and nuanced approach to literary text analysis. The methodology employed in this thesis combines a historical and text-based approach, with substantial attention given to classical rhetoric because of its awareness of the rhetorical capacity of the body. The rhetoric of stasis is explored in Sir John Davies’ poem Orchestra and in three works by Shakespeare: The Winter’s Tale, The Rape of Lucrece, and Coriolanus. In this chapter, trauma is presented as a framing mechanism for the characters’ static presence. Gesture and its rhetorical quality are studied through distinctive analyses of Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale, The Rape of Lucrece, and Titus Andronicus. An analysis of Ben Jonson’s Epicoene provides a comic close to this study of gesture. This chapter also has as its framework the concept of trauma, presenting it as either a cause for or effect of gesture. Finally, the rhetoric of dance is examined in further analyses of Orchestra and The Winter’s Tale and also in Ben Jonson’s Pleasure Reconciled to Virtue. The literary approach to the rhetorical study of stasis, gesture, and dance taken in this study includes its dramaturgical and compositional functions, providing for a new lens through which to view instances of corporeality in Renaissance literature. This project attends to the early modern awareness and understanding of the rhetorical capacity and force of the body, and does so in a way that allows the speaking body to be examined within original contexts, thus bridging literary and performance analysis.

Submitted by Glauber Assunção Moreira (glauber.a.moreira@gmail.com) on 2018-08-22T16:02:22Z No. of bitstreams: 3 1.ELEMENTOS PRÉ-TEXTUAIS.doc: 72704 bytes, checksum: cae1472cf9c093ffe6c5f283b3e2bf09 (MD5) 2.APRESENTAÇÃO ATÉ CONSID. FINAIS.doc: 1522688 bytes, checksum: 87bede749495c8767b852e7a501161b2 (MD5) 3.ELEMENTOS PÓS-TEXTUAIS.doc: 90112 bytes, checksum: f34f912011209fcdce76ebda3363ad0b (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Ednaide Gondim Magalhães (ednaide@ufba.br) on 2018-08-23T11:56:45Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 3 1.ELEMENTOS PRÉ-TEXTUAIS.doc: 72704 bytes, checksum: cae1472cf9c093ffe6c5f283b3e2bf09 (MD5) 2.APRESENTAÇÃO ATÉ CONSID. FINAIS.doc: 1522688 bytes, checksum: 87bede749495c8767b852e7a501161b2 (MD5) 3.ELEMENTOS PÓS-TEXTUAIS.doc: 90112 bytes, checksum: f34f912011209fcdce76ebda3363ad0b (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-23T11:56:45Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 3 1.ELEMENTOS PRÉ-TEXTUAIS.doc: 72704 bytes, checksum: cae1472cf9c093ffe6c5f283b3e2bf09 (MD5) 2.APRESENTAÇÃO ATÉ CONSID. FINAIS.doc: 1522688 bytes, checksum: 87bede749495c8767b852e7a501161b2 (MD5) 3.ELEMENTOS PÓS-TEXTUAIS.doc: 90112 bytes, checksum: f34f912011209fcdce76ebda3363ad0b (MD5) / RESUMO Esta dissertação consiste em uma análise estética e reflexiva dos processos de criação e encenação do espetáculo coreográfico Metrópole, criado e dirigido pela autora, que aqui se apresenta, e interpretado pela Companhia Moderno de Dança. Dentre seus objetivos destacam-se: analisar o processo de abstração cênica do cotidiano urbano, incluindo o percurso do gesto, da sua forma prática e cotidiana à sua forma artística, compreendendo, através de teorias da estética, a função desse gesto em ambas as formas; identificar, a partir de um breve enfoque antropológico, a origem e a presença da gestualidade cotidiana abstraída no espetáculo, refletindo sua utilização na coreografia do mesmo; verificar as características da pós-modernidade coreográfica no espetáculo e fazer um registro do espetáculo analisado para posteriores utilizações. A pesquisa indicou que a presença do cotidiano se notifica no espetáculo, não unicamente a partir da observação de gestualidades cotidianas visivelmente presentes nas grandes cidades, mas também a partir da pesquisa e criação de movimentos representativos dos sentimentos que se estabelecem no jogo do convívio social metropolitano, além de ter sido confirmada, tanto na criação quanto na encenação do espetáculo, a presença e a continuidade do gesto cotidiano comum. Procurando compreender essa permanência, foi criado o conceito de impregnação cultural, isto é, a maneira como as características humanas de comportamento gestual cotidiano são apreendidas e verificadas no corpo. Além disso, foi detectada ainda a presença de diversos elementos caracterizadores da pós-modernidade na dança, os quais, de forma eminentemente reflexiva, encontram-se descritos ao longo do texto. / ABSTRACT This dissertation consists in an aesthetics and reflexive analysis of the creation and staging processes of the choreografic spectacle Metrópole, created and directed by the author that here is presenting herself and performed by the Companhia Moderno de Dança. Among its objectives we point out: to analyse the abstraction processe from the urban quotidian to the scene, including the gesture trajectory from its practical and quotidian form to its artistic form, understanding both functions through the aesthetics theories; to identify the permanence of the quotidian gesture in the choreography, even in front of the gesture’s artistic transformation, through a brief antropological focus; to verify the postmodern dance characteristics in the spectacle, signed for me as my first one in this style of dancing and to make one spectacle’s registration for future utilization. The research pointed that the common gesture is found in the spectacle not only from the quotidian gestualities observation perceptible in the big cities, but also from research and movement creation that represent feelings of the metropolitan social living game. Besides, the presence and cotinuity of the common and quotidian gesture was confirmed in both the creation and staging processes. Looking for understing this we created the concept of cultural impregnation, that means the way as the human characteristics are apprehended and verified in the body. There were also verified the presence of diferent postmodern dance characteristics, elements wich are descripted along the text by a reflexive manner.