The majority of this thesis consists of my creative work in poetry, accompanied by researched information and concepts that serve to contextualize and illuminate the poems themselves and my creative process. Key areas of scholarship that underlie my poetry include the tropes and motifs of Gothic literature from the Romantic era to the present; the progression of women’s writing, particularly writing by women identifying as lesbian; and the conflation of female writers and characters with the concept of the ‘monstrous’ and transgressive. Also informing the two research chapters are some of the basic concepts about abjection and depression developed by philosopher and theorist Julia Kristeva. The collection of my poems contains both narrative and lyric poems. The final chapter, following on from my collection of sixty-eight poems, outlines my creative progress as I developed my particular poetic aesthetic. It is heavily informed by my growing acquaintance and comfort level with my own darkness and depression reflected in Gothic tropes, lesbian fiction, and aspects of Kristevan theory. The progression of my craft as a writer led me to strive for an effective expressive balance between the abstractions of the French Symbolists and Surrealists and a more ‘Imagistic’ focus on accurate, concrete imagery.

Orientador: Carlos Daghlian / Banca: Giséle Manganelli Fernandes / Banca: Maria Cecília Queiroz de Moraes Pinto / Banca: Maria Clara Bonetti Paro / Banca: Rogério Elpídio Chociay / Resumo: O propósito desta tese é o de estabelecer analogias e contrastes entre Edgar Allan Poe e Alphonsus de Guimaraens em relação aos preceitos estéticos que decidiram imprimir a sua produção poética, mormente quanto aos temas de amor (Eros) e morte (Tânatos). Procuramos demonstrar que esses matizes temáticos são trabalhados sob a angulação do góticomelancólico a fim de se atingir o sublime. Nos quatro primeiros capítulos, teorizamos sobre como o gótico, a melancolia e o sublime podem ser alinhavados poeticamente. No quinto e sexto capítulos, discutimos os modi operandi que Poe e de Alphonsus empregam nessa triangulação entre traços góticos, melancolia e o sublime. No último capítulo, valemo-nos em grande parte das teorias freudianas para demonstrar qual o resultado do jogo góticomelancólico entre Eros e Tânatos na poesia romântico-simbolista desses artistas. / Abstract: The intent of this study is to draw analogies and contrasts between Edgar Allan Poe and Alphonsus de Guimaraens vis-à-vis the aesthetic principles they decided to impress upon their poetic work, chiefly as far as the themes of love (Eros) and death (Thanatos) are concerned. We have endeavored to describe that these poetic overtones are addressed from a gothic-melancholic angle in order to reach the sublime. In the first four chapters, we theorize on how the gothic, melancholy and the sublime can be intertwined poetically. In the fifth and sixth chapters, we discuss the modi operandi that Poe and Alphonsus employ in this tripartite relationship of gothic motifs, melancholy and the sublime. In the last chapter, we make use of Freudian theories to a large extent so as to demonstrate the outcome of this gothicmelancholic interplay between Eros and Thanatos in the romantic-symbolist poetry of these artists. / Doutor

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