Diss. Stockholm : Stockholms universitet, 2008.

Made available in DSpace on 2014-06-11T19:25:23Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2007-02-28Bitstream added on 2014-06-13T18:47:56Z : No. of bitstreams: 1 minaki_sm_me_arafcl.pdf: 715175 bytes, checksum: 15b728652dc0abcb85b8db6fdfac4d2f (MD5) / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES) / Esta pesquisa tem como objetivo principal analisar, sob o ponto de vista da voz narrativa, dois contos: Monsieur Les Deux Chapeaux e Carried Away, presentes, respectivamente, nas coletâneas The Progress of Love (1986) e Open Secrets (1994), da escritora canadense Alice Munro, contista cuja obra tem como pano de fundo a vida rural e semi-rural de Ontário. Neste trabalho, busca-se mostrar, tomando como ponto de partida os conceitos teóricos de Genette [19--], as implicações e os efeitos da voz dos narradores dos contos em questão, caracterizados pelo uso de recursos em comum, como narração heterodiegética, tempo nãocronológico, memória e retrospecções. A atenção desta pesquisa é voltada também à presença de outras vozes, que fazem contraponto com a voz da instância narrativa. Essas vozes, possibilitando a criação de um universo polifônico, fazem-se presentes não apenas pelas personagens que se manifestam, mas também por intertextualidades e interdiscursividades, promotoras de efeitos diferenciados e geradoras de incertezas quanto ao sentido do relato. Além dos contos mencionados, é preciso lembrar que outras narrativas de The Progress of Love e Open Secrets foram incluídas neste estudo, a fim de que se pudesse demonstrar as estratégias mais comuns e peculiares adotadas por Munro na construção de suas histórias. / The aim of this work is to analyze, according to the point of view of the narrator's voice, two short stories - Monsieur les Deux Chapeaux and Carried Away, each one included, respectively, in the collections The Progress of Love (1986) and Open Secrets (1994). Both short stories were written by Alice Munro, a Canadian author whose works present as scenery the country and semi-country life of Ontario, her homeland. In this paper, the objective is to show, taking into consideration Genette's theory about narration, the effects of the narrators' voice of both compositions, which are marked by the use of resources in common, as heterodiegetic narration, memory and retrospection. Besides the narrator's voice, this work also calls attention to other voices which constitute Monsieur les Deux Chapeaux and Carried Away. Those voices, responsible for creating a polyphonic universe, are represented not only by the characters' voices, but also by intertextualities and interdiscoursivities, resources which provoke a series of effects, generating uncertainties in the meaning of the narration. Beyond Monsieur les Deux Chapeaux and Carried Away, its worth mentioning that this work also includes the study of other short stories of The Progress of Love and Open Secrets, in order to show the most relevant strategies used by Alice Munro in the construction of her narratives.

References to stories and storytelling appear throughout Alice Munro's five short story cycles: DANCE OF THE HAPPY SHADES, LIVES OF GIRLS AND WOMEN, SOMETHING I'VE BEEN MEANING TO TELL YOU, WHO DO YOU THINK YOU ARE? and THE. MOONS OF JUPITER. This thesis contends that stories--mentioned briefly or recounted at length--provide counterpoint to experience for Munro's characters. Oral and written stories influence them throughout life, but especially in youth, when they eagerly identify with, and imitate, fictional figures. In LIVES and WHO, storytelling becomes central because their protagonists are a writer and an actress. Occasionally, the narrators in all five works reflect on the difficulty of expressing truth in fiction, but SOMETHING raises this issue repeatedly. By embedding stories within her narratives, Munro imitates the workings of memory; moreover, she draws attention to her narratives as texts rather than glimpses of reality. A feminine perspective on narrative gradually emerges, in which the woman narrator sees her task not as imposing order, but as discovering order that already exists. / Arts, Faculty of / English, Department of / Graduate

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Thesis (M.A.)--Oregon State University, 2008. / Printout. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 79-82). Also available on the World Wide Web.

Made available in DSpace on 2014-06-11T19:25:23Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2007-02-27Bitstream added on 2014-06-13T19:53:05Z : No. of bitstreams: 1 pizzi_mcb_me_arafcl.pdf: 911749 bytes, checksum: ef12a4d4f34d9ef309c6cdd05c184c74 (MD5) / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES) / Alice Munro destaca-se como grande autora de contos que, elaborados de forma renovada, desafiam a classificação do gênero e são caracterizados pelos finais em aberto. É no contraponto entre realismo, modernismo e pós-modernismo que Alice Munro constrói suas narrativas, um momento de transição e concepções renovadas a respeito do trabalho literário que, expresso em sua obra, conjuga os contrastes por meio de técnicas sofisticadas. A obra Lives of girls and women (2001), em destaque neste trabalho, é classificada como romance por alguns críticos - e até pela própria autora -, assumindo, por vezes, características de um Bildungsroman. No entanto, é constituída por contos, fragmentação que favorece a independência de cada narrativa, mas que não rompe definitivamente com a noção de continuidade, característica do romance. É nessa forma de trabalhar com o conto na obra citada que o projeto em questão se detém, buscando verificar como essa questão se dá dentro da estrutura do livro estudado e seus efeitos de sentido. Também constitui o objetivo do estudo identificar, em meio a essa fragmentação, o labirinto de vozes que, em parte, é responsável pelo efeito de reminiscência. / Alice Munro stands out as a great short-story writer with texts that, elaborated in a new form, defy the genre qualification and are characterized by the open endings. It is in the counterpoint between realism, modernism and post-modernism that Alice Munro builds her narratives, a moment of transition and renewed conceptions related to the literary work that, expressed in her pieces, conjugates the contrasts by sophisticated techniques. The piece Lives of girls and women (2001), in prominence in this work, is classified as a novel by some critics - and the writer herself -, having, sometimes, the characteristics of a Bildungsroman. However, it is made of shortstories, fragmentation that favours the independence of each narrative, but that does not break definitively the notion of continuity, characteristic of the novel. It is this way of working with the short-story in the cited piece that the project in question studies, trying to verify how this situation happens inside the book structure and its meaning effects. It is also an aim of the study to identify, in the middle of this fragmentation, the maze of voices that, in part, is responsible for the reminiscence effect.

Made available in DSpace on 2014-06-11T19:26:48Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2013-04-24Bitstream added on 2014-06-13T20:34:48Z : No. of bitstreams: 1 goncalves_pm_me_arafcl.pdf: 729771 bytes, checksum: fd6e1b1cc748875041b06cd92ad3bc37 (MD5) / Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP) / Este estudo comparativo tem como objetivo mostrar como se dá a representação da memória no discurso ficcional da escritora canadense Alice Munro e de Clarice Lispector. As narrativas selecionadas, pertencentes, respectivamente, aos volumes Lives of Girls and Women, de 1971, e Felicidade clandestina, também do mesmo ano, evocam o período da infância por meio da memória e mostram que a volta ao passado possibilita a reinterpretação dos acontecimentos e o surgimento de novos significados não pressentidos na época de sua ocorrência, o que influencia na formação da identidade do narrador que reconstrói fatos já consumados em um processo mediado pela linguagem e auxiliado pela imaginação criativa. Adota-se o conceito de memória inconsciente, elemento indispensável para a formação do aparelho psíquico, proposto por Freud em obras como A Interpretação dos Sonhos, “O bloco mágico” e “Recordar, repetir e elaborar”. O evento, ao ser trazido para o presente, é atualizado e reelaborado, constituindo um passado que não se mantém fechado e inalterado nos vastos palácios da memória, para utilizar as palavras de Santo Agostinho, mas que se modifica com o tempo. As recordações sofrem um deslocamento espaciotemporal e, longe de serem fieis ao que ocorreu, apresentam associações entre a memória, os contextos externos e as fantasias imaginadas. Além da movimentação pelo relato e da composição de um discurso fragmentado, há um cuidadoso trabalho com a voz narrativa e com o tempo, de modo que as narradoras-protagonistas, em ambos os casos, repetem o que foi vivido, mas de forma elaborada, admitindo atualização e revelação de novos significados e constituindo a memória como algo em processo contínuo de renovação / The aim of this comparative study is to analyze the representation of memory in the fictional discourse of the Canadian writer Alice Munro and the Brazilian Clarice Lispector. The narratives selected belong respectively to the 1971 books Lives of Girls and Women and Felicidade clandestina, and they evoke childhood through memory. As a result, it is noted that the revision of the past makes possible the reinterpretation of the happenings and the appearance of new meanings which were not felt when they occurred, what affects the identity’s formation of a narrator who reconstructs facts already passed in a process intermediate by language and by the support of creative imagination. As theoretical support it is used the concept of unconscious memory as a fundamental element in the psychic apparatus’s formation, which was proposed by Freud in works such as The Interpretation of Dreams, “A Note Upon the Mystic Writing Pad” and “Remembering, Repeating, and Working Through”. The happening when is being brought to the present is updated and re-elaborated, which constitutes a past that is not closed and kept unchanged in the vast palaces of memory, to use the words of Saint Augustine of Hippo, but something that changes along with time. The recollections suffer a spatial and temporal dislocation and far from being fair to what happened they present associations between memory, external contexts and imagined fantasies. Beyond the movement registered in the narration and in the composition of a fragmented discourse there is a careful work with the narrative voice and time so that the protagonist in both cases repeat what was experienced but in an elaborated manner which accepts the actualization and the revelation of new meanings that constitute memory as something in a constant process of renovation

Thesis (M.A.)--Northern Michigan University, 2009. / "14-62709." Bibliography: leaves 54-59.

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