Made available in DSpace on 2016-03-22T17:27:12Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 daniela palazzo.pdf: 4236863 bytes, checksum: 47a8b62aec149e0d1bb0df8bba512400 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2013-12-04 / Fashion, in this thesis, considered to be a communicative tool crossed over for effects of meanings involved in social practices, is the focus of the analysis of the discursive setting of the film The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1969). The objective is to investigate in which ways fashion materializes discourses throughout the clothes style, as it unveils the teacher´s behavior, beliefs, teaching practice and ideology. According to Garcia and Miranda´s view (2010), to whom fashion is communication, its interpretation can lead us to the understanding of experience, memory and links of the subject of the discourse. Placed in Scotland in the 1930s, the film narrative is divided into 17 sequences located in contextual spaces ─ the school, the street and the house ─, thus named by me, due to the use of Lefebvre´s concept of social/abstract space (2007). Miss Brodie, the teacher, performs her function incessantly, that is, without restraining herself to the school schedule and physical spaces, for her aim is to provide her distinct group of girl students ─ la crème de la crème ─, with readiness for the practical life, fact that raises the question of professional responsibility. Such a trajectory, besides showing a permanent conflict between the subject and the educational institution, determines its referentiality in the teacher´s fashion. Such a relationship attests her movement of social inclusion/exclusion. The analytical procedures applied to the verbal and imagistic materiality are also based on the Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) categories, as it is proposed by Norman Fairclough (2001), combined with principles of the visual design by Kress and Van Leeuwen (2006) and with the perspective of the social gender according to feminist critics´ view, such as Joan Scott (1990), Teresa de Lauretis (1994) and Jane Flax (1991) among others. My approach to the theme takes into account the cultural, the social and the historical context in which one can read in the teacher´s fashion the basis of women s role as teachers / A moda, considerada nesta dissertação uma ferramenta de comunicação atravessada por efeitos de sentidos envolvidos nas práticas sociais, é o foco da análise do ambiente discursivo do filme The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1969). O objetivo é investigar de que formas a moda materializa discursos por meio do estilo das roupas, na medida em que desvelam o comportamento, as crenças, a atuação docente e a ideologia da professora. Conforme entendimento de Garcia e Miranda (2010), para quem a moda é comunicação, interpretá-la, pode levar à compreensão de experiências, memória e vínculos do sujeito do discurso. Situada na Escócia da década de trinta do século XX, a narrativa fílmica é dividida em 17 sequências de cenas, alocadas em espaços contextuais ─ da escola, da rua e da casa ─, assim denominados por mim, a partir da utilização da concepção de espaço social/abstrato de Lefebvre (2007). A Srta. Brodie, a professora, exerce a docência de modo contínuo, isso é, sem observar horário nem os espaços físicos, pois seu objetivo é realizar a formação de seu seleto grupo de alunas ─ la crème de la crème ─, preparando-as para enfrentar a vida prática, que suscita o questionamento acerca da responsabilidade profissional. Esse percurso, além de evidenciar um conflito constante entre o sujeito e a instituição educacional, encontra referencialidade no modo de vestir da professora. Essa relação atesta o seu movimento de inclusão/exclusão social. Os procedimentos analíticos aplicados à materialidade verbal e imagística são também embasados em categorias da Análise Crítica do Discurso (ACD), proposta por Norman Fairclough, combinadas com princípios da gramática visual de Kress e Van Leeuwen e com a perspectiva de gênero social, na visão de críticas feministas como Joan Scott (1990), Teresa de Lauretis (1994), Jane Flax (1991), entre outras. A abordagem ao tema considera também o contexto sócio-histórico e cultural em que se possa ler, na moda da professora, a concepção do papel das mulheres no exercício docente

This thesis is an investigation into the nature of the 'postmodern' narrative strategies and fictional methods in the work of two British Catholic writers. The work of David Lodge and Muriel Spark is here taken as an example ofthe 'Catholic novel'. In order to determine ifthe overlap ofpostmodern. and Christian-influenced narrative strategies constitutes more than a convergence or coincidence of formal concerns, narrative form in these novels is analyzed in the light of neo-Tho mist and Tho mist aesthetics, a traditional Catholic Christian theory of the arts. The 'postmodern' in these 'Christian' texts becomes largely a coincidence of terminology. Narrative forms which can be classified as 'postmodern' can also be categorized using the terminology of Thomas Aquinas. The apparent similarities betray radically divergent metaphysical presuppositions, however. The nature of the Catholic 'difference' lies in the way postmodern forms are used to challenge the metaphysical bases of those forms. / English Studies / M.A. (English)

This thesis is an investigation into the nature of the 'postmodern' narrative strategies and fictional methods in the work of two British Catholic writers. The work of David Lodge and Muriel Spark is here taken as an example ofthe 'Catholic novel'. In order to determine ifthe overlap ofpostmodern. and Christian-influenced narrative strategies constitutes more than a convergence or coincidence of formal concerns, narrative form in these novels is analyzed in the light of neo-Tho mist and Tho mist aesthetics, a traditional Catholic Christian theory of the arts. The 'postmodern' in these 'Christian' texts becomes largely a coincidence of terminology. Narrative forms which can be classified as 'postmodern' can also be categorized using the terminology of Thomas Aquinas. The apparent similarities betray radically divergent metaphysical presuppositions, however. The nature of the Catholic 'difference' lies in the way postmodern forms are used to challenge the metaphysical bases of those forms. / English Studies / M.A. (English)