Thesis abstract: Despite the fact that some critics view the period of the true Gothic as ending in the year 1820, others consider it to be a genre, as well as an aesthetic, which can still be perceived across various different cultural aspects to this day. Possibly the best way to approach the Gothic within the realm of literature is to observe several key examples of the Gothic topos, which was grounded in the original Gothic pieces of the eighteenth century. During the course of the nineteenth century, a historical period which from the cultural point of view appears almost inherently Gothic, British Gothic writing has undergone considerable changes and development, maintaining several of the key Gothic features, namely those of setting, isolation, and character types, modifying them in the process. Through this, it can be observed to what extent the aspects remain, and just how far-reaching their transformation was within the six exemplary works - Frankenstein, The Vampyre, Jane Eyre, Wuthering Heights, Carmilla, and Dracula. Another important aspect overlaying the selected works is that of monstrosity - a rather physical interpretation of the inner monstrosities of humans, or indeed an entire culture. The literary works, no matter how different at first glance they may appear to be, all utilize typical...

Cette étude se propose d’analyser les différents rapports que l’écriture radcliffienne, souvent qualifiée de « peinture de mots », entretient avec la peinture d’un point de vue thématique, structurel, symbolique et formel. Nous analyserons tout d’abord comment les romans s’inscrivent dans le contexte esthétique de l’époque et son paradigme pictural (valorisation de la peinture de paysage du XVIIe siècle, redécouverte du gothique architectural, « vision en tableau » du pittoresque). L’approche intermédiale de Liliane Louvel et sa définition du pictural au sein d’une problématique texte-image nous permettront de voir comment l’écriture file la métaphore picturale et développe ses propres stratégies pour « faire tableau » dans un désir paragonesque d’émuler la peinture. Tableaux et portraits en miniature occupent également une place importance dans l’économie du récit et leurs fonctions diégétiques et symboliques seront abordées au travers de leur spécificité intersémiotique en tant qu’objets d’art littéraires. Enfin, l’étude des descriptions paysagères au cœur de l’iconotexte montrera comment deux types de picturalité s’entrecroisent, l’une, iconique et figurative, qui cherche à « faire tableau », et l’autre, picturale et sémiotique, qui travaille le texte sur le mode plus diffus du signifiant plastique, de la dislocation du « tableau » et de la dissémination de son image au travers des substituts picturaux, de la peinture synesthésique et « iconorythmique », faisant miroiter des « éclats de picturalité » en texte. Nous montrerons ainsi comment le pictural est le mode spécifique de la gothicité radcliffienne, articulant les problématiques du « female Gothic ». / This study will analyse the different links that Ann Radcliffe’s “word-painting”—as her writing has often been called—bears with painting, from a thematic, structural, symbolic and formal point of view. We shall first see how the novels fit into the aesthetical context of the time and its pictorial paradigm—seventeenth century landscape painting as an iconographical model, the rediscovery of Gothic architecture as a pictorial motif, the picture-like vision of the picturesque. Liliane Louvel’s intermedial approach and her definition of the “pictorial” within a text-image problematics will help us see how Radcliffe spins out her pictorial metaphor and implements her own strategies to make the reader “see pictures” in a paragon-esque desire to emulate painting. Full-sized pictures and miniature portraits also play an important role in the unfolding of the narrative. Their diegetic and symbolic functions will be studied in reference to their intersemiotic specificities as literary works of art. Finally, the study of landscape description at the core of the radcliffian iconotext will help us see how two different types of pictoriality interact, one based on figurative representation which aims at making the reader “see pictures”, and another more diffuse form which works on a semiotic level through deconstruction and iconic dissemination, expressing the pictorial signifier in words. It makes “fragments of pictoriality” shine throughout the text by means of pictorial substitutes and a synesthetic experience of “iconorythmic” pictures. We shall thus prove how the pictorial is the specific mode of Radcliffe’s Gothic writing and articulates the problematics of the female Gothic.

Orientador: Maria Clara Bonetti Paro / Banca: Karin Volobuef / Banca: José Garcez Ghirardi / Resumo: A dissertação de mestrado, "Frankenstein: uma releitura do mito de criação", tem como principal objetivo demonstrar como a escritora inglesa Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, por meio de seu romance Frankenstein, ou o moderno Prometeu (1818), conseguiu criar um novo mito, isto é, o mito de Frankenstein, contribuiu para a renovação do romance gótico e para a criação de uma nova modalidade literária - a ficção científica. No primeiro capítulo foi realizado um estudo sobre as origens, características e principais obras do romance gótico. No segundo capítulo é abordada a relação entre mito e literatura e são analisados quais mitos aparecem no enredo do romance de Mary Shelley, enfatizando-se a importância do relato mítico de Prometeu. No terceiro capítulo é estudada a construção do discurso narrativo mítico de Frankenstein e é demonstrada a intertextualidade dessa obra com outros textos, tais como poemas, romances e estudos filosóficos e científicos. No quarto e último capítulo é demonstrado a releitura do mito de criação feita por Mary Shelley, a conseqüente criação do mito de Frankenstein, e as diversas interpretações e releituras que o romance recebeu, terminando com Blade Runner (O caçador de andróides, 1982), filme do cineasta inglês Ridley Scott que, ao promover a atualização do mito de Frankenstein, deu uma contribuição significativa para sua permanência em nossa cultura / Abstract: The main aim of this Master's Thesis, "Frankenstein: a rewriting of the myth of creation, is demonstrate how the English writer Mary Shelley in her novel Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus (1818), created a new kind of myth, renewed the gothic novel and gave origin to a new literary genre - science fiction. The first chapter discusses - the origins, characteristics and main works of the Gothic literature. The second chapter explores the relationships between myth and literature, and analyses which myths are present in the plot of Mary Shelley's novel, stressing the importance of the Promethean's story. The third chapter is concerned with the construction of mythic narrative discourse and with the novel's intertextuality with different kind texts, such as poems, another novels and philosophical and scientific studies. The fourth and last chapter concentrates on Mary Shelley's rewriting of the myth of creation, on the different ways her novel was interpreted and read, and it finishes with study of the film by the English director Ridley Scott, Blade Runner (1982), that offered a major contribution to update and foster the permanence of the Frankenstein's myth in our culture / Mestre

Cette thèse propose une étude de l’œuvre intégrale de Jacques-Antoine de Révéroni Saint-Cyr (1767-1829), ingénieur militaire et écrivain, au sein de la production littéraire de l’époque révolutionnaire et impériale, à la croisée de la littérature, de l’histoire des sciences et de la musique. Étude historique, thématique et herméneutique, cette lecture critique analyse un imaginaire au tournant des Lumières qui comprend des mémoires sur l’art militaire, sur les beaux-arts et sur l’équilibre européen, des textes scéniques (opéras-comiques et comédies) et des romans. Cette diversité générique témoigne d’un complexus imaginaire partagé entre cœur et raison, mécanique et sensibilité, sérénité et inquiétude, qui inscrit le corpus révéronien dans un paradigme charnière entre l’héritage rationaliste de la philosophie des Lumières et une esthétique à coloration romantique. / This thesis studies the integral work of Jacques-Antoine de Révéroni Saint-Cyr (1767-1829), a military engineer and writer, at the breast of literary production of the French Revolution and Empire, encompassing literature, history of sciences and music. Historical, thematic and hermeneutical, this critical study analyses Reveroni’s imagery at the turning point of the age of enlightenment which includes essays about military art, fine arts and European equilibrium, theatrical production (comic operas and comedies) and novels. This variety of genres constructs an “imagery complexus” divided between heart and reason, mechanic and sensibility, serenity and anxiety, linked to a key paradigma between the rationalist heritage of the philosophy of enlightenment and an aesthetic coloured with romanticism.

The diploma thesis deals with the analysis of particular detective and Gothic elements in Christopher Pike's adventurous series Remember Me. The main aim of the thesis is to analyse themes and motifs of Pike's work with respect to the Gothic tradition and the development of detective prose. The thesis is formally divided into theoretical and practical parts. The theoretical chapter is devoted to the genre of the detective and Gothic literature, as well as metaphysical detective story. The theoretical part is followed by the practical analysis of selected Pike's works. The practical analysis involves the characteristics of the main protagonists and the influence of horror and metaphysical detective elements on the search of individual identity.

Made available in DSpace on 2014-06-11T19:25:23Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2010-03-02Bitstream added on 2014-06-13T20:13:43Z : No. of bitstreams: 1 alegrette_ay_me_arafcl.pdf: 573460 bytes, checksum: 4e564e7284dc1d936b52f3ee5ff8275f (MD5) / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES) / A dissertação de mestrado, “Frankenstein: uma releitura do mito de criação”, tem como principal objetivo demonstrar como a escritora inglesa Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, por meio de seu romance Frankenstein, ou o moderno Prometeu (1818), conseguiu criar um novo mito, isto é, o mito de Frankenstein, contribuiu para a renovação do romance gótico e para a criação de uma nova modalidade literária - a ficção científica. No primeiro capítulo foi realizado um estudo sobre as origens, características e principais obras do romance gótico. No segundo capítulo é abordada a relação entre mito e literatura e são analisados quais mitos aparecem no enredo do romance de Mary Shelley, enfatizando-se a importância do relato mítico de Prometeu. No terceiro capítulo é estudada a construção do discurso narrativo mítico de Frankenstein e é demonstrada a intertextualidade dessa obra com outros textos, tais como poemas, romances e estudos filosóficos e científicos. No quarto e último capítulo é demonstrado a releitura do mito de criação feita por Mary Shelley, a conseqüente criação do mito de Frankenstein, e as diversas interpretações e releituras que o romance recebeu, terminando com Blade Runner (O caçador de andróides, 1982), filme do cineasta inglês Ridley Scott que, ao promover a atualização do mito de Frankenstein, deu uma contribuição significativa para sua permanência em nossa cultura / The main aim of this Master’s Thesis, “Frankenstein: a rewriting of the myth of creation, is demonstrate how the English writer Mary Shelley in her novel Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus (1818), created a new kind of myth, renewed the gothic novel and gave origin to a new literary genre - science fiction. The first chapter discusses – the origins, characteristics and main works of the Gothic literature. The second chapter explores the relationships between myth and literature, and analyses which myths are present in the plot of Mary Shelley’s novel, stressing the importance of the Promethean’s story. The third chapter is concerned with the construction of mythic narrative discourse and with the novel’s intertextuality with different kind texts, such as poems, another novels and philosophical and scientific studies. The fourth and last chapter concentrates on Mary Shelley’s rewriting of the myth of creation, on the different ways her novel was interpreted and read, and it finishes with study of the film by the English director Ridley Scott, Blade Runner (1982), that offered a major contribution to update and foster the permanence of the Frankenstein’s myth in our culture

Fundação de Amparo a Pesquisa no Estado do Rio Grande do Sul / In the late eighteenth century, Ann Radcliffe established herself as one of the most famous novelists of her time, and she reached the peak of her career with her fourth novel entitled The Mysteries of Udolpho (1794). Although it is one of the most important gothic novels, this narrative has issues not much explored by critics yet. The Mysteries of Udolpho presents us with one of the strongest characteristics of Radcliffe s fiction, namely, the detailed construction of setting. In this sense, this work analyses and discusses the roles of setting, which is organized in the novel as natural or constructed setting. The analysis focuses on the relation between this thematic-formal aspect and the actions and personal relationships of the protagonist Emily with other characters. The discussion shows that the different types of setting are essential in the narrative once they have strong participation in the ideological construction of characters regarding the connection between sentimentalism and rationality. Therefore, the relation between setting and characters, in this particular novel, expresses important aspects of the complex development of the bourgeois sensibility in eighteenth-century England. / Em fins do século XVIII, Ann Radcliffe se estabeleceu como uma das romancistas mais famosas de sua época, atingindo o ápice de sua carreira com seu quarto romance intitulado The Mysteries of Udolpho (1794). Apesar de ser um dos romances góticos ingleses mais importantes, ele ainda apresenta questões pouco exploradas pelos críticos. The Mysteries of Udolpho possui uma das características mais fortes das obras de Radcliffe: a minuciosa elaboração do espaço. Em vista disso, este estudo analisa e discute as funções do espaço, o qual está organizado em natural e construído. A análise centra na maneira como esse aspecto temático-estrutural se relaciona com as ações e relações pessoais da protagonista Emily com as demais personagens. Discutimos como os diferentes tipos de espaço tornam-se essenciais por participarem de forma enfática na construção ideológica das personagens, no que diz respeito à associação entre sentimentalismo e racionalidade. Assim, a relação entre espaço e personagens nesse romance expressa aspectos importantes da complexa construção da sensibilidade burguesa na Inglaterra do século XVIII.

Valentine Penrose est une poète, romancière et collagiste surréaliste moins connue que certaines de ses homologues telles Frida Kahlo ou Claude Cahun. Si les quelques études qui lui ont été consacrées reconnaissent l’omniprésence du féminin et le caractère inquiétant de certaines manifestations de la femme dans son œuvre, les sources de ces représentations n’ont guère été explorées. Pour combler cette lacune, notre mémoire s’applique à analyser l’œuvre de Penrose afin d’y mettre en lumière la présence textuelle et picturale du saphisme littéraire et du roman gothique, deux influences majeures de l’auteure-artiste. En plus d’étudier en détail les collages insérés dans le recueil de poèmes Dons des féminines, nous explorerons également les nombreuses images in absentia du corpus, car nous constatons que l’écriture penrosienne a très souvent recours aux effets de style « picturaux ». Par conséquent, au fil de nos analyses, nous allons osciller entre une étude littéraire et une approche intermédiale des rapports texte/image, afin de mettre en relief la réactualisation polymorphe de deux traditions ; la présence du saphisme et du gothique transparaît à travers l’emploi de certaines figures de femme, les partis pris thématiques de Penrose, le choix des décors et des trames narratives. Au terme de la présente étude, nous aurons mis en évidence trois figures de femmes propres à l’univers penrosien : la femme-nature, la fugueuse et la rebelle exemplifient, à nos yeux, la manière dont l’œuvre de Penrose se situe à la croisée du saphisme littéraire et du roman gothique. / Valentine Penrose was a surrealist poet, novelist and collagist, less well-known than many of her female counterparts such as Frida Kahlo or Claude Cahun. Albeit few, there are studies on Penrose that recognize both the omnipresence of women and their often disquieting portrayal. The origins of these representations remain, however, largely under-explored. In order to fill this considerable lacuna in existing knowledge on Penrose’s work, this thesis will analyze her œuvre, highlighting the textual and pictorial presence of two major influences: literary Saphism and the Gothic novel. In addition to analyzing the collages that accompany the poetry in Dons des féminines, we will also study the corpus’ many images in absentia, as we believe that Penrose’s style very often has recourse to “pictorial” literary devices. Consequently, throughout our analyses, we adopt both a literary and an intermedial approach, looking closely at both textual and pictorial representations of women in order to demonstrate the polymorphous borrowing of two traditions; Saphism and the Gothic appear via the representation of certain characters, Penrose’s thematic biases and the choice of particular spatial environments and narrative structures. The present study thereby sheds light on the representation of three female figures specific to Penrose’s universe: the woman of nature (la femme-nature), the fugitive (la fugueuse) and the rebel (la rebelle) each exemplify the way in which Penrose’s œuvre is located at the crossroads of literary Saphism and the Gothic novel.

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Studien undersöker användningen av Goyas etsning När förnuftet sover kommer monstren och Fuselis oljemålning Nattmaran som förekommer i slasherfilmen Terror på Elm Street (2010). Konstverken är placerade i en scen där konstverken bland annat får en självrefererande roll eftersom det som sker i konstverken även sker i filmen. Syftet med studien är att undersöka vad konstverken fyller för funktion i filmen och att undersöka om det finns stilistiska och tematiska likheter mellan konstverken och filmen trots att det skiljer ungefär 200 år mellan dem. De båda konstverken analyseras semiotiskt och filmen analyseras främst utifrån studiens teoretiska perspektiv: intermedialitet, transmediering och intertextualitet.   Resultatet visar att slasherfilmer och skräckfilmer är väldigt flitiga med användandet av intertextuella referenser och självrefererande uttryck men att det är svårt att veta exakt vad konstverken har för betydelse. Tidigare forskning visar att tidig skräckfilm inspirerades av gotiska romaner och romantiska konstverk vilka transmedierades till filmmediet när det var tekniskt möjligt. Mellan konstverken och filmen går det att hitta flera stilmässiga och tematiska likheter som är typiska för det som började framhävas under romantiken. Terror på Elm Street (2010) bär på flera postmoderna drag, bland annat eftersom filmen kombinerar uttryck från det förflutna och berör gränsen för vad som ses som fin- respektive populärkultur. / This study examines Goya’s etching The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters and Fuseli’s The Nightmare and how they are used in the slasher movie A Nightmare on Elm Street (2010). The purpose of this study is to explore the artworks and their role within the movie and examine if it is possible to distinguish stylistic and thematic similarities between the works despite being separated by approximately 200 years. The artworks are analyzed according to a semiotic method, while the movie is analyzed mainly using the study’s theoretical aspects: intermediality, transmediality and intertextuality. The result shows that intertextual references and self-referential expressions are frequently used in slasher movies. However, the specific role which these artworks play in the movie is often hard to decipher. There are several similarities between the artworks and the movie and previous studies shows that early horror movies were influenced by gothic novels and romantic paintings which were transmediated to fit the film medium. The art works used in A Nightmare on Elm Street (2010) have the same motifs as part of the film’s story and are also part of a postmodern trend of mixing between so called high culture and popular culture.