O presente trabalho visa a analisar um grupo específico de personagens femininas na Odisseia de Homero: as esposas de reis. Por esposas entendo as mulheres casadas (mortais) que estão vivas no momento presente da narrativa do poema, a saber: Helena, Arete e Penélope. Escolhi estudá-las de acordo com as funções que me parecem ser as mais importantes desempenhadas por elas nesse poema homérico; desse modo, dividi a pesquisa em duas partes, de acordo com esses papéis: a primeira parte consiste na análise das mulheres em cenas de hospitalidade, a segunda, em cenas de narrativas embutidas enunciadas por elas. Assim, analisarei as mulheres enquanto anfitriãs e narradoras. Em ambos os tipos de cena, faz-se presente o tema da tecelagem, que em Homero constitui tarefa exclusivamente feminina, e que também é importante para compreender as personagens femininas dentro do recorte aqui escolhido. / This study analyses a group of female characters in Homers Odyssey: kings wives. By wives, I mean married (mortal) women alive during the poems plot: Helen, Arete and Penelope. I have studied the most important functions they perform in the epos; each part of the thesis is dedicated to one of them: the first one analyses how wives act in hospitality scenes, the second one, the embedded narratives told by them. Thus, my object is to discuss their role as hostesses and storytellers. Weaving, which is a typical female activity in Homer, is an important theme in both types of scene and proves to be relevant to understanding the aformentioned roles.

Este trabalho pretende, a partir da análise das obras literárias Casa de Boneca (1879) de Henrik Ibsen e Dom Casmurro (1899) de Machado de Assis, verificar a atualidade da crise representada nas personagens femininas Nora e Capitu. Trata-se de identificar a relação entre forma artística e a experiência, tendo em vista o jogo de espelhos entre arte e vida. Reconhecer, portanto, como a estrutura social, mais especificamente a familiar, está refletida no drama e no romance do século XIX. Desde a cisão entre esfera pública e doméstica traçar encontros e desencontros entre as personagens que estão inseridas na ficção presas na rede do patriarcado. A crise flagrada com a saída de Nora e o exílio de Capitu nos deixa a pergunta sobre que tipo de sociabilidade somos capazes de construir sob a exclusão inevitável proposta pelo sistema capitalista. / The aim of this study is to anylise two literary works: Casa de Boneca (Doll\'s House) by Henrik Ibsen (1879) and Dom Casmurro by Machado de Assis (1899). The main idea was to verify if the crisis represented by the two female characters, Nora and Capitu, can be found nowadays. In other words, the objective is to identify the relationship between the artistic form and the real experience, focusing on situations as mirror games envolving life and art. Therefore, we will answer how the social and more specifically the family structure is reflected in the drama and in the romance of the 19th century. Based on the breaking of the social and the family actions, the profile of similarities and divergences between the characters that are inserted in the fiction, are captured and the domination of a patriarch emerges. From the crisis which made Nora leave home and provoked Capitus exile, a question arises: what type of social relationships are we able to construct under the inevitable circumstances of exclusion imposed by the capitalism society.

Jane Austens <i>Mansfield Park</i> has earned a reputation as a difficult text for its politically-charged negotiations of ethics and unsatisfactory heroine. Since Edward Said presented the novel as an example of British literature that contributed to an expanding imperialist venture (95), scholarly attention has shifted to focus on the extent to which the novel critically engages with macrocosmic power structures and hegemonic discourse. That is, how does Mansfield Parks description of power dynamics at home reflect slave-related issues in the foreign atmosphere? Austens interest in and familial connections to slave-related issues, contemporary cultural awareness of abolitionist sentiment, and textual allusions to the slave trade all contribute to the novels counterpoint between domestic and foreign spaces: the Bertram family is economically dependent on a slave plantation in Antigua. A microcosm of plantation life, Mansfield Park represents the dilemmas of marginalized women who are presented with choices to rebel against or submit to patriarchal authority. In order to preserve her own physical, emotional, and psychological safety, Fanny Price bids for patriarchal favour. While others are punished severely for their rebellion, Fanny is rewarded for her submissive choices and enjoys an elevated social status. However, she inspires no reformation and remains an unsatisfactory heroine. Like the grateful Negro of contemporary plantation tales, Fanny functions to stabilize the status quo through her gratitude and loyalty, reinforcing societys tightly-controlled boundaries of acceptable behaviour. Mansfield Parks revelatory strength is that it exposes the mechanisms by which power is produced and maintained in domestic and imperial spaces.

Jane Austens <i>Mansfield Park</i> has earned a reputation as a difficult text for its politically-charged negotiations of ethics and unsatisfactory heroine. Since Edward Said presented the novel as an example of British literature that contributed to an expanding imperialist venture (95), scholarly attention has shifted to focus on the extent to which the novel critically engages with macrocosmic power structures and hegemonic discourse. That is, how does Mansfield Parks description of power dynamics at home reflect slave-related issues in the foreign atmosphere? Austens interest in and familial connections to slave-related issues, contemporary cultural awareness of abolitionist sentiment, and textual allusions to the slave trade all contribute to the novels counterpoint between domestic and foreign spaces: the Bertram family is economically dependent on a slave plantation in Antigua. A microcosm of plantation life, Mansfield Park represents the dilemmas of marginalized women who are presented with choices to rebel against or submit to patriarchal authority. In order to preserve her own physical, emotional, and psychological safety, Fanny Price bids for patriarchal favour. While others are punished severely for their rebellion, Fanny is rewarded for her submissive choices and enjoys an elevated social status. However, she inspires no reformation and remains an unsatisfactory heroine. Like the grateful Negro of contemporary plantation tales, Fanny functions to stabilize the status quo through her gratitude and loyalty, reinforcing societys tightly-controlled boundaries of acceptable behaviour. Mansfield Parks revelatory strength is that it exposes the mechanisms by which power is produced and maintained in domestic and imperial spaces.

The Walt Disney Company has been producing feature films for almost a decade, allowing children as well as grown ups to enter their world of fairytales. Along the years there have been different ways to portray the characters, this can be seen in results from previous research. The purpose with our essay is to examine five female main characters in modern princess-movies from Disney; The Princess and the Frog, Tangled, Brave, Frozen and finally Moana. With a base in the ideas of postfeminism, we wanted to investigate how the female characters were portrayed in terms of physical appearance, personality and stereotypical femininity. We made a semiotic analysis to discern signs in respective movie, we used Roland Barthes’s theory consisting of the idea of denotation, connotation and myths. Our analysis lead us to the conclusion that several changes can be seen. Instead of portraying female characters as innocent, love-seeking and in the need of rescue, the modern princesses are physically strong, determined and adventurous. The viewers are also being introduced to new kinds of relationships that differs from the previous heterosexual standards. Even though some gender roles and intersectional standards were remained visible, we found new stereotypical ways of portraying women in Disney.

Submitted by FERNANDA BARINI CAMARGO null (fernanda.barini.camargo@gmail.com) on 2018-01-27T19:10:34Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Dissertação Fernanda Barini.pdf: 3400919 bytes, checksum: 358d948e997974c278fc17619d631b76 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Aline Aparecida Matias null (alinematias@fclar.unesp.br) on 2018-01-29T12:18:51Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 camargo_fb_me_arafcl.pdf: 3400919 bytes, checksum: 358d948e997974c278fc17619d631b76 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2018-01-29T12:18:51Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 camargo_fb_me_arafcl.pdf: 3400919 bytes, checksum: 358d948e997974c278fc17619d631b76 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2017-12-20 / A obra do longevo cineasta português Manoel de Oliveira (1908-1922) constitui um grande tributo à arte. Ao longo de sua carreira, o cineasta desenvolveu um cinema de relação visceral com a literatura em seus mais diversos gêneros, homenageando escritores portugueses e estrangeiros. Dentre as parcerias fundamentais para o entendimento de sua ficção está aquela que estabeleceu com a escritora Agustina Bessa-Luís (n. 1922), da qual resultou um trabalho criativo vulcânico, embora nem sempre concordante. Certamente, o elo mais significativo entre as páginas da romancista e a tela do cineasta é o protagonismo de personagens femininas enigmáticas, cujas figurações assumem ora a máscara da santa, ora a da devassa. Assim, um estudo comparativo entre um díptico de Manoel de Oliveira, composto pelos longas-metragens O Princípio da Incerteza (2002) e Espelho Mágico (2005), e os seus respectivos textos de origem, Joia de Família (2001) e A alma dos ricos (2002) é o escopo deste trabalho. Pretendemos investigar a construção de sentidos orquestrada pela tradução intersemiótica do cineasta na (re)elaboração de suas personagens femininas, considerando as relações, que sistematicamente se estabelecem, na sua obra, entre cinema e literatura. A escolha do corpus a investigar justifica-se pela relevância do jogo de espelhos que os dois filmes, interligados, propõem: as protagonistas femininas (interpretadas por Leonor Silveira e Leonor Baldaque, musas do cineasta) oscilam entre a figura da santa e a da devassa alternadamente, constituindo deste modo uma espécie de síntese da concepção do universo feminino que perpassa muito significativamente todo o cinema de Oliveira desde O passado e o presente (1972). / The long-lived Portuguese film-maker Manoel de Oliveira’s oeuvre constitutes a great tribute to art. Throughout his career, the film-maker developed a literature-strongly-related cinematographic work, exploring various literary genres as well as honoring Portuguese and foreign writers. Among fundamental partnerships for his fiction understanding, there is the one estabilished with the novelist Agustina Bessa-Luís, from which resulted a creative volcanic work, though not always in agreement. Certainly, the most meaningful link between the novelist’s pages and the film-maker’s screen is the enigmatic female characters’ protagonism, whose archetypes assume either the female mask of the innocent, or the mask of the lover. Thus, a comparative study between a Manoel de Oliveira’s diptych, composed by the feature films The uncertainty principle (2002) and Magic mirror (2005), and their respective source novels, Joia de Família (2001) and A alma dos ricos (2002) is the aim of this work. We intend to look into their meaning-making, orchestrated through the intersemiotic translation by the film-maker in his own female characters’ (re)creation, considering the relations that systematically estabilish in his work between cinema and literature. The choice of the corpus to research is justified for the relevant set of mirrors which the two films, linked, propose: the female main characters (played by Leonor Silveira and Leonor Baldaque, the film-maker’s muses) alternately oscillate from the female archetype of the innocent up to the female archetype of the lover, constituting a sort of synthesis on the female universe conception that meanignfully crosses Oliveira’s whole film work since Past and present (1972).

Este trabalho pretende, a partir da análise das obras literárias Casa de Boneca (1879) de Henrik Ibsen e Dom Casmurro (1899) de Machado de Assis, verificar a atualidade da crise representada nas personagens femininas Nora e Capitu. Trata-se de identificar a relação entre forma artística e a experiência, tendo em vista o jogo de espelhos entre arte e vida. Reconhecer, portanto, como a estrutura social, mais especificamente a familiar, está refletida no drama e no romance do século XIX. Desde a cisão entre esfera pública e doméstica traçar encontros e desencontros entre as personagens que estão inseridas na ficção presas na rede do patriarcado. A crise flagrada com a saída de Nora e o exílio de Capitu nos deixa a pergunta sobre que tipo de sociabilidade somos capazes de construir sob a exclusão inevitável proposta pelo sistema capitalista. / The aim of this study is to anylise two literary works: Casa de Boneca (Doll\'s House) by Henrik Ibsen (1879) and Dom Casmurro by Machado de Assis (1899). The main idea was to verify if the crisis represented by the two female characters, Nora and Capitu, can be found nowadays. In other words, the objective is to identify the relationship between the artistic form and the real experience, focusing on situations as mirror games envolving life and art. Therefore, we will answer how the social and more specifically the family structure is reflected in the drama and in the romance of the 19th century. Based on the breaking of the social and the family actions, the profile of similarities and divergences between the characters that are inserted in the fiction, are captured and the domination of a patriarch emerges. From the crisis which made Nora leave home and provoked Capitus exile, a question arises: what type of social relationships are we able to construct under the inevitable circumstances of exclusion imposed by the capitalism society.

The diploma thesis deals with reflection of a picture of women- mothers in chosen hindu tales. Deals about motherhood in India on the base of literal characters of woman- mothers, analyses significant aspects of motherhood in India. Pays attention to influences of surrounding society and how they struggle with it. The thesis sources from original literature in hindi language and from other translations with taking account of original verses.

The female characters in Shakespeare’s 2 Henry VI and Richard III; Rowley’s All’s Lost by Lust; Fletcher’s The Tragedy of Valentinian; Rowley, Dekker, and Ford’s The Witch of Edmonton; and Brome and Heywood’s The Late Witches of Lancashire curse their enemies because, as women, they have no other way to fight against the injustices they experience. At once an extension of the early modern belief that words are “women’s weapons,” and dangerously beyond the feminine ideal of silence, the curse, as a performative speech act, resembles the physical weapons wielded by men in its potential to cause serious harm. Using Judith Butler’s theory of gender as performative and J. L. Austin’s theory of performative utterances, this thesis argues that curses function as part of the cursing woman’s performative identity, and by using speech as a weapon, the cursing woman gains a measure of social agency within the social order even if she cannot change her place within it.

São poucos os estudos sobre as personagens femininas dentro de La Comédie Humaine, e estes se tornam ainda mais restritos quando tratam daquelas que aparecem no romance Le père Goriot. Nesse sentido, este trabalho pretende analisar como são construídas e organizadas dentro da narrativa, tendo em vista que sua composição é realizada de acordo com uma estratégia, bem como sua organização no texto. Outrossim, as personagens femininas são de grande importância na narrativa balzaquiana, apesar de aparentemente ocuparem apenas o segundo plano, pois são elas que, na maioria das vezes, vão auxiliar as personagens masculinas em seus projetos de ascensão social, a ponto de Rastignac, por exemplo, só ter conseguido sucesso por intermédio de sua tia, Mme de Beauséant. Isso sem contar a dona da pensão, Mme Vauquer, que é a primeira a ser descrita durante a narrativa e tem importância capital no destino de outras figuras hospedadas em seu estabelecimento. Por outro lado, a técnica mais conhecida utilizada por Balzac e que foi por ele desenvolvida é o retorno de personagens. No entanto, há outras de grande importância, e uma delas é o fato de que, para conseguir criar a quantidade de personagens existente dentro de La Comédie Humaine, foi necessário recorrer a um recurso de economia, ou seja, apresentar várias delas com características semelhantes, podendo ser ligadas duas a duas. Procuramos desenvolver esse aspecto ao longo deste trabalho, juntamente com as questões que permeiam o papel das figuras femininas, assim como o arrivismo e a sua importância para as masculinas. / There are few studies about the female characters in La Comedie Humaine, and these are even more restricted when they treat about those which appear in the novel Le Pere Goriot. Thus, this paper intends to examine how they are constructed and arranged within the narrative, considering that their composition is performed according a kind of strategy, as well as your organization in the text. Furthermore, the female characters are very important in Balzac\'s narrative, although apparently only occupying the background, because they are who, in most of the cases, will help the male characters in their projects of social mobility, until the point of Rastignac, for example, has only achieved success with the help of his aunt, Mme de Beauseant. This without counting the owner, Mme Vauquer, who is the first character to be described in the narrative and who has a capital importance in the destiny of other figures that are hosted on her property. Moreover, the technique most known and used by Balzac and which was developed for him is the return of characters. However, there are other techniques also very important, and one of them is the fact that, to achieve to create the amount of characters existing in La Comedie Humaine, it was necessary to apply a resource of economy, or, in other words, to present lots of characters showing similar characteristics and connected two by two. We were seeking to develop this aspect throughout this work, together with the questions that underlie the role of the female characters, as well as the arrivisme, and this importance for the male.