This thesis looks at the representations of four contemporary Portuguese women writers, Helia Coreia, Lidia Jorge, Teolinda Gersao and Ines Pedrosa in literary histories, press critical commentaries and digital media. This study analyses how far a gendered critical view is present inch of the three different media and whether any alternative contextualisation exists that allows for a non-gendered, universal critical representation of female authorship. The process of canonisation within the Portuguese cultural field is studied here, following the fundamental changes in the critical landscape over the past thirty years, especially the new possibilities offered in electronic media. This thesis explores the juxtaposition between an elitist institutionalism, which can be found in academic, press and online criticism, and the presence of alternative critical voices in cultural criticism, that would adequately represent female authorship and open up the critical debate, so the traditional constructions of cultural value, such as a division into popular and quality literature, can be re-evaluated.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:bl.uk/oai:ethos.bl.uk:703019 |
| Date | January 2017 |
| Creators | Bozkurt, Suzan |
| Contributors | Owen, Hilary ; Sa, Lucia |
| Publisher | University of Manchester |
| Source Sets | Ethos UK |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Electronic Thesis or Dissertation |
| Source | https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/beyond-the-mirror-transgressing-the-canon-and-the-fiction-of-contemporary-portuguese-women-writers-19802015(1d9249a4-fad3-4416-891c-e58ff056a23f).html |
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