Female characters in Lucio Cardoso work

• Grant number: 06/02454-5
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Doctorate
• Start date: April 01, 2007
• End date: July 31, 2010
• Field of knowledge: Linguistics, Literature and Arts - Literature
• Principal Investigator: Cleusa Rios Pinheiro Passos
• Grantee: Elizabeth da Penha Cardoso
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil

Abstract

Lúcio Cardoso (1912-1968) was one of the most important authors in introspective / psychological Brazilian novels. Cardoso was also one of the first writers to break with the Brazilian novelist method of showing the women as stereotypes associated with reality. In this aspect, Lúcio Cardoso integrates a new tendency in the configuration of female in Brazilian literature. This research intends: 1) to find how the author configures his female characters, 2) to compare both Cardoso's options (introspective novel and female characters), how they determine themselves reciprocally, and 3) to list which literature tradition sources Cardoso dialogues to delineate his women. In this work, the theoretical framework will be found in psychoanalysis, in hermeneutic and in history, without losing Cardoso's work textually reference. (AU)

Academic Publications

(References retrieved automatically from State of São Paulo Research Institutions)

CARDOSO, Elizabeth da Penha. Femininity and transgression a reading of Lúcio Cardosos prose.. 2010. Doctoral Thesis - Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH/SBD) São Paulo.