The construction of the female character on the short stories of Alberto Moravia

• Grant number: 12/07887-8
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Scientific Initiation
• Start date: July 01, 2012
• End date: June 30, 2013
• Field of knowledge: Linguistics, Literature and Arts - Literature - Modern Foreign Literatures
• Principal Investigator: Claudia Fernanda de Campos Mauro
• Grantee: Sérgio Gabriel Muknicka
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Ciências e Letras (FCL). Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP). Campus de Araraquara. Araraquara , SP, Brazil

Abstract

Initially, this project aims to analyze the female character in some short stories by the Italian writer Alberto Moravia. According to the research corpus, the analysis of these characters will be made through the following stories: "L'orgia", "Venduta and complete", "Portacenere", "La cosa più terribile della vita", "Temporale e Fulmine" and "Parlare per Vivere". After a detailed and individual analysis of the short stories, we will make a comparative analysis in order to establish the possible relationships among these narratives. We aim to highlight the relationship between the possible points of contact in these stories; in order to have subsidies for a reflection on the female character portrayed by Moravia throughout his short narrative. Therefore, we will also use the theoretical resources available, such as Sociological Criticism - for the analysis of the characters - and Structuralism - for the analysis of the short stories' narrators.(AU)