The virgin woman between stabilizations and displacements: analysis of discourses on the female virginity in period novels and their fanfictions

• Grant number: 23/13333-0
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Master
• Start date: August 01, 2024
• End date: November 30, 2025
• Field of knowledge: Linguistics, Literature and Arts - Linguistics
• Principal Investigator: Roberto Leiser Baronas
• Grantee: Aline Oliveira Amorim
• Host Institution: Centro de Educação e Ciências Humanas (CECH). Universidade Federal de São Carlos (UFSCAR). São Carlos , SP, Brazil

Abstract

This project aims to reflect on virginity as a topic suitable for gender discussions. To this end, we have delimited the theme to discourses produced in "The Bridgerton Series" (2000-2013), a period romance collection, and fanfictions derived from this canonical material. Affiliated to the theoretical-methodological device of French Discourse Analysis, concepts to be mobilized are those of discursive subject, interdiscourse and intradiscourse, conditions of production, discursive formation, paraphrase and polysemy. The discursive corpus includes clippings from the "The Bridgerton Series" (2000-2013) and fanfiction available in digital media. With this, we aim to investigate the functioning of the tension between stabilization and displacement of effects of meaning on female virginity in these contemporary editorial objects, supported by different conditions of production.