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| Author(s): |
Alessandro Yuri Alegrette
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| Document type: | Doctoral Thesis |
| Press: | Araraquara. 2016-07-28. |
| Institution: | Universidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp). Faculdade de Ciências e Letras. Araraquara |
| Defense date: | 2016-04-26 |
| Advisor: | Karin Volobuef |
| Abstract | |
The corpus of this research is Wuthering Heights, the only novel written by the English writer Emily Brontë that since its first publication in 1847 has generated contradictory reactions that oscillate between fascination and repulsion among readers. We analyse some peculiar aspects of this work, emphasizing among them, its mode of narration that combines frightening aspects of Gothic novel with elements of realistic aesthetics of the nineteenth century. They are also objects of this study, which we call "Gothic spatiality" that stands out in the description of its main scenario - Wuthering Heights, the old and sinister house that provides the title of the novel -, and the themes and motifs of the Gothic genre that were reviewed by Emily Brontë, such as the double, which is widely exploited in texts with Gothic inspiration, such as Manfred, dramatic poem of Byron. Finally we analyse the couple of protagonists in the novel, Catherine and Heathcliff, seeking to appoint an intertextual dialogue between Brontë’s book with works of Gothic genre or inserted in the English literary tradition, such as Paradise Lost, by John Milton. (AU) | |
| FAPESP's process: | 12/08393-9 - As metamorfoses gótico-românticas no discurso narrativo de Wuthering Heights, de Emile Brontë |
| Grantee: | Alessandro Yuri Alegrette |
| Support Opportunities: | Scholarships in Brazil - Doctorate |