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| Author(s): |
Lis Doreto Romero
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| Document type: | Master's Dissertation |
| Press: | Assis. 2020-04-03. |
| Institution: | Universidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp). Faculdade de Ciências e Letras. Assis |
| Defense date: | 2020-02-05 |
| Advisor: | Cleide Antonia Rapucci |
| Abstract | |
This study aims to analyze Susan Swan’s The Wives of Bath (1993), bringing to light issues related to gender and genre. In Portuguese, “gender” and “genre” refers to one ambiguous word, “gênero”, which has different meanings. For the proposed analysis, this study focused on two of its meanings: one related to the body, and other related to the text. The novel analyzed in this thesis is composed of characters who challenge stereotypes and normative patterns, such as femininity, heteronormativity and the concept of gender itself, while its corpus also points to heterogeneity. For the analysis related to the body of the characters, it was developed sceneries about both the feminist criticism and the feminist movement in order to illustrate their history, their developments and their contribuitions to feminist and gender studies. Virginia Woolf, Elaine Showalter, Kate Millett, Adrienne Rich, Michel Foucault, Judith Butler and Todd Reeser are some of the theoretical referentials used in these analyses. A research about the Canadian literary context in which Susan Swan belongs was also carried out, because the Canadian literature has its own characteristics. The Wives of Bath was written mainly in prose, however, the epistolary genre is also present, and a characteristic of the narrative focus is the dramatic mode. Therefore, the novel presents itself as hybrid. To affirm its plurality, the hesitation presents itself with elements of the gothic narrative and the parody is also part of the novel. Norman Friedman, Tzvetan Todorov, Paulina Palmer, Tiphaine Samoyault and Linda Hutcheon are some of the theorists who give the base for the analysis of the corpus of the novel. Hence, it is concluded that The Wives of Bath is subversive in both body and in its corpus, since the gender issues presented in the novel allow the normative conceptions related to gender to be questioned and deconstructed, and, thus, allow the creation of new possibilities. (AU) | |
| FAPESP's process: | 17/21765-6 - Gender and subversion in The Wives of Bath (1993) by Susan Swan |
| Grantee: | Lis Doreto Romero |
| Support Opportunities: | Scholarships in Brazil - Master |