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| Author(s): |
Guilherme Magri da Rocha
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| Document type: | Doctoral Thesis |
| Press: | Assis. 2022-06-20. |
| Institution: | Universidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp). Faculdade de Ciências e Letras. Assis |
| Defense date: | 2022-05-13 |
| Advisor: | Cleide Antonia Rapucci |
| Abstract | |
This dissertation discusses the hypothesis that there is a symbiotic relationship between children's literature and literary Modernism. This topic receives lit tle study in the AngloAmerican tradition because children’s literature is seen as a literary subsystem and understood as something apart from the literary system (“adult” literature); and also because its scholars prefer to organize it by literary genre, instead of following a historiographical chronological course (as seen by Anne Lundin, Karin Westman, and others). To achieve our analysis we selected as primary sources children’s books by Gertrude Stein (1874 Eleanor Farjeon (1881-- 1965), Virginia Woolf (18821941), and Sylvia Plath (1932-- 1946), 1963). Woolf and Stein were chosen because they share the quality of having had their children's texts practically ignored by critics and forgotten by the canon; Farjeon, for her part, was an award winning children 's writer who was ostracized shortly after her death, and today is relegated to specific textbooks; Plath was elected for comparative purposes, an appropriate choice, considering that she wrote only a generation after the great modernists. This is an inter disciplinary dissertation that uses feminist literary criticism (Lissa Paul, Elaine Showalter, and others) and cognitive criticism (Lisa Zunshine, Maria Nikolajeva, and others) as theoretical frameworks. These were selected to present possibilities of rer eadings and revisions of volumes considered of lesser importance in the production of great female writers and, in the case of Farjeon, to recover an author who was practically forgotten. We hypothesize that the children's books by these women assert them selves as an expression of female authorship and are configured as radical aesthetic experiments of remarkable socio cognitive complexity. (AU) | |
| FAPESP's process: | 18/11314-0 - Women Writers and Modernism: reading Eleanor Farjeon, Gertrude Stein, Sylvia Plath, and Virginia Woolf |
| Grantee: | Guilherme Magri da Rocha |
| Support Opportunities: | Scholarships in Brazil - Doctorate |