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| Author(s): |
Ana Carolina Lazzari Chiovatto
Total Authors: 1
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| Document type: | Doctoral Thesis |
| Press: | São Paulo. |
| Institution: | Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH/SBD) |
| Defense date: | 2022-04-29 |
| Examining board members: |
Elizabeth Harkot de La Taille;
John Blair Corbett;
Vima Lia de Rossi Martin;
Amanda Laís Jacobsen de Oliveira
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| Advisor: | Elizabeth Harkot de La Taille |
| Abstract | |
From the perspective of discursive studies, this work investigates the image of the witch in two historical moments, as a transgressive figure that epitomises a dysphoric alterity. In order to reach our goal, the image of the witch is going to be discursively analysed in three consequential historic works on the delimitation of this stereotype in England: the treatise The Discoverie of Witchcraft (1584), by Reginald Scot (1538?-1599); the treatise Daemonologie (1597), by King James VI from Scotland and I from England (1566-1625); and the tragedy Macbeth (c. 1603-1607), by William Shakespeare (1564-1616). The first step of our research will refer to history studies and literature reviews about these three works, in the perspective of French semiotics. Secondly, our primary results are going to base the analysis of the image of the witch in contemporaneity, in light of its enduring stereotype, by observing the way the contemporary analysed works reframe it, and the effects such reframing has on shaping its meaning. Hence the following works and characters have been selected: 1) Minerva McGonagall, Hermione Granger, Narcissa Malfoy, and Bellatrix Lestrange, from Harry Potter book series (1998-2007), by J.K. Rowling (1965-); 2) Elphaba and Glinda, from the novel Wicked, by Gregory Maguire (1954-), the children novel Witches (1983), by Roald Dahl (1916-1990); and 3) Gothel, from animated feature film Tangled (2010), directed by Nathan Greno and Byron Howard, and produced by Disney Studios. By means of contrastive analysis, it is our intent to identify how the witch image (as a trangressive female figure) currently subsists, as well as gauge the dysphorization of this historical figure through the discourse of female conformity and non-conformity therein. (AU) | |
| FAPESP's process: | 17/02150-0 - The witch stereotype formation and its reframing in contemporaneity: nuances of a dysphoric alterity |
| Grantee: | Ana Carolina Lazzari Chiovatto |
| Support Opportunities: | Scholarships in Brazil - Doctorate |