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A French Sappho: study of Sappho representations ii the pictorial images of the XIX century in France

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Author(s):
Cristiane Demarchi
Total Authors: 1
Document type: Doctoral Thesis
Press: Campinas, SP.
Institution: Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Faculdade de Educação
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Examining board members:
Joaquim Brasil Fontes Junior; Jose Antonio Alves Torrano; Ana Beatriz Linardi; Silvio Donizetti de Oliveira Gallo; Cristna Bruzzo
Advisor: Joaquim Brasil Fontes Junior
Abstract

This research realize a reading of the representations of the greek poetess of the archaic period, Sapho, in three pictorical images on the France of the XIX century. Thereunto, seek the comprehension that conected the building of her biograph to a fictional tradition, according to, the poetess would have commited suicide by Love, a spectacular act, fruit of the interpretations of the Ovidian narratives, latin poet from century I B.C. Triparting this wish of narrate the Sapho transition, the research accept the image while a singular epiphany of her body. The first of them, from the neoclassic painter Pierre-Narcisse Guerin, that is actually exposed on the Hermitage Museum at St. Petersburg. At the triptical center a caricaractural image that was produced to Le Charivari, a weekly newspaper of a great circulation in Paris of the XIX century. Ultimately, a watercolour among the several paintings and draws from Gustave Moreau about the poetess. When emphasized the relation between the figured body and the build of the identity memory of Sapho, that in century XIX is connected to the materiality of the body, the reading offer a discursive geography that involves representations of the female, of the homoerotism, of the Lesbos island and from the exotic, that represents the relation between them and Sapho. The thesis support that the Sapho erotic constituent, crossed by simbolical elements of the Ovidian fictio allowed the proliferation of images in the XIX century France transition. Images that reflect a field of tensions between the desire of 'see' the historical personage among the vestige and the impact between ancient narratives and mechanisms of pleasure control among the moderns. (AU)

FAPESP's process: 10/16502-7 - A French Sappho: study of Sappho representations in the pictorial images of the XIX century in France
Grantee:Cristiane Demarchi
Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Doctorate (Direct)