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Master's Dissertation
DOI
https://doi.org/10.11606/D.8.2007.tde-28012008-113646
Document
Author
Full name
Carmem Lúcia Foltran
Institute/School/College
Knowledge Area
Date of Defense
Published
São Paulo, 2007
Supervisor
Committee
Soares, Marcos Cesar de Paula (President)
Allegro, Alzira Leite Vieira
Cevasco, Maria Elisa Burgos Pereira da Silva
Title in Portuguese
Formação literária e formações sociais em 'The Awakening' de Kate Chopin
Keywords in Portuguese
Kate Chopin
Literatura e História
Literatura Norte-Americana
Narrador onisciente
Século XIX
Abstract in Portuguese
No romance The Awakening (1899), de Kate Chopin, a busca da individualidade e da liberdade financeira e sexual da protagonista Edna Pontellier fundem-se à tentativa de realização do amor extraconjugal, que, frustradas, a levam ao suicídio. Essa busca frustrada carrega em si contradições históricas inerentes à ideologia burguesa, que promete igualdade a todos, mas não permite a realização concreta de tal promessa. Essas contradições se fazem presentes não apenas no tema do romance, mas em sua estrutura formal: o recorte sócio-histórico do romance implica uma série de fissuras em sua estrutura, também reveladoras de contradições ideológicas. Para a análise dessa obra, faz-se necessário o estudo das relações sociais traçadas no romance e suas implicações estéticas, como a questão do narrador onisciente e do desenvolvimento da narrativa, os limites desta, bem como os limites da ideologia da modernização.
Title in English
Literary form and social formations in 'The Awakening' by Kate Chopin
Keywords in English
19th Century
American Literature
Kate Chopin
Literature and History
Omniscient narrator
Abstract in English
In The Awakening (1899) the protagonist's search for individuality, economic and sexual freedom merge with the attempt of finding fulfillment outside her marriage. When these possibilities are frustrated, she is drawn to suicide. This unsuccessful quest carries within itself the historical contradictions which are inherent to the bourgeois ideology, which promises equality for all but eventually fails to keep its promise. These contradictions are present not only in the content of the novel, but in its formal structure as well: the historical and social frame of the novel entangles several breaks in its structure, which also reveal ideological contradictions. In order to analyze this novel, it is mandatory to study the social relationships established in it and its aesthetic implications, as well as the question of the omniscient narrator and of how the narrative unfolds; the limits of the latter as well as the limits of the ideology of modernization.
 
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Publishing Date
2008-02-08
 
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