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Este trabalho pretende criar diálogos entre os contos de Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen
e de Mary Lavin. Estas escritoras não se conheceram, mas foram influenciadas por
contextos político-sociais semelhantes, as sociedades conservadoras e católicas de Portugal
e da Irlanda de meados do século XX. Partilhavam também preocupações (est)éticas muito
similares, encarando a palavra escrita como um meio de verdade, por esta entendendo a
revelação da realidade experienciada na obra redigida. Entre esta realidade e os
imperativos morais das poéticas de Sophia e Lavin há uma fricção constante, bem presente
nas suas obras. Esta tese analisa, numa primeira parte, os contextos históricos em que as
duas escritoras criaram os contos seleccionados. Será depois estudada, num exercício de
literatura comparada, um conjunto de seis contos de ambas, com o intento de perceber de
que modo estes reagem às suas realidades históricas, com ênfase nos discursos
socioculturais do género, da Igreja Católica e dos regimes políticos vigentes. Uma voz
crítica atravessa as narrativas, que apresentam e revolvem estes discursos com o objectivo
de denunciar os seus defeitos ao leitor. A grande tensão reside na oposição entre a
aparência e a substância, entre os valores religioso-morais professados pelas personagens
(sujeitos dos discursos socioculturais dos contextos históricos das autoras) e a sua realidade
prática. O leitor, como indivíduo a quem se dirigem as narrativas, ganha protagonismo
enquanto agente iniciador do diálogo entre elas e, não menos importante, como receptor
das mensagens de cada uma.
This work intends to create dialogues between Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen and Mary Lavin’s short stories. These writers did not influence each other’s oeuvre, but they were influenced by similar socio-political contexts – Portugal and Ireland’s Catholic and conservative societies of mid-twentieth century. They also shared similar (aesth)etic concerns, considering the written word as a medium of truth, meaning the revelation of the experienced reality in the written work. There is a constant friction between this reality and the moral imperatives of Sophia and Lavin’s poetics, which is well patent in their works. This thesis analyses, in the first part, the historical contexts in which the two writers created the selected short stories. Afterwards, a selection of six short stories will be studied in a comparative literature exercise, with the intent of understanding how they react to their historical realities. The sociocultural discourses of gender, of the Catholic Church and of the political regimes in force will be emphasized. A critical voice traverses these narratives, which present and upturn these discourses with the purpose of denouncing their faults to the reader. The great tension lies in the opposition between appearance and substance, between the moral and religious values professed by the characters (subject to the sociocultural discourses of the authors’ historical contexts) and their practical reality. The reader, as the addressee of the narratives, gains proeminence as the intentional agent of the dialogue between them and, not less important, as the receiver of each one’s messages.
This work intends to create dialogues between Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen and Mary Lavin’s short stories. These writers did not influence each other’s oeuvre, but they were influenced by similar socio-political contexts – Portugal and Ireland’s Catholic and conservative societies of mid-twentieth century. They also shared similar (aesth)etic concerns, considering the written word as a medium of truth, meaning the revelation of the experienced reality in the written work. There is a constant friction between this reality and the moral imperatives of Sophia and Lavin’s poetics, which is well patent in their works. This thesis analyses, in the first part, the historical contexts in which the two writers created the selected short stories. Afterwards, a selection of six short stories will be studied in a comparative literature exercise, with the intent of understanding how they react to their historical realities. The sociocultural discourses of gender, of the Catholic Church and of the political regimes in force will be emphasized. A critical voice traverses these narratives, which present and upturn these discourses with the purpose of denouncing their faults to the reader. The great tension lies in the opposition between appearance and substance, between the moral and religious values professed by the characters (subject to the sociocultural discourses of the authors’ historical contexts) and their practical reality. The reader, as the addressee of the narratives, gains proeminence as the intentional agent of the dialogue between them and, not less important, as the receiver of each one’s messages.
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Narrativa Autor Leitor Contexto Diálogo Poder Mulheres Moral Narrative Author Reader Context Dialogue Power Women