A personagem feminina na primeira fase machadiana: Helena e Iaiá Garcia

• Ano de defesa: 2007
• Autor(a) principal: Souza, Moises Raimundo de
• Orientador(a): Sá, Olga de
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo
• Programa de Pós-Graduação: Programa de Estudos Pós-Graduados em Literatura e Crítica Literária
• Departamento: Literatura
• País: BR
• Palavras-chave em Português: Machado de Assis; Romantismo; Realismo; Personagem; Assis, Machado de > 1839-1908 > Personagens > Mulheres; Assis, Machado de > 1839-1908 > Helena > Critica e interpretacao; Assis, Machado de > 1839-1908 > Iaia Garcia > Critica e interpretacao
• Palavras-chave em Inglês: Machado de Assis; Romantic; Realism; Character
• Área do conhecimento CNPq: CNPQ::LINGUISTICA, LETRAS E ARTES::LETRAS::LITERATURA COMPARADA
• Link de acesso: https://tede2.pucsp.br/handle/handle/14829

This research aims to study the female character from the famous Brazilian writer Machado de Assis and his point of view at love relationship at the end of XIX century. It is from the analyses of two work of Machado de Assis, first period they are called Helena e Iaiá Garcia. We will try to analyze in addition to the main characters mentioned also the character Stela, from Iaiá Garcia. It will be like watching the characters not less important to the plot with their reaction and point of views related to the marriage and the women situation at this time. We tend to discuss from the behavior of these characters the treatment given by Machado de Assis (the writer) to the woman in the romantic and realist periods in the Brazilian literature. We want to analyze from this writer, Machado de Assis because he took part in these two periods. Thus searching for mutations happened to the aesthetic in the work of Machado de Assis, trying to discover him. Yet how he got so famous from simple romantic romances at this time, he wrote famous best sellers called Mémoria Postumas de Brás Cubas and Dom Casmurro. We will search for the characteristic and the signs of these changes which could have started with Iaiá Garcia. For this we will compare Iaiá Garcia with Helena the ones that we consider a work predominantly romantic. Thus we will try to catch these modifications and take the transition moment. We consider the following characteristics of Machado de Assis as typical from second period: The dissimulation of his characters, the ambiguity, the irony, the blue moody, the pessimism, the boredom and the incredulity between life and human being. We will search these indicators the ones that by chance can be found in Iaiá Garcia. We will also try to confirm the predominance of Helena romantic characteristics to affirm that Iaiá Garcia can already be considered a romance with realist tendencies. It is next to the second period of Machado de Assis while Helena still being a typical romantic romance