Banca de DEFESA: GABRIEL WIRZ LEITE

Uma banca de DEFESA de MESTRADO foi cadastrada pelo programa.
DISCENTE : GABRIEL WIRZ LEITE
DATA : 12/04/2019
HORA: 15:00
LOCAL: Instituto de Letras
TÍTULO:

The novelist is free; the biographer is tied: Virginia Woolf and biography

PALAVRAS-CHAVES:

Biography. Essays. Virginia Woolf.

PÁGINAS: 104
GRANDE ÁREA: Lingüística, Letras e Artes
ÁREA: Letras
SUBÁREA: Teoria Literária
RESUMO:

Biography has been often discussed in the contemporary critical studies, a moment characterized, among
other things, by an increasing rupture of the borders that separate textual and literary genres, by new aesthetic
statutes, and by different conceptions of subjectivity and identity. Thus, I selected as my research theme the
criticism of the biographical genre made by the writer Virginia Woolf in her two main essays on the subject, and
the relation of the ideas articulated in these essays and Orlando (a book that has “a biography” as subtitle).
To do this, I make considerations on biography and an analysis of the referred essays, The new
biography and The art of biography, and the relation between Woolf’s ideas on the topic and the literary
field in which she produced them. Then, I expose some contemporary criticism on Woolf’s thoughts on biography.
In the final chapter, I analyze Orlando. Such analysis is made in relation to the questions discussed in the
previous chapters, such as: the repercussion of Lytton Strachey’s and Harold Nicolson’s books on Orlando,
the mixture of autobiography, biography, and fiction, and the rupture of paradigms not only artistical or
epistemological, but also of subjectivity, identity, sexuality, and gender.

MEMBROS DA BANCA:
Presidente - 1570502 - ANTONIO MARCOS DA SILVA PEREIRA
Interno - 2522438 - SUZANE LIMA COSTA
Externo à Instituição - DAVI PINHO - UERJ