http://www.bdtd.uerj.br/handle/1/3642 2026-07-18T08:43:47Z 2026-07-18T08:43:47Z Araújo, Eduardo Bittencourt Loiola http://www.bdtd.uerj.br/handle/1/25773 2026-07-18T00:14:21Z 2026-03-31T00:00:00Z

Título: Virginia Woolf pensa as masculinidades: a deformação de Jacob Flanders e Septimus Warren Smith Autor: Araújo, Eduardo Bittencourt Loiola Primeiro orientador: Pinho, Davi Ferreira de Abstract: This dissertation investigates how Virginia Woolf’s oeuvre, with special focus on Jacob’s Room [2019 (1922)] and Mrs Dalloway [2025 (1925)], conceives, questions, and destabilizes hegemonic notions of masculinity through the literary construction of male characters who experienced what is conventionally called the First World War in Europe. I propose a critical category that I term “deformation,” which designates both a modernist aesthetic strategy and an interpretive key for understanding the instability of masculine figures in the works under discussion. Based on close readings of selected passages, deformation is understood here as a movement of formal and thematic disarticulation, revealing a narrative resistance to the masculinity that positioned itself as hegemonic in the early twentieth century, functioning as a social and cultural pillar. I introduce these readings through contemporary masculinity studies, which understand masculinity in its multiplicity and historicity. Drawing on the conceptual vocabulary emerging from dialogues between Woolf and thinkers such as Raewyn Connell, Judith Butler, and Pierre Bourdieu, I seek to demonstrate how Woolf’s fiction anticipates later debates and invites conversation about masculinities, virility, male vulnerability, and the relationships between sexuation, socialization, literary discourse, war, and subjectivity Instituição: Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro Tipo do documento: Dissertação

2026-03-31T00:00:00Z Pereira, Pedro Henrique Cavina Tenório http://www.bdtd.uerj.br/handle/1/25742 2026-07-01T13:53:57Z 2026-03-26T00:00:00Z

Título: Antonio Carlos de Brito e o modernismo: uma poética da leitura Autor: Pereira, Pedro Henrique Cavina Tenório Primeiro orientador: Oliveira, Leonardo Davino de Abstract: This study analyzes the first phase of the poetic work of Antônio Carlos de Brito (Cacaso) and his collaborations – as a lyricist – in songs, based on their relationship with Brazilian poetry of the modernist phase, in order to reflect on how one of the main representatives of both the so-called Generation 60 and the Generation of 70 (or marginal poetry) dealt with the tradition of his recent past. Our intention is to contribute to tracing a certain "guiding thread" of poetics in national literature, with the investigation of an important phase of its history, which we believe has not yet been sufficiently studied. For this work, our reading aims, ultimately, at the aesthetic mapping of the ways of handling our modernist literary canon, a characteristic of a period of poetic production, in general, no longer concerned with the same innovative literary values of the first half of the 20th century – such as: "invention," "rupture," or a "programmatic aesthetic project" – but rather with a "game" between present and past, life and work, authorship and rewriting. That being said, we believe that Antônio Carlos de Brito's work, in the realms of poetry in books, songs, and literary criticism, reveals important factors where the relationships between tradition and contemporaneity manifest themselves poignantly. The specificities, resumptions, and updates present in his poetry and critical thought can, to some extent, also help to understand values and forms of current poetic production, such as: the intertwining of life and work in the poetic fabric; the gratuitousness of creation; formal freedom as a principle underlying poetic creation; erasure, cutting, and grafting as procedures for handling tradition; intertextuality as a gesture of critical updating; the resumption of modernist parody, colloquialism, and orality combined with the synthesis and value of everyday language (and life); as well as the use of humor and irony as critical components. Thus, in our journey, we will begin by providing a general introduction to the life and work of Antônio Carlos de Brito, including his aesthetic references, and a brief overview of his published works. Next, in Chapter I, we will analyze Antônio Carlos de Brito's first two books, A palavra cerzida (1967) and Grupo escolar (1974), in relation to modernist poetry. In Chapter II, we will conduct a dialectical analysis of the two "generations" in which Antônio participated as a representative poet. The third chapter deals with song lyrics from the same perspective of dialogue with modernist values and poetics. The main authors with whom we engage are: Murilo Mendes, João Cabral de Melo Neto, Carlos Drummond de Andrade, Oswald de Andrade, Manuel Bandeira, and Mário de Andrade Instituição: Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro Tipo do documento: Dissertação

2026-03-26T00:00:00Z Castilho, Igor Jorge Alves http://www.bdtd.uerj.br/handle/1/25730 2026-07-08T17:50:23Z 2025-09-29T00:00:00Z

Título: Prestígio e a credibilidade social da norma culta na concepção dos alunos do 8. ano do ensino fundamental Autor: Castilho, Igor Jorge Alves Primeiro orientador: Santos, Denise Salim Abstract: This Master’s Dissertation, situated in the field of mother tongue teaching, has as its main objective to analyze the perception of 8th grade students from a public school in Rio de Janeiro regarding the social prestige associated with the use of the standard variety of Brazilian Portuguese. The specific objectives are: to understand how students construct the notion of the standard variety; to identify how contextual criteria influence language monitoring; and to investigate perceptions perceptions of student informants related to the relationship between linguistic norm and financial status. The central hypothesis of this study considers that, since the students are inserted in sociocultural contexts that do not favor the use of the standard variety and are still in the process of formal schooling, they would not perceive the value attributed to more formal linguistic uses, nor the idea of social judgment associated with them. The methodology adopted for corpus collection followed a descriptive and qualitative approach, structured in three stages: the first consisted of a written essay produced by the 13 participants, aged between 12 and 14; the second involved oral interviews with the same students, aimed at recording their profiles and conceptions of the topic through eight guiding questions; and the third stage focused on a comparative analysis of the degree of monitoring observed in written and oral production. To support the data analysis, a theoretical framework was employed, including Bechara (2009), Azeredo (2021), Travaglia (2000), and Faraco (2008) on language and normative grammar; Bagno (2007a) on linguistic variation; Gnerre (1985) on the power of the written standard variety; Ilari and Basso (2009), Bakhtin (2016), and Marcuschi (2001) on oral and written modalities and textual genres; and Soares (2017) and Geral (1996) on the relationship between language and school. The results indicate that the participants recognize the existence of social prestige associated with the standard variety, especially in specific situations such as professional environments and certain careers. This perception challenges the initial hypothesis of the study and highlights the persistence of a social tradition, transmitted by schools and disseminated in society, according to which mastery of speech and writing in line with normative prescriptions is interpreted as an indicator of respect, trustworthiness, competence, and admiration. Thus, the research demonstrates, in a delimited way, that the work developed by educational institutions based on the BNCC (National Common Core Curriculum) — which stipulates that students understand the diversity of language in different contexts — has possibly produced effects that suggest that students attribute to normative grammar a value that goes beyond the merely instrumental character of school assessments Instituição: Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro Tipo do documento: Dissertação

2025-09-29T00:00:00Z Abreu, Isabela Nunes de http://www.bdtd.uerj.br/handle/1/25729 2026-06-24T00:12:26Z 2026-03-20T00:00:00Z

Título: Corpos, controle e resistência na trilogia MaddAddão Autor: Abreu, Isabela Nunes de Primeiro orientador: Monteiro, Maria Conceição Abstract: This dissertation proposes an analysis of the relationships between power, surveillance, and social control present in the dystopian trilogy Oryx and Crake (2003), The Year of the Flood (2009), and MaddAddam (2013) by Canadian writer Margaret Atwood. The central objective of the research is to investigate how corporate power subverts traditional governmental structures to impose totalitarian control, manifested in spatial segregation, manipulation of information, and constant and invasive surveillance. In addition, it discusses the tension between two discourses: the oppressive masculinist discourse of violence, mainly through biopower, necropolitics and sexism, and the discourse of feminist resistance in these three works. Through the lens of Atwood's dystopian work, the study aims to represent and criticize these contemporary devices of control over life and social exclusion, mirroring the tensions of the real world. Additionally, the research deepens the analysis of biopolitics and the exploitation of the female body, examining how it is transformed into an object of consumption, merchandise, and instrument of power in the author's dystopias. The work focuses on the representation of a society rigidly divided between conglomerates (walled and technologically advanced complexes dominated by megacorporations) and plebeian lands (areas of marginalization and precariousness). The control of spaces and bodies is analyzed in light of Michel Foucault's concept of the panopticon, demonstrating how surveillance is internalized and how corporations shape the behavior of subjects. To this end, the research employs a theoretical framework based on the works of Michel Foucault, Giorgio Agamben on sovereign power and bare life, and Byung-Chul Han's critique of “infocracy,” in addition to the feminist critiques of Silvia Federici, Catharine A. Mackinnon, Judith Butler, and Luce Irigaray on capitalist and patriarchal exploitation, which allow us to discuss how female pleasure, autonomy, and subjectivity are shaped by masculinist and capitalist logic. The work thus seeks to understand how Atwood's speculative fiction operates not only as a dystopian representation, but as a form of social and political criticism, making visible the ways in which neoliberalism, technoscience, and security discourse justify the domination of bodies and the normalization of exclusion Instituição: Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro Tipo do documento: Dissertação

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