scholarly journals Dos estructuras simbólicas del mito de la Quintrala: la bruja y la femme fatale

2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 13
Author(s):  
Jasmin Belmar Shagulian

  Catalina de los Ríos y Lisperguer, best known as Quintrala, is a historical figure of the Chilean Colonial period. Within Chilean culture, she became a myth that developed into a literary character variously portraited as a witch, a murderer, and a parricide. To this day, these remain the portraits that have been reproduced in the literary narrative about the character. In this work I will analyse the symbolic structures of the witch and the femme fatale, which are essential and reiterative in the construction of the narrative discourse about this literary character. For this purpose, I have chosen the figurative structuralism that views a literary text as a sermo mythicus, that is to say, as a myth in which symbolic structures are a part of the mythical discourse advocated by this theory; this kind of discourse is likewise a fundamental and inherent component of the myth of Quintrala that has not been studied as such. This work aims to examine these symbolic structures embedded in the myth of La Quintrala by analysing and comparing Gustavo Frías’ latest novels, Tres nombres para Catalina: Catrala (2001) and Tres nombres para Catalina: la doña de Campofrío (2003), the work of Magdalena Petit, La Quintrala (2009), that of Mercedes Valdivieso, Maldita yo entre las mujeres (1991), as well as the historical essay Los Lisperguer y la Quintrala by Benjamín Vicuña Mackenna ([1877] 1944) in order to establish the existence through time of a rewriting and a transfiguration of the symbolic structures in these literary works.

Semiotica ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 2015 (203) ◽  
Author(s):  
Erzsébet Szabó

AbstractThe aim of the present paper is to discuss the question of why readers accept a literary narrative discourse attributed traditionally to an “omniscient third-person narrator” unconditionally as true. I will advocate two theses. First, that this characteristic of narrative comprehension is a consequence of a grammatical feature of the narrative discourse, namely, the absence of the “narrating-I.” This format mimics what Cosmides and Tooby label as scope-free representation, i.e., a representation that is not bound by scope-operators and thus treated by a cognitive architecture as architecturally true. Second, narrative discourse ascribed traditionally to a third person narrator should be understood as the linguistic representation of the true states of affairs of a narrative world.


Modern Italy ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 17 (3) ◽  
pp. 383-398
Author(s):  
Joseph Francese

The author contends that Leonardo Sciascia's L'affaire Moro is not a work of non-fiction, as Sciascia proposed, but of historical fiction, and that Sciascia's Moro is a literary character, more a spokesperson for Sciascia's political views than a reflection of the historical figure. Sciascia's Moro embodies the same qualities as many of Sciascia's other protagonists, such as a radical individualism and willingness to sacrifice all in order to protect their dignity and liberty. What emanates from the text is a ‘postmodern’ blend that interprets and imposes a narrative hierarchy on events, and conveys a mental reality that need not necessarily coincide with what can be proven with evidence. In fact, Sciascia combines factual information and his own ‘conjectural knowledge’ to convince his reader of the ‘moral truth’ of his argument. Sciascia's is indeed a strong narrative in that it succeeded in shaping how the Italian public views to this day a critical juncture in its recent history.


2017 ◽  
Vol 17 (4) ◽  
pp. 88-101
Author(s):  
Laura Goering

Nostalgia for the foods consumed in childhood is a phenomenon extensively documented by food studies scholars and exploited by marketers around the world. This article traces the evolution of the Soviet children's soft drink Buratino from its origins in the Brezhnev era through a variety of post-Soviet incarnations. The character featured on the label, drawn from A. N. Tolstoy's 1935 book based on Carlo Collodi's Adventures of Pinocchio, is both instantly recognizable and remarkably protean in nature, combining the archetype of the trickster from the original literary text with a more benign representative of Soviet values depicted in a 1975 film adaptation. Using Douglas Holt's premises in his book How Brands Become Icons (2004), I argue that what would seem like an easy transition from literary character to advertising icon is complicated by the limitations of nostalgia-based marketing, changing consumer perceptions, and lack of clarity in trademark law. The article concludes with an analysis of the marketing strategy of the Kazakh company Caspian Beverage Holding, which has been singularly successful in recognizing the potential power of the brand and adapting it to a new, post-Soviet market.


2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (73) ◽  

Feminism is a way of thinking that deals with the pressures, obstacles and difficulties women experience due to their being women, and includes the elimination of these separating attitudes and the struggle of women to be equal with men in all areas of life. The fact that women are not equated with men in social life goes back a long time. The Middle Ages can be defined as a dark age in terms of equality between women and men, as in many other aspects. In this context, it was found important that the majority of those killed during the witch age period in the Middle Ages were women and most of these women were healers who benefited from nature. Witches are defined as a concept in which nature and women are together as the enemy of the patriarchal system. In this article, depictions of women witches increasing in the art of painting following witch courts will be mentioned, the concept of femme fatale into which the image of a witch has transformed, and the paintings of Circe, the femme fatale (the woman who caused disaster), one of the important painters of her time, will be examined in the context of feminism. Waterhouse, one of the painters of the Pre-Raphaelite movement, depicted scenes from different stories, influenced by one of the most common features of the movement, mythological stories and poems. Choosing the most critical scenes of these stories, Waterhouse reinforces the image of a strong, wild woman. Can Circe be a symbol of the Feminine Power in the face of the perceptions and social pressures that are being tried to be destroyed, oppressed, not allowed to be herself, and still continue today? Keywords: Circe, Feminism, Waterhouse, femme fatale


Letras (Lima) ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 92 (135) ◽  
pp. 125-145
Author(s):  
Luz Ainai Morales Pino

Desde un marco de estudios literarios feministas, este trabajo analiza tres textos de distintos momentos del entre siglos latinoamericano: El Conspirador (Autobiografía de un hombre público) (1892), de la escritora peruana Mercedes Cabello de Carbonera; Incurables, de la venezolana Virginia Gil de Hermoso (1905) y La rosa muerta (1914), de la peruana Aurora Cáceres. El objetivo es ahondar en las maneras en que las mujeres de letras del periodo, en medio de sus distancias éticas, estéticas e ideológicas, confrontaron las  construcciones hegemónicas de lo femenino, tanto desde el ideario burgués-liberal que privilegió elmodelo de la madre republicana y el ángel del hogar paradigmático de la virtud doméstica; como desdeel ideario modernista-decadentista masculino, con la idealización del arquetipo de la bella enferma, labella muerta o la femme fatale. Las protagonistas de estas novelas emprenden proyectos de subjetivación que las desmarcan de la condición genérica impuesta al sujeto/objeto femenino con el descarte de la maternidad y el extrañamiento de la domesticidad; al tiempo que convergen en devenir, en su lecho de muerte, variantes de moribundas habladoras cuya elocuencia y agencia las torna en arquetipos contradiscursivos respecto a la silente, inmóvil, pasiva bella enferma celebrada desde el modernismo decadentista.


Fractals ◽  
2007 ◽  
Vol 15 (04) ◽  
pp. 351-363
Author(s):  
J. B. RAMÍREZ-MALO ◽  
M. DOMÍNGUEZ ◽  
F. BELLIDO

In the context of current Narratology, a novel can be regarded as an information generator system. This information can be symbolically and numerically codified and, subsequently, studied by nonlinear characteristic geometrical methods. Using this approach, geometric structures underlying the narrative discourse become evident. In this work, using a particular novel as our experimental data source, a formal expression for a discrete dynamical system is deduced, which generates a representative orbit of the narrative discourse evolution. The fractal dimension of this orbit is calculated from the correlation dimension and its deterministic character is unambiguously proved by solving the associated embedding problem. Finally, we describe the general features that a novel must satisfy in order to apply the proposed procedure.


2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karolina Anna Kulpa

The analysis of the changes in perception of Cleopatra VII Philopator’s image in two- thousand-year reception. The author, discovering subsequent layers of the myth – from a historical figure to the Egyptian Pop Queen – shows that Cleopatra’s image in every historical period depended on current trends. Who was Cleopatra? Was she a godess, a devoted mother, a queen figthing for her state, a ruthless seductress, a monster, an ancien femme fatale, a beauty with the face of Elisabeth Taylor or a woman like many others?


Author(s):  
Anna A. Vasileva

The article is devoted to the peculiarities of the functioning of imperative statements used in various situations of communication. The purpose of the article is to analyze the main imperative constructions in the context of the speech behavior of the linguistic personality of the main character of a literary text. The method of comparative analysis allows identify the features of the functioning of incentive tactics. This article is an overview of the research available in linguistics on issues related to imperativeness. A broad view of the concept of imperative allows to go beyond the established definitions and expand the field of modality of a literary text. The work examines the main semantic groups that clearly characterize the literary character as a linguistic person. The analysis of imperative incentive statements is viewed through the prism of purposeful communicative activity. A variety of means and ways of expressing imperative statements in the speech of the main character provide an opportunity to differentiate semantic nuances. The scientific novelty of the article lies in the fact that for the first time on the material of the modern Russian novel The Geographer Drank His Globe Away by A. Ivanov, the main classes of expression of the semantics of motivation are analyzed. The study identified imperative and non-imperative, but expressing the urge to action, statements, means of lowering the imperative. The lexico-grammatical and syntactic constructions used in the speech of the main character, most common in pedagogical and everyday discourses, are analyzed. The research results are presented as a functional-semantic space.


2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 71-89
Author(s):  
Edilane Abreu Duarte ◽  
Nancy Rita Ferreira Vieira

O artigo em tela é parte da tese de doutoramento em andamento no Programa de Pós-graduação em Literatura e Cultura, da Universidade Federal da Bahia e traz uma abordagem acerca da personificação da mulher bruxa como a representação da metáfora do mal nos contos de fadas tradicionais. Faz-se, para tanto, uma explanação inicial acerca da vinculação da figura da mulher ao mal, especialmente na Idade Média e início da Idade Moderna, no período conhecido como o de “caça às bruxas”, em que as mulheres serviram de bode expiatório às perseguições e mortes. Na construção da imagem da mulher bruxa há, então, a reprodução histórica da dominação sobre o gênero feminino. Personagem que sempre foi repugnada e segregada; imagem negativa que muitas vezes se perpetua sem que sejam desvelados os discursos de poder que provêm da supremacia masculina. A revisão teórica focaliza as teorias relacionadas aos estudos de gênero e de literatura infantil, perpassando pelos aspectos históricos, tais como Bruno Betelheim (1981), Judith Butler (2010), Robert Darnton (1986), Silvia Federici (2017), Michel Foucault (1996), (1999),( 2003), Guacira Louro (1997), Linda Nicholson (2000) e Scott Joan (1995), que dão subsídio à análise da reificação e perpetuação da imagem da mulher bruxa como metáfora do mal.   La bruja en el mundo érase una vez y la reproducción histórica de la dominación feminina El artículo en cuestión forma parte de la tesis doctoral en curso en el Programa de Posgrado en Literatura y Cultura, de la Universidad Federal de Bahía y aporta un acercamiento sobre la personificación de la bruja como la representación de la metáfora del mal en el cuentos de hadas tradicionales. Por tanto, se hace una primera explicación sobre la conexión de la figura de la mujer con el mal, especialmente en la Edad Media y el inicio de la Edad Moderna, en el período conocido como la “caza de brujas”, cuando las mujeres servían de chivo expiatorio. muerte. En la construcción de la imagen de la bruja se encuentra, entonces, la reproducción histórica de la dominación sobre el género femenino. Carácter que siempre ha estado disgustado y segregado; Imagen negativa que muchas veces se perpetúa sin desvelar los discursos de poder que provienen de la supremacía masculina. La revisión teórica se centra en las teorías relacionadas con los estudios de género y la literatura infantil, pasando por los aspectos históricos que sustentan el análisis de la cosificación y perpetuación de la imagen de la bruja como metáfora del mal. Palabras clave: Bruja. Género. Literatura infantil. Mujeres.   The witch woman in the once upon a time world and the historical reproduction of female domination The article in question is part of the doctoral thesis in progress in the Graduate Program in Literature and Culture, at the Federal University of Bahia and brings an approach about the personification of the witch woman as the representation of the metaphor of evil in the tales of traditional fairies. Therefore, an initial explanation is made about the connection of the figure of women to evil, especially in the Middle Ages and the beginning of the Modern Age, in the period known as the “witch hunt”, when women served as scapegoats. persecution and death. In the construction of the image of the witch woman, there is, then, the historical reproduction of domination over the female gender. Character who has always been disgusted and segregated; negative image that is often perpetuated without unveiling the discourses of power that come from male supremacy. The theoretical review focuses on theories related to gender studies and children’s literature, going through the historical aspects that support the analysis of reification and perpetuation of the image of the witch woman as a metaphor for evil. Keywords: Children’s literature. Genre. Witch. Women.


2013 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Gisela Cázares Cerda

Los estereotipos perpetúan los roles que la sociedad ha conferido a las mujeres por ejemplo: vírgenes, madres, diosas, prostitutas, mujeres fatales y víctimas. En el caso del arte, tampoco ha sido ajeno a estas construcciones. A través del arte y sus construcciones visuales, el hombre ha tenido el poder de crear a la mujer imaginada, por tanto, concebir una femineidad que es la imagen de sus deseos más íntimos y sus temores más ocultos. Tal omnipresencia se encuentra en nuestra cultura, y su representación artística va desde la imagen gráfica, hasta el video, pasando antes por el cine narrativo, el cual expone su expresión más compleja y su circulación más amplia.


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