A donzela-guerreira na literatura: um olhar semiótico sobre o processo de mitificação da personagem histórica

• Ano de defesa: 2022
• Autor(a) principal: Almeida, Rossana Tavares de
• Tipo de documento: Tese
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Universidade Federal da Paraíba; Brasil; Letras; Programa de Pós-Graduação em Letras; UFPB
• Palavras-chave em Português: Heroicização/Mitificação; Joana d’Arc; Representação literária; Mythification; Joan of Arc; Literary representation; Jeanne d'Arc; Représentation littéraire; CNPQ::LINGUISTICA, LETRAS E ARTES::LETRAS
• Link de acesso: https://repositorio.ufpb.br/jspui/handle/123456789/23347

We call heroicization or mythification the process of transformation of a historical character into a mythified character, in which historical facts are re-signified through various discursive genres over the years, making it difficult to distinguish between myth and history. Taking literary criticism on the Warrior Maiden as a direction, the mythical character studied was Joan of Arc. The study started with the following question: How is the mythical image of Joan of Arc represented in the works studied? Our hypothesis is that the process of heroicization/mythification of the historical character into a literary character starts from the already solidified myth, that is, it is inspired by the representation already existing in the popular imagination. The theoretical basis used in this study was the Semiotics of Cultures (RASTIER,2010; PAIS, 1993), which analysis methodology is interpretative, historical and comparative, complemented with Greimasian Semiotics, which focuses on the analysis of the path of signification present in the texts. Thus, the objective of this work was to study the semiotic aspects of the myth of the Warrior Maiden in the process of mythification of the historical character Joan of Arc and to verify, specifically, how Joan of Arc is represented in literary language, observing the value systems present in the studied corpus and the thematic roles assumed by the French heroine, considering the context of the social practice that generated the myth, which was the Hundred Years' War. The process of mythification of this historical character was studied through the interpretative analysis of the following works: A vida de Joana d'Arc, by Érico Veríssimo (1978); Joana d'Arc e suas batalhas, by Phil Robins (2010); A vida fabulosa de Joana d'Arc, by Patricia Deps (2020); and Joana d'Arc, by Tony DiGerolamo (2010). The study enabled us to conclude that Joan of Arc meets the requirements of the Warrior Maiden paradigm. Moreover, the mythical image present in the corpus brings thematic roles already commonly attributed to Joan of Arc (saint, maiden, warrior, and witch) and moves from a literature to an ethno-literature, by exploring the mythified image of a historical character and enabling various interpretive readings without losing her mythical status.