A medonha imagem do homem: ciência e monstruosidade em Frankenstein

• Ano de defesa: 2016
• Autor(a) principal: Silva, Mayara Cristina Bignani [UNIFESP]
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Universidade Federal de São Paulo (UNIFESP)
• Palavras-chave em Português: Frankenstein; doppelgänger; myth; antiscientificism; gothic literature; duplo; mito; anticientificismo; literatura gótica
• Link de acesso: https://sucupira.capes.gov.br/sucupira/public/consultas/coleta/trabalhoConclusao/viewTrabalhoConclusao.jsf?popup=true&id_trabalho=3995564; https://repositorio.unifesp.br/handle/11600/46855

This Master?s thesis aims to analyze, in view of the fantastic theory, more precisely in its Gothic theoretical aspect, the novel Frankenstein or The Modern Prometheus (1818), by Mary Shelley. Theoretical frameworks stem from the studies of Todorov (1970/2014), Furtado (1980), Kilgour (1995), Botting (1996), Fisher (2002), Punter (2004/2012) and Roas (2014) in relation to fantastic, gothic and narrative procedures, as well as the writings of Freud (1919/1930), Rank (1925/2013), Rosset (1985/2008) and Ceserani (2006) on the concept of the Doppelgänger and, finally, Paes (1985) and Gonçalves Neto (2011) in relation to myth. This Gothic novel presents conflicting and scattered characters in nature, bearing internal issues and establishes connections between those characters and their respective Doppelgängers. In this way, this analytical-interpretative research, following the Gothic as a theoretical stance, aims to analyze, through the Doppelgängers and the monstrosity present in Frankenstein, in what ways the novel seems to be grounded on a critique related to the pursuit of a subjective expression, which, in turn, was suppressed by the scientific and rational discourse tributary from the 18th- century Enlightenment and still somewhat recurrent in 19th-century literature. It should be pointed out that this novel thus presents an antiscientific theme, which relates to a moment of debate, questionings and pieces of criticism against the scientific and rational preponderancy, strongly present in the 19th century and which the narrative seems to be opposed to, as a representative of the Gothic.