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Bugio Bonito Batista Cheira, Alexandra Isabel
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- “A miscegenated metamorphosis under glass”: O vidro como metáfora do equilíbrio entre princípios opostos nos contos “The Glass Coffin” e “Cold” de A. S. ByattPublication . Cheira, Alexandra Isabel Bugio Bonito Batista, 1972-Este ensaio analisa dois contos de encantar de A. S. Byatt, “The Glass Coffin” e “Cold”, a partir de um motivo narrativo encontrado em muitos contos deste subgénero literário: o vidro. Antes da análise deste motivo nos dois contos em apreço, será feita uma breve contextualização histórica de dois tipos de narradoras presentes na tradição literária do conto de encantar, de modo a situar A. S. Byatt nesta tradição e a examinar o modo como incorpora algumas das suas lições nestes contos. A discussão da simbologia do vidro nos textos em análise será feita em articulação com o estudo Victorian Glassworlds: Glass Culture and the Imagination 1830–1880, de Isobel Armstrong, que examina o vidro enquanto material antitético em vários contos de encantar.
- Cultural memory in contemporary fiction: F. R. Leavis’s and Matthew Arnold’s intellectual presence in A. S. Byatt’s workPublication . Cheira, Alexandra Isabel Bugio Bonito Batista, 1972-The concept of “cultural memory” serves as the foundation for this article, which explains the complex relationships between two prominent figures in the history of English letters, Matthew Arnold and F. R. Leavis, as well as how A. S. Byatt’s own work was influenced by their combined, though occasionally diametrically opposed, approaches to literature, culture, and criticism. As a result, this article begins with a discussion of the conflictual continuity and/or sustained ambivalence in Byatt’s critique of Leavisite criticism. It does this by first looking into Leavis’s position within the larger literary criticism context and then focusing on how Leavisite criticism fits into Byatt’s critical thought. Thus, Byatt’s assertion that Leavis made English literature the focal point of university education is examined by first looking into Leavis’s Cambridge. Lastly, Byatt’s criticism of Leavis’s idea of English studies is looked into in the context of critical evaluations of English literature’s place in higher education, at the same time that Byatt’s work is used as a prism to analyse the Arnoldian matrix of the Leavisite concept of “moral seriousness”. Afterward, Byatt’s critical work is critically examined in the framework of culture, society, and literature, continuing Arnold’s legacy.