O ETHOS DISCURSIVO DE PERSONAGENS FEMININAS: DOIS ROMANCES E DUAS LETRAS DE MÚSICA.

Abstract

In this work we evaluate the feminine ethe from the view of the self and of the other which pervade the novels São Bernardo and Luzia-Homem and the songs Garota de Ipanema and Quero te dar . Our approach is supported by the French line of research based on the theoretician Dominique Maingueneau of Discourse Analysis. Furthermore, we have established a dialogue with other theoreticians in Brazil who adopt Maingueneau´s ideas. An investigation of the feminine ethos present in the XIX, XX and XXI centuries was required since the novels and songs we evaluate here are products of these periods, respectively. The work História da Mulher no Brasil was used as a theoretical support of the social experience of the Brazilian women, mainly between the XIX and XX centuries. We evaluate the masculine domination and understand the situation of the woman in this context and the meaning of her ethos from the view of Bordieu´s symbolic power. In the last part of this work, we discuss the features present in a work of art which distinguish it from a product of cultural industry. The concepts formulated by Walter Benjamin, Theodor Adorno, Max Horkheimer and Gilles Lypovetsky and Jean Serroy were adopted in this last part. These authors, as well as Maingueneau, have given support, predominantly, to the analysis of the conflicts experienced by the female characters in the lyrics of the songs studied in this work: the first song is presented by the voice of the poetic self; the second one, by the voice that takes on the formulation of its own discourse.