RT info:eu-repo/semantics/masterThesis T1 “Monstrous and Atrocious: Defiance and Resistance in the Female Protagonists of Machado de Assis’s Dom Casmurro and Sheridan Le Fanu’s Carmilla” A1 Silva Carvalho, Edymara da A2 Universidad de Valladolid. Facultad de Filosofía y Letras K1 Female monsters K1 Dom Casmurro K1 Femenino-monstruoso K1 5701.11 Enseñanza de Lenguas AB The female monster/atrocious belle stereotype in literature is a figure that crosses socialboundaries and embodies the mystery and the threat of a concealed identity. The presentmaster’s thesis intends to probe into the monstrous feminine image in two novels from similarperiods, yet clearly disparate literary traditions and languages: Machado de Assis’ DomCasmurro and Sheridan Le Fanu’s Carmilla. More particularly, we will analyze their twopowerful female protagonists, respectively Capitú and the vampiric Carmilla: both powerfulyet strikingly oblique in terms of their narrative presentation. The two characters refer us tothe social construction of woman as an evil, monstrous creature, which a feminist readingcannot but associate to the transgressive power of the adulterous beauty and the lesbianvampire imageries. In the light of such contemporary but also legitimate reading our researchwill attempt to show that the monstrous feminine stereotype, while born from age-old myths,can be interpreted as a contemporary symbol of resistance. YR 2019 FD 2019 LK http://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/39889 UL http://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/39889 LA eng NO Departamento de Filología Inglesa DS UVaDOC RD 28-mar-2024