The function of the characters in the novels of Menis Koumantareas

Doctoral Dissertation uoadl:1506479 769 Read counter

Unit:
Κατεύθυνση Νεοελληνική Φιλολογία
Library of the School of Philosophy
Deposit date:
2016-11-28
Year:
2016
Author:
Gkatsi Grigoria
Dissertation committee:
Θανάσης Αγάθος, Eπίκουρος Καθηγητής Νεοελληνικής Φιλολογίας, Τμήμα Φιλολογίας, Φιλοσοφική Σχολή ΕΚΠΑ
Ερασμία Σταυροπούλου, Καθηγήτρια Νεοελληνικής Φιλολογίας, Τμήμα Φιλολογίας, Φιλοσοφική Σχολή ΕΚΠΑ
Άννα Χρυσογέλου-Κατσή, Αναπληρώτρια Καθηγήτρια Νεοελληνικής Φιλολογίας, Τμήμα Φιλολογίας, Φιλοσοφική Σχολή ΕΚΠΑ
Original Title:
Η λειτουργία των χαρακτήρων στα μυθιστορήματα του Μένη Κουμανταρέα
Languages:
Greek
Translated title:
The function of the characters in the novels of Menis Koumantareas
Summary:
This thesis focuses on the study of literary characters in the novels of Menis Koumantareas, one of the greatest Greek postwar authors. The aim of the thesis is to study the positions, the relationships and the gender roles through the comparison of male and female characters and to highlight the gender identity issues through the theoretical axis of Cultural Studies and particularly of Gender Studies. Each chapter includes information regarding the case, the title, the structure, the thematic motifs, the narrative techniques and the critical intake of each novel and then examined the main male and female characters and exported outcomes. Through detailed comparisons of all tested male and female characters depending on their age, their marital status and address of the marriage of their terms, their educational level, their social background, their politicization and professional occupation demonstrated subtle nuances of gender relations and noted that the literary characters of Koumantareas are "complex antiheroes", whose main characteristics are the decay and the fall. In addition, a thorough study of the characters concludes that Menis Koumantareas rejects the positions facing sex as a natural fact and embrace the views on gender as construction. In terms of gender studies, the author adopts the constructivist approach and he captures the relationship between man and woman subversive.
Main subject category:
Byzantine and Modern Greek literature
Keywords:
characters, gender studies, antihero, constructivism, cultural Studies
Index:
Yes
Number of index pages:
485-491
Contains images:
No
Number of references:
240
Number of pages:
491
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