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Universidade Federal Do Rio Grande Do Norte Centro De Ciências Humanas, Letras E Artes Programa De Pós-graduação Em Estudos Da Linguagem

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Author	Vieira, Antônio Lázaro Júnior, Barbosa
Copyright Year	2014
Abstract	The mirror has always been related to different sym bols, usually connected to self-knowledge and truth. This is due to the fact that this object shows whoever looks oneself in it an image as close to reality as it is possible. On the other ha nd, the mirror is also associated to mysticism and to the supernatural for it can magically duplic ate one who looks into it. This ambiguous characteristic turns the mirror into an element tha t is fantastic in itself and places it in the central position of our discussion. Therefore, in t his study, we analyze the texts In a Glass Darkly, by Agatha Christie, The Oval Portrait , by Edgar Allan Poe, and The Picture of Dorian Gray, by Oscar Wilde, giving special attention to the s tudy of the images and artificial representations of men: the mirror, as an ephemeral r presentation; and the portrait, as an attempt to eternize an ephemeral image. We also dis cuss themes such as jealousy, the double, and death in the several forms in which it appears in the texts: suicides, homicides, attempted murders, death in life (mourning, separation, and d evelopmental phases) all of which are, somehow, related to the specular representations. T he narrative resource of using a mirror to introduce the supernatural event, along with the th eme of death in all the narratives we have studied, and the difficulty to place these texts wi thin the pre-established genres led us to categorize them as being part of a hybrid genre tha t presents characteristics both of the fantastic and of the detective story which we have named fantastic-detective story. Key-words: fantastic-detective story, specular imag e, death, the double.
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