Female empowerment through death: Women's journey from subalternity to self-realization in Poe's Gothic tales

Del Pozo Muñoz, María

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Female empowerment through death: Women's journey from subalternity to self-realization in Poe's Gothic tales

dc.contributor.advisor	Llorens Cubedo, Didac
dc.contributor.author	Del Pozo Muñoz, María
dc.date.accessioned	2025-07-21T14:38:38Z
dc.date.available	2025-07-21T14:38:38Z
dc.date.issued	2025-06
dc.description.abstract	Due to his exploitation of the theme of female death, Edgar Allan Poe has often been branded a misogynist and a supporter of the patriarchal ideology that dominated the first half of nineteenth-century America. However, an alternative reading of Poe's gothic tales might reveal quite the opposite: a deeply tormented and frustrated man who empathized with the female subaltern and who found in literature an incendiary platform to channel a harsh social critique against the discrimination and denigration suffered by contemporary women. Therefore, in order to debunk traditionally held perspectives on Poe, the primary aim of this study will be to analyze how the author portrayed the dialectical conflict that conditioned gender relationships in his contemporary society, by redefining death as a virgin space for female self-transformation and a place for women to reclaim their long deprived agency and to gain empowerment. Therefore, the present dissertation aims to explore Poe's gothic heroines' transitional journey from submission to full self-realization, by exploring the detrimental and castrating effects that the legitimate patriarchal discourse had on both women and men.	en
dc.identifier.citation	Del Pozo Muñoz, María. Trabajo fin de Máster: "Female empowerment through death: Women's journey from subalternity to self-realization in Poe's gothic tales". Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (UNED), 2025
dc.identifier.uri	https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14468/29619
dc.language.iso	en
dc.relation.center	Facultad de Filología
dc.relation.degree	Máster universitario en Estudios Literarios y Culturales Ingleses y su Proyección Social y Cultural
dc.relation.department	Filologías Extranjeras y sus Lingüísticas
dc.rights	info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
dc.rights.uri	Atribución-NoComercial-SinDerivadas 4.0 Internacional
dc.subject	6301.09 Sociología de la literatura
dc.subject	6202 Teoría, análisis y crítica literarias
dc.subject.keywords	death	en
dc.subject.keywords	doppelganger	en
dc.subject.keywords	Edgar Allan Poe	en
dc.subject.keywords	female empowerment	en
dc.subject.keywords	subaltern	en
dc.title	Female empowerment through death: Women's journey from subalternity to self-realization in Poe's Gothic tales	en
dc.type	tesis de maestría	es
dc.type	master thesis	en
dspace.entity.type	Publication