The ironies of love: ironical dialogues in Mary Shelley - Biopic (2017)

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https://doi.org/10.5380/rvx.v19i3.94309

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This paper aims at analyzing an ironical dialogue in Mary Shelley biopic (2017), concerning her husband Percy Shelley and herself. Under the perspective of Critical Discourse Analysis by Fairclough (1992) and his three dimensional conception of discourse, we analyze how the ironies occur in this dialogue, considering text, discursive practice and social practice and categorizing irony according to Muecke (2001): Irony as a Rhetorical Enforcement; Irony as Analogy; Irony of Events; Comic Irony; and Double Irony. We assume that irony is a figure of speech applied by the characters once they are well-known people from literature and the filmmaker enters not only as a director, but also as the manipulator behind the movie plot. However, we could also note that the dialogue is based on the topic of masculine domination by Bourdieu (2002).

KEYWORDS: Critical Discourse Analysis; Mary Shelley; Irony; Biopic.

Author Biographies

Thânya dos Santos Araujo, Universidade Federal do Piauí (UFPI), Teresina, Piauí

Mestra em Comunicação - UFPI

Graduada em Letras/ Inglês - UESPI

Lívia Fernanda Nery da Silva, Universidade Federal do Piauí (UFPI), Teresina, Piauí

Possui graduação em LICENCIATURA PLENA EM LINGUA INGLESA pela Universidade Estadual do Piauí (1994), mestrado em Educação pela Universidade Federal do Piauí (2005) e doutorado em Ciências da Comunicação pela Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos (2013). Atualmente é professora Associada I da Universidade Federal do Piauí. Tem experiência na área de Educação e Comunicação, com ênfase em Educação, mídias, EaD e processos de ensino e aprendizagem digitais.

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2024-08-09

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Araujo, T. dos S., & da Silva, L. F. N. (2024). The ironies of love: ironical dialogues in Mary Shelley - Biopic (2017). Revista X, 19(3), 585–600. https://doi.org/10.5380/rvx.v19i3.94309

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Vol. 19 No. 3 (2024): Dossiê Atemático - Estudos Linguísticos e Literários

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Dossiê Atemático - volume 19, nº 2, 2024

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