Clinicopathological analysis of head and neck chondrosarcoma: three case reports and literature review

Chondrosarcoma (CHS) is a malignant neoplasm characterized by the formation of cartilaginous matrix by neoplastic cells, with a high propensity for local recurrences. Head and neck CHS is rare, accounting for less than 12% of all cases of CHS, usually affecting the maxilla. The majority of affected patients are in the fourth decade of life, with a slight predilection for male patients. A painless swelling is commonly the most frequent complaint. Surgery with wide en-bloc resection is the preferred treatment for CHS; radiotherapy and chemotherapy are usually palliative options. Owing to its rarity, there are few clinical series evaluating the biological behaviour of head and neck CHS. The aim of this study is to analyse the clinicopathological characteristics of head and neck CHS by reporting 3 new cases of this neoplasia affecting the jaw bones and reviewing the clinical series previously published in the English literature.

The Magic Toyshop: A narrativa imagética como processo de recriação

Because it belongs to a cultural practice, the adaptation of a novel into a feature film will always exist within a context and, for being subject to changes, corresponding modifications in the political sphere and even variations in the meaning of the story may occur. This seems to be precisely the result of the transformation of Angela Carter's second novel, The Magic Toyshop, into the homonymous film, directed by David Whealtey in 1987. Removed from the context of the book's production and publication, a crucial period of questioning about the importance of women in society and culture, the plot created by the English author in the sixties, rewritten two decades later, with the author herself as the script writer, seems to have acquired another meaning during this time. Although the film maintains the same plot of the novel, the political engagement visibly present in the narrative, namely Carter's critical stance about the model of patriarchal society, seems to lose its strength, highlighting now its fantastic character. Briefly discussing issues such as loyalty and betrayal of one gender to another, we seek in this paper to observe the film, based on the re-writers perspective, in other words, the prospects of both writer and director, as a process of rebuilding the story. In this dialogue, the script was also used as an intertext for a better understanding of this process.

Tradição e modernidade em O Senhor dos Anéis

Pós-graduação em Ciências Sociais - FFC

Frankenstein: uma releitura do mito de criação

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES)

As manifestações do gótico em Lovecraft: do Castelo de Otranto ao solar de Ward

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES)

Epigramas de Marcial traduzidos por José Feliciano de Castilho: edição, notas e comentários

Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP)

A caracterização do feminino em The Silmarillion, de J. R. R. Tolkien

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES)

Confinamento e vastidão: a representação feminina e a subversão em The magic toyshop

Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP)

Heroínas e Vilões: os símbolos na obra Heroes and Villains de Angela Carter

Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP)

O vôo da trapezista alada: uma leitura da trajetória de Fevvers em Noites no circo de Angela Carter

Pós-graduação em Letras - FCLAS

Conduzir o banquete da vida: a presença feminina na obra de Muriel Spark

Pós-graduação em Letras - FCLAS

A independência das adapatações cinematográficas: uma análise de Amor Obsessivo (2004) e Desejo e Reparação (2007)

Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP)

Sparkianas texto adentro: narrativa e relações humanas nos contos de Muriel Spark (1918-2006)

Pós-graduação em Letras - FCLAS

Romance Negro de Rubem Fonseca: conto fantástico ou narrativa policial?

Este artigo analisa o conto Romance Negro, de Rubem Fonseca, a partir do duplo sentido que o autor dá à expressão roman noir, a qual remete, em literatura, seja ao gênero que se desenvolveu no pré-romantismo inglês da segunda metade do século XVIII, seja a um tipo de romance policial americano do século XX chamado de noir. Aproveitando essa dualidade do termo, o autor cria uma narrativa híbrida ao mesclar dois gêneros: o romance gótico e a narrativa policial.

A identidade feminina em The Magic Toyshop: estudos de gênero no texto e na tela

Besides producing a vast literary work, Angela Carter (1940-1992) participated of the screenplay’s production for two movies based on her books, The Company of Wolves and The Magic Toyshop. Either through the influence that cinema had in her life or through the very own style of her writing, the relation of the British author with the seventh art is visible. Considering the importance of significations in literary works, this paper proposes a comparative study between Angela Carter’s The Magic Toyshop (1967) and the film of the same title, based on Carter’s novel, directed by David Wheatley and produced by Granada Television, in 1987. Based on Tania Carvalhal’s conception about intertextuality and film theories, the focus of this paper is the gender study, since its ideology is subscribed, represented and reproduced in every cultural practice, including literature and cinema. The characters construction in both cases, especially the female characters, is filled with symbols which are going to bring the film closer to the literary work and contribute to express the critics suggested in the work’s leading: the complaint to the patriarchal system. However, given the different nature of each work, it is necessary to stress that this present comparison doesn’t intend to establish a total identification between novel and film, but to set a dialogue between both, observing the approximation and distance of these two instances.