EXPERIENCE AND HISTORY IN EDMUND WHITE, BERNARDO CARVALHO AND MILTON HATOUM’S NARRATIVES

This article is a comparative study of three fictionists: Edmund White, Bernardo Carvalho and Milton Hatoum. We focus on the concepts of experience to investigate some modes of fictional constructions that allows us to say that a singular panorama of contemporary prose can be seen in a horizon where autobiography and history are key issues in the three authour’s poetics. Therefore literary theory will help us find theoretical paths towards what we name a poetics of mobility and closure at work in the fiction of these authours. Walter Benjamin, Phillipe Lejeune, Beatriz Sarlo and Jeanne Marie Gagnebin, amongst other thinkers, will guide theoretically our study.

Initial training of Portuguese teachers for Speakers of Other Languages at UTFPR-CT: integrating theory and classroom practice

The purpose of this article is to analyze the initial training of foreign language teachers within an extension project, whose goal is to promote teaching Portuguese for Speakers of Other Languages ​​(PFOL) in the Federal  University of Technology- Paraná ( UTFPR), Curitiba Campus. Thus, a brief history about the activities developed in the program  will be presented as well as its relevance within the university. Also, an analysis of the program and its current status within the Language and Literature undergraduate course - UTFPR will be discussed. Finally, concepts of reflective teaching  (Perrenoud, 2002) and  teaching based on the indissociation between practice and theory (GIMENEZ, 2005) will be brought up.