THE “CARTAS PORTUGUESAS” (PORTUGUESE LETTERS) AND THE TRADITION OF THE “UNREQUITED LOVE" IN THE PORTUGUESE LITERATURE OF FEMALE VOICE

Inserted in the perspective of literary studies, this paper proposes an analysis of the “Cartas Portuguesas” (Portuguese Letters), a work attributed to Mariana Alcoforado, assuming that this work is constituted within the Lusitanian literature as an important formative element of the imaginary loving Portuguese female voice. Through the study, it is possible to identify the fact that the letters are prefaced, stylistically or thematically, by the songs of love and of friend, and succeeded by works such as “Livro de Sóror Saudade” (Book of Longing Sóror), of Florbela Espanca, and “Novas Cartas Portuguesas” (New Portuguese Letters) by Maria Isabel Barreno, Maria Velho da Costa and Maria Teresa Horta.

THE POETRY OF HELENA KOLODY IN THE PARANÁ LITERATURE CONTEXT

Helena Kolody is a Brazilian poet, daughter of Ukrainian emigrants and was born on October 12th, 1912, in Cruz Machado, state of Paraná. Died on 14th February, 2004, in Curitiba, PR. With twelve published books, a lot of anthologies and complete works, Kolody while realizes a poetic “doing”, looks for the synthesis of her production. She chooses synthetic form poems such as: distiches, tercets, quartets, ephigrams, “tankas and haicais” (Japanese poetry). The recurrent themes into the Kolody’s lyric are: the time; the loneliness; the memory; the transitority; the permanency; the double; the travel among others. The “kolodiana’s work” shows themes and images that contribute to propose (re) significations in Paraná Literature context.

The Case of the Demon Child in The Romance Wuthering Heights: Perspectives on Evil Literature

This article points out possibilities of reading from the studies related to childhood and the notion of evil in literature. The debate was possible from two paths: a) reading the novel The Wuthering Heights, the British writer Emily Brontë (2007); b) the analytical study done about evil in the literature based on the lessons of the Post Graduate in Arts, Federal University of Ceará. The work seeks to articulate demonic aspects of the child, especially those seen in the character Heathcliff able to approach it from the perspective of evil discussed by Ricoeur (1988) and Bataille (1989). Hopefully the text enables a systematic analysis of evil and how it presents in childhood of some characters.