Analogy between the socio-cultural thematic of Macunaíma and the Tarsila do Amaral’s paintings: a possibility of broaden the senses of literary texts

This research seeks establishing relationships between the socio-cultural theme of Macunaíma and the some paintings by Tarsila do Amaral bringing reflections to literature teaching to suggest the seek to broaden the sense of literary texts. We will discuss the literature importance at school according to what is to predicted in the Diretrizes Curriculares de Língua Portuguesa. Research is based  on the notions of intertextuality by Bakhtin (2003),  on the postulates by Etienne Souriau (1983), on the criticism by Candido (2006) on the Reception Aesthetics, by Jauss (2002), Iser (1999) and on the writings by Bordini and Aguiar (1993).

Adultery as possibility of to enunciate feminisms: Emma Bovary and Molly Bloom

This study presents a brief analysis of "Molly's Monologue", present in Ulysses, by James Joyce, seeking him embryos of a feminist discourse, by questioning the role of women in society, and possible relationships between the characters Molly and Emma Bovary , at the novel Madame Bovary, by Gustave Flaubert, as well the crucial role of reading for adultery of  these characters (we interpret this adultery as a way of questioning the female´s role in society).