The educational role of literature

This article discusses the educational role of literature, looking for parallels between the theories of Plato (428/427–348/347 a.C.), Aristotle (384–322 a.C.), Antonio Candido (1918), Hans Robert Jaus (1921–1997) and Umberto Eco (1932). It ultimately sees the educational role as a synthesis of roles ascribed to literature from classical Antiquity to the present, since ultimately they converge towards the same point, viz. human education on the basis of the multiple elements that make up the aesthetic object.

VOZ POÉTICA FEMININA NA ERA BLOG: "OS CASOS DA MARIA CLARA"

ABSTRACT: This article talks about the female contemporary poetry, specifically in the era of blogs. It explores the idea that female poetry, in the contemporary production, surpasses the value of phallocentric tradition and religious mysticism that previously contributed to suffocate voices, referring women, as for their practices of reading and writing, the expansion of a silent poetry. This text develops some elements of the current female creation, placing poetry written by women in the virtual world defined by the diversity of environment, theme and languages. Thus, this paper presents data from a literary experience on the internet by twelve writers from all over Brazil. They differ in their professional and educational daily practices. Once the article discusses the multiplicity of forms of contemporary poetics on feminine writing production, it presents the case study “Maria Clara: universos femininos” - a collection born in a new genre and context -, in the realm of gender and poetry. KEYWORKS: Gender and poetry. Era blog. Maria Clara: uniVersos femininos.

UM OLHAR SOBRE A INFÂNCIA EM ABRIL DESPEDAÇADO

Este artigo visa – seguindo-se um viés de análise e um referencial teórico preponderantemente sociológicos – tecer algumas considerações acerca da visão que pairava sobre a infância e sobre os filhos, na sociedade patriarcal brasileira, tomando como objeto de análise o filme Abril despedaçado, dirigido por Walter Salles, e as obras literárias Infância e Vidas secas, de Graciliano Ramos. O fio condutor do filme parte da perspectiva infantil, pois é o Menino que conta a história de violência que permeia as relações entre sua família e a família vizinha. Também Infância – livro memorialista – é narrado sob a ótica infantil, embora o narrador seja adulto. No romance Vidas secas, os filhos do casal sertanejo protagonizam dois capítulos intermediários e nem sequer são nomeados, o que aponta para a massificação dos demais indivíduos da família em detrimento do poder do pater famílias. Evidencia-se, a partir disso, que, as três produções retratam universos sociais e familiares centrados nas arcaicas relações patriarcais, que nelas, as crianças – e também os filhos já adultos – são desconsideradas, reprimidas e até hostilizadas, com vistas à manutenção da ordem. No filme, nota-se que os pais, à luz da tradição, exercem sobre os filhos o poder de vida e de morte, ou seja, os filhos, na luta pela posse das terras, têm de responder com a própria vida, para que a honra e a autoridade patriarcais sejam mantidas soberanamente. O único momento em que os filhos ganham status e identidade é quando, ao serem mortos em nome da honra dos pais e da família, suas fotografias são entronizadas na galeria dos antepassados, recebem vela votiva, e passam a ser cultuados e sacralizados.

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).

ORDER AND DISORDER: THE DIALECTIC OF TRICKERY IN "OSCARINA"

Marques Rebelo adopts the suburban areas of the city of Rio de Janeiro as a privileged space to situate his narratives, choosing individuals who represent the lower classes of society as characters. These characters, given the precarious nature of their condition, living in border situation between order and disorder, oscillate between hope and disillusion, sometimes glimpsing the remote possibility of upward mobility, now threatened by the fear of poverty and marginality. By doing this, the writer puts into scene two different social worlds living side by side and peacefully: those who seek to live according to the values ​​of the bourgeois social order and those who transgress the laws and moral principles and live by artifices and illegal means. This article examines some aspects of the short story "Oscarina", trying to understand how the worlds of order and disorder, or work and trickery are configured in narrative form through the trajectory of the character Jorge, the protagonist of the story. We seek to demonstrate that the boundaries between the two supposedly antagonistic universes are eventually diluted by the movement of the protagonist, who moves between the two spaces, which communicate and intertwined dialectically.

THE MORE YOU LOOK, THE LESS YOU SEE: MOACYR SCLIAR’S MAX AND THE CATS AND YANN MARTEL’S LIFE OF PI

  Abstract: The release of Ang Lee’s Life of Pi (2012) brought the polemics involving Yann Martel’s Life of Pi and Moacyr Scliar’s Max and the Cats back to the limelight. In this context, this article aims at tracing parallels and showing differences between Max and the Cats and Life of Pi, focusing on the relationships between both texts and the discussion raised by these apparent similarities. Plagiarism concepts are presented and clarified and plagiarism and copyright infringement allegations on Martel’s part are rejected. The article also investigates the reasons why plagiarism allegations might have been raised.