Los objetos en varios cuentos de Humberto Salvador (Dossier: Cuatro narradores del 30, relecturas en su centenario)

El autor revisa La navaja y otros cuentos, de Humberto Salvador. Son narraciones cortas de temática urbana, que critican las desigualdades y la deshumanización de la sociedad modernizada. Objetos diversos (navajas, linternas, autos, etc.) funcionan, metafóricamente, en oposición a esa deshumanización y el aislamiento, generándose con la violencia al menos un vínculo entre los seres humanos. Las relaciones entre las clases sociales altas y los individuos marginales –cuyas posibilidades de resistencia individual o de venganza recaen siempre en el azar–, resultan sombrías. Relatos altamente connotativos, de finales abiertos y cargados de sorpresa, mantienen un tono lúdico y esperanzado pese a su carga de denuncia social. El autor presenta a Salvador no solo como un compañero del vanguardista Pablo Palacio, sino como un precursor en el uso de ciertas nociones de la nueva narrativa en el país.

"Ella", de Juan Carlos Onetti. Necrofilia y ficción (Homenaje)

La autora reflexiona sobre el relato “Ella”, del uruguayo Juan Carlos Onetti, y sobre otras representaciones de la muerte de Eva Perón, escritas por Jorge Luis Borges, David Viñas y Néstor Perlongher. Afirma que en la Argentina de Perón ya confluían realidad y ficción, y que las múltiples biografías de Eva serían “un duelo de versiones narrativas entre la ficción y la historia o, si se prefiere, una metáfora de la historia”. Rosano plantea que, en los textos revisados, es la realidad la que adopta contornos fantasmagóricos, disparados por motivos diversos: la descomposición y el tópico del mal olor, la impostura del cuerpo embalsamado y del mandatario, el entrelazamiento entre lo político y lo sexual en la escena del velorio, la imagen de Eva, “una diosa que muestra sus encajes de novia de suburbio” pero también una siniestra y doliente “zombi escarlata”. Señala, finalmente, que los textos muestran a los fieles, esos “miles de necrófilos murmurantes y enlutados”, sometidos a la potencia del mito.

Changes in the extent of glaciers in the Eastern Terskey Alatoo, the Central Tien-Shan, in response to climatic fluctuations in between the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 21st century

Changes in the extent of glaciers and rates of glacier termini retreat in the eastern Terskey-Alatoo Range, the Tien Shan Mountains, Central Asia have been evaluated using the remote sensing techniques. Changes in the extent of 335 glaciers between the end of the Little Ice Age (LIA; mid-19th century), 1990 and 2003 have been estimated through the delineation of glacier outlines and the LIA moraine positions on the Landsat TM and ASTER imagery for 1990 and 2003 respectively. By 2003, the glacier surface area had decreased by 19% of the LIA value, which constitutes a 76 km(2) reduction in glacier surface area. Mapping of 109 glaciers using the 1965 1:25,000 maps revealed that glacier surface area decreased by 12.6% of the 1965 value between 1965 and 2003. Detailed mapping of 10 glaciers using historical maps and aerial photographs from the 1943-1977 period, has enabled glacier extent variations over the 20th century to be identified with a higher temporal resolution. Glacial retreat was slow in the early 20th century but increased considerably between 1943 and 1956 and then again after 1977. The post-1990 period has been marked by the most rapid glacier retreat since the end of the LIA. The observed changes in the extent of glaciers are in line with the observed climatic warming. The regional weather stations have revealed a strong climatic warming during the ablation season since the 1950s at a rate of 0.02-0.03 degrees Ca-1. At the higher elevations in the study area represented by the Tien Shan meteorological station, the summer warming was accompanied by negative anomalies in annual precipitation in the 1990s enhancing glacier retreat. However, trends in precipitation in the post-1997 period cannot be evaluated due to the change in observational practices at this station. Neither station in the study area exhibits significant long-term trends in precipitation. Crown Copyright (C) 2009 Published by Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

What influence will future solar activity changes over the 21st century have on projected global near-surface temperature changes?

During the 20th century, solar activity increased in magnitude to a so-called grand maximum. It is probable that this high level of solar activity is at or near its end. It is of great interest whether any future reduction in solar activity could have a significant impact on climate that could partially offset the projected anthropogenic warming. Observations and reconstructions of solar activity over the last 9000 years are used as a constraint on possible future variations to produce probability distributions of total solar irradiance over the next 100 years. Using this information, with a simple climate model, we present results of the potential implications for future projections of climate on decadal to multidecadal timescales. Using one of the most recent reconstructions of historic total solar irradiance, the likely reduction in the warming by 2100 is found to be between 0.06 and 0.1 K, a very small fraction of the projected anthropogenic warming. However, if past total solar irradiance variations are larger and climate models substantially underestimate the response to solar variations, then there is a potential for a reduction in solar activity to mitigate a small proportion of the future warming, a scenario we cannot totally rule out. While the Sun is not expected to provide substantial delays in the time to reach critical temperature thresholds, any small delays it might provide are likely to be greater for lower anthropogenic emissions scenarios than for higher-emissions scenarios.

The economic development of Latin America in the twentieth century

Includes bibliography

Teixeira e Sousa e o romance-folhetim: uma leitura de O filho do pescador (1843)

Pós-graduação em Letras - FCLAS

A intertextualidade pós-moderna de Agora é que são Elas

Pós-graduação em Letras - FCLAS

Indivisíveis, intangíveis, impossíveis: mundos ficcionais em I nostri antenati, de Italo Calvino

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES)

A ironia nas Terceiras estórias: Tutaméia

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

Amazônia revisitada: de Carvajal a Márcio Souza

Pós-graduação em Letras - IBILCE

História da educação e literatura: possibilidades de relações

In the last decades of the 20th Century, the History of the Education, as well as that of Mathematical Education have used the background of the New History and Cultural History. It has changed its objects, methods and sources. Despite the diversification of sources, some of them have still not been used systematically in research. This is the situation with regard to fiction texts. According to Lajolo (1997), literature is the radar and mirror of the values, emotions, feelings and point of view of societies. Therefore we can pose questions to literary texts to seek historical narratives. In this paper, parts of the literary texts Novelas Paulistanas and Memórias de um Sargento de Milícias have led us to historical research in secondary sources. We aim to contribute to understanding of the Brazilian Empire's process of school education, in Rio de Janeiro, and of the FirstRepublic's educational process, in São Paulo.

Palimpsestos: Ana Miranda y la lectura de la historia literarria brasileña

We can notice in Brazilian literature —both past and contemporary— the presence of the historical novel in its several modalities which include traditional models but also contemporary formulations that break old models with irreverence. Among them are the historiographical metafictions (Hutcheon, 1991), which propose the rereading not only of history but also of literature itself. Therefore, in the large number of historical characters which are fictionalized by contemporary Brazilian historical novel in the last decades, this essay intends to discuss how Ana Miranda engages in reading the history of Brazilian literature through fiction in three of her novels. The first is Boca do inferno (1989), whose protagonists are two of the main representatives of Brazilian colonial barroque, Father Antônio Vieira and poet Gregório de Matos. Following the chronological order of protagonist writers, the next novel to be discussed is Dias & dias (2002), whose action is centered in Gonçalves Dias, a well known poet of national Romanticism. The third is A última quimera (1995), which makes an outline of Brazilian literature at the beginning of the 20th century, dealing with Augusto dos Anjos and Olavo Bilac. By inverting some traditional viewpoints, Ana Miranda proposes, as in a palimpsest, the rereading and discussion of the national literary cânon and its construction.

O fluxo da consciência em Ask the dust, de John Fante

The purpose of this research is to present de narrative techniques of the Stream of Consciousness in the novel Ask the dust, by American writer John Fante, as well as analyzing the technique applying it to the character/narrator Arturo Bandini. Among others, the emphasys was given to the interior monologue technique, for its large and intense use throughout the analyzed novel. This research was based specially on O Fluxo da consciência (1976), by Robert Humphrey, and Foco narrativo e fluxo da consciência (2012), de Alfredo Leme Coelho de Carvalho, both important researchers in the studied theme. This research, therefore, intends to demonstrate the geniality of the still little-known John Fante and point out the peculiarities of the so-called 'psychological fiction', that in the early 20th century united literature and psychology studies, becoming very popular in modern literature, with exponents like Virginia Woolf and James Joyce

O fluxo da consciência em Ask the dust, de John Fante

The purpose of this research is to present de narrative techniques of the Stream of Consciousness in the novel Ask the dust, by American writer John Fante, as well as analyzing the technique applying it to the character/narrator Arturo Bandini. Among others, the emphasys was given to the interior monologue technique, for its large and intense use throughout the analyzed novel. This research was based specially on O Fluxo da consciência (1976), by Robert Humphrey, and Foco narrativo e fluxo da consciência (2012), de Alfredo Leme Coelho de Carvalho, both important researchers in the studied theme. This research, therefore, intends to demonstrate the geniality of the still little-known John Fante and point out the peculiarities of the so-called 'psychological fiction', that in the early 20th century united literature and psychology studies, becoming very popular in modern literature, with exponents like Virginia Woolf and James Joyce