Almoço oferecido ao Dr. Jorge Oscar de Mello Flôres

Almoço oferecido ao Dr. Jorge oscar de Mello Flôres, por ocasião do seu afastamento do cargo de Diretor Executivo da FGV, em janeiro de 1950. Presentes na fotografia da esquerda para direita: 1. João da Motta Paes. 2. Luiz Narciso Alves de Mattos. 3. Tomás Russel Raposo de Almeida. 4. Djalma Polli Coelho. 5. Jorge Oscar de Mello Flôres. 6. Wanda Dias Flôres. 7. Luiz Simões Lopes (falando). 8. Emilio Mira y López. 9. Rubens d'Almada Horta Porto.

Percursos de memória: uma análise de A costa dos murmúrios de Lídia Jorge e Terra sonâmbula de Mia Couto

O estudo comparatista incidirá nas representações da Guerra Colonial e Civil em Moçambique nas ficções A Costa dos Murmúrios (1988), de Lídia Jorge e Terra Sonâmbula (1992), de Mia Couto, explorando a noção de literatura de testemunho. A memória é o mecanismo de construção da identidade cindida e processo de crítica histórico-social e cultural, sublinhando os silenciados e os não-ditos da História Oficial. Em ambos os romances, analisaremos os choques de identidades culturais das principais personagens desde o período da colonização até à independência de Moçambique, insistindo nas personagens que assumem um papel de denúncia e de testemunha da História, construindo uma contra-leitura do História oficial. Refletiremos como as personagens centrais – Eva Lopo e Kindzu – denunciam o poder hegemónico ao ironizarem o papel dos anti-heróis. A narração de Eva Lopo e Kindzu reescreve as parábolas dos gafanhotos, o dilúvio, insistindo nos relatos do fim do mundo e nos testemunhos do inumano. Eva Lopo e Kindzu representam o regresso de Xerazade, dado que narram para criar consciência crítica e diferir a morte da memória numa perspetiva regeneradora da escrita.

Coerção e ruptura estilísticas na poesia potiguar: a construção do ethos inventivo do poeta Jorge Fernandes

Within the poetic scenario of Rio Grande do Norte the publication of Livro de Poemas de Jorge Fernandes, in 2007, marks, in the imagery of the Potiguar community of poetry readers, producers and critics, the beginning of the social circulation of an inventive ethos associated with the poet Jorge Fernandes de Oliveira (1887-1953). Regarding the event mentioned earlier as a point of reference, this research investigates the construction of such ethos based on the counterpoint between the poet s individual stylistic choices and the stylistic options that prevailed in the lyric production of the Twenties in the 20th Century. The corpus comprises poetic texts (by the poet under discussion and by other poets who were, then, regarded as icons of the poetry of Rio Grande do Norte) and texts representative of local literary criticism (produced both during the Twenties and in other decades of the last century). Support to this analysis is grounded in Mikhail Bakhtin s theory of the utterance (mainly regarding style) and in Dominique Maingueneau s theory of the utterance (mainly regarding ethos). During the course of this investigation, the research has outlined an inventory of the prevailing individual stylistic choices of Jorge Fernandes de Oliveira and the reasons why such choices point out towards the inventive ethos associated with the poet.

O Aleph e seus duplos: mimesis e auto-reflexividade na obra de Jorge Luis Borges

This study approach the Jorge Luis Borges s prose of fiction under the perspective of mimesis and the self-reflexivity. The hypothesis is that the Aleph is a central symbol of the Borges s fictional universe. The rewriting and the retake of this symbol along of his work entail to a reflection about the possibilities and the limits of mimesis. This study is divided in three parts which contain two chapters. The first part Bibliographic revision and conceptual fundaments of inquiry discuss the critical fortune of author (Chapter 1) and the concepts that will give sustentation to the inquiry (Chapter 2). The second part About the Borges s aesthetic project sketch out the literary project defended by Borges that is his conception of the literature and his ideological matrix (Chapter 3) beside his anti-psychologism and his nostalgia of epos (Chapter 4). The third and last part is entitled The Aleph and his doubles. In the chapter 5 this study analyses the short story El Aleph and consider its centrality on the Borges s work. The argument that is on this short story Borges elaborates a reflection about mimesis. In the chapter 6, on the same hand, four short stories will be analysed: Funes el memorioso ; El Libro de Arena ; El evangelio según Marcos and Del rigor en la ciencia . The conclusion that is the Borges s literature is self-awake of its process as such demonstrate its parodic sense and its bookish origin. Hence, the Borges s literature overlapping the mimetic crisis of language and challenge the limits between fiction and reality. However, it doesn t surrender to the nihilist perspective that is closing of literature to the world

A paz tensa da chama fugaz: a configuração do amor no romance contemporâneo, Lygia Fagundes Telles e Lídia Jorge

This thesis A paz tensa da chama fugaz: a configuração do amor no romance contemporâneo, Lygia Fagundes Telles e Lídia Jorge aims to study the configuration of Love in contemporary novels. Their corpuses of study are the novels As horas nuas (1989), by the Brazilian writer Lygia Fagundes Telles; and O vento assobiando nas gruas (2002), by the Portuguese writer Lídia Jorge. The following research tries to understand how the characters from those texts deal with some love questions on the context of the contemporary narrative; it also tries to comprehend the love expression which is formed as a contradictorily fluid feeling and intensely wanted, which are important points concerning the love discourse at the present day. As a critic-comparative study, this research focuses on the problematic concerned love as a synonym of Eros, in other words, the relation between lovers, analyzed through social and philosophical perspective. Through that, this work broadens the study of two contemporary novels, and it also establish connections between the characters from those novels and the literary environment where they are placed, once it focuses on the human and social context presented in this books. The thesis ends calling attention to the dichotomy of love and death, to the image of love which grows through absence and through the longing of completeness of the human being; that is why this work sustains that the Lygia Fagundes Telles and Lídia Jorge update and materialized in their texts the plurality of contemporary love conception, which continues to be contradictory, fragmented and problematic

Detection of cytokines and nitric oxide synthase in skin lesions of Jorge Lobo's disease patients

Studies investigating the immunopathological aspects of Jorge Lobo's disease have shown that the inflammatory infiltrate consists mainly of histiocytes and multinucleated giant cells involving numerous yeast-like cells of Lacazia loboi, with the T lymphocytes more common than B lymphocytes and plasma cells. The quantification of cytokines in peripheral blood mononuclear cells culture supernatant has revealed alterations in the cytokines profile, characterized by predominance of a Th2 profile. In view of these findings and of the role of cytokines in cell interactions, the objective of the present study was to investigate the presence of the cytokines IL-10, TGF-ss 1 and TNF-alpha, as well as iNOS enzyme in granulomas induced by L. loboi. Histological sections obtained from skin lesions of 16 patients were analyzed by immunohistochemistry for the presence of these cytokines and iNOS. The results showed that TGF-ss 1 was the cytokine most frequently expressed by cells present in the inflammatory infiltrate, followed by IL-10. There was a minimum to discrete positivity of cells expressing TNF-alpha and iNOS. The results suggest that the presence of immunosuppressive cytokines in skin lesions of patients with the mycosis might be responsible for the lack of containment of the pathogen as demonstrated by the presence of numerous fungi in the granuloma.

Presentación del Director del ILPES, Sr. Jorge Méndez Munévar, en la sesión inaugural del Simposio

Breve presentacion del Director del ILPES, en la cual menciona tres problemas que considera principales, pues tienen especial relacion con la tematica de este Simposio; 1) la confusion que reina sobre cual debe ser el o los modelos economicos que sean mas propicios para asegurar el crecimiento y, con ello, la satisfaccion de las necesidades sociales; 2) la debilidad de los sistemas politicos para buscar la justicia social; 3) la deficiencia de conocimientos sobre las implicaciones economicas de los programas sociales y del cambio social mismo.