Romance e experimentação com a linguagem em Boquitas pintadas, de Manuel Puig, e Onde andará Dulce Veiga?, de Caio Fernando de Abreu

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Construct validity of behavioral models of anxiety: where experimental psychopathology meets ecology and evolution

In experimental psychopathology, construct validity is usually enhanced by addressing theories from other fields in its nomological network. In the field of anxiety research, this construct is related to antipredator behavior, conserved across phylogeny in its functions and neural basis, but not necessarily on its topography. Even though the relations between behavioral models of anxiety and statements from behavioral ecology and evolutionary biology are commonly made in anxiety research, these are rarely tested, at least explicitly. However, in order to increase construct validity in experimental anxiety, testing predictions from those theories is highly desirable. This article discusses these questions, suggesting a few ways in which behavioral ecological and evolutionary hypotheses of anxiety-like behavior may be tested.

The effects of diazepam on the elevated T-maze are dependent on the estrous cycle of rats

In order to determine the modulation of anxiolytic and panicolytic-like effects of diazepam by the hormonal cycle of female rats, male and female rats – the latter divided per estrous cycle phase (estrus, diestrus, metaestrus and proestrus) – were tested in the elevated T-maze, a behavioral model of panic and anxiety. Diazepam (0.5, 1.0 and 2.0 mg/kg) or saline solution was injected in individual animals that were submitted to one session in the elevated T-maze 25 min after drug/saline administration. The test consisted of three avoidance trials and one escape trial, separated by a 30 s interval, during which the animals were isolated in individual cages. The avoidance trials began with the animal being placed at the end of the maze's enclosed arm. The time necessary for the animal to leave the central square was considered as the response's latency. The trials that exceeded 300 s were considered as failures. Results demonstrate a decrease in the effects of diazepam in inhibitory avoidance (anxiety) trials in females in diestrus and proestrus, but no relation of gender or estrous cycle on diazepam effects on escape trials (fear). The results support the hypothesis that down-regulation of GABAA receptors by activation of nuclear estrogen receptors and induction of PKC-mediated GABAA receptor phosphorylation by activation of surface estrogen receptors in raphe neurons underlie the modulation of diazepam sensitivity by estrogen.

Influence of gender and estrous cycle in the forced swim test in rats

The present work aimed at studying the influence of the estrous cycle in the forced swim test, an animal model of depression. For this, 44 male and female Wistar rats were divided into five groups according to the hormonal state in the first day of the study: metaestrus (N = 12), diestrus (N = 8), proestrus (N = 7), estrous (N = 6) and males (N = 11). They were housed in groups of five, with water and food ad libitum under a 12/12 h light/dark cycle. Females were screened daily for the estrous cycle. The animals were subjected to two swimming sessions in a glass cylinder with water up to 15 cm at 28±2º C. The data of the first five minutes of a 15-min first session were compared to those of a 5-min second session 24 h later. The results indicate that the latency to the first immobility was substantially reduced in the second session and was longer for females in diestrus and proestrus in the first session. The results also indicate that females in diestrus and proestrus exhibited less immobility than males in the first session; females in diestrus also exhibited less immobility than females in metaestrus. Females in metaestrus and diestrus, as well as males, did not present the decrease in total immobility times in the second session. The present results are analyzed in terms of differential effects of progesterone and estrogen on a learning component and an affective component.

O arraial do espiritismo: a médium Anna Prado, positivistas, espíritas e católicos em Belém (1918-1923)

Este trabalho teve como principal objetivo discutir e analisar a repercussão das atividades fenomênicas da médium Anna Prado durante os anos de 1918-1923, sua importância na popularização do Espiritismo e os acirrados debates motivados pelos fenômenos. Para fundamentar a discussão e a analise, é avaliada a bibliografia produzida sobre o espiritismo e a médium Anna Prado, os artigos jornalísticos que se ocuparam em divulgar e debater os fenômenos e a atuação da elite letrada em expor suas convicções acerca dos acontecimentos, contribuindo para a produção de mais de uma interpretação específica sobre os eventos mediúnicos.

Pentimento: um álbum de retratos das personae de escritor de Caio Fernando Abreu

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES)

Pentimento: a criação literária no romance Onde Andará Dulce Veiga?, de Caio Fernando Abreu

Neste artigo, estudaremos a integração e a elaboração de textos literários e/ou não-literários feita por Caio Fernando Abreu para compor seu último romance, Onde andará Dulce Veiga? – Um romance B, de 1990. Por meio da utilização de textos diversos, pertencentes a vários gêneros do discurso, este romance produz uma reflexão metalingüística sobre o fazer literário do próprio texto, sobre o trabalho de escrita e criação do autor e, num aspecto mais amplo, sobre as relações entre artista e criação artística no contexto contemporâneo.

Skin diseases reported by workers from UNESP campus at Rubiao Jr, Botucatu-SP (Brazil)

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

Ziembinski – o encenador dos tempos modernos: a construção de uma trajetória na crítica de Décio de Almeida Prado (1950-1959)

Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq)

Paulo Prado e a Semana de Arte Moderna: ensaios e correspondências

Pós-graduação em Letras - FCLAS

Studies of dijet transverse momentum balance and pseudorapidity distributions in pPb collisions at root s(NN)=5.02 TeV

Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq)

As crônicas de Caio Fernando Abreu: entre o fato e a ficção

O presente trabalho tem por objetivo analisar as crônicas de Caio Fernando Abreu. Num primeiro momento serão verificadas como se dão as discussões a respeito da crônica enquanto gênero. Para tanto serão utilizados conceitos de Castello (2007), Candido (1993), Arrigucci (1986), Coutinho (1984), Melo (2002), Coelho (2002) e Chaparro (1998), que ajudarão a situar a crônica como gênero de fronteira entre expedientes literários e jornalísticos. Num segundo momento, serão analisadas especificamente as crônicas de Caio, buscando assim diagnosticar a maior presença de aspectos provindos da literatura em detrimentos dos jornalísticos. Além disso, também serão buscadas as diferenças que se apresentaram no gênero crônica, quando comparadas com parte da produção ficcional do autor. Para tanto serão abordados aspectos da linguagem e a ausência de personagens homossexuais nas crônicas. Esse grupo de crônicas será classificado como intimista. Ainda nesse capítulo será verificado como foram tratados dois temas que estiveram presentes em contos e crônicas de Caio: o final feliz nos relacionamentos amorosos e o sentimento de ausência da pessoa amada. Um último momento de análise buscará tratar da relação existente entre a vida pessoal do autor e o conteúdo de suas crônicas. Esse grupo de textos, classificado como dramático, utilizará o conceito de autoficção de Doubrovsky (2007)

A poesia de Adélia Prado: expressão feminina do cotidiano e do sublime

This work aims to locate Adélia Prado’s poetry in the scenery of the contemporary Brazilian literature in order to comprehend some issues that are part of the manner how the poet constructs her poems and which may elucidate, through the lyric speaker, the relation of her poetry with the historical and cultural moment in which her work is placed. In this sense, the purpose of this study is to analyze Adélia Prado’s poetic construction by emphasizing the female voice of her lyric speaker and the superposition of elements from the semantic fields of the prosaic and the sublime, since we have identified these aspects as basic ones for the development of an interpretation on this poetry. This way, we have tried to comprehend the connection that the poet establishes between the material and the spiritual, the erotic and the religious, the immanent and the transcendent and we have concluded that, for the poet, everything can be subject to poetry. For this work, we used the volume Poesia reunida (1995) for it provides a wider view over Adélia Prado’s poetry

A Confluência de Gêneros em Dark Water, de Walter Salles Jr.

Dark Water is the title of the translation of a short story, ―Floating Water‖, from the book Honogurai mizu no soko kara by Koji Suzuki, originally published in Japan, that the Japanese director Hideo Nakata adapted for the cinema and that was remade by the Brazilian director Walter Salles Jr. The objective of this study is to analyse Walter Salles’ film to demonstrate how it resolved the problems of transcreation, whilst at the same time it fulfilled commercial and artistic functions and incorporated the traces of its aesthetic trajectory. In this case, attention is drawn to the types of relationship between literature and cinema, to the metalinguistic function as a generator of poetics and of an interesting dialogue between genres.