Conflitos e conciliações: a relação da personagem Blanche DuBois, de Streetcar Named Desire, com a sociedade americana moderna

This paper presents a reflection on the relationship of the character Blanche DuBois, the protagonist of Tennessee Williams’s play A Streetcar Named Desire, with the society in which she is inserted. There is also a brief analysis of the construction of this character. To do this, the historical context of both the play and the author were studied, as well as his biography, which has great relevance in his work, and also a concise analysis of the elements presented in the literary work itself. In order to have an overview of Blanche, a few lines of this character were collected, as well as the lines of other characters that refer to her and some opposing viewpoints. The aim of this paper is to confront the character’s psychological and social conflicts, setting them in the context of modern American society

Breves considerações sobre o conceito de natureza na genese da geografia moderna

From the twentieth century is witnessing a gradual increase in the debates and issues related to the degradation of nature, making the twenty-first century begins under the aegis of speeches linked to this concept as one of the axes of the concerns of humanity. There are several movements that are related to the degrading way of contemporary society and how we are called upon daily to save and defend nature, from the consumption of sustainable products through environmentally friendly lifestyles. While this may appear to be explicit that the current form of metabolic interaction man / nature in the current historical period of capitalism converges in a bleak scenario, however, there is an ideological and peacemaker convergence between productively and the systematic appeal to the consumption. Given these assumptions could be palpable the question that in the course of human history would be ideological conceptions of nature? Being a true statement what is the conflict present in the ideological struggle over nature with regard to the genesis of modern geography? Would it be overt or covert? These questions lead us to the present study, whose goal is to bring some notes about the ideological conceptions of the nature in human history, culminating in the possible influences upon the institutionalization of Modern Geography

Memória e Memórias: entre o eu da ficção e a ficcionalização do eu

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES)

A contribuição de Lima Barreto para o entendimento da crítica educacional brasileira do início do século XX

This study aims at enhancing the understanding of the educational criticism in the beginning of the twentieth century, focusing on the ideas of Lima Barreto. Before the emergence of the "educational professionals", educational thought was developed by publicists and writers involved in a fertile debate, the results of which became visible in literary and journalistic production. Through the analysis of articles, short texts published in the press, novels and short stories written by Lima Barreto, it’s possible to gather a specific concept of education, underlying his criticism and fictional characterization of school education, as well as an interesting sketch of the cultural profile of Brazilian society at the time. Either explicitly or implicitly, in their evaluative and theoretical references, the limits of the critical readings of the author, which are expressed in the contradiction between negation of the given conditions and their affirmation, unveil the historical aspects of social and educational thinking and criticism.

Literatura Portuguesa e olhar narcísico: a autotextualidade

Neste artigo, estuda -se a questão da autotextualidade em vários poetas portugueses do século XX.

Falling Man: A Literatura em busca de possíveis significados para um espaço vazio

September 11 has originated a wide range of artistic manifestations which have not only searched for plausible explanations for the tragedy, but also tried to review the events. In this sense, this paper aims at showing how a novel reevaluates this episode. The attacks made the United States experience a strong sense of vulnerability, triggering reactions from the American government, whose quick action was translated into a new national security strategy, associated with the war on terror. This paper analyzes the narrative strategies employed by the American author Don DeLillo in his novel Falling Man (2007) in order to reevaluate that tragedy. The debate of the topics is based on texts concerning the relationship between literature and history, postmodern fiction and issues on terrorism. This study contributes to enrich the discussion related to the events that led to the catastrophe and its aftermath, examining characters and groups linked to the September 11 terrorist attacks, revealing multiple truths subjected to social, ideological and historical conditions.

A literatura carpentieriana e a história: aspectos metaficcionais historiográficos em concerto barroco

This work is set in the context of the Hispanic-American literature of the twentieth century (in particular, Alejo Carpentier) viewed in a historical perspective. For this task, we focus on a specific writer’s work: the novel Baroque Concert (1974). The text is divided into three parts: the first deals with some topics concerning the intersection between sui generis Literature and History. Next, we focus on the Hispanic-American literary context, discussing it in an analytical perspective, with regard to its connections with the historical discourse. Finally, we analyze the novel Baroque Concert, by means of the basic concepts of the theory of historiographic metafiction.

O mito de don juan e a subjetividade moderna

The legendary Don Juan character inhabits the popular imaginary with such a vibrancy of a myth, despite its slight recognition as such by the scientific literature. The purpose of this article is to verify if Don Juan’s play can be understood, scientifically, as a modern myth, as well as understand its mythical nature and its relation to the modern man. A structural and historical analysis of the two first plays on Don Juan has guided us: the one written by Tirso de Molina in 1630, and the one by Molière, written in 1665. The studies allow us to say that Don Juan is a typical modern myth, once it is constituted by narratives that expose a world looming under the signs of individualism, hedonism, arrogance and audacity forged under the appeals of sexual desire.

Entre a matriz portuguesa e a literatura nacional: a concepção de texto literário para João Ribeiro

This paper aims at rescuing some critical appraisals found in the high school anthology Autores Contemporâneos (1931), by the critic, philologist and writer João Ribeiro, one of the main Brazilian intellectual representatives of the first decades of the twentieth century. João Ribeiro, along with Coelho Neto and, Laudelino Freire, among others, took part in of the panel which compiled, in 1921, the Dicionário da Academia Brasileira de Letras. Therefore, we find the analytical process João Ribeiro, their theoretical observations, concepts and dilemmas which are appointed by him in literary history and criticism of the early twentieth century.

Conversa de senhoras: a performance do feminino em Ana Cristina Cesar

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES)

Aspectos da linguagem e do espetáculo cinematográficos na narrativa literária brasileira do século XX

Pós-graduação em Letras - IBILCE

A teoria literária de Jean-Paul Sartre em sua produção romanesca

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

Romances rebeldes - a tradição de rebeldia na literatura norte-americana: de Moby Dick a On the Road

Pós-graduação em Estudos Literários - FCLAR

Os jogos do texto ou as facetas da escrita?: gênero policial, intertextualidade e literatura francesa em Bufo & Spallanzani (1985) de Rubem Fonseca

Pós-graduação em Letras - FCLAS

O tênis de mesa: uma revisão de literatura do esporte e uma análise entre autores da psicologia sobre sua preparação psicológica

O presente estudo busca estabelecer quais as teorias que sustentam a preparação psicológica em praticantes de tênis de mesa. Para tal foram utilizadas as seguintes abordagens: Histórico do esporte no Brasil e no mundo; Ensino/aprendizagem; Método japonês; Método alemão; Método sueco; O método de iniciação nacional; A prática em si; Formações técnica e física; Aspectos psicológicos no tênis de mesa; Concentração; Ansiedade; Motivação. Com relação a preparação psicológica, esta pesquisa de revisão de literatura foca mostrar quais as teorias que sustentam esta preparação no tênis de mesa, através de uma revisão a cerca dos principais movimentos das psicologias dos séculos XIX e XX: o estruturalismo, a psicologia de William James, o funcionalismo, o behaviorismo, a psicologia dinâmica e a psicanálise. Ao estabelecer as teorias obtém-se o respaldo da preparação psicológica como é vista por pessoas ativas no esporte, proporcionando uma visão geral de dois pontos principais: qual a importância da preparação psicológica dos mesa-tenistas e como essa preparação está no meio esportivo, tanto no Brasil quanto no mundo