Instantes líricos de revelação: a narrativa poética em A paixão segundo G. H

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A estética do grotesco em Harmada e A céu aberto, de João Gilberto Noll

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A ironia nas Terceiras estórias: Tutaméia

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Paulo Duarte (1899-1984): um intelectual nas trincheiras da memória

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A maldição das palavras e o sujeito dilacerado de Marcelo Mirisola (2009)

There is an area in the Brazilian Contemporary Literature which is articulated according to the first person narrator who presents the problematic of the own creational action, the expression of a conflictual subjectivity divided between the vertiginous dive into itself – what would imply in a renounce of the world and the reality, where the authors’ work are their only matter – and the social participation - not as an awareness, but as the recognition of the limits and impasses which the real representation imposes on the creative writing. Therefore, this article proposes a reading on the novel O Azul do Filho Morto (2002) by Marcelo Mirisola, to try to situate him into the recent Brazilian literary production, as well as to reflect on his narrative the complex notion of authorship which is called into question on his novels, since they produce an intrincate imbrication between the fictional subject and the empirical image of the writer himself, breaking and confusing the limits between the fictional discourse and the extralinguistic reality which is evoked, manipulated, distorted and made unstable on his representational process.

Autobiografia e Ficção: análise do narrador em Extinção - Uma Derrocada, de Thomas Bernhard

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Narradores e clandestinidade em contos de Os Cavalinhos de Platiplanto, de José J. Veiga: uma possibilidade de discussão sobre o espaço ficcional

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La sombra de los libros sobre la ciudad. Espacialización del relato y confiabilidad del narrador en Borges

La espacialización del sujeto, uno de los procedimientos en que se sustenta la poesía de Borges de los veinte, es retomado en sus primeros relatos: el "yo" poético se transforma en un narrador-yo que se proyecta sobre la ciudad de Buenos Aires. La sucesión de imágenes estáticas de la poesía es reemplazada en el relato por un movimiento de exploración del espacio, que funda una tradición en la historia de la representación de la ciudad en la cultura argentina. Los narradores de estos cuentos de los años cuarenta a la vez ponen en escena una ficción de identidad con el autor y se presentan como poco confiables; los textos explicitan una serie de enfrentamientos entre narrador y lector, típicos del relato policial, mediante los cuales la literatura de Borges escenifica la función que atribuye a la ficción.

La sombra de los libros sobre la ciudad. Espacialización del relato y confiabilidad del narrador en Borges

La espacialización del sujeto, uno de los procedimientos en que se sustenta la poesía de Borges de los veinte, es retomado en sus primeros relatos: el "yo" poético se transforma en un narrador-yo que se proyecta sobre la ciudad de Buenos Aires. La sucesión de imágenes estáticas de la poesía es reemplazada en el relato por un movimiento de exploración del espacio, que funda una tradición en la historia de la representación de la ciudad en la cultura argentina. Los narradores de estos cuentos de los años cuarenta a la vez ponen en escena una ficción de identidad con el autor y se presentan como poco confiables; los textos explicitan una serie de enfrentamientos entre narrador y lector, típicos del relato policial, mediante los cuales la literatura de Borges escenifica la función que atribuye a la ficción.

La sombra de los libros sobre la ciudad. Espacialización del relato y confiabilidad del narrador en Borges

La espacialización del sujeto, uno de los procedimientos en que se sustenta la poesía de Borges de los veinte, es retomado en sus primeros relatos: el "yo" poético se transforma en un narrador-yo que se proyecta sobre la ciudad de Buenos Aires. La sucesión de imágenes estáticas de la poesía es reemplazada en el relato por un movimiento de exploración del espacio, que funda una tradición en la historia de la representación de la ciudad en la cultura argentina. Los narradores de estos cuentos de los años cuarenta a la vez ponen en escena una ficción de identidad con el autor y se presentan como poco confiables; los textos explicitan una serie de enfrentamientos entre narrador y lector, típicos del relato policial, mediante los cuales la literatura de Borges escenifica la función que atribuye a la ficción.

The First Child In A Chinese Family Who Could Read Prior To Entry Into Elementary School: A Qualitative Intrinsic Case Study

ABSTRACT This study is an account of the literacy-related human environment a Chinese girl experienced as the first person in the history of her family who was able to read prior to entry into elementary school. Temporally speaking, the study spanned more than a decade from the initial, tentative research question to the formal, primary research question. Spatially speaking, it crossed three cultures: the Chinese, Korean, and American cultures. The study was inspired by the Zero Project in China, known as the "Project of Quality Education and Implementation for Children Aged Zero (fetus) to Six." The significance of the content issue in a child's literacy curriculum was explored in an interdisciplinary way. Case study served as a holistic research approach and provided the researcher with free temporal and spatial distance to pursue the indefinably multi-dimensional intricacies of a child's early literacy acquisition among generations in the family. Interpretation of the case was based on the relevant concepts within the scope of the researcher's knowledge of Chinese culture. Major findings revealed that the child's literacy acquisition was inseparably related to her parents' background as well as their awareness of and attitudes towards literacy, and that the foundation of all this was the harmony of the family. Through the lens of generational attitudes towards literacy and especially the lens of the researcher's multicultural life experiences, this study contributes to the field of curriculum studies in general and early literacy curriculum in particular by stimulating people to reconsider what to read to children, besides how to read to them. It calls attention once again to the classic curriculum question, "What knowledge is of most worth?" as well as what is the most essential spiritual food human beings need besides physical needs. This study suggests that Chinese philosophy should be included in a child's early literacy curriculum in China and calls for dialogues on the content issue of curriculum to gain a deeper understanding of human nature so that humans might co-live peacefully with all beings in the universe.

The experiences of African women giving birth in Brisbane, Australia

Our purpose in this research was to uncover first-person descriptions of the birth experiences of African refugee women in Brisbane, Australia, and to explore the common themes that emerged from their experiences. We conducted semistructured interviews with 10 African refugees who had given birth in Brisbane. Essences universal to childbirth such as pain, control, and experiences of caregivers featured prominently in participants’ descriptions of their experiences. Their experiences, however, were further overshadowed by issues such as language barriers, the refugee experience, female genital mutilation (FGM), and encounters with health services with limited cultural competence.

The voices of the exegesis

In a recent journal article, Luke Jaaniste and I identified an emergent model of exegesis. From a content analysis of submitted exegeses within a local archive, we identified an approach that is quite different from the traditional thesis, but is also distinct from previously identified forms of exegesis, which Milech and Schilo have described as a ‘context model’ (which assumes the voice of academic objectivity and provides an historical or theoretical context for the creative practice) and a ‘commentary’ model’ (which takes the form of a first person reflection on the challenges, insights and achievements of the practice). The model we identified combines these dichotomous forms and assumes a dual orientation–looking outwards to the established field of research, exemplars and theories, and inwards to the methodologies, processes and outcomes of the practice. We went on to argue that this ‘connective’ exegesis offers clear benefits to the researcher in connecting the practice to an established field while allowing the researcher to demonstrate how the methods have led to outcomes that advance the field in some way. And, while it helps the candidate to articulate objective claims for research innovation, it enables them to retain a voiced, personal relationship with their practice. However, it also poses considerable complexities and challenges in the writing. It requires a reconciliation of multi-perspectival subject positions: the disinterested perspective and academic objectivity of an observer/ethnographer/analyst/theorist at times and the invested perspective of the practitioner/ producer at others. The author must also contend with a range of writing styles, speech genres and voices: from the formal, polemical voice of the theorist to the personal, questioning and sometimes emotive voice of reflexivity. Moreover, the connective exegesis requires the researcher to synthesize various perspectives, subject positions, writing styles, and voices into a unified and coherent text. In this paper I consider strategies for writing a hybrid, connective exegesis. I first ground the discussion on polyvocality and alternate textual structures through reference to recent discussions in philosophy and critical theory, and point to examples of emergent approaches to texts and practices in related fields. I then return to the collection of archived exegeses to investigate the strategies that postgraduate candidates have adopted to resolve the problems that arise from a polyvocal, connective exegesis.

Modeling player-like behaviour for game Al design

The design of artificial intelligence in computer games is an important component of a player's game play experience. As games are becoming more life-like and interactive, the need for more realistic game AI will increase. This is particularly the case with respect to AI that simulates how human players act, behave and make decisions. The purpose of this research is to establish a model of player-like behavior that may be effectively used to inform the design of artificial intelligence to more accurately mimic a player's decision making process. The research uses a qualitative analysis of player opinions and reactions while playing a first person shooter video game, with recordings of their in game actions, speech and facial characteristics. The initial studies provide player data that has been used to design a model of how a player behaves.

Mutual enlightenment : augmenting human factors research in surgical robotics

This discussion has outlined a theoretical and pragmatic framework to demonstrate that future research involving the analysis of human performance in surgical should encourage the use of phenomenology to enhance the knowledge base of this area of study. Merging experiential (first-person) and experimental (third-person) methods may possibly help improve research designs and analyses in the investigation of robotics in surgical performance. By relying solely on third-person techniques, the current methodology and interpretation used to analyze human performance in surgical robotics is limited. Recent advances in cognitive science and psychology have also recognized this limitation and have now begun to shift to neurophenomenology. Finally, discussion on recent robotics research presented here demonstrates the potential phenomenology holds for augmenting the methodological and analysis techniques currently used by researchers of human performance in surgical robotics.