Den ofrånkomliga nationalismen

The necessary nationalism This article deals with the role of fictional narratives, especially the modern novel, in the formation of national identities. Naguib Mafouz’s Cairo trilogy is referred to as an example of how literature may both serve as the mirror image of national identities and as an agency in their formation. The sense of community attachment to a modern state is ”thinner” than to a family or traditional village and/or tribe, though no less vital. Drawing on Norbert Elias’s concept of ”survival unit,” Benedict Anderson’s ”imagined communities” and recent studies in the field of comparative literature by Gregory Jusdanis and Azade Seyhan, this article argues for the necessity of the nation – in spite of its unfavourable chauvinistic reputation. This contention is discussed in relation to recent literary developments in Turkey and recent debates on nationhood in a Swedish context.

Intent and Method: A Study of Female Characters in Aeschylean and Euripidean Drama

Aeschylus and Euripides used tragic female characters to help fulfill the purpose of religious celebration and to achieve the motivation of public reaction. The playwrights, revising myths about tragic woman and redefining the Greek definition of appropriate femininity, supported or questioned the very customs which they changed. Originally composed as part of a religious festival for Dionysus, the god of wine, revelry and fertility, the tragedies of Aeschylus and Euripides were evaluated by Aristotle. He favored Aeschylus over Euripides, but it appears as if his stipulations for tragic characterization do not apply to Aeschylean and Euripidean women. Modem critics question both Aristotle's analysis in the Poetics as well as the tragedies which he evaluated. As part of the assessment of Aeschylus, the character of the Persian Queen, Atossa, appears as a conradiction the images that Greeks maintain of non-Greeks. The Persians is discussed in relation to modem criticisms and as on its function as a warning against radical changes in Athenian domestic life. The Oresteia, a trilogy, also charts the importance of an atypical woman in Aeschylean tragedy, and how this role, Clytaemnestra, represents an extreme example of the natural and necessary evolution of families, households and kingdoms. In contrast to Aeschylus' plea to retain nomoi (traditional custom and law), EUripides' tragedy, the Medea, demonstrates the importance of a family and a country to provide security, especially for women. Medea's abandonment by Jason and subsequent desperation drives her to commit murder in the hope of revenge. Ultimately, Euripides advocates changes in social convention away from the alienation of non-Greek, non-citizens, and females. Euripides is, unfortunately, tagged a misogynist by some in this tragedy and another example-the Hippolytus. Euripides' Phaedra becomes entangled in a scheme of divine vengeance and ultimately commits suicide in an attempt to avoid societal shame. Far from treatises of hate, Euripidean women take advantage of the little power they possess within a constrictive social system. While both Aeschylus and Euripides revise customary images and expectations of women in the context of religiously-motivated drama, one playwright intends to maintain civic order and the other intends to challenge the secular norm.

Os argumentos transcendentais: kant e o problema de hume

This work whose title is "The transcendental arguments: Kant Andy Hume's problem" has as its main objective to interpret Kant's answer to Hume's problem in the light of the conjunction of the causality and induction themes which is equivalent to skeptical- naturalist reading of the latter. In this sense, this initiative complements the previous treatment seen in our dissertation, where the same issue had been discussed from a merely skeptical reading that Kant got from Hume thought and was only examined causality. Among the specific objectives, we list the following: a) critical philosophy fulfills three basic functions, a founding, one negative and one would argue that the practical use of reason, here named as defensive b) the Kantian solution of Hume's problem in the first critisism would fulfill its founding and negative functions of critique of reason; c) the Kantian treatment of the theme of induction in other criticisms would will fulfill the defense function of critique of reason; d) that the evidence of Kant's answer to Hume's problem are more consistent when will be satisfied these three functions or moments of criticism. The basic structure of the work consists of three parts: the first the genesis of Hume's problem - our intention is to reconstruct Hume's problem, analyzing it from the perspective of two definitions of cause, where the dilution of the first definition in the second match the reduction of psychological knowledge to the probability of following the called naturalization of causal relations; whereas in the second - Legality and Causality - it is stated that when considering Hume in the skeptic-naturalist option, Kant is not entitled to respond by transcendental argument A􀁴B; A⊢B from the second Analogy, evidence that is rooted in the position of contemporary thinkers, such as Strawson and Allison; in third part - Purpose and Induction - admits that Kant responds to Hume on the level of regulative reason use, although the development of this test exceeds the limits of the founding function of criticism. And this is articulated in both the Introduction and Concluding Remarks by meeting the defensive [and negative] function of criticism. In this context, based on the use of so-called transcendental arguments that project throughout the critical trilogy, we provide solution to a recurring issue that recurs at several points in our submission and concerning to the "existence and / or the necessity of empirical causal laws. In this light, our thesis is that transcendental arguments are only an apodictic solution to the Hume s skeptical-naturalist problem when is at stake a practical project in which the interest of reason is ensured, as will, in short, proved in our final considerations

Referências históricas e o realismo mágico em Il barone rampante, de Italo Calvino

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O realismo inverossímil na literatura combinatória de Italo Calvino

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O espaço geográfico e simbólico nos romances La gloire de mon père e Le château de ma mère de Marcel Pagnol

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Literatura e história: uma leitura de Lealdade (1997), de Márcio Souza

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Memória audiovisual da reforma psquiátrica no Brasil

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Manifestações do herói trágico em O tempo e o vento

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O realismo agudo de Modesto Carone

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A historia e as histórias de Cosimo

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

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As formas do mito nos cantares amazônicos do poeta João de Jesus Paes Loureiro

Analisa os poemas da Trilogia Amazônica (Cantares Amazônicos) com o objetivo de apontar como o poeta aborda as formas do mito e como revive e recria um pouco da história da Amazônia. Os conceitos teórico-metodológicos que a permeiam são do próprio poeta, tais como conversão semiótica e epifania negativa, dentre outros. Utilizam-se, também, algumas obras que retratam a situação da Amazônia a partir dos anos 50, período da implantação do projeto de desenvolvimento para modernização da região. A leitura dos poemas se realiza à luz desse contexto histórico e cultural em que a chegada de novos capitais à região desestrutura as relações aí existentes. Como se deu esse processo? Quais as suas conseqüências para as populações autóctones e para a natureza, que virou espaço paradoxal de civilização e barbárie, produto de exploração e cobiça, perturbando o homem amazônico? Como se processa a passagem de uma mentalidade mítica a uma racionalidade, isto é, a deslenda mítica e a visão da cidade como um espaço de ruína: memória e esquecimento é desse trajeto, entre poesia e realidade, que o poeta colhe o material para sua escritura, convertendo a realidade como material estético, não para estetizar a miséria, mas como maneira de dar forma poética ao tempo histórico que cruza e é cruzado com o mito, ou as formas poéticas do mito.

A cartografia de Irene na trilogia de Lindanor Celina

Esta pesquisa insere-se no eixo temático literatura e cultura e investiga a protagonista da trilogia da escritora Lindanor Celina composta pelas obras: Menina Que Vem de Itaiara, Estradas do Tempo-foi e Eram Seis Assinalados. O trabalho rastreia a trajetória da protagonista Irene desde a infância até a maioridade, tentando capturar todos os condicionantes que influenciaram na formação de sua personalidade e de seu comportamento. O trabalho divide-se em quatro capítulos, sendo que o primeiro aborda os pressupostos teóricos que lhe dão suporte. São eles principalmente: autobiografia; dialogismo, polifonia e intertextualidade; teoria de gênero e teorias psicológicas do campo da psicanálise. O segundo capítulo apresenta a vida e a obra da escritora, discute a abordagem biográfica nas obras estudadas, bem como mostra a crítica sobre a trilogia. O terceiro capítulo analisa a intertextualidade entre os romances em estudo e também de dois destes com o romance Chove nos Campos de Cachoeira de Dalcídio Jurandir. O quarto capítulo dedica-se à análise das obras e às conclusões a que o estudo chegou.

O intelectual exilado em Augusto Roa Bastos

Pós-graduação em Letras - FCLAS