Voladoras: la red invisible del relato

Al interior de la tradición oral de muchas culturas del mundo, las brujas han sido personajes ligados a lo sobrenatural, mujeres con poderes excepcionales encarnadas de múltiples maneras a través de leyendas, historias, relatos e ilustraciones. Este estudio se ocupa de los relatos orales acerca de las brujas voladoras del pueblo de Mira, en la provincia del Carchi. La voladora es una beldad, ataviada de blancas vestiduras, que se precipita y suspende en el aire con la principal función de transportar noticias entre los pueblos circundantes. Cuando alza el vuelo, su cuerpo sutil abandona la piel de la esposa, la vecina, la madre, rompe los lazos de lo real y se proyecta hacia lo insondable. La autora hace uso de herramientas etnográficas y narratológicas para reflexionar en torno a la memoria oral, entendida como relato en permanente construcción y representación colectiva del pasado. Mediante la tradición oral es posible leer la historia de este pueblo de la Sierra norte del Ecuador. En la construcción permanente y dinámica de estas narraciones y sus personajes, las voladoras, se advierten metáforas cargadas de simbolismo, tanto en el texto revelado y su textura discursiva como en los vacíos y misterios que lo rodean. Los relatos orales de las voladoras son multivocales, polifónicos y creadores de sentido. En ellos se identifican símbolos, representaciones y elementos narrativos, se entablan interrelaciones y se interpreta su dinámica, otorgando valor a los elementos que entran en juego en la narrativa oral. Finalmente, se observa el papel que juega el lector que va desde el habitante de Mira hasta el viajero, el investigador o el detective que descifra el relato.

Un sistema par el desarollo de la capacitación de la Policia Civil del Estado do Rio de Janeiro

Esta disertación es producto de una pesquisa participativa, y su objetivo es describir el Sistema de Capacitación que se realiza en la Academia de la Policia Civil deI Estado de Rio de Janeiro, para los dectetives de tercera classe. EI processo retratado incluye el análisis de la historia de la Institución hasta la propuesta para la elaboración y recomendaciónes de un Sistema de Capacitación para el tercer milenio com el fin de formar un dectetive voltado para la prestación de servicio a la comunidad.

Imagens da morte: um estudo do gênero policial-fantástico em Poe, Wilde e Christie

The mirror has always been related to different symbols, usually connected to self-knowledge and truth. This is due to the fact that this object shows whoever looks oneself in it an image as close to reality as it is possible. On the other hand, the mirror is also associated to mysticism and to the supernatural for it can magically duplicate one who looks into it. This ambiguous characteristic turns the mirror into an element that is fantastic in itself and places it in the central position of our discussion. Therefore, in this study, we analyze the texts In a Glass Darkly, by Agatha Christie, The Oval Portrait, by Edgar Allan Poe, and The Picture of Dorian Gray, by Oscar Wilde, giving special attention to the study of the images and artificial representations of men: the mirror, as an ephemeral representation; and the portrait, as an attempt to eternize an ephemeral image. We also discuss themes such as jealousy, the double, and death in the several forms in which it appears in the texts: suicides, homicides, attempted murders, death in life (mourning, separation, and developmental phases) all of which are, somehow, related to the specular representations. The narrative resource of using a mirror to introduce the supernatural event, along with the theme of death in all the narratives we have studied, and the difficulty to place these texts within the pre-established genres led us to categorize them as being part of a hybrid genre that presents characteristics both of the fantastic and of the detective story which we have named fantastic-detective story

Image quality evaluation of chest for computed radiography

The daily-to-day of medical practice is marked by a constant search for an accurate diagnosis and therapeutic assessment. For this purpose the doctor serves up a wide variety of imaging techniques, however, the methods using ionizing radiation still the most widely used because it is considered cheaper and above all very efficient when used with control and quality. The optimization of the risk-benefit ratio is considered a major breakthrough in relation to conventional radiology, though this is not the reality of computing and digital radiology, where Brazil has not established standards and protocols for this purpose. This work aims to optimize computational chest radiographs (anterior-posterior projection-AP). To achieve this objective were used a homogeneous phantoms that simulate the characteristics of absorption and scattering of radiation close to the chest of a patient standard. Another factor studied was the subjective evaluation of image quality, carried out by visual grading assessment (VGA) by specialists in radiology, using an anthropomorphic phantom to identify the best image for a particular pathology (fracture or pneumonia). Quantifying the corresponding images indicated by the radiologist was performed from the quantification of physical parameters (Detective Quantum Efficiency - DQE, Modulation Transfer Function - MTF and Noise Power Spectrum - NPS) using the software MatLab®. © 2013 Springer-Verlag.

Na trilha da narrativa policial brasileira: Luiz Lopes Coelho e Rubem Fonseca

Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq)

Ignácio de Loyola Brandão: memória e literatura, a escrita como exercício da indignação

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES)

Saramago, Braff e seus personagens duplos: uma análise comparativa

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES)

Balada da praia dos cães: o desafiante romance policial de Cardoso Pires

Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq)

Diálogos contemporâneos com Eça de Queiroz e Fradique Mendes

Pós-graduação em Letras - FCLAS

De Holmes a Poirot: relações entre literatura e história na narrativa policial britânica

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

As memórias de crónica de una muerte anunciada

Pós-graduação em Estudos Literários - FCLAR

Construção de fantomas homogêneos pediátricos de crãnio e tórax para otimização de imagens em radiografia computadorizada

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES)

A dialética da malandragem revisitada em O Xangô de Baker Street

Using the concept of influence, well explored by Sandra Nitrini (2000), the purpose of this study is to verify the characterization of the main characters of O Xangô de Baker Street (1995) and Macunaíma, o herói sem nenhum caráter (1928) – Sherlock Holmes and Macunaíma – as rogues in their novels, heirs to the Spanish picaresque, a genre that has taken on new meaning in Brazilian literature, as pointed out since the 1960s by Antonio Candido in his famous essay “Dialética da malandragem” (2010). With these theories, we analyze the composition of the tricksters, whose starting point is the question facing the country, the Brazilian. Although the distances in time and style of separating the protagonists created by Jô Soares and Mário de Andrade, we have noticed the interesting procedure of re-creation of the renowned English detective created by Arthur Conan Doyle and the reinterpretation of aspects of Brazilian folklore a convergence of interests with regard to representation of the national character.

Literatura, história e indústria cultural em o O Xangô de Baker Street

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