"Banquete-ê-mo-nos" : uma relação entre George Orwell e Ignácio de Loyola Brandão

O objetivo deste trabalho é examinar em 1984, de George Orwell, e em Não verás país nenhum, de Ignácio de Loyola Brandão, como aparecem as relações entre o homem e a sociedade. No contexto da pós-modernidade, onde estas relações fogem da mimesis, a exigência de versatilidade coloca em xeque os valores do projeto racional moderno e busca a transformação de um sujeito resistente a uma estrutura que escapa de seu controle. Fatores como memória, escritura, corpo, técnica, velocidade e meio-ambiente são elementos fundamentais da resposta necessária de um homem que tende a sucumbir em decorrência de suas próprias criações. Numa época em que o Estado passa a ser uma entidade transnacional, sem rosto e sem voz, cabe ao indivíduo inventar possíveis alternativas ou simplesmente gerenciar o caos.

Fear and manipulation in George Orwells Nineteen Eighty-Four and Alan Moores V for Vendetta

O objetivo desta dissertação é analisar a questão da política do medo e das várias formas de manipulação da realidade encontradas nas narrativa de 1984 (1949), de George Orwell, assim como na narrativa gráfica de V de Vingança tanto na sua versão em quadrinhos, de Alan Moore (1982-88), quanto na sua adaptação cinematográfica, escrita pelos Wachowskis (2005). Em particular, tenta demonstrar similaridades nas técnicas usadas, assim como na análise dos personagens, procurando embasar certos questionamentos com a ajuda de filósofos políticos, estudos de psicologia, culturais, e distópicos. Ao final, este trabalho tenta identificar a importância da influência dos autores estudados, assim como outros autores distópicos, na criação e desenvolvimento de uma nova geração social de mentalidade inconformista

Islands: Nature and Culture

Islands are contradictory places: they can be remote, mysterious spots, or lively centres of holiday revelry. They are associated alternately with escape, imprisonment, holiday and exile, and their exotic, otherworldly beauty has inspired artists and writers across the centuries. Islands have been sites of immense political, creative and scientific importance from Charles Darwin's enlightening voyage to the Gálapagos Islands, which resulted in his groundbreaking theory of evolution, to the moat-encased prisons incarcerating the world's most dangerous convicts.
Despite the common view of islands as earthly paradises, their often small size means they have restricted resources and limited opportunities for their inhabitants to thrive. In response, islanders have welcomed or sternly rejected, the fresh opportunities offered by turning their homes into tourist destinations. For people seeking beautiful landscapes, solitude or exciting adventure, islands are the most popular holiday spots in the world. They entice the rich and famous, and their allure has provided refuge and inspiration for artists and writers, from Paul Gauguin in Tahiti to George Orwell on Jura in the Hebrides, and general visitors alike.
Filled with illustrations, Islands is a comprehensive exploration of the geographical and cultural aspects of island life – their habitations and environments, their permanent residents and vast transitional populace, their colonial history and their enduring appeal to people around then world.

Ideas, insights and arguments : a non-fiction collection.

Esta antología incluye textos de carácter informativo, pero también divertidos, poéticos y desafiantes, que se agrupan en cinco secciones temáticas: el mundo que nos rodea; el mundo del trabajo; ciencia; padres e hijos, y derechos humanos e injusticias. La colección ofrece textos de Fergal Keane, Brian Keenan, Martin Luther King, George Orwell, Purves Libby, Lynne Truss y Charles Darwin.

Aspectos did??cticos de Ciencias Sociales. 10

Se presenta una recopilaci??n de ponencias dedicadas al estudio de la industria cinematogr??fica. En la primera de ellas se analiza el film como s??ntoma de la sociedad, por ser un reflejo de la misma y por la influencia que sobre ella ejerce. La segunda ponencia se dedica a los origenes del cine franquista, su g??nesis y manifestaciones m??s destacadas, tomando como ejempo la pel??cula 'Raza'. La representaci??n de los arquetipos femeninos en el cine se presenta en la tercera ponencia, analizando el film 'Antonia's line'. La pel??cula 'Tierra y libertad' y el tema de la revoluci??n llevada al cine se analizan en la cuarta ponencia, se??alando la similitud entre el gui??n de aquella y la novela 'Homenaje a Catalu??a', de George Orwell. La ??ltima ponencia se dedica al estudio de la producci??n cinematogr??fica fuera de Am??rica del Norte y Europa.

Fictional endstates

Studies the intellectual in power striving to realise the universal State or Empire. Examines this theme through the medium of four fictional narratives: Yevgeny Zamyatin's We, Aldous Huxley's Brave new world, Arthur Koestler's Heart of darkness, and George Orwell's Nineteen eighty-four. The hypothesis of the inquiry is that all four of these texts provide fictional redescriptions of a crisis of confidence in the Enlightenment ideal of progress.

Folha de São Paulo: o diário oficial do grande irmão

This project wants to analyze the newspaper like a collective organic intellectual thing, and its action like a conservator integral journalism, it makes it looks like a politics block. In this case, the newspaper inserts itself in a process to support the dominated fundamental class. In the same time, it searches to disqualify politically, using the news and the opinion, the sprouting of against-hegemony even untimely and distant in the historical time. Facing this proposal we take as study object the FOLHA DE S. PAULO, nowadays the most representative agency of the great conservative press. Our theoretical reference takes as base the Gramsci organic intellectual formularizations, hegemony, position´s war, integral journalism and private device of hegemony. We allow ourselves, in a subsidiary way to the Gramsci basement, using the novel 1984 written by George Orwell, as a method to explicit, in a comparative way, the manipulation of the reality by the newspaper in its activity of collective organic intellectual. The ideology is the heuristic connection point to make convergence between reality and fiction. For the intended evidences we develop analysis of the daily covering about two great accidents occurred in 2007: The landslide of part of the workmanships of the tunnel of the Companhia do Metropolitano de São Paulo-Metrô (line yellow 4). And the flying disaster involving the airbus of Transportes Aéreos Meridionais-TAM, flight 3054, also in that state. In the first accident we find endorsement of the newspaper to the São Paulo´s government, in the person of the politician actor José Serra (PSDB), representative of the conservative forces and responsible for the workmanships of the Subway, to who it tried to distance politically of the fact. In the second event, the opposition to the politician actor Luis Inácio Luis Lula da Silva and his politics block, the PT, as a possibility against-hegemonic contested, being the mentioned actor appointed as responsible for the occurrence. However, the newspaper says that it is independent and direct, and this direct action comes from the environment. In this environment, the diversity of conceptions of world would guide the publishing work, making the FOLHA DE S. PAULO to take it as a reference for the intended objective, hiding the politics block militancy

A prosa de Chico Buarque em Fazenda modelo

Pós-graduação em Letras - FCLAS

Lingua e potere: la lotta fascista contro Xeno

La lingua varia nel corso del tempo sia in maniera autonoma, poiché esposta a vari fattori di cambiamento, sia a causa di scelte concrete imposte dal potere politico. Tali decisioni prese dall’alto prendono il nome di politiche linguistiche e talvolta possono assumere pericolosi risvolti antidemocratici. Molto spesso, infatti, i regimi totalitari fanno leva sulla sfera linguistico-comunicativa per assoggettare il popolo: orientare le scelte linguistiche di una comunità di parlanti equivale di fatto a modificare l’identità della società in questione. Un esempio che fa parte del mondo della letteratura è la logocrazia descritta nelle pagine del romanzo 1984 di George Orwell, in cui il potere politico si impone soprattutto grazie alla creazione di una nuova lingua. Purtroppo, la storia pullula anche di esempi reali e il fascismo rientra pienamente in questa categoria. La politica linguistica fascista mirava a purificare l’italiano eliminando tutti quegli elementi che ne minacciavano l’integrità. In particolare, Mussolini lanciò una campagna contro i prestiti linguistici, che impedivano all’Italia di affermare la propria indipendenza dallo straniero. Uno dei manifesti della lotta ai forestierismi è l’articolo La difesa della lingua italiana scritto nel 1926 dal diplomatico Tommaso Tittoni, in cui l’autore, mosso da patriottismo purista, auspicava l’emanazione di un decreto che regolasse l’uso delle parole straniere. Le tappe storiche dell’accanimento fascista contro gli esotismi sono numerose e spaziano dai primi segni di intolleranza, primo fra tutti il decreto del 1923 che imponeva una tassa quadrupla sulle insegne in lingua straniera, fino ai provvedimenti dei primi anni quaranta, quando i forestierismi furono definitivamente vietati in ambito commerciale e sostituiti da termini corrispondenti italiani proposti dall’Accademia d’Italia.

The power of language and the language of power in M. T. Anderson’s Feed and Gary Stheyngart’s Super Sad True Love Story. A comparative analysis

The aim of my dissertation is to analyze how selected elements of language are addressed in two contemporary dystopias, Feed by M. T. Anderson (2002) and Super Sad True Love Story by Gary Shteyngart (2010). I chose these two novels because language plays a key role in both of them: both are primarily focused on the pervasiveness of technology, and on how the use/abuse of technology affects language in all its forms. In particular, I examine four key aspects of language: books, literacy, diary writing, as well as oral language. In order to analyze how the aforementioned elements of language are dealt with in Feed and Super Sad True Love Story, I consider how the same aspects of language are presented in a sample of classical dystopias selected as benchmarks: We by Yevgeny Zamyatin (1921), Brave New World by Aldous Huxley (1932), Animal Farm (1945) and Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949) by George Orwell, Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury (1952), and The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood (1986). In this way, I look at how language, books, literacy, and diaries are dealt with in Anderson’s Feed and in Shteyngart’s Super Sad True Love Story, both in comparison with the classical dystopias as well as with one another. This allows for an analysis of the similarities, as well as the differences, between the two novels. The comparative analysis carried out also takes into account the fact that the two contemporary dystopias have different target audiences: one is for young adults (Feed), whereas the other is for adults (Super Sad True Love Story). Consequently, I also consider whether further differences related to target readers affect differences in how language is dealt with. Preliminary findings indicate that, despite their different target audiences, the linguistic elements considered are addressed in the two novels in similar ways.

Surveillance in Nineteen Eighty-Four : The Dismantling of Privacy in Oceania

The purpose of this essay is to analyze how certain elements of panopticism manage to dismantle the notion of privacy in George Orwell’s novel Nineteen Eighty-Four. By reading the text through a lens of panopticism, a theory introduced by Jeremy Bentham, I give examples on how the surveillance methods used by the Party share similarities with the system of surveillance within a Panoptic prison, but also in what ways that they differ. In the end, it is obvious that the society of Oceania cannot be considered to be a complete Panopticon, although several elements of panopticism are present within the text and that they dismantle the aspect of privacy in the novel. 

Positioning, linguistic theory and Orwell's short nonfiction

It is argued, making reference to an Orwell text sample, that linguistic theory illuminates "positioning" (as term and concept), that positioning's flexibility contributes to critical textual analysis and to attempts to understand complex human processes, but how far language may constrain as well as facilitate such understanding must remain open.