O hibridismo textual em como agua para chocolate (1989), de Laura Esquivel: folhetim, almanaque, caderno de receitas e diário íntimo

Este artigo pretende discutir como se articulam, na estrutura híbrida do romance Como agua para chocolate, alguns gêneros textuais discursivos comumente dedicados à leitura de mulheres – folhetim, almanaque, caderno de receitas e diário íntimo –, cuja presença fica sugerida desde o subtítulo “novela de entregas mensuales, con recetas, amores y remedios caseros”. Esses gêneros se misturam na construção da narrativa, possibilitando, no âmbito da pós-modernidade, uma leitura crítica do papel da mulher na sociedade patriarcal da primeira metade do século XX.

A pedra e a água: uma leitura comparada de Pedro Páramo (1955), de Juan Rulfo, e Como água para chocolate (1989), de Laura Esquivel

Pós-graduação em Letras - FCLAS

Viaggio alla scoperta dell'universo emotivo. Proposta di traduzione del primo capitolo de "El libro de las emociones" di Laura Esquivel

Come nascono le emozioni? Come modificano il nostro organismo? Perché nell'epoca moderna non siamo più in grado do condividere il nostro stato emotivo? Ecco alcune domande alle quali Laura Esquivel risponde mediante El libro de las emociones. Leggendolo sarà come fare un viaggio virtuale attraverso il magico, e al contempo, complesso mondo emotivo. L’autrice ci prende per mano e ci guida in un percorso che accenderà la nostra curiosità consentendoci di ampliare il nostro bagaglio culturale. Dalla scienza alla storia, dalla letteratura al cinema, Laura Esquivel ci farà da cicerone alla scoperta, anzi alla riscoperta della parte più intima e nascosta dell’essere umano. Grazie a questo cammino, capiremo che ritornando a prenderci cura del nostro lato irrazionale per antonomasia, potremmo forse, finalmente, abbattere egoismo, individualismo, competizione, arcigni nemici della condivisione e dello stare insieme. Questo elaborato ha come oggetto El libro de las emociones, saggio della scrittrice messicana Laura Esquivel. Nella prima parte, dopo una breve introduzione e una concisa presentazione dell’autrice, questa tesi si propone di analizzare il suddetto saggio e il proprio paratesto; successivamente vi è la mia personale proposta di traduzione del primo capitolo dell’opera e il commento alla proposta di traduzione. Infine, chiudono l’elaborato la scheda di presentazione editoriale de El libro de las emociones e le conclusioni.

Guía para el desarrollo de la competencia en lectura profunda : La lectura en el escenario textual universitario

Este texto pretende fomentar la lectura independiente y la autonomía lectora, con orientación hacia las herramientas, los instrumentos y las estrategias para la comprensión de los textos académicos propios de su disciplina. Un lector autónomo e independiente se forma en la medida en que se apropia de tales instrumentos, a partir de herramientas brindadas por el docente. En ese sentido, este libro invita al docente a tomar decisiones respecto a la secuencia de las estrategias sugeridas, así como a la elección de los textos para el desarrollo de la competencia propuesta. Por otro lado, le sugiere al estudiante desarrollar cada unidad y practicar los ejercicios propuestos en un contexto académico específico, con el fin de facilitar el empleo de las estrategias en su vida estudiantil.

Hibridismo e ruptura de gêneros em João Antônio

Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq)

La evolución de un paratexto singular: las subscriptiones latinas

La historia de las subscriptiones latinas revela alteraciones tanto en su frecuencia como en el tipo de información que transmiten, y en consecuencia también en su función. En un primer momento proporcionan datos escuetos con una finalidad práctica: la identificación del contenido de un libro concreto. En la Antigüedad tardía su número aumenta y transmiten mayor volumen de información, pero sobre todo adquieren relevancia los individuos que las firman, convirtiéndose en un instrumento de autorrepresentación social. Sin embargo, en época posterior estas subscriptiones tardoantiguas se siguen copiando en nuevos manuscritos y pierden su relación inicial con un ejemplar concreto; se transforman en paratextos que contribuyen a dar prestigio, ya no a un libro singular, sino a un autor o una obra.

Pensamento Liminar e Emancipação na Personagem Tita, em Como Água para Chocolate

Este trabalho verifica a construção do pensamento liminar e a emancipação do subalterno por meio da análise das atitudes da personagem Tita, de Como água para chocolate (1993). A protagonista, ao enfrentar uma tradição familiar em que a filha mais nova não pode se casar por ter de cuidar da mãe durante toda a vida, começa a desestabilizar a subjugação que rege a família, mantido por sua mãe, chamada, na diegese, de Mamãe Elena. Para cumprir tal proposta, serão utilizados, neste artigo, prioritariamente, o conceito de Walter Mignolo (2003) para “pensamento liminar” e o de “subalternidade” proposta por John Beverley (2004).

Literacy and religion : the textual politics and practice of Seventh-day Adventism

This book explores the interrelation of literacy and religion as practiced by Western Christians in, first, historical contexts and, second, in one contemporary church setting. Using both a case study and a Foucauldian theoretical framework, the book provides a sustained analysis of the reciprocal discursive construction of literacy, religiosity and identity in one Seventh-day Adventist Church community of Northern Australia. Critical linguistic and discourse analytic theory is used to disclose processes of theological (church), familial (home) and educational (school) normalisation of community members into regulated ways of hearing and speaking, reading and writing, being and believing. Detailed analyses of spoken and written texts taken from institutional and local community settings show how textual religion is an exemplary technology of the self, a politics constituted by canonical texts, interpretive norms, textual practices, ritualised events and sociopolitical protocols that, ultimately, are turned in upon the self. The purpose of these analyses is to show how, across denominational difference in belief (tradition) and practice, particular versions of self and society are constructed through economies of truth from text, enabling and constraining what can and cannot be spoken and enacted by believers.

Multi-version documents : A digitisation solution for textual cultural artefacts

Textual cultural heritage artefacts present two serious problems for the encoder: how to record different or revised versions of the same work, and how to encode conflicting perspectives of the text using markup. Both are forms of textual variation, and can be accurately recorded using a multi-version document, based on a minimally redundant directed graph that cleanly separates variation from content.

Injuries leading to hospitalisation in the first year of life : analysis by trimester of age using coded data and textual description

Objective: To describe unintentional injuries to children aged less than one year, using coded and textual information, in three-month age bands to reflect their development over the year. Methods: Data from the Queensland Injury Surveillance Unit was used. The Unit collects demographic, clinical and circumstantial details about injured persons presenting to selected emergency departments across the State. Only injuries coded as unintentional in children admitted to hospital were included for this analysis. Results: After editing, 1,082 children remained for analysis, 24 with transport-related injuries. Falls were the most common injury, but becoming proportionately less over the year, whereas burns and scalds and foreign body injuries increased. The proportion of injuries due to contact with persons or objects varied little, but poisonings were relatively more common in the first and fourth three-month periods. Descriptions indicated that family members were somehow causally involved in 16% of injuries. Our findings are in qualitative agreement with comparable previous studies. Conclusion: The pattern of injuries varies over the first year of life and is clearly linked to the child's increasing mobility. Implications: Injury patterns in the first year of life should be reported over shorter intervals. Preventive measures for young children need to be designed with their rapidly changing developmental stage in mind, using a variety of strategies, one of which could be opportunistic developmentally specific education of parents. Injuries in young children are of abiding concern given their immediate health and emotional effects, and potential for long-term adverse sequelae. In Australia, in the financial year 2006/07, 2,869 children less than 12 months of age were admitted to hospital for an unintentional injury, a rate of 10.6 per 1,000, representing a considerable economic and social burden. Given that many of these injuries are preventable, this is particularly concerning. Most epidemiologic studies analyse data in five-year age bands, so children less than five years of age are examined as a group. This study includes only those children younger than one year of age to identify injury detail lost in analyses of the larger group, as we hypothesised that the injury pattern varied with the developmental stage of the child. The authors of several North American studies have commented that in dealing with injuries in pre-school children, broad age groupings are inadequate to do justice to the rapid developmental changes in infancy and early childhood, and have in consequence analysed injuries in shorter intervals. To our knowledge, no similar analysis of Australian infant injuries has been published to date. This paper describes injury in children less than 12 months of age using data from the Queensland Injury Surveillance Unit (QISU).

Book review: "Ideologies of Breast Cancer : Feminist Perspectives" Edited by Laura K. Potts. New York: St. Martin’s Press

Laura K. Potts’s edited collection of research on the meanings of breast cancer includes authors from the United Kingdom, the United States, and Canada whose perspectives draw on literary criticism, sociology, psychology, and cultural studies among others. The research employs various methodological approaches—for example, media analysis (Saywell et al.), autobiographical narratives (Potts), and analysis of social activism (Fishman)—to elucidate the multiple dimensions and diversity of breast cancer experiences. The first of two parts, “Meanings of Breast Cancer,” presents the problematical relationship between biomedicine and women’s constructions of breast cancer knowledge, the sexualized and maternalized breast in the print media about breast cancer, environmental risks to women’s health in the Bay Area of San Francisco, and women’s narratives of breast cancer and situating the self. In part 2, “Discourses of Risk and Breast Cancer,” examination of the discourses of prevention and risks to health are taken up in relation to breast cancer screening, the problem of prophylactic mastectomy for hereditary breast cancer, and environmental activism...