Love letters to the future

Carta-vídeo mostrada no evento Love Letters to the Future, realizado em Copenhague no dia 13/12, com leitura de mensagens para as gerações que estarão no planeta em 100 anos

An Englishwoman's love-letters.

Mode of access: Internet.

The works of Mr. Thomas Otway : containing his plays, poems, and love-letters.

v. 1. Alcibiades. Don Carlos. Titus and Berenice. Friendship in fashion. The soldiers fortune.--v. 2. The atheist. The orphan. Caius Marius. Venice preserved.

The Love letters of Mary Queen of Scots to James Earl of Bothwell : with her love sonnets and marriage contracts (being the long-missing originals from the gilt casket) : explained by state papers and the writings of Buchanan, Goodall, Robertson, Hume ... and a host of authors : forming a complete history of the origin of the Scottish queen's woes and trials before Queen Elizabeth /

Signatures: [A8], B-Uu4, a-h4.

Hafiz: a story of adventure and romance told from old family love letters written during the exciting events of the barionial feuds of seventeen hundred and thirty-four,

Mode of access: Internet.

A woman's love letters.

Printed on one side of leaf only. Poems. Author's autograph.

"Secretary in Fashion" and "Love-Letters": a study of socio-cultural and pragmatic-linguistic features in the late 17th century English language

Epistolary manuals are conspicuous historical documents for the pedagogy of letter writing; however, their actual usage as manuals by letter writers is unknown. "Secretary in Fashion" by Serre (1668), an epistolary manual, and "Love-Letters between a Nobleman and his Sister" (1684), an epistolary novel attributed to Behn, both give insights into epistolary conventions. Their inception and nature is interesting, considering their historical context. Despite the Restoration of Charles II, 17th century England was in a confused political state; as a result, texts regarding social convention or politics interested contemporary readers (the novel is inspired by a scandal of Lord Grey, an ardent Whig opposing Charles II). Past epistolary studies focus on 18th rather than 17th century manuals; the latter is typically used as supplementary information. Similarly, past epistolary fiction studies focus on 18th century texts; moreover, linguistic studies on Behn and the novel are deficient. Thus, this study addresses the research questions: 1) What are the socio-cultural and pragmaticlinguistic features represented in "Secretary in Fashion"? 2) What are the socio-cultural and pragmatic-linguistic features represented in "Love-Letters between a Nobleman and his Sister", and do any of these features correlate with the features represented in "Secretary in Fashion"? How far do the characteristic linguistic features of "Love-Letters between a Nobleman and his Sister" correlate with the practices recommended by the manual? Both texts were qualitatively analysed from an historical pragmatic perspective, which observes the potential effects of the socio-cultural and historical context. Also, as the texts concern shared discourses, comparisons were made with Gricean and Politeness Theory. The results show that the manual is a typical 17th century epistolary manual, aligning particularly with the "Academies of Complements", as it concerns the social conventions of the gentry. The novel mainly upheld instructions on form and matter; deviations occurred due to the amatory nature of some letters, and the narrative force affecting the style. Unfortunately, neither research question elucidates the actual usage of manuals. However, this study does show the epistolary practices of two writers, within specific contexts. It reveals that their 17th century English language use is affected by socialisation, in terms of social conventions concerning social rank, age, and gender; therefore, context varies language use. Also, their popularity reveals the interests of the 17th century society. Interest in epistolary-related texts, surely piques the interest of the modern reader as to why such epistolary-related texts were interesting.

Love in letters;

Mode of access: Internet.

[Liebes Fräulein Regina].

Bound courtship letters from Julius Fröhlich to his bride, Regina, April to July 1883

Cyrano de Bergerac héros d’une mythologie de la France : la pièce d’Edmond Rostand passée au crible de la sociocritique

On ne compte plus le nombre de représentations ou d’adaptations sur la scène ou à l’écran de la pièce de théâtre d’Edmond Rostand, Cyrano de Bergerac. Celle-ci a bénéficié d’un succès considérable en France et dans le monde, de la date de sa première représentation, le 28 décembre 1897, jusqu’à nos jours. Son héros, Cyrano de Bergerac, s’appuie librement sur l’écrivain réel, Savinien de Cyrano de Bergerac, qui vécut au XVIIe siècle mais dont pratiquement plus personne ne connaît l’existence. Aujourd’hui, tout le monde éprouve admiration et tendresse à l’égard du duelliste au grand nez qui, par ses lettres amoureuses, aide le beau Christian à conquérir le cœur de Roxane; mais nul ne lit plus Savinien de Cyrano de Bergerac. Sans doute la pièce de Rostand possède-t-elle de réelles valeurs littéraires, une construction rigoureuse, des personnages élaborés, une écriture poétique et légère, de l’humour, de l’émotion… Et cependant, malgré ces qualités indéniables, il demeure difficile d’expliquer son triomphe. Nous posons l’hypothèse selon laquelle, c’est à la manière dont Edmond Rostand a fait de Cyrano de Bergerac un mythe littéraire entouré de symboles propres à une identité dans laquelle les Français sont susceptibles de se reconnaître - et grâce aussi à un contexte sociopolitique dont il a réussi, volontairement ou pas, à tirer grand parti - qu’est attribuable le succès démesuré de la pièce. Rostand a créé un évangile de cape et d’épée sur fond d’Affaire Dreyfus pour un univers théâtral qui intègre les symboles autour desquels les Français se retrouvent volontiers : gastronomie, élégance, faconde, galanterie, fidélité, honneur, patriotisme, … panache.

1930, a Paraíba e o inconsciente político da revolução: a narrativa como ato socialmente simbólico

This work is an attempt to show that the ideological conflict that has been developed by the hegemony of the 1930 Revolution historical events in Paraíba, conceptually turned into an insoluble social contradiction. It ocurred due to imaginary or formal resolutions of the literature that ended up by altering the epistemological rules of the relation between fiction and reality. The present work is based on The unconscious politics: a narrative as a socially symbolic act , book in which all the literary or cultural texts can and should be read as symbolic resolutions to insoluble social contradictions. From string to contemporary literature this phenomenon has been registered by the several ways of textual production turning the 1930 Revolution into one of the main elements which guides the political scene of Paraíba. The ideological groups still centered on the political resentment and committed to a political conflict forged the existence of two historical truths: one which suits the liberais , the winners, and another is of the 1930 conflict. This work argues in favour of the unconscious politics of the 1930 Revolution. This thesis considers necessarily the relation that the Paraibana society maintains with its past and how this past reaches in the present the liberation of a hidden and repressed truth through its narrativization. Beyond that, how the ideological partiality generated the political resentment through the way of thinking of the rivals under the perspective of the good and evil reveals its insoluble social contradiction. Process which comprehends varied narrative forms of the mass culture products and literary production, as in the methodological perspective pointed by Fredric Jameson that all literary or cultural texts can and shall be read as symbolic resolutions of true political and social contradictions. In the case of Paraiba we will have resolutions that search for the reasons which caused the death of João Pessoa: forgery and publicity of love letters, dispute over the official version of suicide commited by João Dantas, the man who assassinated João Pessoa

A implementação do você em cartas pessoais norte-riograndenses do século XX

Considering the theoretical and methodological presuppositions of Variationist Sociolinguistics (cf. WEINREICH; LABOV; HERZOG, 2006; LABOV, [1972] 2008), in this dissertation, we describe and analyze the process of variation/change involving the personal pronouns tu and você, and its extension in the pronominal paradigm in Brazilian Portuguese (BP), in three sets of personal letters written by people from Rio Grande do Norte (RN) along the 20th century. The discursive universe of those letters is news from the cities in which the informers lived and the themes from their everyday life (trade, jobs, trips, family and politics). Part of the analyzed letters integrate the written by hand minimum corpus of the Projeto de História do Português Brasileiro no Rio Grande do Norte (PHPB-RN). We are based on previous studies about the pronominal system in BP Menon (1995), Faraco (1996), Lopes e Machado (2005), Rumeu (2008), Lopes (2009), Lopes, Rumeu e Marcotulio (2011), Lopes e Marcotulio (2011) e Martins e Moura (2012) , which register the form você replaces tu from the end of the first half of 20th century and attest the following situation: while (a) the imperative verbal forms, (b) the explicit subjects and (c) prepositional complement pronouns are favorable contexts for você, the (d) non imperative verbal forms (with null subject), (e) the non prepositional complement pronoun and (f) the possessive pronoun are contexts of resistance of tu. The results got in this dissertation confirm, partially, the statements defended by the previous studies regarding the favorable contexts for the implementation of você in BP: (i) there are, in the letters from the first two decades of 20th century (1916 to 1925), high frequency of the usage of the form você (98%); (ii) in the personal letters of RN especially in the love letters, in which there are higher recurrence of intimate subjects the discursive universe proved to be itself very relevant in the determination/conditions of the forms of tu; (iii) the unique feminine informer of our sample uses, almost categorically, the forms of tu in letters of the period from 1946 to 1972; (iv) the letters corresponding to the period from 1992 to 1994 present a significant usage of the forms associated to the innovating você, letting appear the change is already implemented in the system of BP and there are, in that set of letters, strong evidences that make us state the pronominal forms of non prepositional complement (accusative/ dative) related to tu are also implemented in a system with an almost categorical usage of você

French profiles /

The last chapter, which is not in any sense a profile, was published, in a French translation made by Henry D. Davray, in the Mercure de France and then as a separate brochure. The profiles are reprinted in part from the Fortnightly review, the Contemporary review, the International quarterly review, the Saturday review, the Daily chronicle, and the Cosmopolis. cf. Pref.

On My Mind

Thesis (Master's)--University of Washington, 2016-06

Mundos prohibidos: El poder en el discurso epistolar de Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda y Juana Borrero

This dissertation analyses, through a theoretical framework and a critical approach, letters of Cuban writers Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda and Juana Borrero. While love letters have captured the interest of some scholars, such as Claudio Guillén, Cintio Vitier and Alexander Roselló Selimov, the conflict that the analysis of non-literary texts poses has prevented further research in this field. Therefore, I propose a systematic method of analysis encompassing but not limited to evaluating letters based on their purpose, intent, interpretation, and temporal and spatial composition; analyzing the perspective and function of epistolary entities, and examining the textual signs that distinguish the epistolary forms from the literary forms. With this analytical tool, I examine a selection of letters of Gómez de Avellaneda and demonstrate that the writer displaces her identify from the autobiographic self to the epistolary self, in order to manipulate the perspective of her addressee. Caught between the Neoclassical way of thinking and the Romantic aesthetics, her assertive discourse, also reflected in her epistolary work, contributed to the incursion of women writers into the social and professional life of the nineteen century. Following the same method of investigation, an analysis of letters written by Borrero proves that, by building a world of delusion, hallucination and fantasy the writer brings to prose what first generation of female modernistas had done in poetry. In both cases, my focus is on the strategies that turn these letters into instruments of power, process that transformed the love-letter paradigm and forever renovated the women epistolary genre. This dissertation further explores the possibility of initiating a cycle in the study of personal letters to uncover a forgotten genre, mission that might build a bridge to embrace the new forms of written communication that scholars have already begun to explore in contemporary literature.