(Re)criando (mini)contos de terror: uma experiência de ensino de leitura e escrita de gênero multimodal

Given the multiplicity of languages and media present in contemporary texts, the work with digital genres characterizes itself as essential for teaching, reading and writing. Virtual media is already present in many dayly activities that require the use of language. This shows that the globalized world brings new demands of literacy and various reading practices. Given this perspective, we propose to work the multiliteracies present in the new texts from the enunciative discourse Bakhtinian assumptions. For this, we chose to be as the object of research / intervention, the horror flash fiction multimodal discursive genre, because it is a multissemiótico digital statement of virtual circulation. In this context, this study aimed to understand how the teaching of this kind can contribute to the development of knowledge related to reading and text production, required by multiliteracies, by performing a Didactic Sequence in the classroom, specifically for two classes of elementary school, 7th and 8th grades of public school. The research was based on Bakhtin's theory and the Circle (2009, 2011) on gender perspective in a dialogic and the proposed Dolz and Schneuwly (2004) for the text of teaching through sequences Teaching. We also use the precepts of multiliteracies focused on Rojo (2012, 2013). The methodology used was based on a qualitative approach. We consider the analysis of minicontos produced by students, it's own hibridism of multiliteracies, the discursive characteristics such as composition, style and subject content, in addition to relations dialogicity present in these statements. At the end of the study, we realized that our intervention contributed to the expansion of knowledge of the subjects involved related to reading and multimodal genre production.

The Gothic scene of international relations: ghosts, monsters, terror and the sublime after September 11

Accepting Furet’s claim that events acquire meaning and significance only in the context of narratives, this article argues that a particular type of international relations narrative has emerged with greater distinction after the traumatic experience of September 11: the gothic narrative. In a sense the political rhetoric of President Bush marks the latest example of America’s fine tradition in the gothic genre that began with Edgar Allan Poe and Nathaniel Hawthorne and extends through Henry James to Stephen King. His discourse of national security, it will be shown, assumes many of the predicates of gothic narratives. The gothic scenes evoked by Bush as much as Poe involve monsters and ghosts in tenebrous atmospheres that generate fear and anxiety, where terror is a pervasive tormentor of the senses. Poe’s narratives, for example, turn on encounters with dark, perverse, seemingly indomitable, forces often entombed in haunted houses. Similarly, Bush’s post-September 11 narratives play upon fears of terrorists and rogue states who are equally dark, perverse and indomitable forces. In both cases, ineffable and potently violent and cruel forces haunt and terrorise the civilised, human world.

O fascínio e o terror da natureza em Fernando Pessoa

Impõe-se, para começar, pôr em causa duas idéias feitas: a de que Alberto Caeiro, o Mestre da família pessoana, é um "poeta da Natureza", como ele a si próprio se apelidou, e a outra, mais geral, de que a Natureza é paisagem. Convém lembrar que Pessoa foi um citadino assumido. Nasceu e morreu em Lisboa, passou oito anos numa cidade da África do Sul, Durban, e fez nascer em três cidades diferentes de Portugal os seus heterônimos: Alberto Caeiro em Lisboa, Álvaro de Campos em Tavira e Ricardo Reis no Porto. É verdade! até Caeiro nasceu numa cidade, Lisboa, apesar de ter ido muito novo viver para o campo - para o Ribatejo. Instado por um amigo, Francisco Cabral Metelo, a quem fez o favor de um prefácio, a ir passar uns tempos com ele no campo, na quinta dos pais. Pessoa respondeu, declinando o convite, que tinha o espírito "insuficientemente panorâmico"'. E para melhor exprimir o anti-bucolismo dessa sua alma citadina ainda acrescentou que "há árvores, pedras, flores, rios que são tão estúpidos que parecem gente". Também convém não esquecer que, numa célebre carta a João Gaspar Simões, que ele sempre gostou de arreliar. Pessoa desmistifica os seus "fingimentos" autobiográficos que o exegeta tinha interpretado ao pé da letra, lembrando-lhe que "o sino da sua aldeia" era o da Igreja dos Mártires, ali ao Chiado - onde até por sinal fora baptizado.

The botany of the Antarctic voyage of H.M. discovery ships Erebus and Terror in the Years 1839-1843 :under the command of Captain Sir James Clark Ross /by Joseph Dalton Hooker.

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Does terrorism create terror?

The conceptual and etymological meaning of the terms 'terror' and 'terrorism' is so closely connected that it seems difficult to distinguish the one from the other. How- ever, by comparing the idea that terrorism inevitably creates terror with the results of recent empirical studies of the psychological effects of terrorist attacks, four different points of view emerge corresponding to four distinct interpretations of the results. It is thus clearly necessary to redefine the terminology relating to terrorism, in order to con- duct the discussion on a more rigorous basis.

Terror cognoscitivo y terror metafísico en la obra de Jorge Luis Borges

Los cuentos de Jorge Luis Borges pertenecen, de algún modo, al género de la literatura de terror. No en un sentido estricto, claro está, pero tampoco en un sentido meramente metafórico. Ciertamente, los cuentos que integran Ficciones o El Aleph aterrorizan a todo el mundo, pues muchos no los leen por miedo de no entenderlos y el resto, al leerlos, se ven embargados por ese terror metafísico que provoca la violentación de nuestros modos de entender la realidad. Borges es, pues, un terrorista, pero un terrorista apaciguador, puesto que busca aterrorizarnos con el objetivo de liberarnos del miedo. Se trata, por así decirlo, de un miedo homeopático, de un purgante que ha de ser expulsado junto con todo aquello que buscaba eliminar. Mi intención es estudiar de qué modo podemos sostenerle la mirada a los cuentos de Borges, con el doble objetivo de posibilitar su lectura a aquellos que los evitan por miedo a no entenderlos y de ayudar a aquellos que osan leerlos a superar el miedo mediante el cual Borges pretende serenarnos.

Review of Rewriting Terror: The 9/11 Terrorists in American Fiction (Juanjo Bermúdez de Castro, 2012)

In the wake of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, many authors of fiction, filmmakers, journalists, public figures and scholars have attempted to narrate, recreate, explain, reflect on, and theorize about the event and its aftermath.

The inadequate dominance of realism : an analysis of the U.S. war on terror /

There has been and will continue to be substantial debate over how the international system can best be characterized. The objective of this paper is to demonstrate that the international system can best be characterized by the essential features of realism, but the use of realist policy prescriptions are inadequate when applied independently to deal with the threat of terrorism as it exists today. In order to demonstrate this an examination of realism in the international system, U.S. foreign policy, and case analysis of Afghanistan and Iraq will be undertaken to demonstrate that although realist policy prescriptions do have a role in dealing with modem transnational security threats, these prescriptions on their own are inadequate when dealing with terrorism.