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'O Uraguai': the epic of the conquest of the South

Description:
The opening of Basílio da Gama's ‘Uraguai’ (1769) recalls the ‘Iliad'. In fact Basílio da Gama's poem is modelled after the ‘Iliad’ and the ‘Odyssey’. …
Year:
1993
Contributor:
Schüler, Donaldo (author)
Genre:
articles
Subject:
Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
Eurocentrism
Indians of South America
Gama, José Basilio da > 1740-1795
Homer
Collection:
Journals@BDR
Portuguese and Brazilian Studies
BRASIL/BRAZIL: A Journal of Brazilian Literature
Full Record

'São Bernardo': temporal dialectic and duplicity of the individual

Description:
Although a legitimate representative of the generation of the 30s in his themes and ideology, in ‘São Bernardo’ Graciliano Ramos employs narrative strategies which are …
Year:
1994
Contributor:
Ritzel Remédios, Maria Luíza (author)
Genre:
articles
Subject:
Brazilian fiction > 20th century > Brazil, Northeast
Multiple person narrative
Criticism, Narrative
Ideology
Realism in literature
Ramos, Graciliano > 1892-1953
Collection:
Journals@BDR
Portuguese and Brazilian Studies
BRASIL/BRAZIL: A Journal of Brazilian Literature
Full Record

'The Amazonian statue: Uma comédia arqueológica,' by Araújo Porto-Alegre

Description:
In 1851, Araújo Porto-Alegre published in Rio de Janeiro, through the Biblioteca Guanabarense, a play entitled A Estátua Amazônica an Archeological Comedy. This play was …
Year:
2015
Contributor:
Poncioni, Claudia (author)
Genre:
articles
Subject:
Amazon River Region
Porto Alegre, Manuel de Araújo > 1806-1879
Collection:
Journals@BDR
Portuguese and Brazilian Studies
BRASIL/BRAZIL: A Journal of Brazilian Literature
Full Record

'The Grammarian', an adaptation of 'O Colocador de Pronomes' by Monteiro Lobato

Description:
It is common to call certain texts "untranslatable." ln Brazilian literature, perhaps the two most widely cited 20th century examples are João Guimarães Rosa's masterpiece …
Year:
1998
Contributor:
Lobato, José Bento Monteiro (author)
Landers, Clifford E. (translator)
Genre:
fiction (general genre)
Subject:
Short stories, Brazilian (English) > 20th century
Language awareness
Humor in literature
Grammar
Translation
Lobato, José Bento Monteiro > 1882-1948
Collection:
Journals@BDR
Portuguese and Brazilian Studies
BRASIL/BRAZIL: A Journal of Brazilian Literature
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'The strange legion,' the short story: the polyepiphanic moment in Clarice Lispector

Description:
This article analyses Clarice Lispector’s “The foreign legion”. The short story describes the encounter of the narrator/writer with a girl named Ofélia. The interaction between …
Year:
2020
Contributor:
Serafini, Breno Camargo (author)
Genre:
articles
Subject:
Epiphany in literature
Lispector, Clarice > 1920-1977
Collection:
Journals@BDR
Portuguese and Brazilian Studies
BRASIL/BRAZIL: A Journal of Brazilian Literature
Full Record

'Vigília de Pai João': Lino Guedes articulates a black voice in Brazil

Description:
ln 1936 Lino Guedes, by then a long-time militant in the black press in São Paulo, published 'Vigília de Pai João', a drama about slaves …
Year:
2010
Contributor:
Moreira, Paulo (author)
Genre:
articles
Subject:
Black authors
Blacks > Race identity > Brazil
Collection:
Journals@BDR
Portuguese and Brazilian Studies
BRASIL/BRAZIL: A Journal of Brazilian Literature
Full Record

(Author)itative perspectives: the infusion of sociology and crónica within Brazilian and Colombian shantytown testimonial narrative

Description:
This article analyzes José Alejandro Castaño's 2003 book 'La isla de Morgan' and José Padilha's 2004 documentary 'Ônibus 174' as two examples of a recent …
Year:
2012
Contributor:
Graves, Toby Weisslitz (author)
Genre:
articles
Subject:
Social problem films
Slums in literature
Castaño Hoyos, José Alejandro > 1972-
Padilha, José > 1967-
Collection:
Journals@BDR
Portuguese and Brazilian Studies
BRASIL/BRAZIL: A Journal of Brazilian Literature
Full Record

A bowl of nard and thirty pieces of silver; Brief note on a tiger

Description:
In lieu of an abstract, this is an excerpt from the first page: "Offer a little more than enough, write a long letter, handwritten, when …
Year:
2015
Contributor:
Ianelli, Mariana (author)
Santos, Eloína Prati dos (translator)
Genre:
fiction
Subject:
Ianelli, Mariana > 1979-
Collection:
Journals@BDR
Portuguese and Brazilian Studies
BRASIL/BRAZIL: A Journal of Brazilian Literature
Full Record

A Brazilian writer (Monteiro Lobato) in New York

Description:
Between May of 1927 and March of 1931, the Brazilian writer Monteiro Lobato (1882-1948) lived in the United States, where he functioned as a commercial …
Year:
2006
Contributor:
Lajolo, Marisa (author)
Genre:
articles
Subject:
City dwellers in literature
Lobato, José Bento Monteiro > 1882-1948
Collection:
Journals@BDR
Portuguese and Brazilian Studies
BRASIL/BRAZIL: A Journal of Brazilian Literature
Full Record

A critical reappraisal of the poetic canon: for a new literary history

Description:
This paper deals with the poetics of gender, but is not limited to the question of feminism and poetry. It posits, rather, that in terms …
Year:
1988
Contributor:
Miller, Beth (author)
Genre:
articles
Subject:
Feminism
Women poets > Brazil > 20th century
Modernism (Literature) > Brazil
Canon (Literature)
Poetics
Politics and literature
Meireles, Cecília > 1901-1964
Machado, Gilka > 1893-1980
Collection:
Journals@BDR
Portuguese and Brazilian Studies
BRASIL/BRAZIL: A Journal of Brazilian Literature
Full Record

A fugitive text in 'Água viva': individual, writing and culture in Clarice Lispector

Description:
The purpose of this article is to investigate the narrative transformation presented by Clarice Lispector in 'Água Viva' (1973), in which the author refuses to …
Year:
1994
Contributor:
Helena, Lucia (author)
Genre:
articles
Subject:
Brazilian fiction > 20th century
Women novelists > Brazil > 20th century
Criticism, Narrative
Creative writing
Lispector, Clarice
Collection:
Journals@BDR
Portuguese and Brazilian Studies
BRASIL/BRAZIL: A Journal of Brazilian Literature
Full Record

A general and partial view of "Brazilian literature"

Description:
Brazilian literature has for a long time enclosed itself within the frontiers of nationalism and cultural identity. This essay proposes that critics and historians deal …
Year:
2014
Contributor:
Saraiva, Arnaldo (author)
Genre:
articles
Subject:
Internationalism in literature
Globalization
Humanity in literature
Collection:
Journals@BDR
Portuguese and Brazilian Studies
BRASIL/BRAZIL: A Journal of Brazilian Literature
Full Record

A history of the reading of 'Confissões de uma viúva moça'

Description:
The essay describes the polemic occurred in newspapers of Rio de Janeiro when Machado de Assis’ short-story “Confissões de uma viúva moça” was released in …
Year:
2016
Contributor:
Bergamini, Atilio (author)
Genre:
articles
Subject:
Books and reading
Machado de Assis > 1839-1908
Collection:
Journals@BDR
Portuguese and Brazilian Studies
BRASIL/BRAZIL: A Journal of Brazilian Literature
Full Record

A hora dos corvos': the reinvention of Prometheus in Carlos Drummond de Andrade

Description:
In this essay I analyze the poem “Anoitecer", by Carlos Drummond de Andrade. I argue that the poet shows, through a unique reconfiguration of the …
Year:
2012
Contributor:
Ribeiro, Guilherme (author)
Genre:
articles
Subject:
Poetry
Andrade, Carlos Drummond de > 1902-1987
Prometheus (Greek deity)
Collection:
Journals@BDR
Portuguese and Brazilian Studies
BRASIL/BRAZIL: A Journal of Brazilian Literature
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A man in snake's clothing: the hidden naturalist ideology of 'Cobra Norato'

Description:
This article examines the ways in which references to the Amazon in 'Macunaíma' and in 'Cobra Norato' subvert traditional conceptions of this region and seek …
Year:
2002
Contributor:
Maligo, Pedro (author)
Genre:
articles
Subject:
Amazon River Region
Andrade, Mário de > 1893-1945
Macunaíma
Bopp, Raul > 1898-1984
Collection:
Journals@BDR
Portuguese and Brazilian Studies
BRASIL/BRAZIL: A Journal of Brazilian Literature
Full Record

A man in the crowd of Rio de Janeiro's 'Belle Époque': interstices in the chronicles of João do Rio

Description:
The present study looks into texts written by João do Rio (1881-1921) from a hybridity perspective and addresses the principal question to search different approaches …
Year:
2007
Contributor:
Hanna, Vera Lúcia Harabagi (author)
Genre:
articles
Subject:
Brazilian literature > European influences
City and town life in literature
Rio, João do > 1881-1921
Collection:
Journals@BDR
Portuguese and Brazilian Studies
BRASIL/BRAZIL: A Journal of Brazilian Literature
Full Record

A newly discovered poem by Clarice Lispector

Description:
This text discusses the reasons for which Clarice Lispector dedicated herself to fictional prose, despite her novels and short stories having a significant poetic quality …
Year:
2007
Contributor:
Moser, Benjamin (author)
Genre:
articles
Subject:
Brazilian poetry
Lispector, Clarice > 1920-1977
Collection:
Journals@BDR
Portuguese and Brazilian Studies
BRASIL/BRAZIL: A Journal of Brazilian Literature
Full Record

A pop biography: Benjamin Moser and Clarice Lispector

Description:
This text discusses Benjamin Moser's work and biography of Clarice Lispector
Year:
2017
Contributor:
Guidin, Márcia Lígia (author)
Genre:
back matter
Subject:
Biography
Lispector, Clarice > 1920-1977
Collection:
Journals@BDR
Portuguese and Brazilian Studies
BRASIL/BRAZIL: A Journal of Brazilian Literature
Full Record

A strategy for writing: contracting contemplation in ‘Budapeste’ and ‘Leite derramado’

Description:
This essay discusses the process of identity construction in two novels of Chico Buarque, the celebrated Brazilian songwriter and popular singer from the 1960s. This …
Year:
2017
Contributor:
Zir, Alessandro (author)
Genre:
articles
Subject:
Identity (Philosophical concept) in literature
Buarque, Chico > 1944-
Collection:
Journals@BDR
Portuguese and Brazilian Studies
BRASIL/BRAZIL: A Journal of Brazilian Literature
Full Record

A turn about the time-spaces of the Sobrado

Description:
The aim of this article is to investigate how the characters of 'Time and the Wind' ('O Tempo e o Vento'), by Erico Verissimo, absorb …
Year:
2020
Contributor:
Novroth, Ana Lúcia Macedo (author)
Genre:
articles
Subject:
Space and time in literature
Veríssimo, Erico > 1905-1975
Collection:
Journals@BDR
Portuguese and Brazilian Studies
BRASIL/BRAZIL: A Journal of Brazilian Literature
Full Record

Items (21-40) out of 899 results