Based on a research made at Machado de Assis' personal library, this essay tries to identify possible inspiration sources (related to Psychiatry studies dated from …
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 …
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 …
Rachel de Queiroz's work is frequently analyzed in terms of the author and her protagonists' female condition. The presence of women is visible in the …
Nélida Piñon's ‘A República dos Sonhos’ (1984) parallels Brazilian history with the saga of the family of Madruga, an immigrant from Galicia. Using as her …
Discussing peculiar narrative ways in Ferdinand Denis' ‘Palmares’, a short novel practically unknown in the fortune of Brazilian early literature, this essay examines Denis' concepts …
Dalton Trevisan is one of Brazil's most prolific and enigmatic writers, author of some twenty collections of short stories and one novel. Beginning with his …
On more than one occasion, Brazil's foremost proponent of postmodern literature and theory, Silviano Santiago, has exploited "[o] ponto de vista privilegiado de enxergar a …
This essay performs a different reading of Clarice Lispector's work 'Água viva,' starting with the ecological and ecofeminist theories of recent years. The study focuses …
Because Poetry and History come together, overcoming Myth, it is the tour-de-force of Aeschylus' ‘Oresteia’, and also of modern Verissimo's ‘O continente’. ln one case, …
In his study of search narrative, the mythographer Joseph Campbell states: "Woman, in the imagistic language of mythology, represents the totality of what can be …
The following study of 'Amazona: novela', 'Ensaio # 1' and 'A tragédia brasileira: romance' intends to examine the relationship between authorial intention and the simultaneity …
This essay examines a series of metafictional examples in Erico Verissimo's work, that is, cases where the author introduced fictional writers with characters who, themselves, …
The narrative ethos performed by Caio Fernando Abreu's novel involves the empathic transformation of various others, in order to recount history, preserve memory, and remember. …
Clarice Lispector's ‘Um sopro de vida,’ published posthumously in 1979, inscribes the crisis of legitimation that characterizes modernity, a crisis associated to the breakdown of …