In "'You Divided Sea by Your Might': The 'Conflict Myth' and the Biblical Tradition," I analyze the ancient west Asian theme of divine combat between …
Like Joyce's ‘Ulysses,’ J.G. Rosa's ‘Grande Sertão: Veredas’ (The Devil to Pay in the Backlands) transforms an apparently local and commonplace setting into a labyrinth …
As Sérgio Buarque de Holanda has shown, books about America written by explorers and their chroniclers present the new world as a paradise. Authors such …
This essay examines the cultural plan implemented by the municipal government of São Paulo between 1989 and 1992 and the reasons for its existence; in …
Using the models of Paradise and the Golden Age as starting points for the evaluation of discoveries inspired by the Divine Providence, Christopher Columbus and …
A obra de Fernando Pessoa em Itália está hoje facilmente acessível. As traduções são numerosas, assim como os ensaios críticos e as revisitações intertextuais. Assim …
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 …
Questioning the idea of Origin in Brazilian literary history, this essay proposes a substitutive historiographical methodology, based on Nietzsche's and Foucault's, genealogy. The notion of …
In the analysis of Guimarães Rosa's ‘Meu tio o iauaretê’, a historian could professionally emphasize Rosa's context or the connections with society, politics, economy, culture …
This article brings together contemporaries James Joyce and Fernando Pessoa in articulating the idea of mythologising the exiled self. There are interesting points of convergence …
This project argues that Paul adapted Greco-Roman mythic resources to promote his Judean Christ-cult among Gentiles. His letters articulate the cultic and moral-psychological corruption of …
Partindo dos materiais disponibilizados na recente edição Sebastianismo e Quinto Império (Ática, 2011), propõe-se uma leitura dos textos pessoanos que se debruçam sobre o autoproclamado …
Sinval Medina ficou encantado pela 'Fantasia' que o compositor norte-americano Louis Moreau Gottschalk (1829-1869) criou sobre o Hino Nacional brasileiro. O fascínio cresceu quando ele …
Dentre os catorze textos recentemente publicados na edição "Teatro Estático" (PESSOA, 2017), centrar-se-á a nossa análise sobretudo no drama Salomé, que reúne cinco fragmentos e …
ZILBERMAN, Regina (1994). A terra em que nasceste: imagens do Brasil na literatura. Porto Alegre: Ed. UFRGS (Série Síntese Universitária), 110 p. ISBN: 9788570253194.
