"Um dia no cais", by João Antônio, was firstly published in the magazine Realidade under the categorization of "short story-report". This designation makes us suppose a mixture, in text, of two different textual genres ...

This work aims to study two short stories by the writer Machado de Assis, taking in consideration their thematic approximation, leading one to believe that the second short story, "Uma senhora", from 1883, would be the ...

The goal of the dissertation is the comparison of fantastic tales of the romantic writer Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) and the Brazilian writer, who also produced stories of the fantastic genre, Machado de Assis (1839-1908). ...

The tradition of critical studies of Machado de Assis’ work put aside his f breaking his trajetory in two phases and valuing positively only the one called “maturity phase”. The objects of this study are the author’s inicial ...

The objective of this dissertation is demonstrate by means of a dialectical reading of Preface to Shakespeare (1765) by Samuel Johnson (1709-1784), that the reassessment of the doctrine of the units (action, time and ...

Esta investigación de maestría tiene como su objetivo principal comprender la construcción de los personajes femeninos en la obra del escritor uruguayo Horacio Quiroga. El hecho del autor tener escrito para diversas revistas ...

Considering that editorial mediation plays a constitutive role in the functioning of the discursive regimes of literature, we state a hypothesis: whenever a literary work is (re)published as a new editorial object, the ...

The literary production of the Portuguese writer Al Berto (1948-1997) can be understood not as, exclusively, the expression of a "homosexual" voice in the most recent Portuguese literature; it is, before that, a mode of ...

Sylvia Plath is a North-American writer recognized for her modern confessional poetry, especially after the posthumous publication of Ariel (1965). In the present study the main aspects of her work and her literary legacy ...

The object of study of this work is the novel An Apprenticeship or The Book of Delights, published in 1969, by the writer Clarice Lispector. The main objective is to show that this novel can be considered a “resistance ...