Since Zero (1975, Ignácio de Loyola Brandão) and A festa (1976, Ivan Ângelo) were published, the criticism about these works, in general, has analyzed them as experimental novels, justifying this experimental feature due ...

This work has the purpose to analyze Jack Kerouac’s, The Dharma Bums (1958), using Fredric Jameson’s analytical method, as described in The Political Unconscious: The Narrative as a Socially Symbolic Act (1992). Published ...

Considering the absence of universalizing concepts capable of evaluating the transformations in the artistic field in the contemporary period, this research proposes ways of developing critical work through a theoretical ...

The purpose of this study is to observe, analyze and understand, through the chronicle and travel literature structures, as well as textual strategies concerning the narrator’s perspective, and, more specifically, ...

The assignment develops a reading of João Cabral de Melo Neto’s book Paisagens com Figuras (Landscapes With Figures) (1956; 2003) - firstly published in his collected works volume Duas Águas (Two Waters) -, seeking out ...

The aim of this research is to point to the need for periodization (JAMESON, 1992) of Mark Twain's novels The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885) to revisit the contemporary reception ...

This dissertation aims to analyze William Shakespeare’s play Hamlet – prince of Denmark (1603) in dialogue with its filmic transcreation, Franco Zeffirelli’s Hamlet (1990) in order to verify the treatment given to the ...

"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 ...

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 ...