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This essay’s focus of interest is the presence of Edgar Allan Poe in Mario Quintana’s work, which can be evidenced by the intertextuality that may appear as an explicit theme, in some poems, or as a poetics that will inspire the possible approach of common elements, such as: the recurrence of some images, the given value of musicality and sonority. A double reading can reveal not only Mario Quintana as a Poe’s reader and admirer, but also as a writer, inventor of worlds and poets.

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Based on Gilbert Dunrad´s conception of an imaginary culture, which studies how images are produced, transmitted, as well as how they are accept; this study seeks primarily to strengthen the idea of imaginary, in order to present the kind of pedagogy that best suit to the imaginary. In this sense, this pedagogy should, not only balance the two image schemes established by the theorist, but also, embrace a pedagogy of laziness, release repressed and leisure.

The imaginary language is, today, a question based on the discussions about the possibilities of communication. This study aims analyze the search for clues that aimed to understand how the beings deal with their communicative competence and the frustration caused by the non-communication. Nowadays we have the necessity of reveal the mysteries of a language with ontological bases, in order to pursue a new paradigm. It will have to incorporate new rules into a new model, which will be broader and generous, where the symbolic/imaginary language shows its importance and concreteness. By studying this proposal this text aims to show a communication by the imaginary as an agreement and clarify some of its assumptions.

This paper begin considering the context of the historical and cultural crisis that atacked the authority of myth, as expressed in the epics of Homer and Hesiod, and goes forward showing the different efforts then performed, trying to explain or to justify the myth. As a result, the paper evolves as a history of the origins and development of the concept of “allegory”, as an interpretative category of myth, and comments some of its uses in antiquity, in the Renassaince, and in contemporary thought.

This study discusses the dynamic and the organization of macroimagens formed by the representative symbols of the Evil (the many kinds of death and the fear of time passage), as well as the redistribution of the group of images into three schemes: based on Gilbert Durand commentaries about the relevance of reorganize Durand’s structures of the imaginary. The way those schemes work is exemplified by the analyses of an eight years old girl narrative, which its main point is to define the female identity. The study of her imaginary’s trajectory reveals the perception of the negativity usually related with the female image and describes her mobilization in order to recognize herself as a woman.

The present sutdy aims to map the coletive imaginary of the Americas and the transculturas passages of figures and mythes that are responsable by its formation. This work has been possible due to the organization of the Dicionário de figuras e mitos literários das Américas – DFMLA, which has a total 77 entries. Even though we are aware of the non existence of a “big Americas’ narrative”, because its imaginary has a strong characteristic of heterogeneity and by a successive process of transculturalization, the DFML has revealed a number of some mythical figures and similar process, in the three Americas, of migration and supervision of origins mythes of the cultural heritage Greco-Latin.

The poetic text is the place of esthesias/esthetics, in which what matters is to consider in its analysis the referencialization and production of images, processes responsible for the effects of sense. So, the demarcation of the subject used to analyze the text “Leito de folhas verdes” provides a methodological issue: is the dialogue between literature and imaginary relevant to unveil the intricacies of the speech in Goncalves Dias? It is proposed as a response to take into account that the articulation of Literature and the Anthropology of the Imaginary is a path that is going to lead to discover, in the narrative of Gonçalves Dias, the particular and specific existence of a fruition that shows the process of the poet to organize his reflection and sensitivity to glimpse the imaginary of indigenous women. This question motivates the analysis of the poem “Leito de folhas verdes”, articulating it whit the approach from Durand’s of anthropological path of imaginary. The nucleating point of analysis shows, therefore, that those are the symbolic components from the speech of Gonçalves Dias that leads to understand his narrative.

Based on the theoretical support of Gilbert Durand (2002), his imaginary theory, this study aimed to realize a hermeneutical analysis of the book Doze noturnos de Holanda (1987), by Cecília Meireles. This was possible by verifying how the writer deals with the images and symbols that express an euphemistic attitude and an acceptance of Tânatos horrendous’ face, based on the typical structures of the nocturnal regime of imaginative, in its mystical and syntactical facet.

Les poèmes de Cantares de Hilda Hilst invitent au dévoilement du mythe de l’amour, défi que je cherche à enrichir dans cet article en recourant à la source «ovidiana» du mythe de Narcisse et de ses nombreuses cellules, avec la quête du savoir, la question de l’ ombre et de l’ équivoque et l’ intrigante relation entre l’amour et la haine, l’ amour et la mort. Comme l’ affirme Durand, les mythes sont des variations des archétypes provocant l’approximation et l’entrelacement des contenus mythiques. De tous les mythes sur les écarts amoureux et la conséquente solitude humaine, peu possèdent la beauté et la force psychique occasionnées par le mythe de Narcisse élaborée par Ovide. Outre le mythe de Narcisse, cet article préserve la généalogie de Eros et les androgynes malheureux exposés par Platon, l’ histoire de Salomon et Sulamita élaborée dans les Canticos bibliques. L’approche théorique implique Gilbert Durand, Jung, Freud et Kristeva.

The following text presents a criticism of terms and concepts from the history of witchcraft, which recognizes not only “magic”, “sorcery”, “witchcraft”. To understand magical acts it is necessary to make a few basic distinctions, as it is known that there will be as many practices as there are cultural systems, and according to the various singularities of the collective mind. Besides, new paths are presented to the contemporary historicist, who privileges the studies of symbolisms, mental representations, magic, myth and kinship, and is thus led to be cautious in relation to general classification systems or anthropological syntheses, before any conceptual undertaking.

The witch’s figure has always been present in children’s literature since its emergence, in the eighteen century, with the adaptation of the fairy tales to the bourgeois child. These stories are part of the men imaginary of all times and cultures. Examples of those tales can be found not only in the book written for children, but also in other kinds of cultural items. The objective of a study, which deals with A última bruxa written by Josué Guimarães, is to analyze how the image of the primary witch remains in the present, in other words, which elements have been kept, deleted or added to this character that can indicate the preservation, distortion or hybridization of the witch’s figure.

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In the line of Distributed Morphology (Halle and Marantz, 1993, 1994; Harris 1999), this paper proposes to describe and analyze groups of Portuguese non derived words ended in non stressed vowels /o, a, e/ or phonological “zero” that constitute form-classes (or declational classes). In this language there are four form-classes. The results permite to recognize the vowels /o/ and /a/ as creators of non-marked form-classes. The vowel /e/ has two different status, it can be either thematic vowel or epenthetic vowel.

In this paper, we present an analysis of the recurrence of the epenthetic vowel found in word-medial clusters both in Brazilian Portuguese (BP) (e.g. [I] in mag[I]ma) and in English learnt by Brazilians (e.g. [I] in mag[I]net). Based on the statement by Collischonn (2002) that the frequency of epenthesis found after BP prefixes such as sub- seems to be higher than the frequency of epenthesis found in medial-word clusters of nonprefixed words, we investigated the role of prefixes in the production of epenthetic vowels in BP and in English. According to the results we obtained from prefix transparency tests and statistical analyses, we conclude that prefixes play an important role in vowel epenthesis in BP and that epenthesis in English seems to be a result of language transfer from the learner’s L1 to the learner’s interlanguage.

In this paper, the analysis focus will be the cases of consonants epenthesis which appear systematically in the productions of the child under study. This phenomenon, which will be analyzed based on the Optimality Theory, can also be observed in the Dutch system confirming that the developmental stages in children’s grammars ought to mimic the diversity seen in the language typology (McCARTHY, 2002).

This paper aims to verify, in the phonological acquisition of English (L2), the implications of a variable phenomenon of an L1 dialect (Coda Condition Weakening (BISOL, 1999)), as well as the effects of different L1 dialects on the L2 system. We have framed the initial hypothesis that the variable production of obstruents in coda in Portuguese would act as a facilitator in the acquisition of English words. The study was based on L1 and L2 data obtained from subjects from the Southern part of Rio Grande do Sul and from Paraiba, which constitute different Brazilian Portuguese dialects. The data were organized in four independent variables (dialect, type of consonant, stress and sex) and, then, and statistically analyzed, using Goldvarb X (SANKOFF, TAGLIAMONTE and SMITH, 2005). The results revealed significant differences between the number of epenthesis in L1 found in Rio Grande do Sul and in Paraiba. As far as L2 is concerned, not many tokens of epenthesis have been found, which seems to attest that, at least in the acquisition of the target language syllable patterns, those learners already exhibit an interlanguage grammar fairly different from the one found in L1.

This paper aims to analyse cross-linguistically the vowel reduction and stress in Western Cheremis (Itkonen 1955, apud Hayes 1995) applying the proposal of the Multidimensional Metrical Plane (Magalhães, 2004, 2008). This approach follows the principles of metrical phonology (Lib erman and Prince, 1977; Halle and Vergnaud, 1987; Hayes 1995) and Optimality Theory (McCarthy and Prince, 1993), and was initially tested on Brazilian Portuguese data. It will be shown that in Western Cheremis, which reduces all non-full vowels, it is not necessary to call for any constraint like NonFinality (extrametricality) to capture the stress and vowel reduction facts.

This study is about one of the shandi fenomena, named degemination, in Italian. Degemination is the fusion of the first vowel, in a sequency of two vowels of same quality VV, in which the first vowel is at the end of a word and the second one occupies the begining of the following word. This study aims to prove that the blocking of degemination in Italian is the stress of the phonological sentence, when it is placed on the second vowel of the sequence, like it is in Brasilian Portuguese. Based on the framework of the Prosodic Theory (Nespor and Vogel, 1986), on the Ritmic Phonology (Nespor, 1993) and on the external shandi studies for the Brasilian Portuguese (Bisol, 1996a, 1996b, 2003) we have verified that the real block to the rule aplication in Italian is the stress of the phonological sentence.

In this paper, we analyze the mapping of tautosyllabic consonantal clusters in Portuguese in light of the Optimality Theory. It is observed that consonantal clusters in the same syllable are well-formed when the sonority distance between the consonants is +3, for instance, in the sequences pr and bl in words like prato (‘dish’) and blusa (‘blouse’). In clusters with a sonority distance lesser than +3, such as sp (sport) and pt (ptose, ‘ptosis’), there is a vowel before the sibilant or between the consonants, [i]sport e p[i]tose. To account for these facts it is proposed a constraint hierarchy in order to regulate the sonority distance between segments within a complex onset: *ONS DIST. It is also proposed a constraint that controls the sonority distance between segments in adjacent syllables: DIST -x. We argue that the interaction among these constraints and faithfulness constraints – OUTPUT-CONTIGUITY (no internal epenthesis), DEP (no epenthesis) e MAX (no deletion) – is responsible for the faithful mapping of the consonantal clusters and for the occurrence of vocalic epenthesis.