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Apart from an active and cooperative behavior, the proficient reading as a procedural-activity demands a number of specific abilities from the reader. The attitude the reader assumes during the reading process results, among other factors, from the objective of the reading activity. It is the objective that determines the relevance of the different elements presented in the text. Therefore, in this process of (re)construction of the meaning, there are some converging elements from reading and writing processes that should be identified by the reader so that, in a further stage, they will function as a resource to reach a better proficiency in the process of writing texts.

In 1996, Heidrun Krieger Olinto collects some articles about new ways of writing Literature History, which she calls "new German theories". Which theoretical canon is this one, that intends to highlight a new way of thinking studies on historiographic writing? This article analyses such theories under a new paradigm - the fall of the Berlin Wall and the transformations occurred since the passage from a imanentistic text configuration to a Reception Aesthetics based conception - and under a new perspective over past, not totalitarian, but fragmented. Next, it seeks in the most recent studies, organized by Maria Eunice Moreira in the book Histórias da literatura: teorias, temas e autores, parameters to find new theories on literature history, already previewed by Olinto.

This work is organized to obtein greater understanding of the phenomena involved in brain literacy, specifically the stages of acquisition proposed by Ferreiro and Teberosky. The discoveries of neuroscience, specifically the function of the hippocampus, allow hypothesizing about some brain phenomena involved in the acquisition of complex and reporting elements in the consolidation of long-term memory. These discoveries bring important pedagogical implications for the process of literacy.

The production of sounds apparently meaningless it is one of the first manifestations of the human being. When we “learn” to communicate in a coherent way, we still do not realize the difference between speech and writing, but we end up developing capacities and abilities evolved in language use, in the way it is most commonly accepted as adequate and efficient, to the purposes of good communication, without being aware of such a process. Native speakers, in general, are not familiar to the different levels of elements that constitute the language, however, the ones who wish to develop the linguistic conscience of learners need to domain the constitutive elements of language structure, correspondent to the linguistic levels , divided in: phonic (related to the phonologic conscience, is the first level of the structure of the language – written or spoken), morphologic (related to the word formation – gender, number), syntactic ( related to the structure of phrases, it determines the standard organizational rules of phrases and discourses), semantic ( related to the textual cohesion: the vocabulary choice, natural flow of ideas, adding of information, maintenance of the proposed theme) and pragmatics ( correspond to the language use in a communicative use: who talks, to whom; what about, when, through what is it spoken). This way, the teacher has the task to create strategies that contemplate work with all linguistic levels by the students, in order to make learning a success.

The aim of this paper is to discuss about the formation of meaning through the association among language, culture and cognition, which is considered inseparable. The meaning of each expression can be built only at the moment of the interaction, and it doesn’t exist before it. Thus, language is a way to this process, in which all kinds of knowledge are organized through interaction and with the projection onto hearer. Therefore, the relation language, culture and cognition is continuously built. The creation of meaning for oneself, for the other and for the world is done by inferential activity, which is demonstrated and exemplified in this text.

"Reuni as suas cartas e fiz um livro, sendo os pensamentos da senhora G. M." by Ian Alexander.

The reading and writing process intermediated by the most recent Água Viva edition is the object of attention in this essay, which focuses Clarice Lispector’s piece of work, understood as a quite introspective text. I have analyzed it considering its behavior as discourse and how the impression of introspection emanates from it and is evaluated by the graphic object that fashions it, including the paratexts that present and manipulate its reception. From a personal (and subjective) reading experience, I try to denude the esthetics-literary phenomena, in its dependence on the author-text-reader triangle as well as on its graphic issues.

This article reports the results of an ethnographic research which aimed at investigating the teaching practice of six English teachers in relation to the teaching of pronunciation in contrast to the students’expectations and to the theoretical assumptions of the approach adopted by the participant teachers.

This article is about Inácio, O enfeitiçado e Baltazar, novellas by Lúcio Cardoso published in a single book. These novellas represent a kind of rite of passage in the author’s life, taking into account that in O enfeitiçado, he adopts, for the very first time, the form of memories, a characteristic which was structurally based on Crônica da casa assassinada, the novel which made him notorious as a Brazilian writer. Our goal is to demonstrate how the author creates his narratives, stressing the importance of introspection and the technique of probing the characters’ minds who narrate the plots mentioned. According to this point of view, the author uses memory as a supporting point and reveals a common world to everyone who wishes to decipher the mystery which lies upon the other and the universe.

Analysis of the book Os sinos da agonia, by Autran Dourado. The symbolism of the bells. The romantic charater in opposite to the tragic. The connection of the work with the myth of Fedra. The narrative focus as essential element for the composition of the plot.

The present work analyzes the history of science-fiction literature in Brazil from the middle of the nineteenth century to the present. The goal is to investigate the process of marginalization of the genre from the standpoint of the construction of Brazilian literary canons. The comprehension of the canon parameters is a key to understand the non-assimilation of the genre by the official canon.

L’objectif de cet article c’est de réfléchir sur l’écriture métafictionnelle du roman A hora da estrela (1977), de Clarice Lispector. Il s’agit, plus précisément, de suivre la trajectoire du narrateur-personnage qui, en nous racontant l’histoire, nous raconte également sur soi-même. Pour ce faire, nous partirons de la théorie de Linda Hutcheon (1984) sur l’auto-référentialité du texte littéraire pour mettre en évidence qu’il y a, au cœur de l’œuvre citée, une préoccupation tout à fait particulière en ce qui concerne son structure théorique et littéraire.

Sergio Kokis, painter and writer, born in 1944 in Brazil and took root in Canada, he publishes his first book in 1994 – Le pavillon des miroirs, the only novel translated into Portuguese up to the moment. This work aims to present an analysis of the narrator of Le pavillon des miroirs, showing the proceedings of language exploration of the subjectivity, as well as the relations between memory and oblivion. We intend to show up as the narrator recovers experiences survived through episodes brought by the memory, oscillating between the present exiled in a cold Country, and the past of the childhood, survived in the city of the Rio de Janeiro. In the novel analysis, we will also think about the relevance of considering the narrative of Kokis as an autofiction, neologism created by Serge Doubrovsky (1977) in reply to the famous study of Philippe Lejeune (1975), The Autobiographical Pact, which points to the theoretical problems of the autobiography and its possible definitions, revealing the complexity of this type.

The novel Lavoura Arcaica , by Raduan Nassar, presents in its narrative structure, a series of symbols that refer to the universe of tradition and its collapse. Thus, it builds two semantic sets according to the establishment of semantic distinctions between the values of family and the feelings of the individual protagonist. This article examines the meaning of the symbols evoked by the narrator, setting pairs of opposition and networks of relationships in order to understand the cultural renewal from a symbolic subversion.

Úrsula is a novel that was published in 1859, by Maria Firmina dos Reis, a maranhese, poor and Afro-American writer. This book is the first introspective novel in the Portuguese language that brings the characters’ feelings and sensations to beyond the chronologic time. The narrator main feature is to create characters who talk with each other during the narrative and by doing it she brings the streaming of consciousness to the text. This happens while the narrator tries to organize the expectation of the readers.

In the 20th century, modern art denies the bond with the temporal and spatial world which was taken as real and absolute by traditional realism and by the common sense. Anatol Rosenfeld defends that modern novel is born when Proust, Joyce, and others, begin to ‘a desfazer a ordem cronológica, fundindo passado, presente e futuro’ (1973, p. 80). He also affirms that modern novel, like painting, is no longer mimetic, ‘recusando a função de reproduzir ou copiar a realidade empírica’ (ibidem, p. 76). According to him, realism, in the broadest sense of the term of designating a tendency of reproducing the apprehended reality by our senses, in a stylized way or not, idealized or not, is denied by modern novel. Therefore, the chronology and temporal continuity were shaken. Água Viva, on the contrary of a realistic novel, seems fragmented and/or not structured. A realistic novel presents a story based on chronologies, events, well defined characters, etc. Nevertheless, this scheme is not possible in Água Viva. The text of Lispector presents the characteristics of modern novel proposed by Rosenfeld (1973), which can be attributed to the intense relation with painting; however, Lispector goes beyond, and her text is characterized as “novel without novel” by Lucia Helena, using a terminology proposed by Barthes. From these considerations results the proposal of this work, which does not have as objective an attempt of the classification of the text of Lispector, but present a brief study related to some characteristics of modern novel proposed by Rosenfeld and the case of Água Viva, in a way to understand how the representation of reality is in the “Lispectorian” text.

This work presents a study proposal of the novel Os ambulantes de Deus (1976), of HermiloBorba Filho, and it emphasizes the concepts of iniciatic travel and of individuation, observable in the narrative. From the theories of Mircea Eliade, Marcel Brion and Arnold Van Gennep, it was discussed the character initiatic of the travel undertaken by the characters and, from the postulates of Jung, the individualistic process experencied by them was presented, mainly by the character Dulce Mil-Homens, from the remembrance and the repreparation of the facts survived up to the moment of the departure.

The essay presents an analysis of the novel Lavoura Arcaica , by Raduan Nassar. From the point of view of the narrator-protagonist, the text demonstrates how his words of subversive nature – full of controversial meanings as incestuous relationship, familiar coercion, religious punishment – have their origin in the familiar tradition, represented by the father.

This article focuses on the description of the process of elision of the vowel / a / in the Brazilian Portuguese personal variety. The analysis implemented is based on the theoretical-methodological model of Quantitative Sociolinguistics. In this text, the focus is on the structural issues that guide the application of the process. The results show that the linguistic restrictions - extension of the first word of the sequence, accent, word type, prosodic constituents and vowel quality - are the most relevant to the application of the elision, thus revealing itself as a process Without major social determinants.

"1968" by Marcelo Simões Nogueira.