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The aim of this paper is to show how Maurice Blanchot establishes a contemporary theory of the genius on his analysis of the relationship between literary experience and death. At first, we will specify in which terms it is possible to say that Blanchot formulates a theory of the genius, opposing it to text gender theory. We will also investigate how Blanchot’s thought departs from Hegel, Nietzsche and Heidegger towards the articulation of death and ontology of literary creation. At last, we will analyze how Blanthot’s ontology of literary creation institutes itself on the notion that the fundament of being is actually language negativity itself.

The representation of the History in the novel O tempo e o vento has three of the most important philosophical movements that were assimilated by intellectuals in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. In the dialogues among the characters Rodrigo Cambará, Rubim Veloso and Jairo Bittencourt we find references to Augusto Comte's positivism, Spencer's social evolutionism and Nietzsche's superman. These dialogues talks about a crucial period of cultural and political Brazilian History and help to characterize the ideological position of the characters.

Examination of the relationship between hermeneutics and Reception aesthetics, particularly of literary hermeneutics, a branch of hermeneutics, whose methodological organization is required and provided by Hans Robert Jauss, one of the greatest exponents of the School of Constance, the cradle of Reception aesthetics. Corollary of this exercise is the effectiveness of a rich and productive dialogue between philosophy and literary studies.

This article features the possible connection among the poem "Alumbramento", by Manuel Bandeira, Plato's Allegory of the Cave, and the ancient Greeks’ aletheia. The metaphysics’ critique on the destinations of Western thinking and man's relationship with the poetic is combined with the contribution of the original, or pre-philosophical, thinkers; rescuing their key issues. The dazzled (or, in Portuguese, alumbrado) gaze of Bandeiras’ poem is transmuted by the thought of Martin Heidegger, through which the aletheia issue is retrieved as the ancient experience of truth; combined with phýsis and logos, in the dimension of the Being, from the Platonic myth, Parmenides’ poem, “On Nature”, and some fragments of Heraclitus.

Gaspar Pires de Rebelo’s Infortúnios trágicos da constante Florinda was published in 1625. Given its conspicuous success, a sequel, Segunda parte da Constante Florinda, em que se trata dos infortúnios que teve Arnaldo buscando-a pelo mundo, came out in 1633. Constante Florinda (this is the title both parts became known as), largely disseminated in the 17th and 18th centuries, was nonetheless virtually forgotten in the subsequent centuries. The purpose of this article is to demonstrate that the profit from the narration of Florinda’s and Arnaldo’s misfortunes reflects 16th and 17th-century stoic-christian doctrine, profoundly advertised by authors such as Justus Lipsius and Francisco de Quevedo. Thus, by analyzing Constante Florinda´s passages, this paper seeks to highlight that the narration is also doctrine, and conveys the (tragic) paths, with stoic exempla, of christian life.

In this paper, we aim at investigating the contributions of Bakhtin’s Circle studies (1998[1975], 2003[1979], 2008[1929]; (VOLOCHÍNOV) 2006[1929]), specifically concerning the discourse genres, and the dialogue between these studies with the contemporary researches about the textual-linguistic analysis (CASTILHO. CASTILHO, 1993; KOCH, 2004; MARCUSCHI, 2008, NASCIMENTO, 2009) to the teaching of linguistic analyses in Portuguese language classes in the Basic Education context in order to understand how (i) Bakhtin Circle studies can contribute to the linguistic analysis through discourse genre; (ii) the stylistic and compositional projections reveled by genre analysis reflect (and refract) the semantic and evaluative potentialities of the different linguistic elements and (iii) the use of linguistic resources are situated by the interaction situation mediated by the genre. In methodological terms, this paper presents a discussion about how a previous discourse genre analysis contributes to the teacher’s work with linguistic analysis in Portuguese language classes at school. To do so, we review the previous research about the advice letter genre in the journalism sphere (ACOSTA-PEREIRA, 2012) to verify how the discourse genre regularities can collaborate to didactic elaboration of linguistic analysis activities at school. We believe that the present investigation is relevant not only because it can contribute to the bakhtinian Applied Linguistic researches, but also it can collaborate to the discussions concerning the reconstruction of teaching and learning practices in the context of Portuguese language classes.

: This article aims to discuss authorship and the possible coercion involved in the production of High School Portuguese Language course books, by observing and analyzing teachers’ guidelines and their approach as far as visual and verbo-visual texts are concerned. For that matter, two course book series indicated by PNLEM 2009 were chosen. For our work, we picked up a reading activity and six excerpts from the teachers’ guidelines. By confronting the data, we aim to understand how the guidelines found in the official documents that deal with teaching the Portuguese Language in High Schools interfere in the production of books, revealing the coercions in the process. Thus, our discussion is founded on Bakhtin’s and the Circle’s enunciative-discursive theoretical framework, which can help us understand how the conflicts involved in book production can be perceived in the edited books and analyzed from a dialogic perspective. Corpus analysis revealed that the guidelines found in teachers’ books were not always dealt with in the authors’ pedagogical proposal, clearly revealing a conflict between the authorial and official voices and a gap between what is proposed in the teachers’ guidelines and what is actually proposed in the reading activities of visual and verbo-visual texts.

What is there which is particularly alive in philosophical writing that materializes elements and literary genres? To where and to what kind of hybridity does the meeting of writings point? Based on these questions, this paper reflects on the literary writing by the philosopher Nietzsche. We explore the relationship between his metaphorical writing and the considerations about the metaphorical nature of language, elaborated by the philosopher. Besides, we discuss the aphorism and the essays in Nietzsche´s work, his constant overlapping and hybridity, the narrative and poetry embodied in essays and aphorisms as well as the narrative that is poetically built in Thus Spoke Zarathustra.

Presentation of the issue: Variationist Sociolinguistics

This essay seeks to highlight some contemporary readings of the novel The Life and opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, written by Laurence Sterne. From this general purpose, two complementary goals are established: articulate the passage of "mimesis" to "performance" on the novel by Sterne and check its productivity to a reinterpretation of the concept of Weltliteratur (world literature) starting from Erich Auerbach.

Review of "Cacau, vozes e orixás na escrita de Jorge Amado" organized by Biagio D’Angelo and Márcia Rios.

Presentation of the Literature issue on Weltliteratur Today

We intend to study in this text as Jorge de Lima if it uses of the inspiration (the dreamlike is the element which provides the poetic impulse), the technical work (the plight of the language by the poetic exercise) and the memory (from childhood and in his ancestral sense, from the mythical Muse figure) for the elaboration of the Livro de Sonetos, elements that disclose the conception poetical of its lyric end.

Issues regarding the organization and processing of the bilingual mental lexicon present a challenge for researchers interested in investigating second language acquisition. Research related to the memory of words for the bilingual’s two languages present different results, which intensify this debate. On one side of this debate, researchers support a theory that there is a shared storage for the lexicons of the first and second languages; on the other side, researchers support a theory that storage is separate. This debate also raises questions related to the activation of the bilingual’s two languages during lexical production. The present paper reviews two models of bilingual lexical and semantic memory (RHM and BIA+) and the studies associated with the models. The goal is to address whether semantic memory of the bilingual’s two languages is represented in an integrated way.

This paper discusses relevant issues to urban space, specifically the city of Curitiba, its disposal (urban mapping) , its symbols and images that emerge from the official discourse to ratify the popular ideas concepts like “model city” , “capital development”, “rare jewel” and “capital of sustainability”. These concepts will be challenged through the narratives of Dalton Trevisan, who has presented a Curitiba with no pine, no flowers and no monuments, because it is not his intention to present this beautiful city, but a marginal Curitiba and dystopian, populated by the poor, vagrants, prostitutes, crazy people, finally, for real men, marked by inequalities, hunger, pain and anguish. Dalton Trevisan includes the suburbs and misery of man, presenting the fragmented hopelessly marginal and exploited. These ideas are arranged in the work - synthesis of Dalton Trevisan. “Em busca de Curitiba perdida” (1992), published on the occasion of the commemoration of the 300th anniversary of the Curitiba foundation, in a way of protest to show that the city has two sides: the center and margin and that from this margin echoes the song of mourning its Curitiba of yore. In order to corroborate the ideas presented and defended, this article presents an analysis of the short story “Cemitário de Elefantes”, which allows the visualization of a shameless urban space, in ruins and in continuous transformation.

In a cultural and social context the idea of boundary is an unfolding of the idea of Nation, both seen as discursive constructions therefore with symbolic implications. The boundary is built from the difference, it is molded close to the Otherness and needs it to be determined. The boundary, then, denounces the tensions between two spaces: the inside and outside, the Self and the Other. At the same time, it promotes imbrications between its binary pairs, resulting in a hybrid zone where contact occurs between the separated poles, space in which they are put face to face. Based on this idea of border, this article aims to discuss the symbolic boundaries observed in the novel The Brothers, by Milton Hatoum. The narrative questions the cultural and identity hybridism resulting from border areas, showing the confrontations and flows that are verified in the border space from the figure of the immigrant and the mestizo. As Homi Bhabha suggests, in this work the boundaries are conceived as bridges that act in a movement of “ambulatory articulation, ambivalent”. The borderline is, therefore, what one might call in-between, an interstice.

"This story begins at ground level, by footsteps." These words introduce "The speech of lost steps", a chapter of Michel de Certeau’s The Practice of Everyday Life. Certeau understands the act of walking as an enunciative process. He says: "There is a rhetoric of walking. The art of shaping phrases is equivalent to the art of shaping pathways "(DE CERTEAU, 2000, 179). However, according to him, we can define the practice of space in such an onirical conception like "Walking is lacking of space. It is the indefinite process of being absent and in search of your own "(DE CERTEAU, 2000, 183). "If you should walk, just put one foot after the other. One foot after the other "(LISBOA, 2007, p. 9). With this sentence, Brazilian writer Adriana Lisboa begins her novel Rakushisha. Celina, her main character, is a woman that walks and writes. The narrative structure of this novel is developed in three overlapping actions: from Rio de Janeiro to Japan, Celina moves in a way that we could think at Marc Augé’s concept of non-places of supermodernity; however, to remain anonymous and be able to become similar, Celina needs to recover her identity by "signing a contract" with other users of a non-place; for doing so, the lecture of the Daily Saga, written by the seventeenth century Japanese poet Matsuo Basho, will help her to look at the mirror and recognize herself as 'one'. A mirror as the "mixed and median experience ”, according to Michel Foucault, between utopia (ideal model) and heterotopia (real model).

Paloma Vidal, in her first novel, Algum lugar (2009), presents a "writing of the self" that enables a stroll around some major modern metropolises while we travel along the pages of a young student and teacher’s diary. Her text, marked by references to canonical works and authors, is based on reminiscences that turn the work into an attempt to find and identify oneself with spaces, people and other texts, in the past and present. Moreover, the Argentine writer, who lives in Brazil since her childhood, discusses in her novel the deterritorialization condition of the migrant, who, by living in another country, faces the loneliness and the consequences of diaspora. This article aims at building a reflection on such topic, which occupies a central place in the current scene, caused by the globalization of culture that appears in literary works such as Paloma Vidal’s. The analyzes are supported by references derived mainly from Cultural Studies, such as Edward Said (2003), Zygmunt Bauman (1998, 2001) and Stuart Hall (2003).

This paper presents the results of an acceptability judgment task. The task was carried out using a magnitude estimation paradigm and aimed at investigating the behavior of highly proficient Brazilian Portuguese-English bilinguals upon reading grammatical and ungrammatical sentences in English. These sentences, in turn, instantiated a resultative construction. The results suggest that the bilinguals and the English monolinguals made similar judgments for the acceptability of the grammatical resultative construction. However, the bilinguals showed higher acceptance of ungrammatical resultative construction than the monolinguals. The present study corroborates the understanding that the level of learnability of construction may be associated with the relation between the L1 and L2 involved. Furthermore, the results suggest that this relation is not sufficient to make bilingual as sensitive to rules as native speakers.

This study aims at analyzing certain verve of contemporary Brazilian fiction that, opposing the building of an apprehensible past, chooses to drown through the meshes of dissolution, blurring/distorting the memory of one’s experience. We intend to deal here specifically with the memories of war. For that, we are going to analyze excerpts from two fiction texts published in the second half of 20th century, separated by certain period of time: the novel Vaca de nariz sutil (1961), by Campos de Carvalho, and the novella “O oco” (1973), by Hilda Hilst. The narrators of both texts intend to build memories of a war they lived, but such memories lack precise space and time references: we only know that there was a war, but it is impossible do determine when or where it happened, and even against whom or the reason why they were fighting.