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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.

The purpose of this literary work is to study introspection novels through analysis of inner perception and sentiments in relation to lived the subject. The goal of this study is also to establish affinities and differences between the traditional or epic characteristic way of narrating and the intimist way of narrating, exemplifying the interior process of character in some brazilian novels published in distintict periods (1880 until 1940). Therefore, it was selected for this analysis the novel O Ateneu (1888), from Raul Pompéia and Angústia (1936), from Graciliano Ramos. So, both narratives are placed in contrast while it draw similarities between them to concern the introspection of the protagonists that are inserted in these ficcional works.

Paper on "A paisagem Belmirana" by Cyro dos Anjos.

In recent years, different theories of different paradigms, have sought to increase the scientific research related to cognitivism in an attempt to discover how the learning takes place. In this context, two psychological processes in the development of learning a foreign language have more attention: attention and emotion. This article discusses various aspects that involve those processes that contribute to learning, such as the external stimuli. It is understood that update knowledge of the teacher is essential for facilitating the acquisition of new knowledge by students.

This paper aims at bringing a historical background of studies related to bilingualism in the southern region of Brazil, a country in which it is possible to find several languages in contact. Moreover, it mentions some language policies for immigrants in this country. The research concludes that, from the cognitive perspective, there is no disadvantage in the processing by bilingual individuals if compared to monolinguals and that bilingualism should be encouraged in the country through specific language policies so that the language and the culture of peoples do not get lost.

In this work, we present a study on the process of palatalization of the coronal sibilant in coda based on data from a read corpus. The data were collected in the locality of Ribeirão da Ilha, Florianópolis. The method used to choose the informants was stratified random, involving a total of 24 people. Our corpus was assembled to cover diverse structural contexts, totaling 68 sentences. With a focus on Laovian sociolinguistics and Trait Geometry Phonology, we analyze the role of structural and social variables in the phenomenon. In addition, we compared the results about palatalization with an earlier study, done in the same locality with a spontaneous speech corpus (Brescancini, 1996), in order to verify to what extent the style question affects the phenomenon. Our results showed that the contexts in which there was retraction and elevation of the body of the tongue (dorsal consonants and labial and dorsal vowels) favored the use of the palate-alveolar variant. The results referring to social variables point to an indication of external influences in the sense of non-palatalization, considering that Florianópolis has been receiving many people from other cities and states. Comparison with the spontaneous speech study showed that the more formal style (read corpus) affects the application of the rule, especially among the more educated women.

Paper on the history of popular literature.

The purpose of this text is to show that the phenotype of epenthesis in words of foreign origin is a result of perception. In this sense, the Portuguese speaker will shape words that are not phonetically habitual in order to adapt them to his syllabic system. It is hypothesized that the speaker's perception of the syllabic structure in his / her language is a key element in the formation of interpretive inferences regarding the pronunciation of foreignisms, since in this process the speaker unites the acquired (phonological) information In contact with his mother tongue to those of the foreign language, creating an illusory vowel so that the syllabic mold he knows is filled. It is for this reason that status, for example, can be pronounced with the insertion of the epenthetic vowel as in [is'tatus].

Jorge Luis Borges mentioned that he always considered writing a study of Kafka and his precursors, what he did when he wrote an essay entitled “Kafka and his precursors” published in Selected non-fictions. In order to accomplish this the Argentinean writer referred that he had to spend a little time with Kafka and because of that he could recognize “his voice, or his habits, in the texts of various literatures and various ages.” Spending a little time with Borges made me consider writing an essay about the issues he argues there. I named these issues as “voices” once like Borges I could recognize some of them in his text. I understand that these issues trace the structure in which I want to address the discussion about some questions from the field of Literary Studies, more specifically from the area of Literary History such as the debate about canon. My essay aims to propose the idea of “precursor” as a concept to (re)think the notion of literary canon.

The historiography traces left by the first studies of the Brazilian literature has been served as a reference source or as a starting point for later critics who has used these supplies to correct them, or even to contribute to his thesis. Mentioned throughout history by different authors, these sources have been perpetuated over time and confirmed the formation of national literary canon.

Presentation of the issue Language and cognition: Interdisciplinary and intradisciplinary relations

Presentation of the Literature issue on the formation of the novel of introspection in Brazil.

"Coragem" by Roger Cardús Juvé.

The present article has to purpose research a construction of a brazialian literature history based in some parts no literary. Therefore, the romanticism period some works of foreign authors, an example, Ferdinand Denis Almeida Garret, who prescribe a Brazilian literature rooted in issues such as nature and ethnic groups. After Brazilian’s independence, a lot of authors thought the literature that represents a new nation. After all, will be tried identify the institutionalization of such external criteria in the literature critical evaluations by Alfredo Bosi, the book concise history of Brazilian literature on all the novels of introspection of the 1930's.

Expedient v. 2, n. 1 (2009)