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The present paper aims to discuss about the Azorean legacy of Cecília Meireles. On the one hand, the writer reclaimed her family heritage passed on by her maternal grandmother and the collective memory of the islanders, expressed in the folklore, her primary research area of interest. She wrote Panorama Folclórico dos Açores, especialmente da Ilha de São Miguel (1958) and Notas do Folclore Gaúcho-Açoriano (1968). On the other, Cecília Meireles transformed isolation and marine elements into symbols alluding to feelings of being exiled, to the dream of returning and to yearning for an absolute reality. Closure and introspection, a bond with the land and, at the same time, openness and the impulse to travel are characteristic of the islander.

The essay addresses three literary preferences that intersect at the beginning of the 20th century in Portugal. The first group is a heterodox compilation of authors and works marked by a characteristic of being eminently from the past. The second group is formed by literary a wide range of literary manifestations which are especially in the light of the phenomenon of explosion; as Iuri Lotman described: the metaphor that explains how a system may combine gradual forms of change with other radical forms of change, and in which the radicalness is a form of evolution whose primordial value is discontinuity. Finally, the third group includes works that manifest their potential of insemination of the future only in less immediate durations.

Eça de Queirós wanted to show in his texts the Portuguese society in the 19th century. In the novel Os Maias he portrayed Portuguese political, economic, artistic and family lives. His books present human kinds produced by Portugal society and among his characters we will find women portrayed aiming to make Portuguese aristocracy to feel unease. Woman is drawn following one of the main themes of the stories written by Queirós, forbidden love. This text aims to discuss the female figure in Os Maias in which, from a homonym novel by Eça de Queirós, Maria Adelaide Amaral and Luiz Fernando Carvalho (scriptwriter and director) try to recreate the image of women portrayed by Queirós in Brazilian television.

This essay investigates the space of the house and its fictional construction as a representation of Portugal, in novels published in the second half of twentieth century, by writers like Agustina Bessa-Luís, Maria Velho da Costa and António Lobo Antunes. In their novels, it is possible to identify some subversions of the portuguese house’s writing. This essay aims to relate these subversions to the social changes and to the novel’s genre construction.

Starting with the analysis of the way in which Erico Verissimo’s work, and mainly the trilogy O Tempo e o Vento (The Time and the Wind) is imbued with the epic spirit, here is intended to draw lines of continuity between modern novel and the epics, out of its theory, and the respective codes become especially evaluated, particularly those regarding the characterization of the hero, the leading figure of new times, in this case, in Santa Fé territories. This paper is concluded with the relations established between him and the involving space, social reality and his heirs, the promise of continuity of the Cambará’s saga.

Published in 1856 in the Revue de Paris and edited in volume in the following year, Madame Bovary would become, in the next decades, the narrative model for the naturalist novel. Clearly inspired in Flaubert’s work, both in the narrative structure and the theme of feminine adultery, O primo Basílio is not a mere copy of the French masterpiece, since Eça de Queirós manages to fictionally create a possible world in his novel, one the reader can easily identify, both geographically and socially, as the Portuguese capital. Regarded by the Portuguese and Brazilian contemporary critics with a mixture of aesthetic enthusiasm and moral repulse, Eça’s novel is also set apart from its contemporary works with a similar theme due to the uncommon sensuality of its main female character, Luísa.

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The use of pseudo-words has benefitted psycholinguistic studies dedicated to the different aspects of the acquisition and processing of language, including reading and writing. However, in most of the studies that make use of pseudowords, the combination of graphemes in a string is often based on the intuition of researchers, who generally do not take the frequency of structural occurrences of the language into consideration. The present study aims at contributing to the development of procedures to aid research which makes use of pseudowords. In this paper, we present a computational tool developed for the generation of pseudoverbs. The process of development of this tool involved the analysis of the structural patterns of the 500 most frequent verbs in Brazilian Portuguese. This analysis was carried out with the use of NLP techniques and data mining in order to collect and extract patterns. The present study adopted an unsupervised machine learning approach since it used an algorithm of clustering for the automatic generation of pseudo-verbs.

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