(Re) thinking Brazil, through representation that makes life more prosaic - as a process of transformation - is embedded in literary language. In view of this particular nature, literature allows (re) thinking constructs ...

Professor Antonio Candido (1918-2017) was, as a few people in Brazil were, a confirmed humanist, who applied his principles to everything he had done as a professor, thinker and political activist. Strictly speaking, all ...

The periodicals of the nineteenth century preserve the names of many literary figures of note in Brazilian literature, yet the memory of whom has faded. Salvador de Mendonca took a path that, like those of writers of today's ...

This study aims to analyse the novel Ponciá Vivêncio by Conceição Evaristo ( 2003), as from the perspective given to the afro-brazilian literature by Eduardo de Assis Duarte. Within the study of theme, the author, the point ...

The frenetic narrative presents itself surrounded by a horror atmosphere that can be a result of the introduction of a supernatural element and usually leans on a set of typical pieces: persecution, graveyards, castles in ...