Jose Lins do Rego debuted as a novelist in the Brazilian literary scene in 1932 with the publication of the novel Menino de engenho, in which the autodiegetic narrator organizes his child hood memories lived in the sugar ...

Hermeneutical aspect of reference embraces a relation to reality in its broadest sense. This aspect of reference explains how some concepts employed in scientific theories and historical and fictional text, which are ...

Many critics claim that every literary work has an autobiographical dimension, but in Graciliano Ramos' literary production the presence of this dimension is patent. Motivated by the fact that some biographical features ...

This paper is concerned with the status of mathematical fictions in Leibniz’s work and especially with infinitary quantities as fictions. Thus, it is maintained that mathematical fictions constitute a kind of symbolic ...

In this paper I aim to work with a concept that I defined as “fictions” or better, “Hegemonic fictions”. The concept of fiction is based not on a “lie”, but on a hegemonic representation that media produce and reproduce ...

In literary studies, the use of the term fiction implies, in general, a movement that literature makes outside of the sensible or daily reality, its apprehension by sensibility supports the concept of verisimilitude theorized ...