English Fiction
Mostrando 1-11 de 11 artigos, teses e dissertações.
-
1. ‘A NATIONAL UNITY OF INTERESTS AND AFFECTIONS’: FRAMEWORKS OF THE UNION IN THE EARLY BRAZILIAN NOVEL
Abstract Novelistic fiction from the United Kingdom has been consistently acknowledged as a major repository of narrative paradigms for the incipient Brazilian novel. Genres originally offering a narrative solution for tensions embedded throughout British and Irish society would cross the Atlantic and, by mid-nineteenth century, be rendered instrumental for
Ilha do Desterro. Publicado em: 2022
-
2. Escavações: a metalinguagem nos contos de Virgínia Woolf
O objetivo desta dissertação é examinar as tentativas da escritora inglesa Virginia Woolf de apreender, através do manejo e da reflexão sobre a palavra escrita, toda a complexidade que sua sensibilidade inferia na experiência humana. Para isso, buscou-se seguir as pistas deixadas pela frequente discussão metalinguística que a autora estabelece em sua
IBICT - Instituto Brasileiro de Informação em Ciência e Tecnologia. Publicado em: 28/02/2012
-
3. A extraordinária e irresoluta história da trajetória de Roxana e Moll Flanders / The extraordinary and unresolved history of the lifes of Roxana and Moll Flanders
Como é possível o mesmo autor, na mesma época, escrever dois romances com a mesma temática e dar-lhes tratamento tão distinto? Essa é a pergunta que intriga os leitores de Defoe ao ler duas das suas principais obras literárias, Moll Flanders (1722) e Roxana (1724), e é também a pergunta que norteou esta pesquisa. Para responder a isso, estudamos a h
IBICT - Instituto Brasileiro de Informação em Ciência e Tecnologia. Publicado em: 07/12/2011
-
4. An annotated translation of Narayan s novel The Guide
This dissertation consists of an informative annotated translation of R. K. Narayan¿s novel The Guide (1958). The dissertation provides a critical discussion of practical aspects and underlying theoretical assumptions to the translating process. The field of translation studies has in the last decades taken on many meanings and now encompasses realms beyond
IBICT - Instituto Brasileiro de Informação em Ciência e Tecnologia. Publicado em: 2011
-
5. Representações da família na narrativa gótica contemporânea / Family representations in contemporary gothic fiction
A tese se insere nos estudos sobre o gótico literário. Seu objetivo principal é mostrar o lar como lugar crucial para o desenvolvimento das temáticas caras ao gênero, destacando o corpo feminino como pivô. Na primeira parte, foram analisados estudos teóricos sobre o romance inglês, apontando para uma possível mudança na maneira como o gótico vem s
Publicado em: 2010
-
6. The Wolf and the Bat The Popular Culture and the English Imaginary of XIX Century / O Lobo e o Morcego: A cultura popular e o imaginário inglês do século XIX
This thesis was written to uncover the process were a cultural symbol of a political oppressed people gets in possession of their oppressors, is modified, inserted in their literary imaginary, and then used by the neocolonialist ideology to disqualify the oppressed people‟s culture. The vampire, in popular culture, represents the supreme evil, for them
Publicado em: 2009
-
7. The Body of condemned in Anne Rices The Vampire chronicles: Interview with the Vampire / The Body of condemned in Anne Rices The Vampire chronicles: Interview with the Vampire
This dissertation is about the literary gothic, especially in literatures in English language. The main theme focuses on the figure of the vampire. Such a choice is the result of my readings of the first appearance of the vampire in prose fiction. The vampire arose in the legends from Eastern and Central Europe. Starting from the 18th century, I come to the
Publicado em: 2009
-
8. Relações de tradução:: SAY/DIZER em corpora de textos ficcionais
This dissertation reports on a study developed at LETRA - Laboratory for Experimentation in Translation, Faculdade de Letras, UFMG. Building on Catford s (1965) foundational work on translation and Matthiessen s (2007) proposal of systemic functional translation studies of multilingual production and translation, it presents three different and complementary
Publicado em: 2008
-
9. Admiravel Mundo Novo : um enredo de possiveis / Brave New World : a plot of possible
This thesis argues for a renewed reading of Aldous Huxley s Brave New World . The interpretation carried out therein not only aknowledges the novel s literary merit, but also recuperates its critical tenor, whose import has been ignored by those who refuse to accept some of its most relevant aspects. The thesis examines and reconsiders the most probable moti
Publicado em: 2007
-
10. Vozes silenciadas : uma leitura da obra de Salman Rushdie
This thesis discusses the narrative construction present in the novels Midnights Children, Satanic Verses and The Moors last Sigh, written by the Indo-British writer Salman Rushdie based on the theoretical proposals of the contemporary literature and their relationship with the post-colonialism. The aforementioned novels reject the dominating forces he
Publicado em: 2006
-
11. Poesia negra das AmÃricas: Solano Trindade e Langston Hughes
This thesis gives priority to the black poetry study of the Brazilian poet Solano Trindade (1908-1974) and of the north American poet Langston Hughes (1902-1967). My research also visits other poetsâ works such as Countee Cullen (in the United States) and the Caribbean poets NicolÃs GuillÃn (from Cuba), Aimà CÃsaire (from Maritinica) and some Brazilian
Publicado em: 2006