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Diálogos entre literatura, memória e estilo nasceu de debates críticos e teóricos levantados na disciplina Literatura e questões historiográficas ministrada no segundo semestre de 2023 no Programa de pós-graduação em Letras da Universidades Estadual do Piauí(UESPI). Mas além de jovens pesquisadores, este compêndio reúne ainda acadêmicos experientes que combinam uma visão ampla e interdisciplinar tanto sobre textos consolidados no campo da historiografia literária como obras mais recentes e inovadoras em várias línguas. Como resultado, as discussões aqui colecionadas devem interessar igualmente pesquisadores, leitores e aficionados em literatura e crítica literária.
The new edition of this core text has been thoroughly revised and updated in light of the latest developments in the field. Covering the key theoretical approaches in modern literary theory, the text includes those essays and documents that are essential reading for students of literature andcritical theory. The original structure of the book has been improved and new material has been added, including extracts from the writings of Marx, Freud, and de Beauvoir, and a new section devoted to contemporary critical debates and issues.
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Kathryn Sutherland presents an edition of the fiction manuscripts of Jane Austen (1775-1817) in this five-volume set. Scholars have pored over this much-loved novelist for decades, yet there are still more riches to be uncovered by the careful presentation of the texts in this fully annotated new edition. Jane Austen's fiction manuscripts are the first substantial collection of autograph writings to survive for a British novelist. They represent every stage of her writing life, from childhood--aged 11 or 12--to the year of her death. The manuscripts represent a wide variety of physical states: working drafts, fair copies, and handwritten publications for private circulation. Where the juveni...
The latest novel from a rising star of Brazilian literature, Crow Blue spins a far-reaching story of the search for one's roots.
Marilene Felinto is one of a new wave of young Brazilian writers, and her work is among the very best. Born in 1957 in the northeast of Brazil, she moved to São Paulo in early adolescence and completed her university education there. Her fiction connects the striking contrasts of a young woman's experience and the cross-purposes of modern Brazil. In The Women of Tijucopapo nothing can be taken for granted since everything might be taken away. Risia is a heroine little interested in being heroic All she wants is for her life "to have a happy ending." To find it she must go back to Tijucopapo, where her mother was born. One moonlit night her grandmother gave away a baby, and that baby was Ris...
A powerful novel of women in Latin America's hell of the disappeared.
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In 1858, two black women meet at a restaurant and begin to plot a revolution. Mary Ellen Pleasant owns a string of hotels in San Francisco that secretly double as havens for runaway slaves. Her comrade, Annie, is a young Jamaican who has given up her...