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Comparative Perspectives on the Rise of the Brazilian Novel presents a framework of comparative literature based on a systemic and empirical approach to the study of the novel and applies that framework to the analysis of key nineteenth-century Brazilian novels. The works under examination were published during the period in which the forms and procedures of the novel were acclimatized as the genre established and consolidated itself in Brazil.
Estes Cadernos registram e documentam a multiplicidade de interesses e metodologias que se desenvolvem no Programa de Pós-Graduação em Estudos Linguísticos e Literários em Inglês da Universidade de São Paulo, bem como a sua capacidade de inovação em áreas tão diversas como Estudos Literários, Linguística, Linguística Aplicada, Tradução, Estudos da Cultura e Semiótica.
El genio, figura clave para la estética durante el siglo XVIII, permitió pensar la relación del sujeto con la naturaleza, la posibilidad de atribuir al hombre condiciones innatas, el modo en que la genialidad tenía lugar en el ámbito de las ciencias, la postulación de un nuevo modelo ideal de humanidad, entre tantos otros temas. En este libro un grupo internacional de investigadores de la filosofía moderna analiza el desarrollo del concepto genio, revisa los principales aspectos de la representación de esta figura por parte de un filósofo en particular o de una corriente de pensamiento. Asimismo, examina el significado del concepto genio para autores de las tradiciones inglesa, fran...
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Understanding Africa is critical for all concerned with the world today: in what promises to be his final great work of reportage, one of the keenest observers of the continent surveys the effects of belief and religion on the disparate peoples of Africa. The Masque of Africa is Nobel Prize-winning V. S. Naipaul's first major work of non-fiction to be published since his internationally bestselling Beyond Belief. Like all of Naipaul's great works of non-fiction, The Masque of Africa is superficially a book of travels — full of people, stories and landscapes he visits — but it also encompasses a larger narrative and purpose: to judge the effects of belief (whether in indigenous animisms, faiths imposed by other cultures, or even the cults of leaders and mythical history) upon the progress of civilization.
The Italian film-maker Pier Paolo Pasolini was first and always a poet-the most important civil poet, according to Alberto Moravia, in Italy in the second half of this century. His poems were at once deeply personal and passionately engaged in the political turmoil of his country. In 1949, after his homosexuality led the Italian Communist Party to expel him on charges of "moral and political unworthiness," Pasolini fled to Rome. This selection of poems from his early impoverished days on the outskirts of Rome to his last (with a backward longing glance at his native Frill) is at the center of his poetic and filmic vision of modern Italian life as an Inferno. Pier Paolo Pasolini was born in 1922 in Bologna. In addition to the films for which he is world famous, he wrote novels, poetry, and social and cultural criticism. He was murdered in 1975.