Jefferson Cano

• Abstract

  This research aims to analyze the work of Robert Louis Stevenson, the Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, having as a starting point the presence of science and religion as structuring elements of the central conflict of romance. This problem will be approached according to two lines of research: the first takes into consideration the Calvinist formation of the author and the literar…

  Science and religion in the Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, of R.L. Stevenson, BP.MS

• Abstract

  This project proposes the study of the relation between subject and history in Mémoires d'Outre Tombe, by Chateaubriand, through two intertwined work fronts: the first, emphasizing the consolidation of the role of the writer as the one in charge of giving voice to society's longings and of envisioning the future; and the second, paying attention to the memorialistic narrative as writing o…

  History and memory: the self, the writer and the society in Mémoires d'Outre-Tombe, BP.DR

• Abstract

  This research will analyze a group of French, American and Brazilian literary works in the Atlantic context of development of Nineteenth Century abolitionists struggles. In the end of Eighteenth Century, French Revolution (1789), the propagation of the rights of liberty and equality strengthened the ideological principles that induced the Haitian Revolution (1791). In the United States an…

  Miscegenation and African descent in the Atlantic context: abolitionist literature of the nineteenth century, BP.DR

(Only some records are available in English at this moment)

• Abstract

  At the end of the eighteenth century, with the Haitian Revolution, the discussion about the space of blacks and Afro-descendants became considerable in the literary scene. The fear that such a black revolution could be repeated in other slave states and the astonishment before this victory made the texts about the revolution proliferate in the most diverse formats: letters, short stories,…

  Race, Press and Literature in Nineteenth Century Transatlantic world, BE.EP.DR

• Abstract

  This project aims to obtain a internship grant to study in a foreign country. We propose the traineeship at Yale University, under the supervision of Prof. PhD Kenneth David Jackson, for the period January, 15 to June, 15, 2017. I will demonstrate the need of this grant to develop the research project in progress, as well as my training and qualification as a researcher, internationalizat…

  Psychology and concept of person as aesthetic issues of the first version of 'Quincas Borba', BE.EP.MS