Marcia Valeria Zamboni Gobbi

• Abstract

  The aim of this research is to analyze two novels: As Intermitências da Morte (2005), by José Saramago, and Memórias Póstumas de Brás Cubas (1880), by Machado de Assis, in order to focus on the representation of death in face of the human reality and the irony expressed by the narrator in both novels. The comparative analysis will be developed tracing the concept of representation from Ar…

  The symbol of death and irony in As Intermitências da Morte, by José Saramago and Memórias Póstumas de Brás Cubas, by Machado de Assis, BP.IC

• Abstract

  This project aims, at first, to analyze "Embargo", "Coisas" and "Centauro", short stories collected in Objecto Quase (1978), a work that critics include in José Saramago's formative period and whose approach is founded in elements of the Marvelous, in categories of the Fantastic, as well as those of Magical Realism, all of which make up the imaginary associated to the insolite in Saramago…

  A poetcs of the imaginary in José Saramago s fiction, BP.PD

• Abstract

  This present study aims to analyze the British detective novel from the XIX and the early XX centuries, in its historicity, considering that this subgenre of literature has characteristic elements from the period it was developed, like, for an example, the main role of logic and rationality in its plots.The existence of the detective stories is intimately linked to the psychological struc…

  From Holmes to Poirot: relations between literature and history in the British detective stories, BP.MS

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