Revista Araticum

10-16

Authors: Ivana Ferrante Rebello

This work presents a reading of the novel Alice, written by D. Luiza F. de Camargo Pacheco, published in 1903. With Romanticism's resources which sees the woman according to the patriarchal model also features a full speech of contradictions through which were ad the mechanism sused to express a placeand a voice.

35-46

Authors: Mannuella Luz de Oliveira Valinhas

In “Teoria do Medalhão” (1881), by Machado de Assis, we can notice echoes of arguments used by the philosopher Matias Aires in “Carta sobre a Fortuna” (1786). In this article, we intend to analyze how, in both texts, vanity is thought as the passion which rules the world. In both cases, vanity leads to achievement of social place, by suiting to convention, becoming thus the essential tool which ensures that world’s theatre works, with everyone playing their roles. In his satire, Machado brings references from Matias Aires regarding to pessimist “world view” (the “disillusioned” sight to society) and to importance of “seeking for glory” as way of assertion of the primordial place taken by vanity among the human beings.

62-68

Authors: Maria Generosa Ferreira Souto

This text proposes to discuss the concept of Metanoia in the literary space of Esau and Jacob, Machado de Assis, while traffic in place of the rivalry between twin brothers, that translate between many other rivals of the imaginary. Given the fragmentation of life of twins Peter and Paul, the spaces are fundamental to the construction and consolidation of both identities, which feed the anger and jealousy, to build the phenomenon of metanoia.

85-97

Authors: Osmar Pereira Oliva

Since Ressureição (1872), his novel of initiation, Machado de Assis explained in the prologue, that his interest was to contrast two characters: Livia and Felix, presenting to the reader the dubiousness and the instability of the young doctor's personality, lazy to work and inconstant in love. Two years later, this proposal is retaken up with A mão e a luva (1874), in which the narrator contrasts the characters of Estêvão and Luis Alves, two lawyers vying for love of Guiomar. Through recurring ironies and aphorisms, the reader follows not only the warmth and sentimentality of Estêvão and firmness in action and rationality of Luis Alves, but the searching look and seduction strategies of the primary teacher in order to, metaphorically, climb a step in the social ladder and take the place of heiress of her rich godmother and being the wife of the most influent and determined lawyer who courts her. This work aims therefore to carry out a survey of aphorisms present in A mão e a luva and analyze them associated with some ironies used by Machado's narrator to contrast the characters of Estêvão, Luis Alves and Guiomar.

114-122

Authors: Rita de Cássia Silva Dionísio Santos

This study aims to analyze some unusual and fantastic aspects of the story "Second Life" by Machado de Assis. From the morbid meddling of an insane character, who is in the living room of a religious man in psychic normal conditions. The narrative allows us to reflect on the interchangeable condition of madness and human wisdom – leading us think how both of them, which are close to us, can live contiguous and simultaneously in the same spaces.

9-22

Authors: Andrea Cristina Martins Pereira

Alves e cia, by Eça de Queiroz posthumous publication, clearly has not undergone the same proofreading and refinement as the author’s other works.However, when made into a movie—titled Amor e cia, by the director Helvécio Rattoh—Eça’s mentioned work appears as a perfectly finished and seductive adaptation. This paper discuss the supposed fidelity between these two works, pointing out the movie’s cultural adaptations and the director’s options in his remaking of work, that makes him a “reviser” of Eça.

34-49

Authors: Eduardo da Cruz

In the early 1840s, at the height of the cabralista dictatorship in Portugal, the writer Rebelo da Silva analyzing a drama and its reception by the Portuguese public in the Revista Universal Lisbonense claims that "the political passions reboil and exude in the artworks "(23/11/1843, p. 165). It's the production period of Eurico and of Viagens na minha terra, and also the time of the rising of young Portuguese novelists. What stands out in the set of narratives published in this journal during the editorial of António Feliciano de Castilho (1842-1845) is the search for new literary forms and the strength of the political passions that influence the writing of these novels.

57-70

Authors: Jane Adriane Gandra

Among the various literary activities that engaged Pinheiro Chagas, this paper intended to show his versatility in serial-chronic. Although some passages still indicate a melodramatic tone, mostly the composition of the Revista da Semana presents an interesting text, in that its author founds the theme for his chronicles of genres and unconventional speeches to the literary field.

81-90

Authors: Moizeis Sobreira de Sousa

The history of Portuguese novel is still a chapter to be explored. It is usually told as an extension of the French and the English novel. Such a perspective leads to the mistake of placing its beginning in Portugal at a time when the French and British models landed on the country, which causes the disregard of an entire previous production of the genre. Without the need of going back too much in time when considering this milestone, one can notice two occurrences that have not yet come to be widely known, namely the novels Carlos e Julieta (Carlos and Julieta, published in 1838) and O Estudante de Coimbra (The Student of Coimbra, published in 1840-1841). Both are works written by Guilherme Centazzi and precede the most broadly known works that established the novel as a genre in Portugal. The study of such works, mainly O Estudante de Coimbra, has the aim of contributing to broaden what is known about the history of Portuguese novel, as to throw light upon aspects still little explored and that concern nineteenth century narratives, such as the dialogue kept between this genre and the novel tradition of the eighteenth century.