Revista de Letras (UFC)

5-9

Authors: Luiz Carlos Fernandes

Most of the enunciative strategies in Gabriel Soares de Sousa´s Tratado Descritivo, one of the first descriptions about the native american indians, confirm the effort made by european chronists during XVIth century to mystify their culture and traditions. Those discoursive strategies appears through some linguistical procedures, like the preferences for a few verbal forms and sintatical constructions, and they confirm the heavy influence of a prevailing discursive formation that elected the indians to be the “other”.

15-18

Authors: Dilma Castelo Branco Diniz

This paper analyzes the story “O mata-pau”, by Monteiro Lobato, which shows in an exemplary way the encounter of two formative currents of Brazilian culture: the urban/written tradition, which comes from European models, and the regionalist/oral tradition, which has its origin in popular culture.

27-32

Authors: Francisco Edi de Oliveira Sousa

This work revisits Latin literature throwing a glance based on a recent tendency of literary research: the interaction text-receiver. The theories and methods which develop such tendency converge to the horizon of a poetics of reading. Following this line, the aesthetics of reception and the theory of aesthetic effect stand out: the first current analyses the historical reception of literary works and the aesthetic effects they produce on receivers; the second starts from these principles, but is more oriented towards the text, and allows the examining of artistic procedures oriented to the interaction with the receiver. Grounded on these two approaches, we comment on the reception of literary works in the Roman universe of the beginning of the Empire and the artistic procedures conditioned by this interaction. At the end, the reflections weaved throughout the work are supported by Horatio’s Ars poetica.

38-41

Authors: Valéria Regina da Costa Geremia

The advances and retrocessions in chronological order of narrated episodes in Viva o povo brasileiro makes possible to conclude that subjective time prevails over objective one in the book. This article intends to associate, particularly, the memory’s structure – in which past, present and future are mixed in a dinamic way - with the novel, denominating it as a fictious collective biography. Valorizing the subjectivity of each point of view, this ‘biography’ enphasizes the diference between concreete fact and his narration (historic or fictitious) and allows us to atribute to its characters the role of ‘fictitious authors’. Between them, Patrício Macário is especially identified with A BIOGRAFIA COLETIVA FICTÍCIA DE VIVA O POVO BRASILEIRO Valéria Regina da Costa Geremia* * Graduada em Comunicação Social pela UFRGS e Mestre em Letras pela UFC. João Ubaldo, and assumes vital importance to the metaficion developed. He is the last guardian of the object that keeps people’s memory and projects his identity – attribution taken also by Viva o povo brasileiro and by literature in general.

46-52

Authors: Laéria Bezerra Fontenele

This paper discribes the conditions in which Adelia Prado builds her chrono-topo, considering the place of the liric and/or ficcional subject as well as how this subject contitutes the relationship with the temporal extention. It contributes to think about the construction of the poetic singularity of Adélia Prado, a writer with a writing style which inserts herself in the literary field with an author’s function. Adelia Prado is seen as a writer that reveals originality in her writings and for this reason can be differentiated from other authors.

59-63

Authors: Maria Lúcia Souza Castro

The study discusses semantic motivation of lexicons presented in a linguistic map of the Atlas Lingüístico de Sergipe (ALS). It also analyzes the relationships between form and meaning in the lexical items used to refer to ‘wave’. The proposed explanations for the usage are based in the etymology and in the data taken from the informants.

77-83

Authors: Denise Lino de Araújo

The “Parâmetros Curriculares Nacionais” (PCNs), edited by the Ministry of Culture and Education, are a Brazilian teaching reference document, whose main purpose is to aid curricular discussion. This study aims at making an analysis of paradigm underlying the document where it refers to the teaching strategies os mother tongue. An interpretative comparative analysis has been performed through a confrontation of the various statements presented in several sctions os the document. It is important to point out that, although this document has not been understood by the large number of teachers, the PCNs today are used in most Elementary and High Schools and in Schools of Education in Brazil, a fact that justifies a research study in which it can be examined, explained, discussed and revised.

84-92

Authors: Soely Bettes

This article, besides being done with the aim to profound the knowledge about the topic, has as objective to present some concepts of grammar, according to normative or descriptive point of view. This duplicity of definitions and fields of envelopment has been the main reason of the pedagogical positions that disagree among them, “in behalf of” or “against” the teaching of grammar at schools, bringing damage to the teaching and to the student (citizen). As the grammarian and writers of the pedagogical books of the mother tongue many time they don’t consider this dichotomy of view of the grammar, the aims of the mother tongue teaching aren’t wholly obtained. The precarious way of the descriptive traditional grammar only has contributed to make worse the controverted topic, showing the need to follow the descriptive grammar by the advancement of the Linguistics. Observing the specific aims of the mother tongue in each of the three levels, the normative grammar teaching is necessary in Elementary School and in High school, and complementary at the University. The study of the descriptive grammar is the main topic of the Letters Course.

95-101

Authors: Ana Maria Sá de Carvalho

The Paper presents the portfolio as a new element for the development of the reading and writing in the Brasilian education. It presents some experiences with the portfolios usage and also makes a reflection on the educational objectives by basing its in social-interaction practice.

116-118

Authors: Ricardo Jorge de Lucena Lucas

RESENHA - GENETTE, GÉRARD. PARATEXTS - THRESHOLDS OF INTERPRETATION.