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Lucy Swanson
University of Pennsylvania
Les Scènes de la vie de bohème1, l’ouvrage d’Henry Murger, a créé un mythe bohémien qui perdure jusqu’à nos jours grâce aux adaptations dramatiques de l’histoire, mais le texte reste peu considéré dans des cercles académiques, et aucun critique n’a examiné l’importance de la […]
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Amanda Rios Herane
University of São Paulo
Pequeno panorama crítico
Ressurreição, primeiro romance de Machado de Assis, de 1872, é uma obra que ainda hoje atrai poucos olhares críticos brasileiros, muito em função da maneira como se inscreveu na tradição crítica do país. Do século XIX ao […]
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Aaron Lorenz Tulane University
“Only intellectuals enjoy poverty. (Quem gosta de miseria é intelectual)” Joãozinha Trinta. Quoted in “Traficando Informação.” MV Bill
The novel, Cidade de Deus (1997), by Paulo Lins, can be seen as a landmark in the shift towards a new aesthetics of poverty in Brazil and marks the […]
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Laíse Ribas Bastos
Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina
Quando todos já tiverem contemplado a nobre criatura, vestígio de alguma época já maldita, uns indiferentes, pois não terão possuído a força de compreender, mas outros, aflitos, e a pálpebra úmida de lágrimas resignadas se contemplarão, enquanto que os poetas desses tempos, […]
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Antione Traisnel Lille 3 University
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I seemed every night to descend, not metaphorically, but literally to descend, into chasms and sunless abysses, depths below depths, from which it seemed hopeless that I could ever reascend. … This I do not dwell upon; because the state of gloom which attended these […]
Welcome to the third Working Papers roundtable discussion. In this issue, devoted to myths, gods, and heroes, our contributing authors analyze the rewriting of religious myths, the confrontation of conflicting conceptions of nationality and belonging, and the intertextual nexus through which Greco-Roman mythology meets Modernism. To complement their analyses, we asked experienced scholars who have […]
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Kathryn Kleppinger
New York University
Bernard-Marie Koltès has remained nearly as enigmatic almost 20 years after his death as in the early 1980s, when his plays routinely challenged and confused contemporary audiences and critics. Koltès’ writing, which combines lyric elegance with biting social commentary, has gained in […]
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Willemijn Don
New York University
La Tentation de Saint Antoine is “un livre qui fait peur,” according to Flaubert scholar Jeanne Bem (13). Indeed, it is a monstrous text that presents us with multiple characters and an amalgam of heresies and temptations. Confusion further stems from the difference in […]
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Pablo Martínez Diente
Vanderbilt University.
Un fervor lírico dilataba su pensamiento. El final de Percy Shelley, tantas veces envidiado y soñado bajo la sombra del palpitar del velaje, se le apareció en un inmenso reflejo de poesía. Aquel destino poseía una grandiosidad y una tristeza sobrehumana. Su muerte es misteriosa y […]
Heroes, Gods, and Myths: The Myths That We Create and How They Create Us; Volume 2, Number 1 Fall 2008
During a recent trip to Mexico, I glimpsed a weather-beaten billboard for a Christian children’s organization that pleaded “Sea un heroe, salve un niño” – Be a hero, save a child. The definition of heroism implied in this advertisement, complex in its inclusion of religion, morality, and cash donations, doesn’t strike us as powerful myth […]