This article discusses the legend of the Mula Sem Cabeça based on two different versions: an oral narrative collected from a resident of the Northeastern countryside and a cordel poem by author Marion Villas Boas. The main goal is to understand how these expressions of popular tradition convey cultural and religious values that are part of the Brazilian imagination. Through a semiotic analysis, the study examin...
Este artigo propõe uma análise comparativa entre Madame Bovary, de Gustave Flaubert, e Vale Abraão, de Agustina Bessa-Luís, centrando-se na reconfiguração simbólica do bovarismo e na espetacularização do feminino através das figuras de Emma Bovary e Ema Cardeano Paiva. Partindo das relações amorosas e do papel dos amantes e do marido, discute-se a construção da identidade como performance e mise en scène, bem c...
Este artigo visa comentar a lenda A Mula Sem Cabeça a partir de duas versões diferentes: uma narrativa oral colhida de um morador do interior nordestino e um cordel da autora Marion Villas Boas. A proposta principal é entender de que forma essas expressões da tradição popular carregam valores culturais e religiosos que fazem parte do imaginário brasileiro. Por meio de uma leitura semiótica, o estudo observa os ...
This study aims to make a small analysis of some of the main themes present in the novel Passagens, by the contemporary writer Teolinda Gersão, being them the memory, identity, fretense and the role of women in society. Passagens is a book with a plurality of voices and memories, having as its main background the wake of Ana, a family matriarch, in which she, her family and friends try to rediscover the family ...
This article deals with the genre of the oral tradition literature, focusing in more detail on the legend, its process of meaning and the signification of the genre in question. Thus, this work aims to highlight not only the historical-cultural importance of the legend, but also its influence and projection in popular imagination and knowledge. The focus of this work is also the semiotic analysis of two legends...
No ano de 1831, o médico estrangeirado Francisco Solano Constâncio (1777-1846) publicou em Paris duas obras metalinguísticas elaboradas para um público lusófono. Ao lado da Grammatica analytica da lingua portugueza (Constâncio, 1831b), a Nova grammatica da lingua franceza (Constâncio, 1831a) é de especial interesse para a tradição metalinguística francesa e a história do ensino da língua francesa em Portugal, u...
This paper aims to talk about the history of the Baroque, since its appearance in Italy, a brief introduction to the theme, explaining what this architectural style is, what is its definition according to some authors and how is its presence today, specifically in the district of Vila Real. An attempt is made to give a definition of Baroque art according to various authors, and to demonstrate the different stra...
In this work we will first analyze the commedia dell’ arte, a popular improvisational theater that emerged at the beginning of the 16th century. Next, the study focuses on the approach to the characters, with emphasis on the costumes that are crucial elements for their physical characterization and social positioning. Finally, we will emphasize the influence that these characters and this theatrical typology ha...