Some elements of historical and cultural reality, identified in fiction about the State of Rio Grande do Sul, have contributed and still contribute to the construction of a social imaginary and of a regional identity, ...

This thesis is part of the literary texts reading field, specifically children's narratives, and focuses its attention on the performance of the narrator, a narrative body responsible for conducting our reading and, thus, ...

The present paper analyses the fictional space of Lucio Cardoso’s Crônica da casa assassinada in its regional, natural and domestic dimensions, in order to understand how the novel’s scenarios builds its dramatic atmosphere ...

This dissertation proposes an investigation about the recreation of the greek's myth Medéia in the german novel Medeia Vozes, by Christa Wolf, through the aplication of polyphony's theory by the russian linguist Mikhail ...

This text presents the analysis of toponyms that name the twenty six neighborhoods and four districts of Farroupilha, RS. The main objective of our study was to identify and classify the toponyms and explain the main ...

The present work aims to introduce, describe and explain factors that were key for the constitution of the names of the nine cities that make up the 4th Colony of Italian Immigration, situated in the central region of ...

This dissertation focuses on the representations of the female figure in Presença de Thalia (1989), by Ruth Laus, a writer from Santa Catarina, dialoguing and relating to issues inherent to the identity and the space of ...

In the scenario of Rio Grande do Sul State that was for many years the scene of disputes, with border lines that enabled mobile linguistic and cultural-exchange, Gaucho's songs (local music) can be characterized as major ...

The subject of this dissertation is the analysis of the identity construction process of Amaranta, character of the book One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Marquez. Aspects of the female identity related ...