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, ...

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 consists of analyzing the female identity and subjectivity construction of the character Clara, protagonist-narrator of the novel Duas iguais, by Cíntia Moscovich. Therefore, it is observed ...

This work performs a study of the coronelismo representation on the narratives of the Pedro Wayne’s fiction Xarqueada, published in 1937, and Jorge Amado’s Gabriela, cravo e canela, from 1958, settled, respectively, in the ...

Guided by research in the field of Cognitive Linguistics and Social Communication, this thesis, of the interdisciplinary nature, aims to answer the following question: What does the Polar beer case reveal about the ...

This paper intends to study the motivation and the classification of the names of the neighborhoods from Bento Gonçalves City, located in the Italian Colonization Region in the Northeastern area of the state of Rio Grande ...

This study aims to analise the construction of the regional identity of Rio Grande do Sul from the legends of Sepé Tiaraju, A Salamanca do Jarau and O negrinho do Pastoreio. The choice of these legends had as criterion the ...

This dissertation analyses two non-fiction books written by Jack London: The people of the abyss (published in 1903) and The cruise of the Snark (published in 1911). Written over a period during which ethnography’s ...