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nÃo hà / A narrativa, como tipo textual, tem sido praticada por escritores literÃrios hà muito tempo. O gÃnero conto, especificamente, encontrou preferÃncia em muitos deles, inclusive na Modernidade, e a teoria literÃria nÃo o deixou de fora de seus estudos. Entre os procedimentos narrativos estudados pela teoria, encontra-se a epifania, cuja concepÃÃo à a do escritor irlandÃs James Joyce, a qual se distancia da acepÃÃo original â da religiÃo â e se direciona para o Ãmbito literÃrio. O objetivo desta pesquisa à proporcionar uma perspectiva crÃtica sobre a relaÃÃo entre a brevidade tanto do gÃnero conto quanto dessa concepÃÃo de epifania. A partir do levantamento bibliogrÃfico da teoria literÃria, centrado em tÃtulos que apresentam alguma aproximaÃÃo com a temÃtica e com o conceito joyceano, esta pesquisa concentra-se em torno da especulaÃÃo sobre a presenÃa de procedimentos epifÃnicos em contos modernos e contemporÃneos. A concisÃo do conto comportaria adequadamente a fugacidade da epifania? Essa confluÃncia de brevidades revelaria, entÃo, como a epifania pode estar contida em um conto? Para buscar tais respostas, buscou-se uma delimitaÃÃo dos conceitos de conto e de epifania, a partir de teÃricos da Literatura, e, em seguida, uma anÃlise comparativa de trÃs contos escritos no sÃculo XX que apresentam epifania em seus enredos, a saber: "Amor", de Clarice Lispector; "Olhar", de Rubem Fonseca; e "Axolotle", de Julio CortÃzar. / The narrative, as a type of text, has been practiced by literary writers for a long time. The short story genre, specifically, was preferred by many of them, even in Modernity, and literary theory has not left it out. Among the narrative procedures considered by the theory, there is the epiphany, as was conceptualized by Irish wirter James Joyce, dissociating itself from the original religious sense, and aiming at the scope of literary studies. The goal of this research is to provide a critical perception on the relation between the brevity of the short story genre and of this epiphany concept. From the bibliographic survey of literary theory, centered on titles which present certain approximation to the theme and to the joycean concept, this reasearch focus on the speculation on the presence of epiphanic procedures in modern and contemporary short stories. The hypothesis raised is that a correlation exists between the short story and epiphany, for the concision of the genre would properly contain the fugacity of the procedure. Therefore, the confluence of these brevities would reveal how the epiphany can be enclosed in a short story. To that end, this paper sought a delimitation of the concepts of short story and epiphany from Literature thinkers followed by a comparative analysis of three short stories namely: "Amor", by Clarice Lispector; "Olhar", by Rubem Fonseca; and "Axolotle", by Julio CortÃzar.

Este trabalho tem como objetivo investigar a configuração de uma visão trágica do mundo na obra do escritor Rubem Fonseca. Para isso, em cada um de seus quatro capítulos é analisado um conto considerado exemplar no que diz respeito a essa configuração. São eles Madona (de A coleira do cão, 1965), O pedido (de Feliz ano novo, 1975), Mandrake (de O cobrador, 1979) e Meu avô (de Pequenas criaturas, 2002). O título da dissertação foi escolhido com base nos três principais fatores dessa configuração que são encontrados nos contos e que, combinados, dão a esses textos sua dimensão trágica. / This study aims to investigate the configuration of a \"tragic perception of the world\" in the work of the writer Rubem Fonseca. To do so, in each of its four chapters a short story considered exemplar regarding this configuration is examined. They are Madona (from A coleira do cão, 1965), O pedido (from Feliz ano novo, 1975), Mandrake (from O cobrador, 1979) e Meu avô (from Pequenas criaturas, 2002). The title of this dissertation was chosen based on the three main aspects of this setting that are found in the short stories and that, combined, give these texts its tragic dimension.

A short story collection that explores themes of culture, history, race, movement, stagnancy, and freedom. All stories are connected by elements of water, swimming, rivers, or wetlands. All contain characters seeking to escape their circumstances, with varying degrees of success. For some characters, the arc of their development lays in their movement; for others, it lays in their learning to live with a lack of movement.

What follows are the motivations and desires behind my writing and why I chose to pursue writing in the first place. This paper not only gives context to my creative stories, but it also functions as a self-portrait, a glimpse of the writer behind the text. In this paper, I speak of my experiences of growing up in a marginalized group, of being a daughter of Mexican immigrants and a member of the working class. I explain how those experiences helped shape the content and voice that I portray in my collection of short stories called, Somewhere Between Here and There. This collection of short stories emerged at the start of my graduate program but it was a project that was slowly accumulating over the years. The collection centers on the invisibility of a Latino community and dramatizes the challenges that they face as individuals and as a group. Many of my characters face challenges both at an individual and institutional level that causes fragmentation. In the end, each character tries to cope with their situation while trying to find and discover a sense of self and belonging in the world.

This Terrible Silence is a collection of nineteen stand-alone stories. The work largely focuses on characters on the fringe of society—alcoholics, gamblers, thieves, liars, cheaters, and loners, who feel trapped or destined to repeat their troubles. In the struggle to break free, either by self-fulfillment or outside interference, these stories showcase the characters’ hearts and wills in the face of often daunting or insurmountable desperation. The stories in this collection are influenced by the work of Raymond Carver, and the Dirty Realism of Larry Brown, Breece DJ Pancake, Jayne Anne Phillips, and others. With minimal exposition, the characters are laid bare with cutting dialogue and active, scenic description. In the title piece, the narrator intends to tell a man vs. nature story of his encounter with a cougar, but quickly dissolves into a battle with his own slipping mental health in the face of a failing relationship. In the first-person point of view, the act of telling the story holds its own exigency for the narrator’s need to understand his or her motives and desires, as is most evident in Carver’s work, such as “Cathedrals.” In theme and style, I’ve sought to put together a collection that might allow readers to find truth and empathy from common, low, sometimes immoral, but largely human characters.

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Adam Jolly May 7th, 2004 67 pages Directed by: Dr. Nancy Roberts, Dr. David Lenoir, and Dr. Lloyd Davies Department of English Western Kentucky University This thesis, consisting of three short stories, proposes to explore ubiquitous motifs by exhibition of symbolic, mythological conceptions and personalities relating mutually with the everyday and the exceptional in a plausible way. These stories are intended to include effectual inquiry and still be inventive and entertaining. Source materials for this thesis range from Norse mythology to Homer to the Charlie Daniels Band.