Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico / O trabalho envereda pelos modos e artifícios de construção da subjetividade nos gêneros autobiográficos e nos textos ficcionais, investigando como se dá a escrita que versa sobre o eu. Dos textos abertamente autobiográficos de Caio Fernando Abreu, como a correspondência, passa-se às formas tênues como a crônica e o conto, nos quais se entrecruzam ficção e subjetividade, experiência e invenção. Nesse sentido, estudamos como o sujeito torna-se o centro dos acontecimentos e passa a escrever sobre aquilo que lhe acomete o espírito, o corpo, os sentimentos e pensamentos, seja no registro pontual e objetivo dos acontecimentos ou no floreamento do vivido e do inventado. A intenção é explorar, nos espaços biográficos e literários de Caio Fernando Abreu, o entrelaçamento de vida e grafia, e as possibilidades de escritura de si mesmo em sua correspondência, organizada por Ítalo Moriconi, em Cartas (2002), na coletânea de crônicas Pequenas Epifanias (2006), e nos contos de Ovelhas negras (1995) / This study is about the ways and devices of the construction of subjectivity in autobiographical genres and fictional texts, investigating how it is the writing about the self. From plain autobiographical texts by Caio Fernando Abreu such as letters, we go to tenuous forms such as the essays and short stories, which intertwine fiction and subjectivity, experience and invention. This way, we studied how the subject becomes the center of events and starts writing about what affects his mind, body, feelings and thoughts, either in a real or objective report of events or in a "embellishment of what was lived and invented. The intention is to explore, in Caio Fernando Abreus biographical and literary spaces, the intertwining of life and writing, and the possibilities of writing himself in his letters, organized by Italo Moriconi, in Cartas (2002), in the compilation of essays Pequenas Epifanias (2006), and in the short stories in Ovelhas Negras (1995)

Orientador: Sérgio Vicente Motta / Banca: Marisa Corrêa Silva / Banca: Sylvia Helena Telarolli de Almeida Leite / Banca: Luiz Gonzaga Marchezan / Banca: Maria Heloísa Martins Dias / Resumo: Nesta pesquisa, procuramos analisar a intensificação dos investimentos retóricos, especialmente a elipse, na construção de sentidos em contos de Machado de Assis. Acreditamos que, por meio desse recurso temporal, o autor consegue transcender a estrutura clássica do conto, principalmente a partir da ambigüidade de seus textos, pois essa técnica altera o processo esperado de refiguração da intriga. Para verificarmos as hipóteses de trabalho, analisamos todos os quarenta e três contos dos quatro primeiros livros de Machado de Assis (de Contos fluminenses a Histórias sem data). A partir das análises, pudemos observar que, além da elipse, recursos como a ironia, o humor e a alegoria tiveram seu uso reforçado, o que aprimorou o texto machadiano no que se refere à construção da ambigüidade. Verificamos, também, que a elipse tem seu apogeu em Histórias sem data (1884). O trabalho é composto de cinco capítulos. O primeiro faz um breve percurso pela crítica machadiana tradicional e os demais tratam de cada um dos livros de contos, obedecendo à ordem cronológica de publicação. Cada capítulo tem sua conclusão, que servirá de base à conclusão final, resultante da relação dos resultados obtidos nesse trajeto. Portanto, aliado ao estudo desse corpus, refletimos sobre a fortuna crítica e utilizamos as teorias necessárias para investigar, especialmente, a velocidade narrativa, verificando o percurso do explícito para o implícito, a partir da utilização da elipse e de outros mecanismos geradores de sentido. / Abstract: This research aims to analyze the intensification of the rhetorical investments, mainly the ellipsis, in the meaning constructions in Machado de Assis' short stories. We believe that through this temporal source the author is able to transcend the classic structure of short stories, principally from the ambiguity of his texts, since this technique alters the expected process of the intrigue refiguration. In order to verify the hypothesis of the works we analyzed all the forty three short stories from Machado de Assis' first four books (from Contos Fluminenses to Histórias sem data). From the analysis, it was noticed that as well as the ellipsis, resources as irony, humor and allegory had their use reinforced, which improved Machadian texts in relation to the ambiguity construction. We also verified that the ellipsis had its climax in Histórias sem data (1884). This study is composed by five chapters. The first one provides an outlook through the traditional criticism of Assis and the others deal with each one of the short stories books, obeying the chronological order of their publication. Each chapter has its own conclusion which will be the basis for the final conclusion, outcome of the relation between the obtained results in this trajectory. Therefore, in addition to the study of the corpus we reflected upon the critical fortune and we used the required theories to investigate, mostly, the narrative speed, verifying the path from the explicit to the implicit based on the use of the ellipsis and other meaning generators mechanisms. / Doutor

Esta pesquisa teve como objetivo investigar possíveis relações entre o conto de tradição oral e os jogos teatrais, com a intenção de contribuir para a reflexão de perspectivas do ensino de teatro. Apoiada na sistematização dos jogos teatrais, proposta por Viola Spolin, investiguei a utilização do jogo em um processo de montagem de uma peça, seguindo o caminho indicado no livro O jogo teatral no livro do diretor. Para tanto, realizei experimento com um grupo de jovens do Ensino Médio, de uma escola estadual, na cidade de São Paulo, no ano de 2001. Este trabalho foi baseado em pesquisas sobre o conto e o ensino de teatro, bem como na experiência realizada com o grupo de alunos. / This research intends to check possible relationships between oral traditional short stories and the theatre games, with the intention to contribute to the reflection of perspectives of acting learning. Based on the theatre games systematization, proposed by Viola Spolin, I did an investigation about the use of games to stage a play, following the instructions of the book The theatre games in the directors book. For that, I did an experiment with a young group from a state high school in São Paulo city, during the year 2001. This work was based on researches about short stories and acting learning as well with the experiment performed with the young group.

Introduction: The Historical Tradition of Baillie, Scott, Hodson and Southey -- William Wallace : "A Terrible Beauty" -- Exploration and conquest : Columbus, Balboa, and Pizarro -- National and Domestic Heroines : Margaret of Anjou and Lady Griseld Baillie -- Gothic Interactions : The Miscellaneous Legends of Baillie and Hodson. / https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu_books/1035/thumbnail.jpg

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James Still remains one of the most beloved and important writers in Appalachian literature. Best known for his acclaimed novel River of Earth (1940), the Alabama native and adopted Kentuckian left an enduring legacy of novels, stories, and poems during his nearly seventy year career. The Hills Remember: The Complete Short Stories of James Stillhonors the late writer by collecting all of Still's short stories, including his stories from On Troublesome Creek (1941), Pattern of a Man and Other Stories (1976), and The Run for the Elbertas(1980), as well as twelve prose pieces originally published as short stories and later incorporated into River of Earth. Also included are several lesser-known stories and ten never-before-published stories. Recognized as a significant writer of short fiction in his day―many of his stories initially appeared in The Atlantic and The Saturday Evening Post and were included in The O. Henry Memorial Award Stories and The Best American Short Stories collections―Still's short stories, while often overshadowed in recent years by his novels and poetry, are among his most enduring literary works. Editor Ted Olson offers a reassessment of Still's short fiction within the contexts of the author's body of work and within Appalachian and American literature. Compiling all of James Still's compelling and varied short stories into one volume, The Hills Remember is a testament to a master writer. / https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu_books/1166/thumbnail.jpg

Love Languages and Other Stories is a collection of three short stories all pertaining, in someway, to love (or lack thereof). "This is What a Feminist Look Like," "Sink," and "Love Languages" are the three stories that make up this Scripps senior thesis.

The following work is a collection of short stories, each of which is set in Southeastern North Carolina in a particular medium-sized town. The stories are concerned with the idea of place and with what it is like to have lived all of one’s life in one setting. Thus, the characters here range from childhood to old age, they are from various social classes, and they occupy varying roles in both traditional and non-traditional families. The concern of this collection is how people of all stripes occupy a single place for generations, and more specifically what the nature of community is.

ME WITHOUT YOU is an interlinked collection of short stories set in the blight of an urban housing project in San Bernardino, California. The stories follow the lives of three students in their year of fourth grade at a low performing school. Narrated from these points of view, the collection amplifies the voices of a community wrought with violence, poverty, and crime while also exploring how children brave the consequences of a world they cannot control. Mesmerizing in its simplicity, and gripping in its detail, ME WITHOUT YOU intertwines themes of identity, family, loss, poverty, and longing for what is just out of reach. It begs the reader to question how one survives a world of violence and disillusionment. The story behind my stories is this: in my nine years in San Bernardino, I have learned that it isn’t just the origin of one’s story that matters, but what one does with it. In this way, ME WITHOUT YOU tells the stories of this region, the dreams of its children, and the journeys they navigate in order to survive.

The six short stories in this collection explore the lives and desires of disparate women. In "Sentinel," a woman visits an ex-boyfriend, injured in the army, and his family, with whom she has a fraught relationship, in their vacation home. A diagnosis of cancer spurs a woman to change her life in "Cell Division"; when a new possibility for treatment arises, she reconsiders the choice she made to take her life apart. In the story, "A Wake," a funeral and an unexpected pregnancy set the stage for the breakdown of a couple's relationship. In "A Cyclic Process," a woman conflates her ambivalence toward the anti-depressants she takes with her feelings about her relationship; in the end, she cannot let go of either. A woman, traveling with a new acquaintance, takes a trip to Venice in "The Edge of the World," and falls into an unsettling relationship with a man she meets there. The process of protein denaturation serves as a metaphor in "Marina," for the unraveling of a friendship between two teenage girls.