“S many, I had not thought death had undone so many.” These words about the precariousness of the early years of the 20th century referred to lives lost in war. T.S. Eliot and other poets and writers, along with many in the arts and sciences, were grappling with growing cities and their beleaguered populations and with technological advancements that allowed the killing of unprecedented numbers...

Clarice Lispector's Água viva [1973] can be read as a project of linguistic resignification. For this, it is necessary to understand the context in which set, third phase literary Modernism Brazil. The movement, not only its segment, influenced by European vanguards such abstractionism (and denial, too, discursive figure text), surrealism etc., found new incorporations Latin America, resulting ...

Children’s literature is sometimes considered to be the poor relation of literary genres throughout world, as it often confined rank for very young. Yet, on closer inspection, does this not play an important role in establishing national identity? In other words, contribute spread tolerance and therefore living together? Backed by Pierre Barbéris’ sociocriticism structured three parts, contribu...

extended abstract 1. introduction modernism is among the most important cultural, political, economic and social issues of our time, the most important constituent of which is change. thus, it is quite natural that this concept confronts that of tradition, whose essence is intertwined with stagnation. tradition has been used in three senses: 1) what is called islamic and shite tradition? (sunna...

Abstract Modernist literature was obsessed with a metaphysical problem regarding the word. A series of formal and material experiments started to address word’s self-referentiality aesthetic autonomy, against backdrop new sociocultural milieu in early twentieth century. To discover how this materialisation language explored interplay literary artistic modernisms, paper will critically scrutinis...