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The "double" is a well-known Hitchcockian motif. Widely reviewed under a psychoanalytical perspective, the issue of the double still presents other important challenges and this article aims at discussing the queer doubles in Hitchcock's films as "falsifiers" who are opposed to non-queer doubles that emphasise narrative coherence and legibility. In films such as Rebeca, Rope, Vertigo, The Birds, Psycho, and Frenzy, a double condenses impulses that are well described by Lee Edelman: "the violent undoing of meaning, the loss of identity and coherence, the unnatural access to jouissance" (132). These doubles release the powers of the false as they complicate the return to an "order". Therefore, we could argue that such characters are closer to being Deleuzian simulacra than psychoanalytical doppelgängers.

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The resurgence of novels dealing with dystopian cosmogonies since the 1990s may reveal a new trend in Utopian Studies. If classical dystopia was defined by the imposition of collective political and social structures upon the individual and out of which there was no escape (as constructed, mainly, by Aldous Huxley's Brave New World and George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four), these contemporary dystopian novels critically construct posthuman societies where the focus is on the development of the dystopian body, which questions and reinvents the very definitions of humanity. This article aims at examining the effects of posthuman critique upon the construction of the dystopian body in P.D. James's novel The Children of Men.

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O conto de Katherine Mansfield "The doll's house" (2000) constitui o objeto da presente discussão, cujo propósito é trilhar as relações entre as personagens, tomando como foco as ações afetivas - tanto aquelas vinculadas a afecções negativas (frieza, senso de superioridade, orgulho, violência, crueldade) quanto a afecções positivas (gentileza, partilha, compreensão, tolerância, sensibilidade). Partimos da hipótese de que os significados mais relevantes do conto decorrem de (des)encontros afetivos - de um lado, a exclusão, o preconceito, a humilhação e a crueldade; de outro, o acolhimento, o respeito, a cumplicidade e a inclusão. Fundamentamos nossa análise com princípios teóricos advindos da teoria literária e de teorias do social voltadas para a chamada "virada afetiva", a fim de argumentar que essa narrativa encena novas possibilidades de percepção e ação.

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Katherine Mansfield's "The doll's house" (2000) constitutes the object of the present discussion, which aims at tracing the relations among the characters, focusing on their affective actions - both those linked to negative affects (coldness, arrogance, violence, cruelty) and those related to positive affects (gentleness, sharing, understanding, tolerance, sensibility). Our hypothesis is that the most substantial meanings of the short story derive from (mis)affective encounters - on the one hand, exclusion, prejudice, humiliation and cruelty; on the other, complicity, respect, acceptance and inclusion. Our analysis will be supported with literary theoretical principles and with social theory discussions on the "affective turn", so as to argue that this narrative dramatizes new possibilities of perception and action.

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A partir do conceito de Stimmung elaborado por Gumbrecht (2010), analisamos o filme Amor à flor da pele (2000), para demonstrar que o essencial desse filme está na articulação entre as ambiências afetivas e a História.

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Based on Gumbrecht's (2010) concept of Stimmung, we analyse the film In the mood for love (2000) in order to demonstrate that the essential is in film lies in the way it articulates affective moods and History.

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Five decades of resorting to humanistic critical procedures have bequeathed to the Nigerian critical practice the legacy of examining and discovering in Nigerian and African narratives the historical and social concepts of the time and times they are presumed to posit. These concepts include colonialism, corruption, war, political instability, and culture conflict. These procedures are undertaken without due regard to seeing the whole of the literary tradition as a stream out of which narratives emerge. This article, therefore, by way of introduction, seeks to retrieve Nigerian narratives from "every author" and humanistic critical approach by placing them in a realm where a holistic method such as Frye's could be applied. Here, the traverses of the structure of mythical imagery such as the mythos of crime and punishment as embodied in these narratives and how this structure was displaced/shrouded from Frye's first mimetic mode to the last, via the concept of mythic displacement, will be analysed.

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This article employs a comparative approach to connect cities and cinemas by discussing the presence of the urban space in the films Foreign Land (Terra Estrangeira, Walter Salles and Daniela Thomas, 1995), Head-On (Gegen die Wand, Fatih Akin, 2004), Import Export (Ulrich Seidl, 2007) and What Time Is It There? (Ni Neibian Jidian, Tsai Ming-liang, 2001). Shot mainly on location, these films are structured upon a movement between two cities, located in two different countries, and tackle questions of time and space and the fabrication of memory. A focus on their interconnectedness enables me to turn away from usual centre-periphery schemes and propose a new, and more complex, geography for recent and contemporary cinema.

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Os romances Um táxi para Viena d´Áustria (Antonio torres) e As cinco estações do amor (João Almino) encenam a experiência urbana como exílio. Esse exílio pode se dar em função de um distanciamento geográfico (caso das migrações características dos grandes centros urbanos), de contingências econômicas (associando-se à exclusão) ou por uma fissura psicológica. Todas essas experiências da metrópole como exílio refletem a suspensão da fala e da potência de gozo da vida provocadas por um contato traumático com a realidade circundante.

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The novels Um táxi para Viena d´Áustria (Antonio torres) e As cinco estações do amor (João Almino) stage the urban experience as exile. This exile can be due to geographical distance (as it happens to the migrational processes typical of the greater urban centers), to economic circumstances (linked to social exclusion) or to psychological crackdown. All those urban experiences reflect the suspension of speech and of life jouissance, both provoked by a traumatic contact with reality.

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A problematização de categorias dicotômicas num mundo plural, heterogêneo e contraditório, cujas fronteiras sócio-artística-culturais são questionadas e confrontadas, impulsiona o artista a olhar para regimes estéticos que apropriadamente busquem o enfrentamento destas questões. A metaficção, como um fenômeno estético, intencionalmente autorreferencial e autorreflexivo, se adéqua às exigências da arte contemporânea. Associada à paródia, a metaficção produz uma forma artística de leitura sofisticada e também impõe um novo olhar crítico-teórico para alcançar esta complexidade. Neste trabalho, elegemos como recorte de análise a cena da fonte no romance Atonement, de Ian McEwan e na sua adaptação fílmica homônima, do diretor Joe Wright. Com o objetivo de refletir sobre o lugar e o olhar des-locados da personagem-escritora Briony Tallis e sua consequente jornada em busca de uma auto-justificação, investigamos a elaboração das narrativas metaficcionais nos recortes literário e fílmico e observamos que o conflito entre ética e estética resulta na configuração do espaço do outro.

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The problematization of dichotomies in a plural, heterogeneous, and contradictory world, whose socio-artistic-cultural borders are questioned and confronted, motivates the artist to look for aesthetical regimes that may appropriately face these questions. Metafiction, as an intentionally auto-referential and auto-reflexive aesthetical phenomenon, is adequate to cope with the requirements of the contemporary art. Associated with parody, metafiction produces an artistic form that asks for a sophisticated reading and also demands for new critical and theoretical approaches that could deal with such complexity. For the present analyses, we select the scene of the fountain in Ian McEwan's novel Atonement and its correspondent in the film adaptation, by the director Joe Wright. With the objective of reflecting about the dis-placed site and sight of the character-writer Briony Tallis and her consequent effort to perform her auto-justification, we investigate the elaboration of metafictional narratives in the selected material and we notice that the conflict between ethics and aesthetics results in the configuration of the other's space.

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Explorar a representação sonora pela literatura e em adaptações de obras literárias para o cinema. Analisar a representação de ambientes sonoros, da relação dos personagens com tais ambientes e os processos de identificação entre espectador e personagem, especialmente pelas nuances possíveis do ponto de escuta. Entendemos neste artigo que analisar a identificação entre espectador e personagem através da construção do ponto de escuta é tratar de um procedimento narrativo pouco analisado tanto no campo dos estudos literários quanto na teoria cinematográfica. Para tanto, a análise das adaptações cinematográficas dos romances de Jane Austen terá papel central, embora haja no decorrer do texto exemplos outros.

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This arcticle aims to investigate sound representation through literature and cinematographic adaptation. Therefore, it analyses the representation of sound space in its relation with characters' moods, as well as the construction of identification processes between character and spectator, especially achieved through point of audition procedures. The main goal here is to declare that analysing point of audition procedures means working on a scarcely analyzed (Acima, está grafado com s) narrative tool both in literature and cinema studies. Jane Austen's cinematographic adaptations will play a central part in this analysis, even though other examples will help establishing the dialogue between sound representation, literature and film.