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The novel O Crime do Padre Amaro is analyzed with special reference to the relationships between its creation and the process of aesthetic and political sensitiveness that underscored Eça de Queiroz's literary productions. The novel is discussed as to its configurations and meanings, as a product and a producer of contradictions inherent to the debate on liberalism and Catholicism in Portugal in the second half of the 19th century. The adaptations made throughout the several issues of the novel, the plot and its reception by critics in the 19th century are investigated. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Current article studies the main events in the schooling of the writer, politician and educator Mário Palmério (1916-1996), author of Vila dos Confins (1956) and Chapadão do Bugre (1965). Foregrounded on the analysis of primary documents, research concentrated on learning within the home and schooling in the primary, secondary, military and higher schools. A survey has been made on the experiences that influenced his ideas in the educational, political and literary fields. Results show that his relationship with nature, regionalist and nationalist ideas and his imaginary on the Amazon forest were highly affected by his schooling during childhood and adolescence. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article is about the relation between history and literature in a specific historical novel, Marco Zero, written by Oswald de Andrade in the first half of 1940. Discussing the concept of historical novel and what João Alexandre Barbosa defined as "interval reading" - in which the literary discourse is understood as a way to produce knowledge, and not only as a reflection of it - I tried to comprehend how Oswald builds his narrative - creating a historical context and interpreting it -, how he works with categories such as space and time and establishes relations among his diverse and numerous characters. Oswald's writing is close to the concept of historical novel defined by Marilene Weinhardt, as he works on the limitations of the hegemonic historical discourse. So, analyzing aspects that were ignored by the critics of Oswald's books, that commonly considered Marco Zero a defective novel and/or a creative decline in Oswald's career, this article offers the chance to consider the Oswaldian's novel as a topic of historical discussion, paying attention to the different uses of history made by varied discourses that are in society. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]