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The article proposes to conceptually and analytically examine fundamental approaches to some of the works of two Chilean Marxists of the twentieth century: Marta Harnecker and Osvaldo Fernández. Methodologically we have defined an interpretative approach to some of the most important texts they have produced, identifying the main thesis they raise around Marx, capitalism and the struggles for socialism in Latin America. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article is part of the results of a survey on emigration from Goiás to the Republic of Ireland, held between 2009 and 2011. Through a multi located ethnography (BrazilIreland), it aimed to understand how the elements of regional identity of these immigrants are reinforced, traded or denied in the context of living abroad. Both the ethnography and the data collection were done in Brazil and in Ireland, between 2009 and 2011, in the cities of Anápolis, in Brazil, and Tullamore, Kilbeggan and Gort, in Ireland, since these have a considerable number of Brazilians. The record of womanly interpretations of the emigrating process aims to enhance the gender perspective and the places of speech of the women, which is often silenced by the general representations about immigrants. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article is part of the results of a survey on emigration from Goiás to the Republic of Ireland, held between 2009 and 2011. Through a multi located ethnography (Brazil-Ireland), it aimed to understand how the elements of regional identity of these immigrants are reinforced, traded or denied in the context of living abroad. Both the ethnography and the data collection were done in Brazil and in Ireland, between 2009 and 2011, in the cities of Anápolis, in Brazil, and Tullamore, Kilbeggan and Gort, in Ireland, since these have a considerable number of Brazilians. The record of womanly interpretations of the emigrating process aims to enhance the gender perspective and the places of speech of the women, which is often silenced by the general representations about immigrants. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article presents a proposal for the analysis of pragmatic presuppositions which takes into consideration the elements and relationships that allow the determination of their truth and/or convenience in the work of H. P. Lovecraft. This allows demonstrating that the pragmatic presuppositions found in the story "The Call of Cthulhu" generate a mistaken and discriminatory view which is the result of divergent interpretations of what is exotic, unknown and attractive about the topic, as well as ignorance about the culture of the countries which practice it. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Since it was published by Max Brod, Kafka's work has created excitement, anger, inspiration, ambiguities and followers. What made a true metamorphosis in the work, raising questions about how Brod published the originals, and questions about the will of Kafka behind the request for 'destroying the original “(made to his friend by the time of his death). Thus, interpretations (in Brazil and abroad) about his work grow in the same proportions as the suggested paths for its 'true' understanding. In this sense, this text aims to analyze some of its readers and their readings of the work (In the Penal Colony, The Process and The Castle) of Kafka. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Through a sum of elements intend to outline a hermeneutic orientation or free personal reading Kazantzakis, reading to help them earn more than the universe kazantzakista approach, which currently has been defined under the weight of tradition that tries to qualify for writer, or a more literate in the world of Universal Literature. A number of elements lead us to argue that while Kazantzakis be an artist, or a renowned cultivator of literature, is also an intellectual man, and therefore, a relative of the philosophers in the sense that their literature search does not disdain of the great thinkers of all time. Rather, lives with them. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The popular songs contain ideological items that express certain characteristics of the culture in which they exist. In oral tradition, the word is adjusted to everyday use, expressing the group's idiosyncrasy: each word recreates in it's transmission, acquires new meanings and values, modifying it's conceptual reference. At the same time, the meaning of the songs appear in different directions that relate to each other, reaffirming once and again until they become symbols. The Sephardic lyrics, like a fundamental part of the popular Hispanic lyrics, are based on three principal lines of thought: the Hispanic view of the world; the practice and the religious laws of Judaism; and the diasporic perspective, that is, the cultural influence in which they were established after 1492. The meaning of the symbols in the songs become clear from these premises. Many of the themes that deal with the subjects of Nature, refer to erotic symbols, like in Spanish: "coger rosas", "lavar la camisa", "el baño en el río", etc. which are topics that the Hispanic-Jew community transform according to it's particular way of undersanding their world. The main changes of the canticles, from Christian songs to the Sepharadic are reflected, more than anything, in the songs used in the ritual of Jewish weddings. In that way, for example, the San Juan Festivity renews itself when turns toward the bride's bath ceremony. It is clear that both ideological tendencies refer to fertility concept as a common topic. The flexibility of oral tradition, then, gives a guideline to several transform and different valorations that depend on the ideological orientation in which the songs are inserted. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]