BRASILIA: BRAZILIAN SAINT PETERSBURG?

Authors

  • Ekaterina Vólkova Américo Universidade Federal Fluminense (UFF)
  • Edelcio Américo Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.21709/casa.v14i1.8435

Keywords:

Text of the City, Semiotics, Saint Petersburg, Brasilia.

Abstract

From the concept of “text of the city“, formulated in the works of Yuri Lotman and Vladimir Toporov, within the studies undertaken by Tartu-Moscow Semiotic School in the decades of 1970-1980, the article deals with the presence in the Russian culture of Saint Petersburg as a capital created artificially by a whim of the Emperor Peter, the Great in the eighteenth century, and the possibility to draw some similarities with the city of Brasilia in Brazilian culture, such is in Clarice Lispectors’ chronic “Nos primeiros começos de Brasília (In the early beginnings of Brasilia)”, that recorded the writer’s first impressions of the newly built capital.

Author Biographies

Ekaterina Vólkova Américo, Universidade Federal Fluminense (UFF)

Departamento de Línguas Estrangeiras Modernas, Literatura e Língua Russa

Edelcio Américo, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro

Departamento de Letras Orientais e Eslavas; setor de Letras Russas

Downloads

Published

05/08/2016

Issue

Vol. 14 No. 1 (2016)

Section

Papers

License

The authors of the approved papers agree to grant non-exclusive publication rights to CASA. Thus, authors are free to make their texts available in other media, provided that they mention that the texts were first published in CASA: Cadernos de Semiótica Aplicada. Besides, they authorize the Journal to reproduce their submission in indexers, repositories, and such. Authors are not allowed to publish the translation of the published paper to another language without the written approval of the Executive Editors. The authors are totally responsible for the content of the published work.