Narratives of pitch: darkness and shadow in the cinema and in the dance by Flaviana Sampaio

“…This paper examines the films Nosferatu (1922) and L’avventura (1964), and the dance performances La Sylphide (1832), and Triz (2013) taking into consideration ideas of night emphasized in the exchanges conception of darkness and shadows.…”
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GOTTFRIED WOLFGANG (1843), DE PÉTRUS BOREL: A RETOMADA DE WASHINGTON IRVING COMO INVESTIMENTO NO GÊNERO FANTÁSTICO by Fernanda Almeida Lima

“…After an initial investment on this genre, with the release of the tale Les pressentiments (1833), ignored by critics, Borel reaffirms his membership to the Fantastic, ten years later, giving the public Gottfried Wolfgang (1843), narrative released in the journal La Sylphide. To compose Gottfried Wolfgang, Borel resumed and translated the narrative of the American writer Washington Irving, entitled The adventure of the German student (1824), changing it in an ironic way. …”
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GENDER AND VARIATIVE REPRESENTATION OF REFLECTIONS ON LOVE BY ZINAIDA GIPPIUS by Elena V. Pedchenko

“…Appearance, demeanor and extraordinary abilities gave rise to legends and poetic and mystical nicknames “Petersburg Kassandra”, “La Sylphide”, “Green-eyed naiad”, “White Devil”, but most often she was called the “Decadent Madonna”, which corresponded to the position of the mistress of the house-salon new time, the knightly image of Merezhkovsky and her other admirers. …”
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