Neste trabalho voltamos a enfrentar o problema sobre autoria das cartas da Wanda Tinasky. Estas que foram dadas como de do ficcionista estadunidense Thomas R. Pynchon; tese foi desmentida por Donald Foster (2000) baseada em evidências históricas. Em 2018, escrevemos um primeiro ensaio fazendo mesma contestação Foster, mas baseado dados referentes escolhas lexicais cada escritor. Ou seja: refuta...

Reminiscing about his younger self: "I mean I can't very well just 86 [in American slang, to "86" is to eject, remove, or discard someone or something, J.R.N.] this guy from my life. On the other hand, if through some as yet undeveloped technology I were to run into him today, how comfortable would I feel about lending him money, or for that matter even stepping down the street to have a beer a...

The classical approach of constructing finite Postnikov systems by k-invariants is compared with the global approach of Dwyer, Kan, and Smith. We concentrate on the case of 3-stage Postnikov pieces and provide examples where a classification is feasible. In general though the computational difficulty of the global approach is equivalent to that of the classical one. . . . all mathematics leads,...

This study aimed at exploring the ontological indeterminacies of The Sea (2005), a novel by John Banville using the postmodern catena put forth by Ihab Hassan. Hassan’s catalogue of the features of postmodern fiction includes indeterminacy, fragmentation, decanonization, selflessness, depthlessness, the unpresentable/unrepresentable, irony, hybridization, carnivalization, performance, participa...