NOTA DE APRESENTAÇÃO

Abstract

Number 31.2 of Diacrítica is dedicated to the theme of emotions in liter-ary fiction and in cultural creation, this being in perfect accord with other areas of knowledge that also highlight the importance, if not the necessity, of emotion. 'us, a diverse collection of papers can be found that have a multidisciplinary dimension and use emotion as their prism.Outside the thematic section, in the first part of the journal (Miscellaneous), the reader may find papers dedicated to other subjects.Beginning with this volume 31.2, the journal Diacrítica has a new for-mat. 'e former organization in three annual volumes corresponding to the research areas of Linguistics, Literature, Philosophy and Culture is sub-stituted by thematic numbers addressing the diverse current research ques-tions of CEHUM. It will continue to be published three times a year.