CEAUL/ULICES - AS - Série III - nº 12 – 2016
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- “To what end is nature?” – Rachel Carson’s Under the Sea-Windand environmental literaturePublication . Feneja, Fernanda Luísa da Silva, 1964-Rachel Carson’s work is best known in the fields of marine science and environ mentalism, due especially to the prominence of Silent Spring (1962), in which she describes the threat posed to the natural world by the use of pesticides, thus challenging American policies on environmental practices. Though lesser known, Carson’s other writings are also important, not only because of their representation of nature, but also in terms of their genre and style, which attempt at merging scientific content and literary expression. This essay discusses the relevance of Carson’s first book, Under the Sea-Wind (1941), in terms of nature and environmental writing. It considers how the book’s scientific and literary aspects correlate, with particular emphasis on the writer’s use of narrative. Finally, the essay also addresses the contribution of Carson’s environmental aesthetics to an environmental pedagogy.
- Introductory note [Revista anglo saxonica, III:12]Publication . Alves, Isabel Maria Fernandes, 1964- ; Johnson, Rochelle; Silva, Edgardo Medeiros, 1961-Introduction to this volume
- Emerson in the Star Garden : Writing and the Sensuous WorldPublication . Fowke, Mary CarolineThis essay, based on a piece of creative non-fiction set in Lisbon’s Estrela Park and inspired by Emerson, explores questions of “slow time” and timelessness. It looks particularly at how these can contribute to mental well-being in an increasingly accelerated world in which virtual experiences are encroaching upon sensorially-based ones. It also looks at “slow time” as an activity related to the accessing and savouring of memories through the process of autobiographical creative writing.
- Doing what comes naturally : the domestication of bug and humbug at Melville’s tablePublication . Beirante, RuteOf the short pieces Herman Melville wrote between 1853 and 1856, while trying his chances as a short story writer, the last was “The Apple-Tree Table; Or, Original Spiritual Manifestations”, published in Putnam’s Monthly Magazine in May, 1856. As in some other Melvillean works the core narrative is based on a true story to which he obtained access. Set in a domestic environment, with characters also present in former stories, the action takes place when a bug emerges from an ancient table, eliciting all kinds of responses. The contrasting reactions and the way they are portrayed show that beneath this apparently simple and humorous narrative there are inner layers of a subtle philosophical debate. Throughout his life, Melville maintained a permanent interest in Emerson’s writings, in spite of a paradoxical double reaction of acceptance and rejection of his ideas. This article addresses the relationship between this short story and the principles stated in the essay “Nature”, as well as other positions of Melville concerning Ralph Waldo Emerson.
- Concluding notes on a remarkable conferencePublication . Alves, Maria Teresa Ferreira de Almeida, 1938-Conclusion to this volume and notes on "The Naturally Emerson Conference".