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- Questions to tourists stopped by Walden pond: Waterscapes, words and literary tourismPublication . Alves, Isabel Maria Fernandes, 1964- The purpose of this paper is twofold: first, to analyze the meaning of Walden Pond, a real body of water between Concord and Lincoln, Massachusetts, as it appears in Henry David Thoreau’s Walden (1854). This pond is first and foremost a place on whose shores the writer decided to live between 1845 and 1847. Secondly, the literary representation of the lake functions as a symbol of simplicity, of obser-vation and knowledge, and, in this sense, I seek to investigate how Thoreau’s words about the Walden pond have contributed to the (trans)formation of readers’ and tourists’ minds. Moreover, my interest is to draw from works about literary tourism and to see how literary words construct the tourist vision, as “in literary tourism, narratives act as the primary source of information about a place, stimulating motivation to travel” (Charapan & Mikulich, 2019). Thus, my proposal aims to show that because water is characterized as mirrorlike, windowlike, and with no definite shape it is a fertile metaphor for poetic imagery. Additionally, to evince that (literary) words, place, waterscapes and tourists interrelate in the forging of (new) consciousnesses, better suited to practice reverence for our common home.
- Civil resistance: in accord with nature: on the Bicentennial of H. D. ThoreauPublication . Silva, Edgardo Medeiros da, 1961-; Alves, Isabel Maria Fernandes, 1964- ; Gato, Margarida Vale de, 1973-
- Kingsman, not My Fair Lady: dialect and stereotype in the films The Secret Service and The Golden CirclePublication . Soares, Carla M.The way characters in film are portrayed, through dress code, behaviour and speech, is often revealing of social patterns and social critique, independently from the film genre or the target audience. This article focuses on the portrayal of lead and supporting actors in the two instalments of Kingsman, The Secret Service and The Golden Circle (2014 and 2017 respectively, both by Mathew Vaughn), departing, in the first case, from a Pygmalionesque transformative idea and, centered in Harry/Galahad’s (Colin Firth) motto “Manners Maketh Man” to partially portray social context in Britain and extending its “tongue-in-cheek” critique to the American Southern culture in The Golden Circle, in purposely biased portraits. The emphasis is on how dialect, particularly accent, aid in the construction or deconstruction of stereotypes, both in British and North American contexts, and how they reflect particular views of the world(s).
- Kingsman, not My Fair Lady: dialect and stereotype in the films The Secret Service and The Golden CirclePublication . Soares, Carla M.The way characters in film are portrayed, through dress code, behaviour and speech, is often revealing of social patterns and social critique, independently from the film genre or the target audience. This article focuses on the portrayal of lead and supporting actors in the two instalments of Kingsman, The Secret Service and The Golden Circle (2014 and 2017 respectively, both by Mathew Vaughn), departing, in the first case, from a Pygmalionesque transformative idea and, centered in Harry/Galahad’s (Colin Firth) motto “Manners Maketh Man” to partially portray social context in Britain and extending its “tongue-in-cheek” critique to the American Southern culture in The Golden Circle, in purposely biased portraits. The emphasis is on how dialect, particularly accent, aid in the construction or deconstruction of stereotypes, both in British and North American contexts, and how they reflect particular views of the world(s).
- Swearing in the movies: intratextual and extratextual functions of tabooPublication . Xavier, CatarinaAudiovisual media reflect language use in the community and the context of attitudes and stereotypes regarding different language varieties. Against this backdrop, taboo language has become a frequent resource for linguistic characterisation in cinema. Studies related to taboo language in audiovisual contexts suggest some functions of these words in films, though not systematically nor layered. Based on the work of Allan and Burridge (“Swearing”) on the functions of taboo language in its authentic use and Delabastita (“Great Feast of Languages”) on the extratextual functions of multilingualism in Shakespearean work, this article offers an empirical, multidisciplinary, systematic approach to the use of taboo language in films. We propose a typology of four intratextual and three extratextual functions of taboo language in audiovisual contexts. This typology will then be tested on a corpus of films via a detailed multimodal quantitative and qualitative analysis.
- ‘According to the Rhythms of the Arid Lands’: Mary Austin’s The Land of Journeys’ EndingPublication . Alves, Isabel Maria Fernandes, 1964- This article aims to contribute to the understanding of the relationship between nonfiction women’s writing and nature within the North American literary tradition. In the United States, the association between humans and the natural world has primarily been a male-narrated experience, as nature, especially wilderness, has historically been a place for defining masculinity. In the final decades of the twentieth century, however, women’s literary responses to nature have received increased attention, and numerous critical works have currently identified a tradition of women’s nature literature in the United States. In this regard, I propose to read Austin’s The Land of Journeys’ Ending (1924), a lesser-known work that values the feminine voice, one that is attuned to the rhythms of the desert plains. The book, a hybrid form incorporating memoir, travel narrative, historical investigation, and ecological study, describes Austin’s journey through the Southwestern United States in 1923. Imbued with a feeling of wonder and respect for both the land and the people of the region, Austin explores how human and non-human lives adapt, survive, and bloom in the arid deserts of the Southwest. Contrasting with the urban, modern, glamorous rhythms of the Jazz Age, which characterized much of the literary work produced during the 1920s, Austin’s book exemplifies how the American Southwest was perceived through a woman’s writer perspective and how she responded to the discovery of the wild American landscape. In today’s world, where a mechanistic conception of nature prevails, I consider that Austin’s voice and her beliefs in adaptation, adjustment, and ecological sensitivity deserve to be heard.
- Uma abordagem a tendências socioculturais pela análise de conteúdo: a narrativa audiovisual em contexto de estudo de casoPublication . Gomes, Nelson P.O presente artigo explora o papel de obras e narrativas audiovisuais como indicadores de mentalidades emergentes e de tendências em desenvolvimento. Cada vez mais, as ofertas de produções culturais audiovisuais apontam para preferências em termos de gostos e para ideias que se materializam e normalizam tanto em comunidades de nicho como num contexto massificado. Mediante uma abordagem de análise de conteúdo em profundidade, apresentamos a série norte americana audiovisual South Park como um estudo de caso. A premissa e os consequentes resultados da investigação apontam para a capacidade desta produção, ao longo de várias décadas, traduzir mudanças em mentalidades, representações, práticas e objetos que dão lugar a macro e micro padrões. Desta forma, pretende-se sublinhar o importante papel a desempenhar por estas fontes na análise de tendências socioculturais.
- Introduction. “Victorians like us”: the Victorian Age revisitedPublication . Silva, Elisabete Mendes; Granic, Maria“Victorians Like Us” was a project carried out by the English Culture Research Group of The University of Lisbon Centre for English Studies. The four conferences organised between 2012 and 2018 and held at the Faculty of Arts and Humanities in Lisbon gave visibility to the project. They all promoted discussion on a wide variety of topics pertaining to ideological, social, and cultural settings and encompassing all facets of the Victorian era. The topics fostered a critical and creative dialogue on Victorianism and our current age. This introduction first sets the context for the present issue of Anglo-Saxonica, which comprises expanded versions of papers delivered at the Victorians Like Us III conference, and then briefly describes their main topics and goals.
- O Circuito da Cultura como um protocolo metodológico para análise cultural de manifestações de tendências: o estudo de caso da SpaceXPublication . Cohen, SuzanaEste artigo tem como base a articulação entre os Estudos de Cultura e os Estudos de Tendências para a análise cultural de objetos. Neste escopo, apresenta o Circuito da Cultura (du Gay et al 2013) como protocolo metodológico para a análise cultural de manifestações de tendências, contido no processo de identificação de tendências socioculturais. Propõe-se que este tipo de análise colabore para a identificação de mentalidades que permeiam o campo do invisível e que somam-se a outras práticas no mapeamento de tendências socioculturais. O artigo apresenta o estudo de caso da empresa americana do ramo espacial SpaceX, com o objetivo de a compreender culturalmente, enquanto manifestação de tendências, e identificar mentalidades associadas, a partir do estudo dos eixos de identidade, representação, produção, consumo e regulação da marca. Concluiu-se que a SpaceX, personificada na imagem de seu fundador Elon Musk, carrega em si um significado cultural que perpassa temas de conquista, crença, esperança e perpetuação da espécie. Por meio de peças comunicacionais que relatam o desenvolvimento dos foguetes e produtos relacionados, a SpaceX trabalha a ideia de um futuro interplanetário viável e faz com que mentalidades latentes análogas à exploração espacial voltem à pauta. As representações da SpaceX refletem ainda um valor simbólico dos Estados Unidos da América como protagonista da conquista espacial, com mensagens de esperança e salvação, o que colabora para a propaganda americana neste tema. Os resultados da análise cultural da SpaceX fazem parte de uma etapa que, somada a outros métodos e práticas, contribuem para o mapeamento de tendências socioculturais de cunho tecnológico.
- John Stuart Mill on education and progressPublication . Silva, Elisabete MendesJohn Stuart Mill, a supporter of state provision of popular and secular education at a national scale in Victorian England, believed education was a means to foster human mind development, accounting also for the future progress of mankind. Unlike other utilitarian thinkers, like Jeremy Bentham, John Stuart Mill believed that the state, in specific circumstances, should supervise education, therefore guaranteeing its quality and not only quantity. The reforms in popular and general education throughout the nineteenth century accompanied the discussion of what should be included in the curriculum of school or university studies, and of the terms defining compulsory attendance. In this context, this paper intends to explore Mill’s position on education and progress in line with his approach to liberalism and to the problems of his time. We will argue that his concept of liberal education transcended formal instruction in schools. Instead, it should continuously strive for the moral and mental well-being of humankind. By largely delving into periodicals and other writings produced during the Victorian era, we shall describe the changes popular education suffered under the sway of political reform and utilitarianism, bearing witness to the spirit of the age and to Mill’s approach to education.