CEAUL/ULICES - AS - Série III - nº 8 – 2014
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- Introductory note [Revista anglo saxonica, III:8]Publication . Cid, Teresa, 1949-Introduction to the volume.
- Adding wings to the unbearable weight of words : Academy as CommunityPublication . Alves, Maria Teresa Ferreira de Almeida, 1938-By probing into the Latin word communitate this essay first considers possible deviations from the original meaning in order to link it to the specific field of English and American Studies and, afterwards, proposes to evaluate its accommodation to new modes of conscience throughout the changing times. Some key figures will be mentioned but the mainstay of the argument will be built around Ralph Waldo Emerson who, as an “American scholar”, has made some excellent inroads into the relationship of the self with his /her community, and on how much human creativity depends on this relationship. This will be illustrated by reference to a diversity of writers and other artists whose achievements are strongly imbued with the sense of the self at work within the community, this same sense being then explored in association with creativity and the notions of academy and associativism. I will, finally, switch from this more speculative instance of my essay to the history of APEAA. Ever since the thirty four plus something years of this Association’s foundation/existence, it has afforded a practical example of how the Humanities, as practiced in our field of studies, may achieve their goals with a little imagination and a good measure of willingness. The example of some of the founding figures of APEAA, the innovative paths they were able to launch and which we are nowadays pursuing, have certainly heralded the future capability to make the most of this Association’s potential and its role as a meeting place, which, at different levels (national and international) provide the opportunity for a fruitful dialogue among the variety of disciplines and methodological preferences of its members.
- Calling for a thought on food in anglo-american studiesPublication . Pires, Maria José Pereira, 1971-The growing acceptance and legitimacy of food-cultural studies as a distinct field seems to be a sign of the growing acknowledgment that ground-breaking scholarship often crosses disciplinary boundaries. Whereas some believe that the identification of food-cultural studies as a discrete field may not be of much relevance in the academic environment, I question the firmness of this statement based on the issue of their claimed inherent interdisciplinarity. The range of research concerning the field of food-cultural studies over the last fifteen years validates their increasing relevance to Anglo-American Studies. One can see the way the food studies movement has promoted scholars and students in longestablished academic disciplines to follow a line of investigation on food themes. The last couple of years have also been prolific in terms of new academic journals on food studies, culinary history societies, and publishers announcing food series. While American Studies, as a celebrated interdisciplinary field, apparently offers fewer cautions than other disciplines about dipping into multiple methods, when it comes to food studies scholars working with other professionals they take in the tools to read wide-ranging data through a cultural lens. Has the so acclaimed interdisciplinary matter grown into a need for developing cross-disciplinary dialogues?
- Bridging anthropology and literature through indian writing in englishPublication . Pereira Martins, MargaridaIn his 2003 article, “A Strange Romance: Anthropology and Literature” Clifford Geertz discusses the relationship between these two disciplines. Geertz understands that anthropology cannot be solely based on a cold scientific analysis of people and customs as it is almost impossible to perform cultural interpretation absent of subjectivity. The anthropologist’s interpretation adds a touch of creativity to ethnography, bringing it closer to fictional narratives. He also points out the risk of anthropologists losing credibility and objectivity by allowing themselves this subjectivity. The anthropologist uses his/her perspective and interpretation to construct a narrative. As every custom, ritual or tradition is charged with metaphor, symbolism, plot and other stylistic features of literature, it becomes subject to many possible readings and meanings through which other narratives are recreated. For the purpose of this paper I am fundamentally concerned with exploring the “romance” between anthropology and literature from a theoretical perspective. In my thesis I will be further extending this theoretical reading in a more thorough analysis of the novels of Arundhati Roy and Kiran Desai as examples of narratives that bridge these two disciplines.
- Verdadeira grandeza e degradações do poder: temáticas complementares e convergentes em Fielding, com especial referência às suas MiscellaniesPublication . Nunes, João Manuel de Sousa, 1940-O presente ensaio começa com a verificação da existência, nos séculos XVII e XVIII, de um prolongado debate sobre as dimensões da grandeza humana e do heróico, estimulado por acontecimentos históricos que afectaram o regime do poder. Como reflexo deste debate, foca-se textos de Fielding, com especial refe rência a Jonathan Wild e a poemas-ensaios das suas Miscellanies, abordando de passagem o relacionamento do autor com Walpole. Avança-se depois para uma interpretação histórico-literária do burlesco naqueles séculos, no âmbito da qual se considera a complementaridade e convergência entre a satura latina (com os seus pólos positivo e negativo) e o burlesco (com a sua bi-polaridade entre linguagem e assunto). Em paralelo, aponta-se complementaridade e convergência análogas entre Jonathan Wilde os ensaio-poemas Of True Greatnesse Of Good Nature. A propósito e a terminar, apresenta-se ainda algumas reflexões sobre o texto em prosa An Essay on Conversation e sobre personagens contrastantes na ficção de Fielding.
- The anglo-american world in TEFL in portuguese secondary educationPublication . Feneja, Fernanda Luísa da Silva, 1964-Anglo-American culture pervades the Portuguese national syllabus for the teaching of English as a foreign language throughout the seven or eight years of its obligatory school study, ranging from very simple references to common, accepted, often stereotyped behaviors or traditions, in the early years, to far more complex issues in the upper levels, such as, to name but two, the Civil Rights Movement in the US or multiculturalism as a trait of British society. Primarily acknowledging the bond between language and culture, this essay aims to reflect on the role of Anglo-American culture and history in the broader context of the English syllabus at secondary level in Portuguese schools. Furthermore, it takes into account the current approaches that reinforce the contribution of Anglo-American studies to the achievement of the aims informing the rationale of the official programmes, in particular, those related to crosscultural awareness, citizenship and tolerance. The contribution of the literary text to the teaching of English as a second language, namely as a tool for looking into Anglo-American culture and society, is also considered. The discussion of such issues might hopefully contribute to the debate over the current impact of Anglo-American studies in Portugal and the possibilities and paths lying ahead.
- A fairy godmother of her own in 17thCentury France: subversive female agency in Madame d’Aulnoy’s “The White Cat”Publication . Cheira, Alexandra Isabel Bugio Bonito Batista, 1972-Magic and metamorphosis always go hand in hand in wonder tales. I argue that in Marie Cathérine d’Aulnoy’s wonder tales, however, it would be more accurate to say that magic and metamorphosis go paw in hand: I will analyse d’ Aulnoy’s wonder tale “The White Cat” in order to illustrate the way she favours the mythological theme of animal metamorphosis. Herself the victim of an unhappy arranged marriage in seventeenth-century France, Madame d’Aulnoy was highly critical of forced marriages, so much so that her tales seriously commented on love, courtship and marriage. D’Aulnoy’s buoyant tales tell their author’s search for magic in her own life, marked by scandal and rebellion against the marriage mores of her time from a very early age on. She is Fairy Godmother to her heroines, granting them happiness after sore trials and tribulations, and to herself, by refusing to be a passive object submitted to another’s will and reclaiming instead the agency of changing her life.