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- Xavier Beauvois and Terrence Malick: two cinematographic attempts at revelationPublication . Alves, Maria Teresa Ferreira de Almeida, 1938-In Des Hommes et des Dieux and The Tree of Life, both Xavier Beauvois and Terrence Malick are concerned with values that from the beginning of time to our day have set the human heart wondering and speculating. These issues are brought to their respective films in a distinctive style, which, however, may be closely associated with a common trait in both directors — creative imagination and zest to make the most out of the art of cinema. Their skilful exploration of filmic devices, their invitation to other artistic expressions, namely music and painting, to figure in their films in a signifying role, is tentatively accounted for in this essay, in order to show how a visual narrative, in the case of Beauvois, and an ever-flowing succession of images, in the case of Malick, may contribute to illustrate unsuspected structural and thematic affinities, their remarkable differences notwithstanding.
- Cânone e diversidade: um ensaio sobre a literatura e a cultura dos Estados UnidosPublication . Alves, Maria Teresa Ferreira de Almeida, 1938-Na origem deste ensaio encontra-se o exercício de reflexão sobre a disciplina que integra o plano de estudos da licenciatura em Línguas e Literaturas Modernas, com a variante de Inglês, ministrada pelo Departamento de Estudos Anglísticos da Faculdade de Letras de Lisboa. Apresentado como Relatório para o concurso a Professor Associado, Cânone e Diversidade incide sobre o programa, os conteúdos e os métodos de ensino teórico e prático de Literatura e Cultura Norte-Americana II.
- Concluding notes on a remarkable conferencePublication . Alves, Maria Teresa Ferreira de Almeida, 1938-Conclusion to this volume and notes on "The Naturally Emerson Conference".
- Feminine IdentitiesPublication . Flora, Luísa Maria Rodrigues, 1951-; Alves, Maria Teresa Ferreira de Almeida, 1938-; Cid, Teresa, 1949-The first four essays in this volume all focus on issues of gender in the works of different English authors and thinkers. Shorter versions of each of these essays were formerly presented as papers in an autonomous section of the Research and Educational Programme on Studies of Identity at the XXth Meeting of the Portuguese Association of Anglo-American Studies (Póvoa de Varzim, 1999) and published in the proceedings of the conference. The second cluster of essays in this volume — two of which (Jennie Wang’s and Teresa Cid’s) were first presented, in shorter versions, at the joint ASA/CAAS Conference (Montréal, 1999) — addresses the work of American women variously engaged in contexts of cultural diversity and grappling with the ideas of what it means to be an American and a woman, particularly in the twentieth century. These essays approach, from different angles, the definitional quandaries and semantic difficulties encountered when speaking about the self and the United States and provide, in one way or another, a sort of feminine rewriting of American myths and history.
- 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.