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Silas’ Four Seasons: George Eliot’s Weaver of Raveloe
Birrento, Ana; Ribeiro, Maria da ConceiçãoGeorge Eliot’s Silas Marner: The Weaver of Raveloe uses the seasons, geography, space, and time to chart the protagonist’s inner growth and life journey. It contrasts two distinct locations that represent different stages of Silas’ self-awareness and personal development: Lantern Yard, the urban setting, represents Silas’ early life of rigid religious beliefs, a sense of community, but also betrayal and false a...
Silas’ Four Seasons: Eliot’s Weaver of Raveloe
Birrento, Ana; Ribeiro, Maria da ConceiçãoSilas Marner is representative of how geography, space and time can concur to draw an eloquent map of a character's life and interior growth. Set on two different - opposed - locations, that represent two different stages of self-awareness, personal growth and self-fulfillment, the novel opposes rural and urban life, nature to human nature, conveying the character's moods and anxieties. In Silas Marner, these s...
Mapping London: a political cartography through the eyes of Margaret Thatcher
Birrento, Ana; Gonçalves, OlgaO artigo enquadra-se no projecto PAISAGENS DO SER (LANDSCAPES OF THE SELF), o qual se desenvolve através da colaboração entre a análise do discurso e agendas críticas dos estudos culturais. Centrando-se nos lugares mencionados nos dois volumes da autobiografia política de Margaret Thatcher: The Path to Power e The Downing Street Years, a análise efectuada mapeia os modos como Londres é representada em contextos...
YO CAYETANA: THE WOMAN IN HER OWN WORDS
Birrento, Ana; Gonçalves, Olga; Saianda, Helenaand a woman who took an important part in some of the historical moments of her lifetime. The images the media conveyed of her – that of a frivolous woman - is, yet, contradicted by her autobiography. The aim of this paper is, therefore, to investigate Cayetana’s discursive gendered positions from an interdisciplinary standpoint: based on a lexicometric approach of the data collected, the semio-linguistic inter...
The possible worlds of Oliphant and Eliot in Miss Marjoribanks and Middlemarch
Birrento, AnaIn the introduction to Miss Marjoribanks, (1866) Q. D. Leavis stated that Margaret Oliphant was the missing link between Jane Austen and George Eliot. Lucilla Marjoribanks is, in the critic’s words, the Victorian anti-heroine, “large in all particulars, full and well developed”, insubordinate as far as her relationship to men is considered and with a voracious appetite, who opposed to the feminine ideal: the fr...
Humanities in the Future Tense: Mapping Interdisciplinary Approaches in the Res...
Birrento, Ana; Gonçalves, Olga; Saianda, Maria HelenaThe project entitled “Landscapes of the Self” emerged from the feeling that research is undertaken in a world that no longer breaks down according to existing disciplinary boundaries. The approach to the study of autobiographies covers a range of areas, enables the understanding of contexts of experience of the self, and is grounded in the inherent paradigms of the disciplines that frame and sustain this resear...
YO CAYETANA: THE WOMAN IN HER OWN WORDS
Birrento, Ana; Gonçalves, Olga; Saianda, Maria Helena Alberto de CarvalhoMuch has been said and written about Cayetana de Alba, “Grandee of Spain” and a woman who took an important part in some of the historical moments of her lifetime. The images the media conveyed of her – that of a frivolous woman - is, yet, contradicted by her autobiography. The aim of this paper is, therefore, to investigate Cayetana’s discursive gendered positions from an interdisciplinary standpoint: based on...
Reading Novels as Knowable Communities
Birrento, AnaGrounded on Raymond Williams's role of uniting the study of culture and society and of defining culture as "a whole way of life", the article discusses the author's concept of knowable community and articulates it with the reading of novels as knowable communities, where the structures of feeling of an epoch can be found.
Telling stories of culture through literature
Birrento, AnaGrounded on Raymond Williams‘s definition of knowable community as a cultural tool to analyse literary texts, the essay reads the texts D.H.Lawrence wrote while travelling in the Mediterranean (Twilight in Italy, Sea and Sardinia and Etruscan Places) as knowable communities, bringing to the discussion the wide importance of literature not only as an object for aesthetic or textual readings, but also as a signif...