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Geographies of Emotions and of Social Relations in Dubliners by James Joyce
Birrento, Ana Clara; Gonçalves, Olga; Saianda, Maria HelenaLandscape is an intangible resource defined by its visual appearance and the sensory experiences it inspires. People and communities shape and are shaped by their environments and by assigning meanings to them. This language of visual expression captures deep emotional ties that evoke memories and the unique “spirit of place,” reflecting both positive feelings like comfort and negative ones such as fear. From m...
Identity Construction in Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray
Birrento, Ana Clara; Lemmi, MartinaThe article is a study on Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray and its Landscapes of the Self, in which the theme of identity assumes pivotal importance. Identities, considered in their fictional and dynamic nature and as discursive constructions, are fundamentally intertwined with the socio-cultural environment. The study is focused on an analysis of aesthetics and the dialogical relationship between art a...
Power, Authority, and Egotism: Emma Woodhouse’s Transformation in the Path into...
Birrento, Ana ClaraJane Austen’s novel “Emma” still inspires and challenges readers in the twenty-first century. The article engages in a critical analysis of the several maps of meaning the eponymous character draws in her circles of intimacy and of social acquaintances, underpinned by questions of identity and representation. It analyses how Emma represents herself and relates with the Other(s) from a position of power, authori...
The possible worlds of Oliphant and Eliot in Miss Marjoribanks and Middlemarch
Birrento, Ana ClaraIn the introduction to Miss Marjoribanks [1866] 1969, Q. D. Leavis stated that Margaret Oliphant was the missing link between Jane Austen and George Eliot. Lucilla Marjoribanks was, in the critic’s words, the Victorian anti-heroine, insubordinate as far as her relationship to men is considered, with a voracious appetite, who opposed to the feminine ideal: the fragile submissive angel. Leavis argued that the nov...
The Dimension of Human Possibilities in Silas Marner
Birrento, Ana ClaraThe article envisages a thought-provoking direction for the future, juxtaposing but not blending the theory of possible worlds and the concept of space applied to literature. It brings new methodologies to the forefront of current research, reading “Silas Marner” (1861) by George Eliot as a landscape of the Self, a construction of a possible world for an old-fashioned way of life. The theory of possible worlds ...
Estudos de Literatura - Paisagens do Ser - Landscapes of the Self
Gomes, Fernando; Birrento, Ana Clara; Odete, Jubilado; Nunes Esteves, ElisaLibertando-se do domínio e da dependência de cartografias tradicionais do conhecimento, o projeto de publicação do primeiro volume de Estudos de Literatura do Centro de Estudos em Letras (CEL-UÉ), intitulado Paisagens do Ser, cruza fronteiras epistemológicas e práticas de pesquisa. Entende-se neste contexto Paisagens do Ser como as formas narrativa, dramática ou lírica que autores de todos os séculos e nacional...
Introdução /Introduction
Gomes, Fernando; Birrento, Ana Clara; Jubilado, Odete; Nunes Esteves, ElisaINTRODUCTION Freeing itself from the domain and dependence on traditional cartographies of knowledge, the publication of the first volume of Studies of Literature of the Centre for the Study of Letters (CEL-UÉ), entitled Landscapes of the Self, crosses epistemological frontiers and research practices. Landscapes of the Self are understood within this context as the narrative, dramatic or lyrical forms which the...
About Raymond Williams
Birrento, Ana ClaraWilliams brought together what modern thought has separated in the relation between culture and society. His use of literary texts to exemplify the concept of knowable community as well as the concept of structure of feeling is one of his achievements. To read novels as knowable communities comprises a project of cultural construction based on the refusal to consider the separation between culture and society; ...
Self – Negotiating Borders, Constructing Identity
Birrento, Ana ClaraInscribed in a critical agenda which discusses questions of identity, of uniqueness and of difference and questions of knowing who is speaking, from where and to whom, this article tries to find a possible answer to a question put by Michel Foucault in ‘Technologies of the Self’ (1988). When asked: ‘what is the self?’ Foucault answered: “Self is a reflexive pronoun and has two meanings – the same and identity” ...
TELLING STORIES OF CULTURE THROUGH LITERATURE: D. H. LAWRENCE AND THE MEDITERRA...
Birrento, Ana ClaraGrounded 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...