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Designing a First Ever PhD Program on a Polytechnic HE Business School
Sarmento, ClaraThis paper describes a complex challenge in pedagogical innovation within higher education, specifically the curriculum design of a new PhD program in Intercultural Studies for Innovation, taught in English, in a business school of the Portuguese polytechnic subsystem. The research undertaken for the creation of the program encompassed the identification, evaluation, and implementation of cutting-edge pedagogic...
Introduction
Sarmento, Clara; Rollo, Maria FernandaSHiFT COST Action CA21166 – Social Sciences and Humanities for Transformation and Climate Resilience – explores innovative concepts and theoretical frames that mobilize Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences generated knowledge for integrated and hybrid societal transformations in climate change strategies. This mission requires an inclusive and dynamic approach to transdisciplinary exchange, an approach that rep...
Decolonizing Heritage: Critical Perspectives on Sustainability through a Cultur...
Sarmento, Clara; Baptista, Maria Manuel; Santos, GabrielaThis article explores the intersection between critical heritage studies, decolonial epistemologies and sustainability through the analytical lens of cultural studies, with particular emphasis on Stuart Hall’s theoretical contributions. We argue that traditional heritage discourse, dominated by Western frameworks, perpetuates colonial power relations that marginalize local communities and knowledge systems whil...
Os estudos culturais no ensino superior politécnico: Análise de uma experiência...
Sarmento, ClaraCultural studies have been understood, from the onset, as an interdisciplinary field of study, in which culture is understood in a broad and dynamic sense, with great symbolic depth. In line with these basic principles of cultural studies, we will analyze here an experience of research and teaching of cultural studies in the Portuguese polytechnic higher education system, more specifically the way in which cult...
Paul Auster and The Music of Chance: Building New Stories
Sarmento, ClaraPaul Auster’s postmodernist writing fictionalizes his own process of self-conscious writing in “The Music of Chance”. This article analyzes the identity of the Wall built by the protagonist - Jim Nashe - as well as its ever-evolving meaning to the character-writer. Addressing the concept of the writer as a literary character, Auster’s metafictional and metalinguistic reflection about the art of writing allows f...
“From Stones to Walls”: Paul Auster’s Written Groundwork
Sarmento, ClaraBefore devoting himself to writing fiction, Paul Auster wrote and translated poetry. In his book “Ground Work: Selected Poems and Essays”, the author plants a literary field for the stones and walls’ metaphor, and introduces, for the first time, the room where both the fictional and autobiographical character of the writer will enclose himself in later prose. In this article, the intertwining of words and stone...
Fictional Poetics and Imaginary Journeys in City Of Glass by Paul Auster
Sarmento, Claran the three stories that constitute The New York Trilogy–City of Glass, 2Ghostsand The Locked Room–Paul Auster uses and deconstructs the conventionalelements of the detective novel, developing a recurrent investigation of nature, function and meaning of language, but also of loneliness, closure and the identity problematic. Paul Auster’s narrative production evokes traditional logocentric ghosts (such as...
The Stained Curtain: History, Identity and Destiny in Scott Fitzgerald's Fiction
Sarmento, ClaraThis article looks at the literary history and fiction of Scott Fitzgerald, one of the greatest American writers of the 20th century.; Este artigo debruça-se sobre a história literária e a ficção de Scott Fitzgerald, um dos maiores escritores americanos do século XX.
Douglas Coupland's American Drift in Generation X, Life After God, and Infoslaves
Sarmento, ClaraAnalysis of Douglas Coupland’s trilogy through the eyes of a generation between the ages of twenty and thirty. Historical characterization of a generation and the economic and social impact on their growth in postmodern urban society. The fragmentation of Generation X in America and its problematization are the focus of this article.; Análise da trilogia de Douglas Coupland pelos olhos de uma geração entre os v...
The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber, by Ernest Hemingway: Reading Notes
Sarmento, ClaraThis article analyses one of Ernest Hemingway's best short-stories. Full of ironies, evocations and parallels, the work has many of the underlying themes of Hemingway's fiction. Through the theme of hunting in Africa, the closeness to the wilderness and the confrontation between life and death, Hemingway offers his perspective on happiness.; Este artigo analisa uma das melhores short-stories de Ernest Hemingway...