Through an analysis of An Essay on Man it is argued that Pope's poem matches a categorial pattern which, centred on the idea of equilibrium, expresses the class-compromise that takes the Glorious Revolution as a political issue.
This text aims at articulating some ideas concerning the present state and the perspectives for the future of literary studies, and, in general, of humanistic studies within the university. Considering there is a hegemonic framework in the evaluation of human actions and artefacts whereby the old cognitive, ethical and aesthetical standards have been replaced by criteria of efficacy (as input-output ratio), it ...
With the help of some concepts developed by T. S. Eliot and George Lukacs on the subject of the evaluation of a work of art, the A. argues that the aesthetic failure in The Farther Adventures... is the result of a predominance of ideological patterns over creative imagination. This interpretation intends to provide a basis for a better appraisal of Defoe's major works, as well as for a further evaluation of tha...
A organização de um colóquio em torno da “herança de Locke” foi uma ideia que nasceu no Centro de Estudos Anglísticos da Universidade de Lisboa, no âmbito do núcleo de investigação dedicado aos estudos de cultura inglesa. Vários textos de Locke são regularmente incluídos nos programas de graduação e de pósgraduação em Estudos Anglísticos, além de objecto de estudo especializado no Centro de Estudos Anglísticos....
The poems of J. M. Fernandes Jorge in O Barco Vazio are considered as a way of creating meaning from a confrontation of the poet with a devalued world where a few fragmentary things, and the poet's memories of them, still keep their mystery and are therefore worthwhile. Particular attention is paid to the formal processes involved in the organisation of the poems, and to the ethical positioning of the poet expr...
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