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Aves Ilustradas, written by Soror Maria do Céu and printed in 1734, presents a group of speeches, in which fourteen birds provide information to the religious sisters of the monasteries. This literary work represents one of the best examples in Portuguese literature of the use of the fable as a didactical means, and of the allegorical tradition recovered from Classical and Medieval literature by the Barroque allegorical literature, in a reiteration context of the Horatian principle prodesse and delectare.  

António Feliciano de Castilho, in his work, often reveals great admiration towards ancient authors. When he speaks about the country and rustic life, the reminiscenses are obvious, often quoting Horace, Virgil and Ovid.  

Frequently, Mallarmé’s modernism is referred to critics as a complex game of signs and as a closed concept of literature. In his 1876 article about the adaptation of the classical tragedy Erechtheus by Ch. Algernon Swinburne, the French poet valued the innovative aspects of Swinburne’s works, adapting a position which revealed a fascinating classical-modern equilibrium. Due to the inter and intra-textual ties that this article created alongside other Mallarmé’s fictional and meta-discursive texts, we discover how the question of theatre influenced his global project of literature. A project which attempted to decipher the mystery of the world through language.  

Among the versions concerning the myth of Tahiti, those of the XIXth and XXth century introduce a clear perspective change in relation to previous visions. Les Immémoriaux de Victor Segalen treat the myth from an anthropological and scientific point of view. The European culture, through the english missionaries, becomes the exotic other. This vision leads Tahitians to forget their rituals and their ancient genealogies. The European culture destroyed then that paradise it wanted to recover.

This essay draws a parallel among three romantic works of the first half of the 19th- century: a novel, Notre-Dame de Paris; a play, Le roi s’amuse by Victor Hugo; and Alexandre Herculano’s Portuguese novel, O Bobo. The opposing and complementary aspects of the sublime and the grotesque, which characterize the romantic production of the period, are simultaneously stressed in the essay. These two sides are analysed bearing in mind different components of the three literary works: the characters, the described situations, the represented environments and their atmosphere, among others. A brief reference to the condition of the aforementioned works’ production reveals why in different countries a literary movement e artists and the writers to revolutionize the arts, and, particularly, the writing process, thus proposing new aesthetic concepts that break with Classicism.  

Much has been speculated about the reasons that led to the creation of the poem “Asphopel, That Greeny Flower”. Even more has been written about it not having been included in William Carlos Williams’ most important piece of work, especially since this poem was apparently produced with the intention of concluding the long poem about life which is Paterson.

In Lincoln, a historical novel published in 1984, Gore Vidal refines his politics of representation that focuses on the reconstruction of national memory through the revision of Abraham Lincoln’s historiography. In this essay I examine how Vidal revisits the myth created by the historical discourse. Moreover, I analyse the ideological implications of this rewriting process as far as the American political metamorphoses are concerned.

The novel Jazz (1992), by black author Toni Morrison, depicts the existence of African Americans in multi-ethnic Harlem, in New York, during the roaring twenties. In this essay, I show how the African American experience in the city differs from their life in the rural area; I analyze the reconfiguration of the community’s habits and values; I explore the theme of the reconstruction of the family and the improvisation of the black identity in Harlem. For that purpose, I resort to the analysis of the novel and to the opinion of several essayists.

The present paper reflects on the transgenerational transmission of memory and guilt, and the consequent problem of constructing an identity among a generation whose parents survived the Holocaust, in the Austrian post war context. The reflections and the analysis are part of my case study of the novel Suche nach M., by Doron Rabinovici.

The research object of the cognitive sciences is the human mind, both in its biological and cultural dimensions. Its study requires an interdisciplinary approach. Simultaneously, there has been a development in the culture of knowledge, which has evolved towards an integration of natural and human sciences. The phenomenon of scientific culture is a symptom of this change in the information society, for which the technological progress has contributed. For this evolution to continue towards the knowledge society, learning has to be promoted and to be given proper attention. Cognitive sciences can help in this process: by providing more knowledge about the human mind, they can help render learning a more successful process.

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In this paper my aim is to study Gore Vidal’s novel Hollywood, published in 1990, in order to examine how the writer associates the capital of American politics with the capital of popular entertainment and how the historical novel becomes a controversial medium/space for the representation of war and its interaction with film. I am particularly interested in analysing how Vidal discusses the major political and ideological role played by cinema, so that American people could be persuaded to give support to the country’s participation in the unpopular First World War. Moreover, I intend to discuss how Vidal addresses the ideological consolidation of the American empire and its political implications through the screening of history, thus questioning how literature and movies might be considered contentious political instruments.

This paper has the aim to show that Laclo's novel Les Liaisons dangereuses is not only a handbook of sexual licentiousness and a bible of debauchery, but is is rather a complex and subtle description of the condition of french women in the eighteenth-century. From all the female characters, we have isolated two symbolic representations: the victim (Mme de Tourvel) and the young girl (Cécile), because they are the weakest ones and they have in common their monastic education which was a factor of alienation. We have showed that Laclo's three essays, Des Femmes et de leur education, are not only a logical continuation of the novel but also its theoretical counterpart. In relation to the condition of women and their education, the three essays and the novel allow us to confirm that Laclos does not only criticize the society he lives in but preconizes a feminine rebellion which will effectivelly occur later.  

This essay examines the origins and implementation of industrial education in Portugal within the socio-cultural context of the second half of the nineteenth century. Besides, the article addresses the contribution made, among others, by Passos Manuel, Costa Cabral, Fontes Pereira de Melo, Crisóstomo de Abreu e Sousa, António Augusto de Aguiar, Emídio Navarro and João Franco.

Julgamos que este trabalho virá a constituir importante contributo para o conhecimento das características físicas das populações que, do Neolítico final ao Calcolítico pleno, entre cerca de cinco mil e quatro mil anos antes do presente viveram e morreram nesta parcela do nosso território, que é o Concelho de Oeiras. Sumário Prefácio 1 - Introdução 2 - Contexto arqueológico 2.1 - Povoado pré-histórico de Leceia Locus 1 Locus 2 2.2 - Monte do Castelo 2.3 - Gruta da Ponte da Lage 3 - Materiais e métodos 4 - Inventário e estudo do material Leceia - Locus 1 A) Material odontológico B) Material ósseo C) Número de indivíduos D) Avaliação etária dos indivíduos E) Avaliação do sexo F) Avaliação racial G) Avaliação da morbilidade H) Exame radiológico I) Conclusões Leceia - Locus 2 A) Restos cranianos e material odontológico B) Material ósseo C) Número de indivíduos D) Avaliação etária dos indivíduos E) Avaliação do sexo F) Avaliação racial G) Avaliação da morbilidade H) Estatura Monte do Castelo 1 A) Restos cranianos e material odontológico B) Material ósseo C) Número de indivíduos D) Avaliação etária dos indivíduos E) Avaliação do sexo F) Avaliação racial G) Avaliação da morbilidade H) Estatura I) Arcaísmos J) Alterações antigas post-mortem Gruta da Ponte da Lage A) Restos cranianos e material odontológico B) Material ósseo C) Número de indivíduos D) Avaliação etária dos indivíduos E) Avaliação do sexo F) Avaliação racial G) Avaliação da morbilidade H) Estatura 5 - Estudo Comparativo com o material dos hipogeus de Carenque (Sintra) e de Casal do Pardo (Palmela) 6 - Conclusões Agradecimentos Bibliografia

Influenced by Greek and Latin epigrams, and specially by those of the Latin epigramist Martial, eighteenth-century Portuguese authors wrote a great number of such compositions, attacking, among others, professional groups, (such as doctors, justice officers, barbers), women, drunkards and all kinds of enemies.

Aquilino Ribeiro’s vast work comprises the writer’s facet of translator and adaptor of texts written by authors considered classic. It is important to disseminate this side of Aquilino’s work in order to identify textual and ideological marks in the translations to which the writer committed in aesthetic and emotional terms. Besides addressing Aquilino’s incursions into Xenophon, the historical context in Em Prol de Aristóteles, and his work in the translation/adaptation of Cervante’s Dom Quixote and Novelas, this essay also examines Aquilino’s “intellectual adventure” with Cavaleiro de Oliveira, which has occupied the writer for various decades.  

O texto presente, é um ensaio, datado no tempo, constituindo a síntese dos conhecimentos sobre a evolução da ocupação humana do concelho, com base no inventário dos vestígios materiais deixados no terreno pelas gerações que nos precederam nesta região; a sua qualidade depende, antes de mais, da qualidade dos elementos que foi possível reunir: os testemunhos arqueológicos. A este propósito, deve ser salientado que nenhum levantamento arqueológico poderá ser considerado exaustivo; no caso presente, porém, além de uma pesquisa bibliográfica que considerámos completa, o trabalho que apresentamos é fruto de prolongadas prospecções de campo, realizadas pelos signatários nos últimos vinte anos. Com a criação do Centro de Estudos Arqueológicos do Concelho de Oeiras, Serviço da Câmara Municipal de Oeiras, em 1988, reuniram-se as condições para se prosseguir tal trabalho de forma mais metódica e consequente; o resultado agora apresentado é, pois, o culminar de um esforço persistente, primeiro solitário, depois solidariamente apoiado pela autarquia. O critério seguido foi o de referenciar todos os vestígios arqueológicos de que tivemos conhecimento, directo ou indirecto, até ao século XVIII, excluindo o Património Construído, e as pesquisas documentais com ele relacionadas. Sumário Prefácio Agradecimentos 1 - Introdução 2 - Condicionantes naturais à ocupação humana 3 - Os vestígios 3.1 - Paleolítico inferior arcaico 3.2 - Paleolítico inferior e médio 3.3 - Paleolítico superior 3.4 - Epipaleolítico - Neolítico antigo 3.5 - Neolítico final 3.6 - Calcolítico inicial e pleno 3.7 - Calcolítico final 3.8 - Idade do Bronze 3.9 - Idade de Ferro 3.10 - Período Romano 3.11 - Alta e baixa Idade Média 4 - Inventário de estações, sítios e achados de interesse arqueológico 1 - Casal de Vaz Meirinho 2 - Queluz de Baixo 3 - Cotão Velho 4 - Casal de Cabanas 5 - Tercena 6 - Fontainhas 7 - Caruncho 8 - Casal de Santa Leopoldina 9 - Alto das Cabeças 1 10 - Casal de São Miguel 11 - Casal dos Moinhos 12 - Talaíde 13 - Alto das Cabeças 2 14 - Alto das Cabeça 3 15 - Alto das Cabeças 4 (ou Monte do Sirgado) 16 - São Miguel 2 17 - Quinta do Bré 18 - Moinho da Revinheira 19 - Alto do Cartaxo 20 - Casal do Sabino 21 - Alto de Leião 22 - Galegas 23 - Valejas 24 - Casal do Serigato 1 25 - Casal do Serigato 2 26 - Casal do Serigato 3 27 - Capela de Leião 28 - Leião 29 - Estrada de Leião-Leceia 30 - Quinta da Fonte 31 - Alto de Leceia 32 - Leceia 33 - Encosta de Leceia 34 - Serviços Rádio-Eléctricos 1 35 - Serviços Rádio-Eléctricos 2 36 - Monte da Cruz 37 - Cabeço de Paimão 38 - Leceia-Sul 39 - Barotas-Leceia 40 - Castelo 1º - 1 41 - Castelo 1º - 2 42 - Moinhos dos Quartos 43 - Quinta da Moura 44 - Lixeira de Porto Salvo 45 - Sol Avesso - Porto Salvo 46 - Penas Alvas 47 - Quinta da Boiça 48 - Vila Fria 49 - Ponte da Lage 50 - Lage Poente 51 - Gruta da Ponte da Laje 52 - Quinta da Fonte 53 - Fonte do Arneiro 54 - Cacilhas 55 - Alto da Peça 1 56 - Alto da Peça 2 57 - Abegoaria 58 - Cemitério de Oeiras 59 - Junção do Bem 60 - Alto do Puxa Feixe 61 - Quinta da Figueirinha 62 - Rua das Alcácimas ou Alcássimas 63 - Rua João Teixeira Simões 64 - Antas-Oeste 65 - Moinho das Antas - Espargal 66 - Antas-Sul 67 - Fontainhas e Fontainhas-Oeste 68 - Santo Amaro de Oeiras 69 - Forte das Maias 70 - Bateria de São Gonçalo - Medrosa 71 - Alto da Barra - Reduto Renato Gomes Freire de Andrade 72 - São Julião 73 - Forte de Catalazete 74 - Quinta do Jardim - Murganhal 75 - Laveiras 1 76 - Laveiras 2 77 - Caxias - Forte de São Bruno 78 - Forte da Giribita 79 - Rua Joaquim Moreira Rato 80 - Quartel de Paço de Arcos 81 - Sopé da Serra de Carnaxide 82 - Moinhos de Nossa Senhora de Carnaxide 83 - Serra de Carnaxide 1 84 - Serra de Carnaxide 2 85 - Sul da Rádio Marconi 86 - Casal do Canas 87 - Ao Pé da Estrada 88 - Quinta de Alfragide de Baixo - Outurela 2 89 - Quinta de Salregos 90 - Mama Sul 91 - Outurela 1 92 - Paimão-Sul 93 - Casal do Lameiro-Norte 94 - Carnaxide 1 95 - Monte da Barrunchada 96 - Carnaxide 2 97 - Casal do Lameiro 98 - Gruta de Carnaxide 99 - Carnaxide 3 100 - Queijas 1 101 - Queijas 2 102 - Linda-a-Pastora 103 - Alto dos Barronhos 104 - Encosta Sul de Outurela 105 - Linda-a-Velha 106 - Casal de Barronhos 107 - Cruz Quebrada 108 - Alto de Santa Catarina 109 - Praia do Dafundo Bibliografia

This essay is a brief exposition of the transformations that affected the teaching of Portuguese in the second half of the twentieth century. I examine how the pedagogical and didactic changes mainly result from the evolution of linguistic studies. Moreover, I explain why it is essential to promote a serious and well-founded pedagogical and didactic reflection on the teaching of Portuguese in order to prevent sterile and harmful pedagogisms.  

O depósito ainda observado por H. Breuil e G. Zbyszewski nos inícios da década de 1940 desapareceu; entretanto, no decurso das obras de construção do complexo habitacional do Alto da Barra, no início da década de 1970, novos cortes foram executados, pondo a descoberto extensas frentes de depósitos detríticos, essencialmente grosseiros. Data dessa época a recolha dos exemplares agora estudados, alguns deles "in situ", pelos signatários deste trabalho M.L. e C.T.N. e J.L.C. Por se tratar de zona presentemente muito alterada na sua morfologia primitiva, em consequência da construção do referido complexo habitacional, a qual arrasou ou tornou inacessíveis os depósitos plistocénicos a novas colheitas de materiais arqueológicos - adicionando valor aos disponíveis - e ainda por ser um dos raros locais da região que forneceu peças paleolíticas "in situ", julgamos que o respectivo estudo se justifica. Saliente-se, ainda, que se trata da única estação do concelho de Oeiras, do Paleolítico inferior e médio, não relacionada com o rico conjunto de ocorrências do Complexo Basáltico de Lisboa, tão bem representado nesta região.