scholarly journals Presença da ficção científica em Portugal: o embate entre Fernando Pessoa e José Saramago

2009 ◽  
Vol 29 (41) ◽  
pp. 89
Author(s):  
Ermelinda Maria Araújo Ferreira
Keyword(s):  
Science Fiction ◽  
Fernando Pessoa ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Jose Saramago ◽  
Portuguese Literature ◽  
A Minor

<p>Embora considerada um gênero menor e de massa, a ficção científica tem inspirado alguns autores clássicos e eruditos da literatura em língua portuguesa. Neste trabalho, investigamos aspectos da poesia de Fernando Pessoa e da narrativa de José Saramago, procurando reler comparativamente algumas idéias fulcrais de suas produções à luz de reflexões sobre conceitos do pós-humanismo que problematizam as artes, as ciências e a tecnologia no mundo contemporâneo.</p> <p>Science fiction has inspired some classical and erudit authors in portuguese literature, in spite of being considered a minor, mass gender. This essay tries to discuss comparatively some aspects of the poetry of Fernando Pessoa and the novels of José Saramago in order to understand the ideas in their works, related to the concepts of posthumanism, that reflects about the arts, sciences and technology in nowadays world.</p>

Plants and Literature

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susan McHugh
Keyword(s):  
Science Fiction ◽  
Early Modern ◽  
Literary Criticism ◽  
Early Modern Period ◽  
Hybrid Plant ◽  
Reference Points ◽  
Ethical Challenges ◽  
Early 21St Century ◽  
Many Sources ◽  
A Minor

In countless ways, plants have been in literature from the start. They literally provide surfaces and tools of inscription, as well as figuratively inspire a diverse body of writing that ranges from documenting changing social and ecological conditions to probing the limits of the human imagination. The dependence of human along with all other life on vegetal bodies assures their omnipresence in literatures across all periods and cultures, positioning them as ready reference points for metaphors, similes, and other creative devices. As comestibles, landscape features, home décor, and of course paper, plants appear in the pages of virtually every literary text. But depictions of botanical life in action often prove portentous, particularly when they remind readers that plants move in mysterious ways. At the frontiers of ancient and medieval European settlements, the plant communities of forests served as vital sources of material and imaginative sustenance. Consequently, early modern literature registers widespread deforestation of these alluring and dangerous borderlands as threats to economic and social along with ecological flourishing, a pattern repeated through the literatures of settler colonialism. Although appearing in the earliest of literatures, appreciation for the ways in which plants inscribe stories of their own lives remains a minor theme, although with accelerating climate change an increasingly urgent one. Myths and legends of hybrid plant-men, trees of life, and man-eating plants are among the many sources informing key challenges to representing plants in modern and contemporary literature, most obviously in popular genre fictions like mystery, horror, and science fiction (sf). Further enlightening these developments are studies that reveal how botanical writing emerges as a site of struggle from the early modern period, deeply entrenched in attempts to systematize and regulate species in tandem with other differences. The scientific triumph of the Linnaean “sexual system” bears a mixed legacy in feminist plant writing, complicated further by Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) writers’ creative engagements with the unevenly felt consequences of professionalized plant science. Empowered by critical plant studies, an interdisciplinary formation that rises to the ethical challenges of emergent scientific affirmations of vegetal sentience, literature and literary criticism are reexamining these histories and modeling alternatives. In the early 21st century with less than a fraction of 1 percent of the remaining old growth under conservation protection worldwide, plants appear as never before in fragile and contested communal terrains, overshadowed by people and other animals, all of whose existence depends on ongoing botanical adaptation.

scholarly journals Science, Fiction and Curriculum Innovation

2004 ◽  
Vol 213 ◽  
pp. 572-577 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark Brake ◽  
Martin Griffiths
Keyword(s):  
Science Fiction ◽  
Tidal Wave ◽  
Modern World ◽  
Curriculum Innovation ◽  
Academic World ◽  
Fantastic Literature ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Arts ◽  
The University ◽  
Degree Level

The academic world is now becoming so specialized that the advantages of a cross disciplinary education are being lost in the tidal wave of scholarship concentrating upon narrow subject fields whilst displacing the values of connected disciplines from the sciences and humanities. The almost rigorous segregation of science and the arts at degree level is being felt not only within academia, but within society. The more a subject is concentrated, the less profound and applicable it appears to the public who should ultimately be the beneficiaries of such knowledge. In order to achieve a form of parity through which our modern world can be examined, the University of Glamorgan has introduced an innovative degree course aimed at developing a multidisciplinary knowledge of science and the arts via an exploration of the science, history, philosophy, religious, artistic, literary, cultural and social endeavours of the fields of astronomy and fantastic literature.

The First Emperor and sculpture in China

2013 ◽  
Vol 76 (3) ◽  
pp. 413-447 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lukas Nickel
Keyword(s):  
East Asia ◽  
Third Century ◽  
Minor Role ◽  
Textual Evidence ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Artistic Medium ◽  
Hellenistic World ◽  
A Minor ◽  
Of Greece

AbstractSculpture as an artistic medium was widely employed in the arts of Greece and the Hellenistic East, but played only a minor role in ancient East Asia. This changed dramatically with the First Emperor of China who marked his ascent to the throne in 221 bc with the erection of giant bronze sculptures outside his palace and the installation of thousands of terracotta figures in his tomb. The current text sets out to investigate the sudden and short-lived surge of sculpture making in third-century bc China and places it in the context of developments across Asia of the time. The text joins art historical, archaeological and textual evidence to investigate whether the First Emperor's extraordinary interest in sculpture may have been the result of contacts with the contemporary Hellenistic world.

Science Fiction as a Basis for Global Curriculum Visions

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Noel Gough
Keyword(s):  
Science Fiction ◽  
Embryonic Stem ◽  
Industrial Society ◽  
Historical Imagination ◽  
Practical Deliberation ◽  
Forthcoming Article ◽  
Global Curriculum ◽  
The Arts ◽  
The Status ◽  
Effective Decision

This is an advance summary of a forthcoming article in the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Education. Please check back later for the full article. Most Anglophone curriculum scholars who have participated in, and chronicled, the reconceptualization of their field since the late 1960s would acknowledge the generativity of Joseph Schwab’s landmark 1969 text, The Practical: A Language for Curriculum, in which he argues persuasively that one facet of effective deliberation is “the anticipatory generation of alternatives.” A corollary of this assertion is that the speculative imagination is no less significant for curriculum inquiry than the historical imagination. Schwab reasons that “effective decision . . . requires that there be available to practical deliberation the greatest possible number and fresh diversity of alternative solutions to problems” and, for this reason, the literature and media known generically as SF (an initialization that encompasses science fiction/fantasy/fabulation among many others) are essential resources for the anticipatory generation of global curriculum visions. From its earliest archetypes, such as Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein (1818), which depicted the creation of monstrous life and thereby both created and critiqued an enduring myth of modern industrial society, SF has consistently demonstrated that imagined and material worlds are always already so entwined that they cannot be understood in isolation. Similarly, in 21st-century technoculture, bioethical debates over the status of emergent citizens/subjects, such as embryonic stem cells or “brain dead” patients, challenge ideas about what counts as life or death, while epidemics and their attendant panics conflate the management of borders, disease vectors, and agriculture trade with speculative fantasies about invader species and zombie plagues. Through its exemplifications of the arts of anticipation, SF exercises the speculative imagination and offers critical conceptual tools for understanding and negotiating the milieux of contemporary curriculum theorizing and decision-making.

scholarly journals Entre epígrafes e uma didascália: reflexões em torno de Dias úteis, de Patrícia Portela / Between epigraphs and a didascaly: reflections about Dias úteis, by Patrícia Portela

2021 ◽  
Vol 41 (65) ◽  
pp. 217
Author(s):  
Ailton Pirouzi Júnior ◽  
Mariana Daminato
Keyword(s):  
Short Stories ◽  
Machado De Assis ◽  
Clarice Lispector ◽  
Brazilian Literature ◽  
Fernando Pessoa ◽  
Carlos Drummond De Andrade ◽  
Portuguese Literature ◽  
The Way

Resumo: O presente trabalho consiste em uma leitura da obra Dias úteis (2019), da escritora portuguesa Patrícia Portella, sob a perspectiva das epígrafes e de uma particular didascália. A proposta é entender a construção narrativa e temática dos “contos” dessa “novela”, através dos paratextos que os antecedem. Com a utilização de autores predominantemente de língua portuguesa, Portella recorre a Machado de Assis, Carlos Drummond de Andrade, Clarice Lispector, Érico Veríssimo e Adélia Prado (literatura brasileira) e completa seu repertório com Maria José – o heterônimo de Fernando Pessoa – e Herberto Helder (literatura portuguesa). Por meio de uma visão geral, percebe-se que as epígrafes de Dias úteis (2019) não fazem papel de “borda da obra”, como rotulado por Genette (2009). Tanto quanto as epígrafes, a didascália carrega um significado particular dentro do texto e, mais do que orientações de como ler a obra, ela apresenta uma perspectiva da autora a respeito de algumas ideias que serão exploradas ao longo da trama. Ademais, destaca-se o fato de a obra estar inserida no cenário da novíssima ficção portuguesa. Em suma, a ideia é compreender não só a funcionalidade das epígrafes e da didascália, mas também a maneira como esses paratextos são articulados em Dias úteis (2019), entrelaçando, assim, excertos citados, textos e enredos.Palavras-chave: epígrafes; didascália; paratextos; novíssima ficção portuguesa; Patrícia Portela. Abstract: The present work consists of a reading of the work Dias úteis (2019), by the Portuguese writer Patrícia Portella, from the perspective of the epigraphs and a particular didascalia. The proposal is to understand the narrative and the thematic construction of the “short stories” of this “novel”, through the paratexts that precede them. Using predominantly Portuguese language authors, Portella calls Machado de Assis, Carlos Drummond de Andrade, Clarice Lispector, Érico Veríssimo and Adélia Prado (Brazilian literature) and completes his repertoire with Maria José – the heteronym of Fernando Pessoa – and Herberto Helder (Portuguese literature). Through an overview, it is clear that the epigraphs of Dias úteis (2019) do not play the role of “edge of the work”, as labeled by Genette (2009). As much as the epigraphs, the didascalia carries a particular meaning within the text and, more than guidelines on how to read the work, it presents the author’s perspective on some ideas that will be explored throughout the plot. Furthermore, the fact that the work is inserted in the scenario of the newest Portuguese fiction stands out. In short, the idea is to understand not only the functionality of the epigraphs and didascalia, but also the way in which these paratexts are articulated in Dias úteis (2019), thus interweaving quoted excerpts, texts and plots.Keywords: epigraphs; didascalia; paratexts; brand new Portuguese fiction; Patricia Portela.

scholarly journals O ARQUIVO EM METAMORFOSE: RICARDO REIS É RECONSTRUÍDO POR SARAMAGO

Em Tese ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 14 ◽  
pp. 117
Author(s):  
Jorge Luiz Mendes Júnior
Keyword(s):  
Michel Foucault ◽  
Jacques Derrida ◽  
Fernando Pessoa ◽  
De Se ◽  
Jose Saramago

O presente trabalho tem por finalidade sugerir uma hipótese de leitura da obra O ano da morte de Ricardo Reis, de José Saramago, a partir da metáfora da ida do escritor ao arquivo, do qual ele recolhe elementos, para usá-los em sua obra. A partir de leituras de autores como Jacques Derrida e Michel Foucault, em Mal de arquivo: uma impressão freudiana e  Arqueologia do saber, respectivamente, pretende-se mostrar que o autor não se  limita a uma postura passiva frente ao arquivo, mas sempre lhe acrescenta algo. Na obra de Saramago supracitada, tentase mostrar isso mediante o processo de historicização e humanização sofrido pelo heterônimo de Fernando Pessoa. Mediante isso, estende-se a proposta de se repensar a noção de arquivo, conforme já sugerida por Derrida, não sendo este encarado como um “lugar” fechado, mas como uma instância sempre em aberto, sujeita a constantes visitações, modificações e acréscimos.

Science and science television in the changing world of global communication

2003 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 131-146
Author(s):  
HUBERT MARKL
Keyword(s):  
Science Fiction ◽  
Common Ground ◽  
Knowledge Generation ◽  
Global Communication ◽  
Good Science ◽  
Science Reporting ◽  
The Arts ◽  
New Directions ◽  
The Media ◽  
Changing World

Good science and good journalism have much in common. They both aim for knowledge generation and knowledge dissemination for the benefit of societies – at least at their best. However, beyond this common ground, there is much room for difference and conflict. In this paper I will draw up an admittedly personal list of ten obvious areas of annoyance about how the media present the results of scientific research – of course, only some of the media and only sometimes! These areas of annoyance all derive from the relentless pressure on all media competing in the marketplace to catch the attention of their customers. However, while listing these ‘sins’, as it were, one readily notices that exactly the same may also be the major strengths of how science can be publicized in the media, and above all in TV, the most powerful of the media in our changing world of global communication. Science reporting will have to change and actively face these challenges. It needs to focus future science presentation in new directions, e.g. by making use of the emotional public appeal connected with science fiction, scandals, public hysteria and the arts. What is most important now and in the future is that whatever is presented about the scientific understanding of the world, should be presented in a way that makes such enlightened understanding accessible, above all, to young – and even very young – people. After all, it is they who are humanity's future and not the ageing war-horses of the sciences or of the media.

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