O fascínio e o terror da natureza em Fernando Pessoa

Impõe-se, para começar, pôr em causa duas idéias feitas: a de que Alberto Caeiro, o Mestre da família pessoana, é um "poeta da Natureza", como ele a si próprio se apelidou, e a outra, mais geral, de que a Natureza é paisagem. Convém lembrar que Pessoa foi um citadino assumido. Nasceu e morreu em Lisboa, passou oito anos numa cidade da África do Sul, Durban, e fez nascer em três cidades diferentes de Portugal os seus heterônimos: Alberto Caeiro em Lisboa, Álvaro de Campos em Tavira e Ricardo Reis no Porto. É verdade! até Caeiro nasceu numa cidade, Lisboa, apesar de ter ido muito novo viver para o campo - para o Ribatejo. Instado por um amigo, Francisco Cabral Metelo, a quem fez o favor de um prefácio, a ir passar uns tempos com ele no campo, na quinta dos pais. Pessoa respondeu, declinando o convite, que tinha o espírito "insuficientemente panorâmico"'. E para melhor exprimir o anti-bucolismo dessa sua alma citadina ainda acrescentou que "há árvores, pedras, flores, rios que são tão estúpidos que parecem gente". Também convém não esquecer que, numa célebre carta a João Gaspar Simões, que ele sempre gostou de arreliar. Pessoa desmistifica os seus "fingimentos" autobiográficos que o exegeta tinha interpretado ao pé da letra, lembrando-lhe que "o sino da sua aldeia" era o da Igreja dos Mártires, ali ao Chiado - onde até por sinal fora baptizado.

Uma leitura dos poemas inéditos de Vergílio Ferreira

Revista da Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, n.1(1980)

Melancolia e nevoeiro. Figuras do medo do cinema português

Dissertação apresentada para cumprimento dos requisitos necessários à obtenção do grau de Mestre em Cinema e Televisão.

A segurança no terrorismo e na indústria dos eventos

Nowadays, safety and security regarding the tourism and events industries are a fundamental subject to society. Portugal’s tourism has significantly increased its number of visitors, whether due to the increasing number of cruisers docking in Lisbon, or due to visitors arriving by air, travelling the country from North to South and staying in the most varied accommodation units. Issues like human security and internal security of the different countries, even the security in the world, as development factors of a modern society, are discussed on a daily basis. On the contrary, few deal with tourism and major events security as being part of internal security, as well as the existing barriers tourism encounters to integrate the system for fighting terrorism. Although two distinct activities, they are complementary and may influence the country’s economy, provided that they can offer certainty to all actors involved. It is this substance that organised crime groups look for when planning terror acts. Therefore, as tourism can offer deception and shelter opportunities and events the theatre of a possible attack, those events assemble all the necessary conditions for an attack to achieve its goals.

‘Wooden Man’? : Masculinities in the Work of J. M. Coetzee (Boyhood, Youth and Summertime)

In seeking to advance the possibility of justice, gender and postcolonial studies have argued for the importance of the study of masculinities, through the acknowledgment that a richer understanding of such gendered formations may provide the basis for recognition of the Other and that, left uncriticised, such formations may be continuously delineated by the reproduction of systems of domination. The current study finds as its object the representations of masculinities in J. M. Coetzee’s Boyhood (1997), Youth (2002) and Summertime (2009). As works of transition in terms of Coetzee’s oeuvre - post-apartheid and post-Disgrace - the trilogy provides an account of the development of a man through several stages of life. While portraying the tensions of different geographical and cultural locations, such as apartheid South Africa and the London of the Sixties, the trilogy articulates the various norms that impact in the formation of gender, particularly of masculinities, through a complex system of power relations. The adherence to such norms is never linear, as the trilogy provides imaginative accounts of the contradictions that assist in the formulation of gender, depicting both the allure and the terror that constitute hegemonic masculinity. Located in the intersection of gender and postcolonial studies, the present study is based on the works by Raewyn Connell on masculinities. Animated by such a critical framework, the main research question of the present study is whether the trilogy advances a notion of masculinity that differs from the traditional rigid model, that is, whether there is resistance to hegemonic masculinity and what the spaces inhabited by the subaltern are. It is suggested that the trilogy presents the reader with instances of resistance to normative formulations of masculinity, by contrasting domination with the possibility of justice, and advancing an understanding of the often fatal consequences of gender norms to one’s sense of being in the world.