The
Portuguese Language Center is happy to invite you to the public
lectures by Professor Fátima Marinho (University of Porto),
which will take place on Monday, 11th May, from 12:00 to 14:00 and from
15:00 to 17:00 at TSU (Building I, room 101).
Entrance is free and everyone is welcome!
Fátima Marinho (1954-) is Full Professor in the University of Porto. She was Vice-President of the University of Porto (June 2014 – June 2018) and Dean and President of the Scientific Board of the Faculdade de Letras [Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences], (2010 – 2014). She is Member of the IAU (International Association of Universities) Administration Board (2016-2020), expert of the Haut Conseil de l’Évaluation de la Recherche et de l’Enseignement Supérieur, France (2017) and of the Evaluation and Accreditation Agency for Higher Education, Portugal (2018). She was decorated by the French Government with the title of «Officier de l’Ordre des Palmes Académiques» (November 2015). Her field of interest is Portuguese Literature (Historical Novel and Portuguese 20th century Poetry). She participated with a paper in many conferences in several countries and have many publications (books, books’ chapters, papers in journals).
THE AMBIGUOUS WORLD OF LITERATURE
Under the designation "The Ambiguous World of Literature", we try to establish the relationship, not always easy or obvious, between literature and reality, focusing on examples from the nineteenth to the twenty-first century. The importance of the mask becomes evident and we split the presentation in four fundamental vectors to understand the perverse, ambiguous and misleading relations between the real and its representation in literary texts: the transparent mask; the other as a mask; the identity under the mask; the treacherous mask.
THE PORTUGUESE NOVEL AFTER 1974 REVOLUTION IDENTITY AND LEGITIMISATION
The aim of this short essay is to describe the characteristics of the Portuguese novel in these past thirty years. This study is divided into three parts: 1- legitimisation of the present through the past; 2 – deconstruction of the past with the consequent destruction of beliefs and preconceived ideas; 3 – presentation of an uninteresting and claustrophobic present. The essay will examine some paradigmatic novels, seeking to show an inevitable shift in people’s shared feelings of belonging to a community.
