Sumários

More's Utopia

17 Outubro 2024, 14:00 • Adelaide Victória Pereira Grandela Meira Serras

Analysis of thomas More's Utopia.


The cultural English and European context of More's fictional work.
The weigh of classical culture and humanist perspective on the building of this seminal work.
The relationship between Book I and Book II and its impact on the definition of Utopia. 
Literary influences - viz. travel writing; (auto)biography; literary and rhetorical.devices. 

Utopia and Utopianism

10 Outubro 2024, 14:00 • Adelaide Victória Pereira Grandela Meira Serras

Exploration of definitions of Utopia. The etymological meaning of the word "utopia" - the creation of a neologism.


Characteristics and objectives of utopia as a new genre. Contextualising the rising of the genre and  its contemporaneous impact.
The development of utopianism and utopian studies.

Reading: Vieira, Fátima. "The Concept of Utopia". The Cambridge Companion to Utopian Literature. Cambridge University Press, 2010


The city: a diachronic perspective

3 Outubro 2024, 14:00 • Adelaide Victória Pereira Grandela Meira Serras

The city and its metamorphosis along the time.

The medieval city: its significance and major distinctive factors, bamely, its economic pattern and its defensive priority.

Factors of change - nature and human hand exemplified by the 1665 plague and the great fire of London in 1666. Their impact on the population's density and daily routines and on urban planing.

The modern city - the role of manufacture and trade ax key activities in the urban model.

Reading: Ackroyd, London the Biography, 2000 

Exploration of concepts

26 Setembro 2024, 14:00 • Adelaide Victória Pereira Grandela Meira Serras

The concept of culture and the school of cultural studies.


City studies - Reading: Miles, Cities and Cultures, 2007.

Presentation

19 Setembro 2024, 14:00 • Adelaide Victória Pereira Grandela Meira Serras

Programme presentation. Bibliographic references.

Exploring the concept of culture.

Assessment:

PhD: essay (8.000 to 10.000 words): 36%; oral presentation: 24%; review: 18%; chairing a theoretical debate: 12%; assiduity: 10%.