Post-Doctoral Seminar
Damages of possible collaterals: a study on bohemian literature in the 19th Century

Ulisses Neves Rafael

April 2nd, 2009, 15:00, CES Seminar Room

 
Presentation

This study aims to analyze the representations of bohemia in Portuguese literature in the second half of the 19th century , given that this period's writings render an apprehension of how social reality, of which its exponents speak of, is constructed, thought and given to read. The phenomenon of bohemia sprouts in this framework as a fruitive practice, but also as object of reflection, that sometimes manifests itself through fictional form, and sometimes, through a documental and biographic perspective, obtained through epistolary material and chronicles. As a result, discourses subjacent to literary production are put to use as analytical instrument so to understand the manner by which the world is conceived an how it is apprehended and communicated.

 
Biographic Note

Ulisses Neves Rafael is a post-doctoral student at the Centre for Social Studies, University of Coimbra, under supervision of Professor Carlos Fortuna. Holds a doctoral degree in Sociology and Anthropology at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro since 2004. Presently he is associate professor at the Department of Social Sciences and at the Post-graduate Research Group in Social Sciences/Masters Degree in Sociology at the Federal University of Sergipe (UFS). His research interests relate to the literary representations on bohemian culture.

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