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The Bloomsbury Handbook to Philip Roth. Edited by Aimee Pozorski and Maren Scheurer
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It Do the Poets in Different Voices: Generative AI Voices, the Uncanny, and the Poetry Audio Archive
No full textThis paper examines the advent of poetry performed by generative-AI voices. It proposes that these synthetic voices can cast a new light on literary historical understandings of the original performances through their minute differences. In places where the AI fails to fully achieve verisimilitude, there can be an “uncanny valley” effect, which allows listeners to hear the original performances anew, defamiliarized in the Russian Formalist sense of the term. The paper goes on to propose a phonetic comparison between the AI voices and the human voices they were trained on. By identifying a number of prosodic differences, the paper posits why the AI voice may sound similar but not quite right, leading to the uncanny effect. The intent of this machine-aided close listening is to further discuss the nuances of the human performances and their literary historical contexts, highlighting how the AI voice can support analyses of the original author performances
La festa di Orlando: intrattenimenti privati e riti pubblici nel Mambriano del Cieco da Ferrara
No full textA pesar de su contenido fantástico, los poemas caballerescos en octava rima de los siglos XV y XVI constituyen un retrato o un espéculo de una realidad contingente. Esto es lo que sucede de manera particularmente significativa en el Mambriano de Francesco Cieco da Ferrara, un poema compuesto en el intervalo entre la obra maestra de Boiardo y la de Ariosto y estrechamente vinculado a la familia Gonzaga: también a través de una estrecha relación de reanudación e inversión de algunos de los episodios del \u27Inamoramento de Orlando, el Cieco emplea la representación de las fiestas para proponer contenidos insólitos para la literatura caballeresca y esbozar un retrato cortesano ideal, basado en la armonía, la pacificación y la búsqueda del bien común.A pesar de su contenido fantástico, los poemas caballerescos en octava rima de los siglos XV y XVI constituyen un retrato o un espéculo de una realidad contingente. Esto es lo que sucede de manera particularmente significativa en el Mambriano de Francesco Cieco da Ferrara, un poema compuesto en el intervalo entre la obra maestra de Boiardo y la de Ariosto y estrechamente vinculado a la familia Gonzaga: también a través de una estrecha relación de reanudación e inversión de algunos de los episodios del \u27Inamoramento de Orlando, el Cieco emplea la representación de las fiestas para proponer contenidos insólitos para la literatura caballeresca y esbozar un retrato cortesano ideal, basado en la armonía, la pacificación y la búsqueda del bien común.A dispetto del loro contenuto fantastico, i poemi cavallereschi in ottava rima del Quattro-Cinquecento possono farsi ritratto o speculum della realtà contingente. È quanto accade in modo particolarmente significativo nel Mambriano di Francesco Cieco da Ferrara, poema composto nell’intervallo che separa il capolavoro di Boiardo e quello di Ariosto e strettamente legato alla famiglia Gonzaga: anche attraverso un serrato rapporto di ripresa e ribaltamento di alcuni episodi dell’Inamoramento de Orlando, il Cieco si serve infatti della rappresentazione delle feste per proporre contenuti insoliti per la letteratura cavalleresca e per tratteggiare un ritratto di corte ideale, basato sull’armonia, la pacificazione e la ricerca del bene comune. Despite their fantastic content, chivalric poems of the 15th and 16th centuries can become a portrait or a speculum of the actual reality. This happens in a particularly significant way in the Mambriano by Francesco Cieco da Ferrara, a poem composed between Boiardo’s and Ariosto’s masterpiece, and closely linked to the Gonzaga family. Here, resorting also to a close interplay with some episodes of Inamoramento de Orlando, Francesco Cieco uses the representation of parties and feasts to propose contents quite unusual for chivalric literature and to sketch the portrait of an ideal court, based on harmony, pacification and the search for the common good.
The Research-Practice Interface in English for Specific Purposes: Past, Present and Future. Edited by Ersilia Incelli, Renzo Mocini and Judith Turnbull
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Editing a Difficult Text with the TEI: The Case of The Cantos
No full textWe will herein identify and describe several kinds of difficulties encountered while creating an XML-TEI encoding of The Cantos of Ezra Pound. This long poem, notoriously difficult for the lay reader, presents equally complex puzzles for its editor to solve.
One is linked with the openness of its form. An exemplary Modernist work, The Cantos displays virtuosic tendencies to question the received boundaries of the poetic form: its integration of peritextual elements, of prose quotations of various lengths, its unsystematic treatment of these “non-poetic” fragments don’t leave untouched the traditional ontologies that underlie the TEI’s standard representation of a poem. This questioning is pushed further, in the late sections of the poem, with the proliferation of non-Western writing systems (especially Chinese logographs), which not only contribute to dismantling the traditional order of reading but create (at the line, stanza and page levels) a new visual organization that must be accounted for with sui generis specifications of the TEI vocabulary. A third series of difficulties emerges with the delimitation of the numerous explicit quotations contained in the poem, whose extremely irregular typographical marking prevents any hope for automated annotation.
In all these cases, we argue, the encoding involves an interpretive dimension, which must be made explicit in order to solve various doubts and hesitations and justify case-by-case decisions. Ultimately, we claim that it is only through an exhaustive, philologically-informed genetic enquiry into the dossier of The Cantos that a reasonably accurate digital edition will be produced
«I vortici m’inghiottano del mar». Passione, dolore, tragico destino di pirati e corsari nel melodramma ottocentesco
No full textRiassunto: Il presente lavoro intende indagare il personaggio del pirata o corsaro nel melodramma ottocentesco, esplorandone la complessa simbologia, fra desiderio di libertà, senso di esclusione dal contesto sociale e profondo legame con la natura, in contrapposizione a un contesto civile chiuso all’altro e talvolta corrotto. Tale figura, che dall’epoca classica incarna il nemico per antonomasia del genere umano, presenta una torsione positiva in periodo romantico, collegandosi all’esaltazione dell’outsider/emarginato. Fra i generi letterari è il melodramma che per primo accoglie le istanze rivalutative del personaggiodel pirata. Si prenderà in considerazione il libretto fondativo del sottogenere, Il pirata (1827) di Felice Romani, esaminando poi l’evoluzione del paradigma piratesco nei successivi Il corsaro (1831) di Jacopo Ferretti e Il Corsaro (1848) verdiano di FrancescoMaria Piave, per concludere il percorso con i libretti adriatici che rappresentano dall’interno l’esistenza dei predoni del mare, come espressione delle rivendicazioni di etnie minoritarie.
Abstract: This paper aims at investigating the character of the pirate or corsair in the 19th century opera by exploring its complex symbolism, lingering between a desire for freedom, the sense of exclusion from the social context, and naturalness, in opposition to a closed, and sometimes corrupted, society. This figure, as the embodiment of the enemy of humankind par excellence from the classical era, presents a positive turning in the Romantic period, due to its connection to the elation of the outsider/outcast. Among the literary genres, opera first welcomes the instances that reevaluate the pirate. I will consider the founding libretto of this sub-genre, Il pirata (1827) by Felice Romani; I will then examine the evolution of the pirate paradigm in Jacopo Ferretti’s Il corsaro (1831) and in Francesco Maria Piave’s Il Corsaro (1848, music by Verdi). I will conclude my research by considering the Adriatic librettos that depict the existence of the sea robbers from the inside, as an expression of the claims of minority ethnic groups.
Parole chiave: opera lirica, pirata, corsaro, outsider, Felice Romani, Jacopo Ferretti, Francesco Maria Piave
Key words: opera, pirate, corsair, outsider, Felice Romani, Jacopo Ferretti, Francesco Maria Piav
«Comme un navire qui s’éveille»: il tema della navigazione e l’immagine del femminile da Baudelaire a Carducci
No full textRiassunto: Lo studio intende indagare l’utilizzo dell’immagine della navigazione come metafora impiegata nella descrizione del femminile nelle Fleurs du mal di Charles Baudelaire. A partire dalla disamina approfondita dello sviluppo di tale metafora all’internodella raccolta, vengono successivamente proposti alcuni esempi della sua fortuna nella poesia italiana di secondo Ottocento, tratti in particolare dall’opera di Emilio Praga e Giosuè Carducci.
Abstract: The study aims to investigate the use of the image of navigation as a metaphor employed in the description of the feminine in Charles Baudelaire’s Fleurs du mal. Starting with an examination of the development of this metaphor within Baudelaire’s poetic collection, some examples of its fortune in Italian poetry of the second half of the 19th century are then proposed, taken in particular from the lyrics of Emilio Praga and Giosuè Carducci.
Parole chiave: Le Beau Navire, Baudelaire, Carducci, Scapigliatura, ricezione, intertestualità, viaggio
Key words: Le Beau Navire, Baudelaire, Carducci, Scapigliatura, Reception, Intertextuality, Voyag
Architetture metaforiche e spazi nascosti nei romanzi di Peter Høeg
No full textPeter Høeg was able to adapt his works that were closest to the stylistic features of genre literature to a realism that allowed elements of Danish geography to be inserted into the imagination of the international reader, but he also demonstrated how the same geographical places can be manipulated by sliding the settings towards a distorted reality. The same strategy is used by Høeg with architectural constructions. The contribution analyzes a large part of his works, where the adherence to ever-changing genres is purely apparent, while the construction of hidden elements in the architectural structures is a constant that provides the plots with possible development spaces, often behind and beyond real architecture.Peter Høeg ha saputo adattare le sue opere più aderenti agli stilemi della letteratura di genere a un realismo che ha permesso di inserire nell’immaginario del lettore internazionale elementi della geografia danese, ma ha anche dimostrato come i medesimi luoghi geografici possano essere manipolati facendo scivolare le ambientazioni verso una realtà distorta. La stessa strategia è usata da Høeg con le costruzioni architettoniche. L’intervento analizza una parte consistente delle sue opere, nelle quali l’aderenza a generi sempre diversi risulta puramente apparente, mentre la costruzione di elementi nascosti nelle strutture architettoniche è una costante che fornisce alle trame spazi di sviluppo possibili, spesso dietro e oltre le architetture reali
italiano na grécia / an italian in greece
No full textSi presenta la traduzione, a cura di Claudio Russello, del poema italiano na grécia tratto dall\u27ultima raccolta della poetessa portoghese Tatiana Faia, Adriano (2022).An Italian translation, curated by Claudio Russello, of the poem italiano na grécia from the latest collection by Portuguese poet Tatiana Faia, Adriano (2022)
ICT Tools in ESP Syllabus Design: Designing a Syllabus for a Course in Technical English for Industry 4.0
No full textIn recent years, Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) have become a regular part of everyday English Language Teaching (ELT) practices in higher education and are merging with face-to-face activities. A hybrid modality, defined as Blended Learning (BL) (Sharma and Barrett 2007), has become established practice in Italian universities. The advantages of BL have long been recognized, particularly in ESP instruction (Luzón, 2009; Arnó-Macía, 2012), whose overall objective is to adapt the language learning experience to the learners’ specific needs. ESP practitioners who have experimented with BL to deliver their university courses may have recognized in it an efficient way of meeting the students’ needs and offering them an original experience. Having learned the lesson of the Covid-19 pandemic, and since they will very likely continue to teach their courses in hybrid or blended modalities in the future, it is arguably essential that ESP practitioners explore the full potential of ICT tools and are brought to reflect on the issues pertaining to their use. This paper aims to contribute to a reflection on the use of ICT in English language teaching (ELT) in higher education. It draws on the author’s personal experience of designing a Blended Learning (BL) syllabus for an undergraduate English for Specific Purposes (ESP) course in Technical English at the Department of Sciences and Methods for Engineering (DISMI) of the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia in the academic year 2021/2022. It describes the syllabus design process, illustrating how ICT tools and particularly online resources were used to analyze target students’ needs and customize the syllabus for the Technical English course