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Poems from «Violaciones»
No full textSi presenta la traduzione italiana, realizzata da Paula Marqués Hernández, di due poesie della poetessa Lucia Pietrelli, tratte dalla raccolta Violaciones (2011).An Italian translation of two poems by Lucia Pietrelli from the collection Violaciones (2011). The poems are translated by Paula Marqués Hernández
No Boundary or Centre. An Ecocritical Reading of Mikael Niemi’s OEuvre
No full textLe opere dello scrittore svedese Mikael Niemi si estendono negli ultimi decenni tra poesia, letteratura per ragazzi, romanzo storico e di formazione, giallo e distopia. Tra questi generi, si sceglie qui di analizzare i romanzi per ragazzi Kyrkdjävulen e Blodsugarna (Il diavolo nella chiesa e I vampiri, rispettivamente 1994 e 1997), il Bildungsroman Populärmusik från Vittula (2000; Musica rock da Vittula, 2002) e la distopia Fallvatten (2012; La piena, 2013). Obiettivo di questo studio è ricostruire le tracce di una visione della natura nelle opere dell’autore e risalire, attraverso esse, a una riflessione sui termini-chiave della modernità, come l\u27Antropocene e il Capitalocene.The works of Swedish writer Mikael Niemi in the last decades cover poetry, young adults’ literature, Bildungsroman, historical and crime fiction, dystopian novel. Among these, here come to focus four works from the author, young adults’ books Kyrkdjävulen (The devil of the Church) and Blodsugarna (The vampires), respectively published in 1994 and 1997, Bildungsroman Populärmusik från Vittula (2000; Popular Music from Vittula, 2003), and dystopian novel Fallvatten (2012). The aim of this study is to piece together images of nature in the author’s books and further discuss key-questions of modernity, like Anthropocene and Capitalocene
Celebration of the winners of the First International Dostoevsky Society Competion “5-Minutes Demons” : sponsored by the IDS, with the support of the XVIII IDS Symposium Japanese Organizing Committee (November 19th 2022)
No full text"5-Minutes Demons" Competition Winner
Бесы Ф.М. Достоевского как роман-медиа
No full textDemons is a theatrical novel. Today, in the first quarter of the twentieth century, a definition of the genre could be proposed as "novel-media". The goal of the author is to reveal the essential aspects of Dostoevsky\u27s theatrical (syncretic) thinking. According to Dostoevsky, drama is not a mere dialog, but a different and independent work, pursuing tasks that do not coincide with those of the novel, and existing on a much broader communication field. "Dramatic situation" is a concept of authenticity in Dostoevsky\u27s artistic thinking, which he maintains literally until the last days of his life.Dostoevsky\u27s Demons as a "Novel-Media"
Demons is a theatrical novel. Today, in the first quarter of the twentieth century, a definition of the genre could be proposed as "novel-media". The goal of the author is to reveal the essential aspects of Dostoevsky\u27s theatrical (syncretic) thinking. According to Dostoevsky, drama is not a mere dialog, but a different and independent work, pursuing tasks that do not coincide with those of the novel, and existing on a much broader communication field. "Dramatic situation" is a concept of authenticity in Dostoevsky\u27s artistic thinking, which he maintains literally until the last days of his life.
Keywords: Dostoevsky and Drama; Novel-Media; Theatre and Novel; dramatic situation; Demons
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No full textЛаура Сальмон, Дарья Фарафонова и Стефано Алоэ (под ред.), Ф.М. Достоевский: Юмор, парадоксальность, демонтаж (Firenze, FUP, 2023) (Ирис Уччелло)
Валентина В. Борисова, Сергей С. Шаулов, Юлия В. Юхнович, «Дело о куманинском наследстве» в жизни и творчестве Ф.М. Достоевского (Уфа: Печатник, 2021) (Инга Дробышевская
“Dream Big, Fly High: The English Language as a Bridge to Your Dream Job”: Educazione linguistica tra università, territorio e public engagement
No full textQuando nella primavera del 2020 la pandemia da Covid-19 ha raggiunto il territorio italiano, il comitato scientifico del Campionato Nazionale delle Lingue ha deciso di interrompere immediatamente la manifestazione, giunta ormai alle fasi semifinali, e di rivedere completamente l’organizzazione dell’undicesima edizione, prevista per l’Anno Scolastico e Accademico 2020/21.
Con l’intenzione di “mettere in pausa la competizione e in scena le competenze,” il Centro Linguistico d’Ateneo dell’Università di Urbino ha dunque deciso di non sospendere l’efficace canale di comunicazione avviato con gli istituti di istruzione secondaria e di sviluppare e promuovere la realizzazione di un progetto didattico che potesse risultare stimolante e utile per il pubblico scolastico che, in questi ultimi anni e oggi più di sempre, è costantemente alla ricerca di risorse online di qualità e di alto profilo.
Come vedremo in questo saggio, porre attenzione all’analisi del contesto, lavorare in sinergia con il territorio, adottare in tempi rapidi azioni di sistema in grado di affrontare la sfida della formazione a distanza e progettare interventi mirati sono divenute priorità del CLA di Urbino che in quest’ottica ha sviluppato il Percorso per le Competenze Trasversali e l’Orientamento “Dream Big, Fly High: the English Language as a Bridge to Your Dream Job,” progetto CLIL racchiuso in nove moduli. Scopo del percorso è stato quello di aiutare gli studenti a comprendere che la lingua inglese non è altro che un tool, uno strumento, e che basta decidere di sfruttarlo al meglio, senza ansia da prestazione, per fare un grande passo in avanti verso il raggiungimento dei propri obiettivi con ottimismo, entusiasmo e sviluppando una consapevolezza che renda più forti.When the Covid-19 pandemic arrived in Italy during the spring of 2020, the scientific committee of the National Language Olympics decided to immediately interrupt the event, which by then had reached the semifinals phases, and to totally revise the organization of the eleventh edition envisaged for the 2020/21 school and academic year.With the aim of “putting the competition on hold and our expertise on show,” the Language Centre of the University of Urbino decided not to suspend the effective communication channel initiated with secondary education institutions, and to develop and promote the creation of a teaching project that could be stimulating and useful for the school community which, in recent years and today more than ever, is constantly in search of quality, high-profile online resources.As we will see in this essay, the Language Centre of Urbino established as its priorities the necessity to focus on an analysis of the context, work in synergy with the local communities, swiftly adopt system actions capable of dealing with the challenge of distance learning, and plan targeted actions. This led to the development of the Orientation and Multifunctional/Soft Skills Scheme, “Dream Big, Fly High: the English Language as a Bridge to your Dream Job” a CLIL project consisting of 9 modules. The purpose of the scheme was to help students understand that the English language is nothing more than a tool, an instrument, and that it is sufficient that they choose to make the best use of it, without succumbing to performance anxiety, to make a big step forward toward the achievement of their goals with optimism and enthusiasm, while developing an empowering awareness
Newsworthiness and Emotivity: The Language of Evaluation in the Letters to the Editor of “The Times” on the Armenian Question in 1914-1926
No full textIn 1915 the echo of the Ottoman massacres of the Christian minorities living within the borders of the Empire reached the international press at once. The Times functioned as an English-language cross-cultural referential platform for its international readership, and regularly published letters to the editor reporting on the political and humanitarian events involving the Armenians. Those letters to the editor were written in English by notable authors from different national backgrounds and political appointments, including also Armenian notables and delegates. A corpus of letters to the editor of The Times was collected for the purpose of this study and examined through a corpus-driven and a corpus-assisted approach. This article focuses on a quantitative and qualitative analysis of recurring language of evaluation related to discursive news value analysis, with a specific focus on how the parameter of “emotivity” is expressed through the language used in the letters. This study attempts to explain the linguistic strategies through which a cross-cultural intersubjective connection with the readership of The Times was created, and it also attempts to clarify the textual strategies implemented in the letters to the editor of The Times to keep the Armenian events newsworthy
Orizzonti di transito. L’opera di Jhumpa Lahiri tra l’Italia e gli Stati Uniti. Raffaella Malandrino
No full textRecensione de Orizzonti di transito. L’opera di Jhumpa Lahiri tra l’Italia e gli Stati Uniti di Raffaella Malandrino.Review of Orizzonti di transito. L’opera di Jhumpa Lahiri tra l’Italia e gli Stati Uniti by Raffaella Malandrino
“Don’t Use This Word”: Racist Hate Speech in Online English Dictionaries for Learners
No full textThis paper presents the preliminary findings of a wider research project which aims at exploring the relationship between racist hate speech and online English lexicography for learners. In particular, this pilot study focuses on the treatment of “ethnophaulisms” (Roback 1944), most commonly referred to as ethnic slurs, in the online editions of three major British English dictionaries for advanced learners: the Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English, the Macmillan English Dictionary for Advanced Learners and the Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary. The rationale behind this paper lies in the connection between two phenomena of the present cultural moment and digital age: the impact of the Internet on dictionary consulting (Jackson 2017; Béjoint 2016) and the alarming increase of online racism and xenophobia at the global level (see Gagliardone et al. 2015). Accordingly, the research objective is to analyse whether and how the three dictionaries selected include, label, define or, more generally, present learners with data reflecting the taboo and offensive nature of these instances of racist hate speech
Trauma and Memory in Viet Thanh Nguyen\u27s “The Refugees”
No full textStarting from Viet Thanh Nguyen’s claim that all wars are fought twice, the first time on the battlefield, the second time in memory, the paper aims to analyze the author’s investigation of the trauma of the Vietnam War on the refugees and the generation after in his short-story collection, The Refugees (2017).
Regarding the conflicting memories of the war, Nguyen’s critical and literary works search for a just memory that recalls the past in a way that does justice to the forgotten, the excluded, the oppressed, the dead, and the ghosts. He calls for a complex ethics of memory that draws attention to the life cycle of memories, their industrial production, and how they evolve and change. According to the author, art is central to this ethical work because, at its best, it resists power and war.
In The Refugees, Nguyen deconstructs the trope of “the good refugee” and the myth of “the nation of refuge,” created by Americans to cope with the “difficult memory” of the Vietnam War, highlighting how the interweaving of war, violence, and power have compelled Vietnamese to forced dislocation, making their lives ones haunted by the losses and specters of the past. In the manner theorized by Avery Gordon, the ghosts, specters, and shadowy identities that people Nguyen’s stories are the spectral trace of unresolved social injustices.
The discontinuity of trauma and its problematic legacy are examined in stories that focus on intergenerational relationships and invite readers to ethically listen to the voices coming from “the crying wound.”Partendo dalla affermazione di Viet Thanh Nguyen che tutte le guerre sono combattute due volte, la prima sul campo di battaglia, la seconda nella memoria, questo contributo intende esaminare il modo in cui l’autore indaga gli effetti della guerra del Vietnam sui rifugiati e sulla generazione successiva nella raccolta di racconti The Refugees (2017).
Per quanto riguarda i ricordi conflittuali della guerra, Nguyen nelle sue opere critiche e creative va alla ricerca di una memoria giusta che sia in grado di richiamare il passato in modo da rendere giustizia ai dimenticati, agli esclusi, agli oppressi, ai fantasmi. Lo scrittore invoca una complessa etica della memoria che ponga attenzione al ciclo vitale dei ricordi, alla loro produzione industriale, a come evolvono e cambiano. Secondo l’autore, l’arte gioca un ruolo centrale in questo lavoro etico perché, al suo meglio, è capace di opporsi al potere e alla guerra.
In The Refugees Nguyen decostruisce la figura ricorrente del “buon rifugiato” e il mito della “nazione rifugio” creati dagli Americani per far fronte alla “difficile memoria” della guerra del Vietnam, sottolineando come l’intersecarsi di guerra, violenza e potere abbiano costretto i vietnamiti a una dislocazione forzata rendendo le loro vite infestate dalle perdite e dagli spettri del passato. Alla maniera teorizzata da Avery Gordon, i fantasmi, gli spettri e le identità indefinite che popolano i racconti di Nguyen sono la traccia spettrale di giustizie sociali irrisolte.
La discontinuità del trauma e la sua problematica eredità sono esaminate in storie che si focalizzano sui rapporti intergenerazionali e invitano i lettori a mettersi eticamente in ascolto delle voci che provengono dalla “ferita che grida.