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ICT Affordances and Higher Education: From Face-to-Face to Digital Learning Environments
No full textIntroduction to the special section “ICT Affordances and Higher Education: From Face-to-Face to Digital Learning Environments.
An Innovative Education Experience for Future Foreign Language Teachers: The Laboratori e Tirocini di Introduzione alle Metodologie e Tecnologie Didattiche/Teaching Labs
No full textThis contribution aims to describe the innovative experience related to the Laboratori e Tirocini di Introduzione alle Metodologie e Tecnologie Didattiche/Teaching Labs, which have been developed since A.Y. 2017/18 as part of the courses in the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures, University of Verona. The objective of these Laboratori was to offer a preliminary teacher education experience for students interested in becoming foreign language and literature teachers.
The article will first discuss the rationale at the basis of the Laboratori project, also in connection to the importance of introducing language and literature students to the teaching profession, within the strategic priorities identified by the 2021 European Resolution in the field of education and training. The structure of the Laboratori and their characteristics will then be described in detail, highlighting the innovative aspects, in particular with reference to the blended learning approach, the familiarisation with the eTwinning European project, the micro-teaching sessions, as well as the practicum in lower and upper secondary schools. Some qualitative results and future perspectives will finally be discussed, including the developments which have led to the new Teaching Lab: Methodologies, Technologies and Practicum structure
«Klara and the Sun»: Reconfiguring the Gaze through a Robot
No full textThe complex themes raised by reflections on the Anthropocene will be investigated in Ishiguro\u27s novel Klara and the Sun (2021) in a narratological perspective that will explore the relationships between the agents of an «Earth System» (Latour 2015), which in the novel highlight a necessary reflection on our relationship with the Other, human/non-human. Through the perspective of a robot, an effect of estrangement is created in the text thanks to which the reader can understand new truths in the relationship between nature and culture.Per indagare i complessi temi aperti dal ragionamento sull’Antropocene, si sonderà il romanzo di Ishiguro Klara and the Sun (2021) attraverso una prospettiva narratologica ed esplorando i rapporti tra gli agents di un «Sistema Terra» (Latour 2015), che nel romanzo mettono in luce una riflessione necessaria sul nostro rapporto con l’Altro, umano/non umano. Mediante la prospettiva di un robot si crea nel testo un effetto di straniamento grazie al quale il lettore può comprendere nuove verità sul rapporto tra natura e cultura
Notes on the Relational Complexity of Literary Ecology
No full textSe le riflessioni che legano ecologia e letteratura sono ormai inaggirabili, alcuni concetti della prima definizione di Ernst Haeckel (1866) possono ancora essere indagati fruttuosamente e andare ad arricchire e sfumare il quadro teorico. Il presente contributo intende, in un primo tempo, soffermarsi sugli aspetti relazionali dell’ecologia letteraria, tenendo presente le principali prospettive assunte dalla critica recente. Successivamente, vuole proporre una lettura relazionale di alcuni testi letterari che si preoccupano di abitare lo spazio intermedio tra soggetto e oggetto in una maniera che può, rifacendosi a Haeckel, definirsi ecologica.If the reflections on ecology and literature are now compelling, some concepts from Ernst Haeckel’s first definition (1866) can still be fruitfully investigated in order to enrich and enhance the theoretical framework. This contribution intends, firstly, to focus on the relational aspects of literary ecology, relying on the main recent critical perspectives. Besides, it intends to propose a relational reading of some literary texts that occupy the space in between subject and object in a manner that can be defined, with Haeckel, as ecological
Between Sea and Wind: The Climate of the Azores as an Aggravator of Human Servitude in the Novel «Gente Feliz com Lágrimas» (1988)
No full textÉ feita uma análise ecocrítica de um romance português com ação nas décadas centrais do século XX e cenário num ambiente rural da costa norte da ilha de S. Miguel. Pretende-se mostrar que o clima atlântico açoriano, hoje em mudança por força das Alterações Climáticas, é um tópico literário fulcral na dramaticidade do enredo e na condição das personagens, potencialmente útil para a ecoliteracia dos leitores. Concluiu-se serem os elementos «vento», «chuva» e «frio» os mais relevantes.This article provides an ecocritical analysis of a Portuguese novel whose action takes place in the middle decades of 20th century in a rural setting in the northern coast of S. Miguel island. The purpose is to show that the Atlantic Climate of the Azores, going through a change due to global Climate Change, is a crucial issue affecting the dramatic condition of the characters, and it is potentially useful to the ecoliteracy of the readers. In conclusion the elements of «wind», «rain» and «cold» will be given a special relevance
«Every part full of these involvements». The Intimate and the Global in «Emergency» (2022) by Daisy Hildyard
No full textIl presente articolo si propone di analizzare il romanzo Emergency (2022) di Daisy Hildyard per mostrare come il testo esplori la complessa rete di interconnessioni messa a nudo dal cambiamento climatico e dalla recente pandemia. Verrà esaminato come l\u27autrice utilizzi modalità tradizionali (p.es. il genere pastoral) per rivisitarne ed espanderne la portata in un’epoca nella quale locale e globale coesistono.This article endeavours to analyse how Daisy Hildyard’s novel Emergency (2022) explores the complex and often ambivalent enmeshing of life on Earth, bared by climate change and the recent pandemic. It will also be shown how the author uses traditional modes (i.e. the pastoral) to revisit and expand its scope in a time when the global and the local are always encroaching on each other
Bступительная речь нового Председателя МОД Стефано Алоэ. Нагоя (Япония), 25-го августа 2023 г.
No full textUn Onegin nell’Onegin: La scena della lettera di Aleksandr S. Puškin nell’opera di Pëtr I. Čajkovskij
No full textRiassunto: Tra gli operisti russi è comune la pratica di attingere i soggetti dalla produzione del poeta Aleksandr Puškin, spesso con la dichiarata intenzione di ricreare in ambito musicale l’eredità paradigmatica che questi lasciò ai posteri in campo letterario. Pëtr Il’ič Čajkovskij individuò nel poema in versi Evgenij Onegin un motivo consono alla propria sensibilità. Questo articolo si focalizza su un episodio in particolare dell’opera – la scena della ‘lettera di Tat’jana’ a Onegin, – con l’obiettivo di considerare, all’interno di uno spettacolo che è di per sé il frutto di un processo di ri-scrittura, la rappresentazione della scrittura di un ‘testo nel testo’ quale è quello della lettera nell’originale puškiniano.
Abstract: In the history of Russian opera, a great number of composers on many occasions drew on the production of Aleksandr Pushkin to find subjects for their stage works with the intention to recreate the poet’s founding legacy in the field of music. Pyotr Il’ich Chaykovsky found that the narrative poem Evgeny Onegin suited his own sensibility, and in 1878 had his work staged for the first time at the Moscow Conservatoire. In this article I focus on the analysis of the renowned ‘letter scene’, – in which the protagonist Tat’yana expresses her love to Onegin – paying particular attention to the use of music style to collocate the action in due context.
Parole chiave: Evgenij Onegin, Pëtr Il’ič Čajkovskij, Aleksandr Puškin, traduzione intersemiotica
Key words: Evgeny Onegin, Pyotr Il’ich Chaykovsky, Aleksandr Pushkin, Intersemiotic Translation
 
The Multilingual Origins of Standard English. Edited by Laura Wright
No full textreview of The Multilingual Origins of Standard English by Laura Wright, ed
Textual and Visual Catalyzers/Distractors in Advertising
No full textThe contribution of this study is expressed in the following research question: is it possible to identify some implicit-explicit textual or visual elements that catalyze or distract audience attention on or from the advertised product? An analysis of a corpus of advertisements taken from the Instagram pages of the major companies operating in the US food and beverage market reveals that attracting or distracting attention on or from a product’s use or function is a frequent strategy. These elements may contribute to changing scripts in advertising and mental patterns in consumer perceptions. The items that signal the distraction or the catalyzation of consumer attention in the advertising message have been identified via the ARCO model (St.Amant forth., St.Amant 2022), based upon the concept of usability of products, which helps decode the process of recognition of a product in the consumer’s brain. Results are promising, as this theory may help advertisers make more effective moves in the dual, cooperative relationship with consumers and review promotional strategies to engage the audience in advertising communication