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The creation of a motif-index of Spanish romances of chivalry: presentation and advances of MeMoRam
No full textEn el artículo se presenta un proyecto nacional italiano dividido en cuatro unidades que abarcan la literatura caballeresca hispánica desde distintas perspectivas. Se trata de Mapping Chivalry: Spanish Romances of Chivalry from Renaissance to 21st Century: a Digital Approach. Tras su presentación general, en el artículo se hace referencia especialmente a la unidad que se está desarrollando en la Università di Trento, que se dedica a la realización de una base de datos centrada en los motivos de los libros de caballerías castellanos de los siglos XVI y XVII, que constituyen las fuentes de las demás unidades que conforman el proyecto. Se mencionan las tareas llevadas a cabo sobre el corpus y se apuntan los actuales objetivos de nuestras investigaciones: definir un índice de motivos con la ayuda de las herramientas digitales, sin olvidar el enfoque crítico tradicional. Los resultados obtenidos se ofrecerán a los usuarios en la base de datos MeMoRam.The article presents an Italian national project divided into four units covering Hispanic Chivalric Literature from different perspectives. It is Mapping Chivalry: Spanish Romances of Chivalry from Renaissance to 21st Century: a Digital Approach. After its general presentation, the article refers in particular to the unit being developed at the Università di Trento, which is dedicated to the creation of a database focusing on the motifs of 16th and 17th century Castilian romances of chivalry, which constitute the sources for the other units that make up the project. We mention the tasks carried out on the corpus and point to the current objectives of our research: to define an index of motifs with the help of digital tools, without forgetting the traditional critical approach. The results obtained will be made available to users in the MeMoRam database
Linguistic analysis in the global evolution of communication media
No full textSi ripropone l\u27articolo di Padre Roberto Busa intitolato "L’analisi linguistica nell’evoluzione mondiale dei mezzi di comunicazione", originariamento pubblicato in Almanacco Bompiani: Le applicazioni dei calcolatori elettronici alle scienze morali e alla letteratura (1962), pp. 103-108, 117.We propose the article of Father Roberto Busa entitled " "Linguistic analysis in the global evolution of communication media", originally published in Almanacco Bompiani: The applications of electronic computers to moral sciences and literature (1962), pp. 103-108, 117.Se propone el artículo "El análisis lingüístico en la evolución mundial de los medios de comunicación", en origen publicado en el Almanaque Bompiani:Las aplicaciones de las computadoras electrónicas a las ciencias morales y la literatura (1962), pp. 103-108, 117
Une femme écrit une lettre – un poème. Le geste épistolaire chez Marceline Desbordes-Valmore
No full textRésumé : La poésie de Marceline Desbordes-Valmore, qui se caractérise par la place qu’elle fait à l’écriture de la voix, a souvent aussi comme modèle la lettre. La plume devient le symbole du geste de l’écriture, à travers lequel le poème exprime une proximité spirituelle et charnelle face à un destinataire lointain et proche en même temps par l’imagination, en opérant également une transition du pour un au pour tous. Le but de cette communication sera d’approfondir cette relation entre oralité et écriture poétique épistolaire, en mettant en évidence la prégnance thématique et les qualités formelles de ces poèmes, qui arrivent à constituer un ‘manifeste’ esthétique de leur auteure. Ce qui n’est pas sans exercer une importante influence sur d’autres poètes, français ou étrangers, qui sont nommés ici, en renvoyant, pour une analyse plus étendue, au site de la Société des études Marceline Desbordes-Valmore, dans le cadre des liaisons entre centres de recherche au niveau international.
Abstract: Marceline Desbordes-Valmore’s poetry, which is characterised by the importance it gives to the writing of voice, has also often the letter as a model. The pen becomes the symbol of the writing gesture, by which the poem expresses a spiritual and corporeal closeness towards an addressee who is far and near, in imagination, at the same time, thus making a transition from for one to for all. The purpose of this article will be to further explore this relationship between orality and poetical epistolary writing, pointing out the thematic importance and the formal qualities of these poems, which finally constitute an esthetical “manifesto” of their author. This also exerted a significant influence on other poets, French or foreigners, who are only mentioned here, also referring, for a deeper analysis, to the site of the Société des études Marceline Desbordes-Valmore, within the context of the relationships between Research Centres at an international level.
Mots clés : Marceline Desbordes-Valmore, poésie, lettres-poèmes, écriture de la voix, geste épistolaire
Key words: Marceline Desbordes-Valmore, Poetry, Letter-Poems, Writing of the Voice, Epistolary Gestur
La letteratura romantica nelle comunità sefardite orientali
No full textRiassunto: Il Romanticismo si diffonde tra le comunità sefardite orientali in epoca molto più tarda rispetto al resto dell’Europa, verso la fine dell’Ottocento, e si protrarrà fino all’inizio del Novecento; eppure rappresenta uno dei movimenti che condiziona maggiormente la letteratura sefardita moderna. Non esistendo un’ampia bibliografia sul tema, mi sono proposta di studiare la ricezione della produzione romantica che si diffuse tra le comunità orientali attraverso gli adattamenti e i rifacimenti delle opere provenienti dal resto dell’Europa, con l’obiettivo di determinare l’esistenza e le peculiarità di un possibile ‘Romanticismo sefardita’.
Abstract: Romanticism spreads among the Eastern Sephardim in a much later period than the rest of Europe, towards the end of the 19th century, and will last until the beginning of the 20th century; yet it represents one of the movements that most influences modern Sephardic literature. As there is no extensive bibliography on the subject, I proposed to study the reception of the romantic production that spread among the Eastern communities through adaptations and rewrites of works from the rest of Europe; the aim is to determine the existence and the peculiarities of the ‘Sephardic Romanticism’.
Parole chiave: Romanticismo sefardita, Romanticismo turco, ricezione letteraria, adattamento letterario, riscrittura, canone letterario
Key words: Sephardic Romanticism, Turkish Romanticism, Literary Reception, Literary Adaptation, Rewrite, Literary Canon
 
«The Body Does not Lie». «Körper-Analyse» around the Character of Penelope in the Play «Ithaka» by Botho Strauß
No full textIl saggio analizza le rappresentazioni del corpo nel dramma Ithaka (1996) di Botho Strauß. La corporalità, nell’opera, affiora attraverso modalità e stati differenti: ora come obesità, ora come frammentazione anatomica nella raffigurazione del coro, ora come epifania di Atena. Questi casi ruotano intorno al personaggio di Penelope, che come in poche riscritture novecentesche acquista un vigore e una modernità rivoluzionari. Il ruolo di Penelope è parte di un processo di demitizzazione che ingloba tutte le figure femminili del dramma. Il mito dell’Odissea è così rifondato attraverso il femminile che scalza inevitabilmente il mito di Ulisse.The essay analyses the representations of the body in the play Ithaka (1996) by Botho Strauß. Corporeality emerges in the play through different conditions: as a form of obesity, as anatomical fragmentation in the representation of the chorus, even as an epiphany of Athena. These cases revolve around the character of Penelope, who acquires, differently from many 20th-century re-writings of the Odissey, a revolutionary strength and modernity. Penelope’s role is part of a broader process of de-mythologisation that embraces all the female figures of the play. The myth of the Odyssey is thus recast through the feminine entity, which inevitably undermines the myth of Ulysses
Going Green with... Communication: A Comparative Analysis of Opposing Campaigns
No full textIn tune with rapidly increasing environmental awareness, terms like sustainability and eco-friendly frequently occur and are exploited in discourse domains from supermarket advertising to corporate communication. In contrast to these discursive simulations of concern, Greenpeace (GP) activists have consistently used peaceful protests as a means to protect our planet. GP’s campaigns are designed to raise questions, to make people rethink the way they live and (ab)use the Earth’s environment, and, ultimately, to engage volunteers and raise funds. In a different vein, Gazprom (GZM) also attempts to advertise its corporate image and its mission to distribute gas through powerful technology, connecting entire continents through a grid of pipelines and ships, ‘energising’ anything from industrial plants to gas stoves in apartments and small cottages. The aim of this study is to analyse aspects of both GZM’s and GP’s modes of advertising their goals, particularly the multi-layered composition of their online videos, using a multimodal Critical Discourse Analysis approach from an ecolinguistic perspective. Both GZM and GP exemplify a tendency to“promotionalisation,” sharing the same codes and rhetoric strategies in a variety of advertising campaigns. Unpredictably enough, both utilise ‘green speaking’ multimodally. The implications of these striking similarities are discussed
Vanport, Oregon: The Long History of an Ephemeral City
No full textOn Memorial Day 1948, the Columbia River achieved what neither the Portland Housing Authority nor the city government had been able to do, i.e. to end the short history of Vanport, Oregon. Vanport had been created in 1942 as a huge public housing project to accommodate thousands of workers who had flocked to the region to work for the wartime industries, most importantly the Kaiser Shipbuilding Corporation. Erected between the city limits of Portland, Oregon, and the Columbia River on reclaimed bottom lands, Vanport was entirely inundated by a flood in 1948 and never rebuilt. At that time some 18,000 people, down from the wartime peak of 40,000, still lived in Vanport, many of them African Americans.This paper looks at the history of Vanport and the site where the city once stood from a socio-cultural and environmental perspective. Thus, it traces the fate of those flood victims who had to settle in Portland’s Black neighborhood Albina, it highlights cultural encounters with the legacy of displacement, and it elaborates on the recent surge in memory activism. A particular focus will be directed to the role that the river environment played for the history of Vanport. It will be shown why Vanport was located in a floodplain and how environmental conditions have influenced the construction work and the daily activities of Vanport citizens
‘MI I PL ET RIUM’: navigating a post-apocalyptic world in Karen Russell’s “The Gondoliers”
No full textFar from being speculative fiction à la Atwood or just another cli-fi piece, Karen Russell’s short story “The Gondoliers” is a genre b(l)ending text, a ‘Southern Gothic 2.0.’ Rife with intertextual references, it entwines cli-fi with the “freakishly imaginative” (Roy 2019) which is Russell’s signature hallmark—the mythological, supernatural and magical realist, maybe even the surreal. As the following sets out to show, the story employs the post-apocalyptic scenery of climate-change-induced “New Florida” to hint at current social iniquities and draws on timeless ruminations about individualism and identity also to comment on contemporary discourses about epistemological uncertainty
Affection, Attraction and Aversion: Climate and Cultural Crises in “The Ice People” by Maggie Gee
No full textThe multi-faceted nature of the climate crisis in The Ice People (1998) by Maggie Gee is examined from an interdisciplinary perspective aimed at highlighting ways in which the joint effort of the humanities and the sciences can achieve effective environmental communication and audience engagement. An ecocritical reading of the novel incorporates the “Biophilia Hypothesis” (1993),a set of values through which Edward O. Wilson and Stephen Kellert have articulated genetic explanations to historical or emergent cultural patterns. Biophilic and biophobic values shed light on how humans affiliate to the other-than-human. Throughout the fictional apocalypse, biophobic values such as Aversion reveal the fracture between human beings and other species while Attraction, Affection, and other biophilic values are exploited for biophobic reasons. The values supporting our innate affiliation to nature can be identified, decoded, deconstructed, and consciously implemented to foster a novel cultural climate able to avert the climate apocalypse
“On My Head I Placed a Crown of Most Exquisite Make”: Shipwreck, Maroonage, and the Colonial Aesthetic Power in “The Female American”
No full textDrawing from the long history in scholarly research about shipwreck narratives and the colonial times, this article offers some reflections on the different types of shipwreck stories, in order to then focus on the novel The Female American, anonymously published in 1767. As a truly transatlantic text, The Female American is in conversation with both The Tempest (1611) and Robinson Crusoe (1719), and as a shipwreck narrative it provides a remarkable model of settler colonialism and extractivist accumulation based equally on aesthetic pleasure and on the symbolic and exchange value of colonial artifacts