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Достоевский и Италия
No full textAn overview on Russian scientific project "Dostoevsky and Italy" with bibliography and first results of a collective work
Promoting Hotels in the Covid-19 Era: An Exploratory Review of UK Hotels’ New Challenges
No full textThe related large-scale travel restrictions ensuing the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic have had a devastating impact on the global tourism and hospitality industry. In particular, the hotel industry is proving to be the hardest hit by the pandemic due to reduced tourism and travel along with a slowdown in economic activity (Hoisington 2020). In order to attract potential guests, hotels need to focus on consumers’ changing concerns and accommodate their legitimate requests, i.e., health & safety measures and cancellation policies (UNWTO 2020). In light of this, the aim of this exploratory study is to understand to what extent hoteliers are reorganizing hotel stays to satisfy consumers’ new demands while restoring travelers’ confidence and respecting the strict safety regulations. In particular, this paper explores the crucial role of language in the hospitality sector, focusing on the linguistic devices employed by hotels on their websites to promote their facilities and services, which must now respect the strict new health and hygiene regulations imposed by the pandemic. Specifically, quantitative and qualitative methods were used to analyse a corpus of luxury hotel websites in Central England in order to examine: (i) the content included on the hotels’ websites; (ii) the language employed to promote stays during the Covid era. The preliminary findings contribute to an initial understanding of luxury hotel practices and initiatives during Covid-19 within the UK context. The results show that that there is a clear effort by luxury hotels to create a positive image as strong companies ready to face the challenges of a global pandemic. Specifically, the findings illustrate how hotels are using particular expressions to provide information related to the actions that they are taking to guarantee a safe environment, while highlighting the important role that visitors must also play in ensuring safety.
Traducción y reescritura áureas: el Espejo de caballerías
No full textFicha de la tesis de doctorado (en curso).Ficha de la tesis de doctorado (en curso).Description of the PhD thesis (in progress)
From chivalric books to seventeenth-century stages: giants and savages in the chivalric theater
No full textEn ocasiones los gigantes de los libros de caballerías proporcionan un antecedente para las realizaciones escénicas del jayán en el teatro caballeresco. Ocurre también que el personaje sufre adecuaciones y se asimila a otra figura también presente en la ficción caballeresca: el salvaje. El presente artículo es un estudio de los mecanismos de construcción de los gigantes y los salvajes en el teatro caballeresco del siglo XVII, a partir de las dos dimensiones que construyen al personaje teatral: el texto dramático y el texto espectacular. A través del análisis será posible esclarecer los mecanismos de adaptación entre códigos genéricos distintos: los signos teatrales que se convierten en convenciones dramáticas y las funciones que los personajes suelen desempeñar.Sometimes the giants of Castilian romances of chivalry provide a precedent for the giant\u27s stage performances in the classical Spanish theatre on chivalric themes. Also, the giant assimilates to another figure present in chivalric fiction: the wild man. This paper studies the construction of giants and savages in the 17th-century chivalric theatre, from the two sides that build the theatrical character: the dramatic text and the spectacular text. Through this analysis it will be possible to clarify the mechanisms of adaptation between different generic codes: theatrical signs that become dramatic conventions and the roles that characters often perform
Literary fabrics. Textile epigraphy in Spanish books of chivalry
No full textEn un primer acercamiento a la epigrafía textil en los libros de caballerías, se rastrea el origen de la práctica de inscribir textos en los textiles en la tradición islámica (tiraz) y se identifican los tipos de artefactos que cuentan con inscripciones: el ajuar doméstico (camas), la arquitectura textil (tiendas de campaña), los vexilos (banderas y estandartes) y la indumentaria personal. Se analiza la interrelación entre lo material (objeto textil) y lo textual (cifras, lemas, mensajes), se estudia la inscripción desde los presupuestos epigráficos como escritura expuesta y su función en el entramado narrativo de diferentes libros.In a first approach to the textile epigraphy of the chivalric romances, the origin of the practice of inscribing texts in textiles in the Islamic tradition (tiraz) is traced and types of artifacts with inscriptions are identified: textile architecture (tents) and textile furnishings (beds), insignia (flags and banners) and personal clothing. The interrelations between the material (textile object) and the texts (symbols, mottos, messages) are analyzed, the inscription is examined from an epigraphic approach as exposed writing, and its function in the narrative plot of various books is examined
Bridging the Absence: Jonas Mekas’s Hybrid Cinema
No full textIn this essay I will focus on Jonas Mekas’s ‘diary films’ such as Walden (1969), Reminiscences of a Journey to Lithuania (1972), and Lost Lost Lost (1975), interpreting them as a trilogy that constitutes one of the most seminal expressions of Laura Marks’s theoretical notion of “hybrid cinema” or “experimental diasporan cinema” (1994). As Marks argues, experimental diasporan films are characterized by an autobiographical attitude that “mediates a mixture of documentary, fiction, and experimental genres” in an aesthetic effort to create a formal correlative of the liminal and multicultural identities of diasporic auteurs (1994, 245). Moreover, they often incorporate intermedial strategies.This notion applies to Mekas’s films, which have been variously defined as diary films, documentaries, essay films, film-poems, home-movies (although the home represented is often a lost Heimat), and through the generic label of ‘avant-garde.’ His films are animated by a sense of identity (and of the film itself) as an unfinished process, which is exemplified by Mekas’s gestural and erratic camera. This process is put into dialogue with a sense of perpetual nostalgia that both reflects and repairs the discontinuity of the self, binding past and present. The resulting tension is further visible in the gap between Mekas as a (self-proclaimed) ‘filmer’—simultaneously filming and experiencing reality—and as a filmmaker—selecting the material, editing, and commenting it through his voice-over and the use of intertitles. Through the contemplation and enactment of this gap, Mekas’s intimate experience of loss and exile becomes a collective narrative shared with the spectators
Wort Plant Names in Contemporary English
No full textThe world of plants has exerted its fascination on researchers in linguistics for a long time. Botanic nomenclature was paramount in investigating categorization (e.g., Berlin, Breedlove, and Raven 1973), and in understanding the relationship between an individual and its environment. In the field of Anglo-Saxon studies, research into the lexicon of plants is of interest for at least two reasons. Firstly, plant names encode a wealth of information on the cultural system that has produced them by mirroring religious beliefs and dietary or medicinal practices. Secondly, this analysis provides insights into the psychological processes and linguistic strategies used to encode nature into language (e.g., Krischke 2013; 2009; Biggam 2003). In contemporary English, the names of ‘wort plants’ follow similar patterns to Old English plant names (Prosyannikova 2020). The lexeme wort is considered archaic by the OED, and it is listed as a suffix by Cambridge Dictionary. It derives from Old English wyrt, meaning plant, root. In contemporary English it is mainly found as the second element of compounds, such as lungwort, mugwort, but also in isolation as an independent morpheme. The present study aims at identifying and analyzing the occurrences of wort and wort-plants in contemporary English. Firstly, I will verify the occurrences of wort-plants in online corpora of English (COCA and BNC) and their frequency of usage. Secondly, I will provide a description of their morphological structure and semantic motivation. Following Blank (1997) and Krischke (2013), I will argue for a metonymic motivation of wort-plant names. Lastly, I will integrate the analysis of corpus data with a lexicographic analysis of their entries in the Oxford English Dictionary, to explore their referents in the two major varieties of English
China as an International Travel Destination: A Corpus-based Analysis of Online Travel Blogs
No full textUser-generated content in tourism has increasingly become an important source of data for multiple aspects of tourism research, including destination image, electronic Word-of-Mouth (eWoM), and destination marketing. Such online material as travel blogs, guides, video blogs and reviews may influence readers and prospective visitors, shaping their gaze on the destination and informing their travel choices. User-generated travel blogs and guides indeed provide a combination of knowledge and information as well as emotions, and are often deemed more reliable than professionally-produced tourist materials. This paper aims at investigating the tourist gaze on China and its population as emerging from travel blogs and travel guides produced by non-professional internet users. Specifically, it wants to determine how popular Chinese destinations and local people are perceived through the eyes of international tourists. To this purpose, a corpus of blogs on travel and life in China was compiled using the text mining software BootCat and then analyzed with the Sketch Engine corpus analysis tool. A quantitative and qualitative mixed method approach was adopted for this study, analyzing keywords and collocational profiles in addition to carrying out content analysis on concordance samples to shed light on how visitors gaze upon major Chinese destinations. Results indicate that visitors have an overall positive perception of China and its people but describe the country in contrasting terms, as seen in previous studies on this destination. Tourists appear to look for elements signifying authenticity, such as historical heritage sites and locals engaging in stereotypical activities
Non praticare il cannibalismo. 100 poesie. Ron Padgett, Paola Del Zoppo, Cristina Consiglio and Riccardo Frolloni
No full textReview of Non praticare il cannibalismo. 100 poesie by Ron Padgett. Edited by Paola Del Zoppo and Cristina Consiglio. Translated by Riccardo Frollon
Identités et intertextualités féminines face à l’altérité
No full textRésumé : Entre la fin du XVIIIe siècle et le début du XIXe, les écrivaines partagent l’intérêt contemporain pour le voyage, source de confrontation et d’apprentissage, et pour l’utilisation savante du dépaysement et du relativisme. La femme étrangère, extra-européenne, les interpelle par plusieurs thématiques, concernant l’oppression, l’infériorité, le sacrifice ou la victimisation d’une part, et de l’autre la non-violence, la compassion, le dévouement, la liberté et l’égalité. Dans les oeuvres de Mme de Monbart, Mme de Staël, Olympe de Gouges ou Mme de Duras, la vision de l’altérité, ainsi que l’anticolonialisme et l’antiesclavagisme côtoient une analyse sociale et psychologique qui contribue à définir une identité féminine multiforme mais qui présente des caractères communs.Mots clés : Identité, altérité, intertextualité, écrivaines, esclavage, Mme de Monbart, Olympe de Gouges, Mme de Staël, Mme de DurasAbstract: Between the 18th and the 19th centuries, the French women writers share the contemporary interest in travelling, as a source of comparison and learning, and for the wise use of dépaysement (the change of scenery) and relativism. The foreign, non-European woman, interests them for many themes, concerning oppression, inferiority, sacrifice or victimization on the one hand, and non-violence, compassion, dedication, freedom and equality on the other. In works by Mme de Monbart, Mme de Staël, Olympe de Gouges ou Mme de Duras, the view of alterity, as well as anticolonialism and antislavery produce a social and psychological analysis that contributes to better defining a multifaceted feminine identity that nevertheless shares some common features.Key words: Identity, Otherness, Intertextuality, French Women Writers, Slavery, Mme de Monbart, Olympe de Gouges, Mme de Staël, Mme de Dura