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La scimmia retorica. Teoria della critica letteraria afro-americana. Henry Louis Gates, Jr e Anna Scannavini
No full textRecensione de La scimmia retorica. Teoria della critica letteraria afro-americana di Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Introduzione, cura e traduzione di Anna Scannavini.Review of La scimmia retorica. Teoria della critica letteraria afro-americana by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Introduced, edited and translated by Anna Scannavini
On Westerns and Settler Migration: A Reading of “Meek’s Cutoff” by Kelly Reichardt
No full textThis essay examines Kelly Reichardt’s Meek’s Cutoff (2010) as an example of ‘slow’ and feminist western film. In particular, it shows how, by applying an “austere” aesthetics (Gorfinkel 2015) and by giving prominence to the act of migrating rather than the act of settling, the movie rewrites pioneer history, offering an example of what Catherine Russel defines “migrant cinema” (2017). Because of the visual centrality given to the act of migration, with its feeling of geographical displacement and psychological apprehension, the movie situates itself alongside other contemporary films representing present-day migration, and questions the traditional western movement as a travel of self-confident expansion and colonization. In this sense, Meek’s Cutoff can be rather read as a “decolonizing” (Trimble Young and Veracini 2017) rendition of white migration in the West, mostly achieved by including two destabilizing characters within the group of white settlers, Emily Tetherow and a Cayuse Indian, who trigger reflections on matters of knowledge and alliances
Essentials for Blended Learning: A Standards-Based Guide. Jared Stein and Charles R. Graham
No full textReview of Essentials for Blended Learning: A Standards-Based Guide by Jared Stein and Charles R. Graha
Disseminating the Tangible and Intangible Heritage of Sacred Places in the 21st Century: The Websites of British and Italian Cathedrals
No full textThis paper considers how cultural and religious heritage is disseminated in websites presenting British and Italian cathedrals. Sacred places are typically at the intersection of different forms of tourism—cultural tourism and religious tourism—and contribute to the transmission of tangible and intangible assets (“buildings and monuments, artistic objects, and also texts, legends, rites and so on” [Aulet and Vidal 2018, 244]). The study is based on a corpus of webtexts in Italian and English, collected respectively from the official websites of Italian and British cathedrals. The analysis looks at this kind of tourism discourse as a form of expert-to-non-expert communication that makes the visitor take part in an imaginary journey (Bonsignori and Cappelli 2019; Cappelli and Masi 2019; Cappelli 2016) in which different types of explanation (Calsamiglia and van Dijk 2004) are adopted to make specialized vocabulary accessible to visitors. The focus is on definitions and denomination (in relation to both art/architecture and religion). The quantitative study shows that the Italian corpus presents a marked preference for denomination (and denominations in the field of art/architecture in particular), while the corpus of British cathedrals is characterized by a marked preference for definitions. The qualitative analysis suggests that this may also depend on a marked stylistic preference in Italian for introducing the nicknames of the artists or specifying names in the local dialect, as against a clearer intention of disseminating the cultural and religious heritage to non-experts in the corpus of websites of British cathedrals. The cultural and the religious components, however, seem to be equally important in both corpora and are often inseparable for the two often superimposed types of visitors
The Cineautistic Detective: Steve Erickson’s “Zeroville” and the New Hollywood Novel
No full textThis article proposes a reading of Steve Erickson’s Zeroville (2007) as a post-noir mystery novel in which the ‘cineautistic’ detective Vikar, haunted by the ghosts of his Hollywood myths, brings out the cultural meaning behind the fatal date 1969. Going beyond the tropes of the Hollywood Novel, as a solitary detective who tries to relate to the fragmented space that surrounds him, Vikar will shed some light not so much on the industry’s dehumanizing capabilities—which the classic Hollywood novels aimed to uncover—but on the force of the medium and its conventions. Vikar’s great skills as a film editor will piece together the clues in order to solve a metaphysical cinematic mystery and to confront the cultural transition represented by the New Hollywood and television. As Zeroville’s storyworld proves to be rooted in film experience, this essay also aims to detect the cinematic references and to analyze their meaning in relation to the novel’s discourse on medium.
Prototypes and motifs in the configuration of Melior, female protagonist of El libro del conde Partinuplés
No full textLa literatura se nutre de motivos cuyo empleo facilita la comprensión de determinados contenidos, como ocurre en los libros breves de caballerías, dentro de los que destaca El libro del conde Partinuplés en cuyos cimientos se perciben antecedentes clásicos, folclóricos y artúricos. En el presente trabajo analizaremos los motivos y prototipos en torno a los que se configura la protagonista del Partinuplés, que goza de la suficiente relevancia como para guiar los hilos narrativos del relato. Nos centraremos en cómo Melior, prototipo del hada-amante, conserva rasgos propios de la tradición literaria a la que pertenece al tiempo que se desliga de ella, resultado de la acomodación a un nuevo contexto de recepción.Literature feeds on motifs that ease the understanding of certain content. This also happens in short chivalric stories, including El libro del conde Partinuplés, in whose foundations we can recognize classical, folkloric, and Arthurian roots. This work analyzes the motifs and models which configure the main female character. This character is important enough to carry the narrative thread. We will focus on how Melior, as a prototype of the fairy lover, incorporates specific traits of the literary tradition to which she belongs, while decoupling from it in the wake of a new context of reception
Critical edition and study of Silves de la Selva by Pedro de Luján (Seville, 1546)
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)
Unidimensionality, flatness and modularity as articulating concepts in short chivalric narrative. An analysis from the perspective of Max Lüthi
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)
Romanticismi dimenticati: il balletto storico Valdemar di August Bournonville al Teatro Reale di Copenaghen (1835)
No full textRiassunto: A partire dagli studi di danza relativi ai processi di rappresentazione del corpo danzante e alla memoria culturale - che rielaborano l’immaginazione storiografica, con l’intento di superare il mito della tradizione vivente del repertorio coreografico danese - l’articolo contestualizza e analizza la creazione del balletto romantico Valdemar di August Bournonville (Copenaghen 1835) nella temperie storico-culturale dell’Età d’oro danese. Lo scopo sarà di verificare se una rappresentazione stratificata come il balletto risulta in grado di far convergere idee, sentimenti, comportamenti, progetti e speranze, aderendo all’elaborazione del romanticismo storico europeo.Parole chiave: balletto romantico danese, August Bournonville, storiografia danese, danza e politicaAbstract: Starting from the dance studies related to the processes of representation of the dancing body and to cultural memory - which re-elaborate the historiographical imagination, with the aim of overcoming the myth of the living tradition of the Danish choreographic repertoire - the article contextualizes and analyzes the creation of the romantic ballet Valdemar by August Bournonville (Copenhagen 1835) in the historical-cultural climate of the Danish Golden Age. The purpose will be to test whether a stratified representation such as ballet is able to bring together ideas, feelings, behaviours, projects and hopes, in keeping with the elaboration of European historical Romanticism.Key words: Danish Romantic Ballet, August Bournonville, Danish Historiography, Dance and Politic
Il morbo della coincidenza. Una lettura inattuale di “Nemesi” di Philip Roth
No full textL’articolo propone un’analisi dell’identità di Bucky Cantor, il protagonista di Nemesi, l’ultimo romanzo di Philip Roth. Egli è un insegnante di educazione fisica profondamente consapevole del ruolo che svolge e della funzione che è chiamato a ricoprire, in particolar modo nel momento in cui i suoi studenti cominciano ad essere invalidati e uccisi dalla diffusione di un’epidemia di poliomielite. Anziché sviluppare un’interpretazione attualizzante del testo, incoraggiata da un tema richiamante la contemporaneità, ho ritenuto importante osservare la reazione del protagonista di fronte agli effetti drammatici provocati dalla poliomielite, nonché evidenziare le relazioni che costituiscono la sua identità. Identificato totalmente con l’immagine idealizzata di se stesso, tanto da apparire ai suoi studenti come una sorta di eroe invincibile – un semi-dio – Bucky si dimostra del tutto incapace di pensare la propria fallibilità. Tale presunzione gli renderà impossibile accettare di essere stato il principale responsabile della diffusione della polio e lo trasformerà in una trappola mortale per gli altri, in una vera e propria nemesi. Il romanzo mostra dunque come non sia tanto l’epidemia a spegnere le vite degli adolescenti, quanto più l’esistenza di modelli e maestri che anziché alimentare in essi il desiderio di diventare se stessi, interpretano la formazione come un percorso di conformazione a modelli già esistenti.This article offers an analysis of the identity of Bucky Cantor, the main character of Nemesis, Philip Roth’s last novel. This Physical Education teacher is acutely aware of his role, particularly at the time when his students begin to be disabled and killed by the spread of a polio epidemic. Instead of developing an actualizing interpretation of the literary text, encouraged by a theme that evokes our contemporary, I thought it important to observe the main character’s reaction to the dramatic effect caused by the polio, as well as to highlight the relationships that constitute his identity. As he is completely identified with the idealised image of himself, so as to look like an invincible hero to his students, Bucky proves unable to consider his own fallibility. This presumption makes it impossible for him to accept to be the main responsible for spreading the polio and turns him into a death trap for the others, into a real nemesis. The novel shows, therefore, that is not much the epidemic that put an end to the students’ lives, as the existence of teachers who, instead of feeding their desire to become themselves, interpret education as a process of conformity to existing models