132 research outputs found
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No full textCome è ben mostrato dal mondo delle immagini, i secoli fra tardo Medioevo e Rinascimento manifestano il passaggio dalla concezione premoderna a quella moderna della morte. Per gli studi di estetica, storia dell’arte e storia delle immagini tali secoli costituiscono pertanto un laboratorio fecondo, all’interno del quale si collocano anche i contributi presenti in questo volume.
A una rilettura di alcuni nodi teorici dello scritto di Erwin Panofsky sull’imago pietatis si affianca un esame del problema della rappresentazione e della rappresentanza degli ex voto; fanno seguito uno studio sul rapporto che si istituisce tra corpo e immagine nei coperchi e nelle fronti delle casse sante e un’indagine sul “laboratorio” di immagini che ha portato alla nascita del Purgatorio come “terzo luogo”. Si presentano successivamente alcuni approfondimenti più squisitamente iconografici, che riguardano le illustrazioni del Tractatus artis bene moriendi, del XV secolo, le raffigurazioni dell’Apocalisse presenti nelle miniature dei Beatos, manoscritti realizzati tra IX e XIII secolo, l’immagine dell’Incontro dei tre vivi e dei tre morti nella sua resa in un importante ciclo pittorico trecentesco in Sardegna e infine l’analisi di alcuni turiboli del XIII secolo utilizzati per l’incensazione nella liturgia funebre
Colors in Medieval Art. Theories, Matter, and Light from Suger to Grosseteste (1100–1250)
No full textProjected color saturates our world of images and screens, leading to a dissociation of color from material realities through its cultural attachment to light and the efflorescence of optics. Under these conditions, it is difficult to imagine a past where color was an eminently material, cultural, and social object. This book argues that color is and was a central "cultural object" within art history, a fact first elucidated through an examination of the debates and difficulties of color in language, theology, science, and philosophy. Following this overview of medieval aesthetical debates, the author pursues two pivotal case studies which span the twelfth and thirteenth centuries: the Basilica of Saint-Denis and the Cathedral of Lincoln, respectively connected to the figures of the abbot Suger and the bishop Robert Grosseteste. Prominent thinkers and concepteurs of sacred spaces and images, they both confronted existing theories of color and optics, and the theology of Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite. The case studies both center the art of stained glass, a revolutionary medium that blurs the boundaries between color, materiality, and light. Emerging strongly throughout this beautifully illustrated volume are traces of a central Middle Ages in which color played a fundamental yet groundbreaking role at the crossroads of aesthetic, intellectual, and theological issues
Stereotyping Scotland: Groundskeeper Willie’s illocutionary acts in The Simpsons
No full textAn earlier version of this article was published as: Virdis, D. F. 2012. Friendliness, aggressiveness and coarseness: Scottish Groundskeeper Willie’s linguistic features in The Simpsons. NAWA: Journal of Language and Communication 6.1: 127-150.This article explores the Scottish character of Groundskeeper Willie in the American animated sitcom The Simpsons with a pragmatic and social-psychological approach. It firstly introduces Willie’s linguistic and visual features, the sample of three episodes the analysis is based on, Scottish stereotypes in Lindsay’s (1997) sociological research, and Searle’s (1976) taxonomy of illocutionary acts (representatives or assertives, directives, commissives, expressives and declarations). Secondly, the turns uttered by the groundskeeper in the sample are classified by applying Searle’s taxonomy, and his illocutionary acts are examined in their contexts and compared with the list of national-ethnic Scottish stereotypes compiled by Lindsay. This study demonstrates that Willie’s illocutionary acts and the stereotypes they convey depict him as a figure characterised by positive traits; nevertheless, the responses his illocutionary acts are met with not only counter his pleasant aspects, but also ultimately represent the Scottish groundskeeper as a ludicrous victim of his American fellow [email protected] Francesca Virdis is an Associate Professor of English Language and Translation at the University of Cagliari. She is a steering group member of the International Ecolinguistics Association. She is the author of Serialised Gender: A Linguistic Analysis of Femininities in Contemporary TV Series and Media (2012), which was awarded the Italian Association of English Studies Book Prize 2013. Her current research interests include ecostylistics and metaphor theory.University of Cagliari, ItalyAitken, A. J. & McArthur, T. (eds.). 1979. Languages of Scotland. Edinburgh: Chambers.Alberti, J. (ed.). 2003. Leaving Springfield: The Simpsons and the Possibility of Oppositional Culture. Detroit: Wayne State University Press.Armstrong, N. 2004. Voicing The Simpsons from English into French: A story of variable success. The Journal of Specialised Translation 2: 97-109.Austin, J. L. 1962. How to Do Things With Words. Oxford: Oxford University Press.Barra, L. 2008. Springfield, Italia. Processi produttivi e variazioni di significato nell’adattamento italiano di una serie televisiva statunitense. Observatorio (OBS*) Journal 4: 113-136.Beard, D. S. 2003. Local satire with global reach: Ethnic stereotyping and cross-cultural conflicts in The Simpsons. In: J. Alberti (ed.), Leaving Springfield: The Simpsons and the Possibility of Oppositional Culture, 273-291. Detroit: Wayne State University Press.Brown, A. & Logan, C. (eds). 2006. The Psychology of The Simpsons. Dallas: BenBella Books.Cantor, P. A. 1999. The Simpsons: Atomistic politics and the nuclear family. 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Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.Lindsay, I. 1997. The uses and abuses of national stereotypes. Scottish Affairs 20: 133-148.Mazzon, G. 1994. Le lingue inglesi: Aspetti storici e geografici. Rome: La Nuova Italia Scientifica.McCrum, R. et al. 1987. The Story of English. London: Faber and Faber/BBC Books.Mullin, B. 1999. The Simpsons, American satire. The Simpsons Archive, available at http://www.simpsonsarchive.com/other/papers/bm.paper.html, last accessed December 2020.Puddu, N. & Virdis, D. F. 2014. Dalla Scozia alla Sardegna: Stereotipi e tratti bandiera di Groundskeeper Willie/Willie il Giardiniere dei Simpson. In: A. Dettori (ed.), Dalla Sardegna all’Europa: Lingue e letterature regionali, 338-354. Milan: Franco Angeli.Rodaway, P. 2003. Space, character and critique: South Asian identity in The Simpsons. In: T. Shakur and K. D’Souza (eds.), Picturing South Asian Culture in English: Textual and Visual Representations, 162-175. Liverpool: Open House Press.Sbisà, M. 2009. 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The Simpsons Archive, available at http://www.simpsonsarchive.com/other/papers/kw.paper.html, last accessed December 2020.Weinstein, D. 1998. Of mice and Bart: The Simpsons and the postmodern. In: C. DegliEsposti (ed.), Postmodernism in the Cinema, 61-72. New York: Berghahn Books.32 (1/2021)163
Visible materials, invisible meanings: colour-based hierarchies in the Middle Ages
No full textThe decision that oversaw the choices of pigments used in medieval artworks was based on multiple criteria. Among these was their economic value, often linked to the greater rarity of the raw material from which the pigments were derived, or to the lower availability on the market. Alongside the economic value, there was also the symbolic value attributed to materials and pigments from a symbolism often rooted in references found in the Holy Scriptures, in exegetical, theological, encyclopedic, or other texts. The case studies presented in this paper, based on works created with different media whose pigments underwent specific archaeometric analyses, show that throughout the Middle Ages, sometimes precise hierarchies were employed in the choice of pigments, and the most precious ones were reserved for the most important figures or the most significant details
La creazione di un "terzo luogo" nella geografia dell'Aldilà nel Basso Medioevo alle prigini del Purgatorio in due esempi "periferici"
No full textSanta Maria di Bubalis e Sant'Elia di Monte Santo in territorio di Siligo. Proposte di lettura
No full textEsperienze e interpretazioni della morte tra Medioevo e Rinascimento
No full textCome è ben mostrato dal mondo delle immagini, i secoli fra tardo Medioevo e Rinascimento manifestano il passaggio dalla concezione premoderna a quella moderna della morte. Per gli studi di estetica, storia dell’arte e storia delle immagini tali secoli costituiscono pertanto un laboratorio fecondo, all’interno del quale si collocano anche i contributi presenti in questo volume.
A una rilettura di alcuni nodi teorici dello scritto di Erwin Panofsky sull’imago pietatis si affianca un esame del problema della rappresentazione e della rappresentanza degli ex voto; fanno seguito uno studio sul rapporto che si istituisce tra corpo e immagine nei coperchi e nelle fronti delle casse sante e un’indagine sul “laboratorio” di immagini che ha portato alla nascita del Purgatorio come “terzo luogo”. Si presentano successivamente alcuni approfondimenti più squisitamente iconografici, che riguardano le illustrazioni del Tractatus artis bene moriendi, del XV secolo, le raffigurazioni dell’Apocalisse presenti nelle miniature dei Beatos, manoscritti realizzati tra IX e XIII secolo, l’immagine dell’Incontro dei tre vivi e dei tre morti nella sua resa in un importante ciclo pittorico trecentesco in Sardegna e infine l’analisi di alcuni turiboli del XIII secolo utilizzati per l’incensazione nella liturgia funebre
Polite Interaction or Cooperative Interaction? Bree’s Conversational Style in ABC’s Desperate Housewives
No full textThe author analyses the character of Bree Van de Kamp, one of the protagonists of the American TV series Desperate Housewives, and some of the conversations in the pilot show in which she participates. In particular, the author examines her conversational style, interactional behaviour and politeness and cooperation strategies towards her family and neighbours through the theoretical frameworks of Leech’s Politeness principle and Grice’s Cooperative principle. Linguistic investigation reveals her unbalanced personality. The conversational means she uses not only produce a perlocutionary effect of distance from the other, but also lay bare her traditional ideology and the mainstream female role model she struggles to incarnate: on the one hand she communicates her obsessive compulsion to behave in this way, and on the other hand her psychosis and her loss of contact with reality, two mental states attributable to the impossibility of fully personifying an allegedly perfect female role model
Sexuality, Masculinities & Co. in the Limericks from the Victorian Erotic Magazine The Pearl
No full textThe author employs feminist stylistics, along with language & gender and language & sexuality, to explore a number of erotic limericks which appeared in the first issue of The Pearl, a Victorian pornographic magazine published from 1879 to 1881. The author examines the language of sexuality and of eroticism in the poems, and how it is employed to describe the bodies and actions of the female, male and even animal characters portrayed in the texts under scrutiny, ironically called “nursery rhymes” by their anonymous author(s).
In the introductory section to her article, the author presents the pornographic magazine The Pearl, also called A Journal of Facetiae and Voluptuous Reading, and introduces Victorian sexuality and masculinity, while clearly stating the objectives of her study. She then analyses the discursive structure and the textual genre of the limerick, concentrating on the prototypical addresser-addressee interaction in relation to the function of the genre itself and to the textual achievement of hyperbolic comedy. Next she investigates the lexical level of the ‘nursery rhymes’, focussing principally on the nature of sexual desire and on the use of coarse language and lexemes denoting or referring to body parts; she then treats the resulting strategy of cropping and the commodification of human bodies. Finally she discusses the erotic poems through the deployment of Hallidayan functional grammar, more precisely of the experiential metafunction, scrutinising those “prototypical and non-prototypical realisations of functional process types and participants that effectively convey sexuality on the one hand and male dominance of female figures on the other”, and analysing how that male control is wielded over females and animals.
The author’s ultimate aim is to show how the models of femininity and of masculinity represented in the erotic limericks are the product of a hegemonic chauvinist ideology teamed up with a dominant heterosexual ideology; at the same time, she demonstrates that masculine hegemony is created and maintained through the denial of femininity, namely, through compliance with the value system of Victorian white military masculinity. The linguistic application in the diachronic context which is implied confirms the appropriacy of stylistics as an analytical tool which can confirm or reject hypotheses formed by others as well as by its own research
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