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“L’abitudine dell’ambizione”. Il mondo universitario nel romanzo italiano degli anni Settanta
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Il silenzio e le forme. Modelli e rappresentazione nelle letterature europee moderne
No full textIl silenzio è una forma di rappresentazione e un’idea che attraversa, polisemicamente, nel corso della sua lunga storia, l’intera cultura dell’Occidente; deriva da un concetto indefinibile e pluridimensionale, che racchiude e esplicita misteriosamente la domanda sul valore del non detto, dell’inudibile, dell’ineffabile, sul silenzio della natura, su quello della scrittura e sulle sue strategie e rappresentazioni. E nell’epoca della contemporaneità, in cui ogni cosa è e può divenire rumore o frastuono, è forse utile interrogarsi sulle diverse accezioni e sulle diverse forme che esso ha acquisito nel tempo e nello spazio, le sue versioni e le sue declinazioni, in particolare nello “spazio letterario”.
L’idea del silenzio incarna, così, nella sua inafferrabilità, il senso stesso del limite dell’esprimibile e dell’inesprimibile, la tensione segreta e umanissima che unisce idea e rappresentazione. Questo libro, allora, desidera essere un’occasione per riflettere, attraverso un approccio, sia pluridisciplinare che transdisciplinare e diacronico, sulle forme e modalità in cui il silenzio è stato rappresentato nelle letterature europee moderne, su alcune loro ricorrenze e altre unicità assolute
«Bienvenidos a ninguna parte» Viajes a no-lugares
No full textIn this article I analyze the debut novel by Dunja Badnjević,
«L’Isola Nuda», looking at it through the lenses of travel literature. Badnjević
was born in Yugoslavia and moved to Italy years ago; «L’Isola Nuda» is an
autobiographical novel where she narrates the experience of her family, in
particular her father, who strongly believed in Tito (who bestowed prominent
political roles on him). After 1948, when Tito broke with ussr, Dunja’s father –
like many others – was punished because of his belief in the project of a united
communist entity led by Stalin. Goli Otok (the island’s real name) is an island
nearby Croatian costs that became a concentration camp where Dunja’s father
was imprisoned. He survived and years later wrote a diary that Dunja quotes
in her book. In the narration we find two levels that allow us to consider this
novel as travel literature: the first level is set in the present, where the writer
visits the island, now turned into a touristic place with few traces of the past;
the second one is based on the father’s diary and it could be considered as a
metaphoric journey through his memory and his experience of the camp. The
narration switches continuously between the two narrators and the two historical
periods: this allows the reader to reconstruct the tragic history of a family
and of a whole nation that nowadays no longer exists and towards which the
writer shows a deep and inconsolable nostalgia
A cold bath for a formalin-free laboratory: Alternative fixative methods in early developmental stages of the sea urchin paracentrotus lividus (lamarck, 1816)
No full textFixatives are widespread in biological and medical research because they allow preserving specimens for a long time. Historically, formaldehyde has been the most used fixative so far, but new solutions are needed because of its carcinogenicity. In this study, we tested alternative fixative methods to find a harmless, economic, and simple-to-use methodology to fix samples for larval morphological analysis in Paracentrotus lividus. In two separate experiments, P. lividus embryos were fixed after 48 h post-fertilization by adding Formalin Free Tissue AccustainTM, NaOH-buffered Formalin Free Tissue AccustainTM, glacial ethanol and denatured ethanol at different concentrations (from 10 % to 70 %) and by submerging the vials containing the larvae in seawater at 0 °C and maintained at 4 °C for 144 h. Our results suggested that all the alternative fixatives tested do not guarantee a good quality of larvae for morphological purposes, while larvae that faced the thermal shock and were kept at 4 °C..
Frontiers and Cultures: Euro- and Pan-American Studies / Fronteras y Culturas: Estudios Euro y Panamericanos
No full textThe present volume is the result of the Intensive Programme “Frontiers and Cultures: New Perspective
in Euro- and Pan-American Studies,” held at the Dipartimento di Americanistica, Iberistica e Slavistica of the
Università Ca’ Foscari di Venezia. The Programme included professors and doctoral students from seven European
universities (Alcalá de Henares, Córdoba, Istanbul, Katowice, Leipzig, Munich, Sofia), who collaborated
with professors and doctoral students working in the fields of Hispano-American and Anglo-American studies
at Ca’ Foscari and other Italian academies. In addition to offering lectures delivered in the two major languages
(Spanish and English) spoken in the American continent, the programme encouraged the interaction
between the participants through round tables and multi-disciplinary seminars, which allowed a rich exchange
of views, as well as the emergence of new ideas to further scholarly research. Moreover, the students had the
chance to discuss with, and get advice from, the professors they worked with during the scheduled activities,
as well as with the numerous guests invited for the debates inserted in the programme. Several papers were
produced on the theme of cultural frontiers, the area of research around which the whole programme revolved.
As a result of these interactive experiences, this volume offers an assortment of revised essays submitted
by the participants. In order to reflect the breadth and complexity of cultural frontiers, the contributors have
chosen to work by following different thematic interpretations and theoretical approaches. In one way or another,
all the essays gathered in this volume tackle intercultural dialogue and the overcoming of geographical,
social, and artistic boundaries, as reflected mainly, but not only, in the literary field. The actual mobility of cultural
frontiers within the Americas has in fact led our contributors to reflect on the effects of this mobility on
literary theory, social practices, and theoretical studies, acknowledging hybridization as a condition of contemporary
life critical to the conceptualizing of intersticial cultural spaces. Particular attention has been devoted
in this volume to hybrid and border cultures and their reciprocal relations (exemplified by the linguistic and
cultural transformations derived from mass migrations), as well as to their repercussions on the boundaries
between artistic and literary genres
“Aporía narrativa en “El torturador” de José Emilio Pacheco”
No full textLa collana «Diaspore. Quaderni di ricerca» nasce dal desiderio di indagare la dimensione diasporica dell’essere umano, nelle sue molteplici declinazioni.
Nei meccanismi messi in atto dai processi di globalizzazione, tendenti ad assimilare le diversità e a confondere gli inevitabili conflitti derivanti dalla differenza, il fenomeno diasporico e migratorio può paradossalmente costituire l’elemento di originale salvaguardia di un modo di essere e di una cultura in un territorio nuovo.
I dieci testi che compongono il volume costituiscono un variegato contributo al dibattito sul tema della violenza e del suo racconto, tanto dal punto di vista teorico, quanto da quello storico, sociale e letterario, ripercorrendo le sue molteplici manifestazioni da nord a sud del continente latinoamericano
Os vellos non debem de namorarse. ll sorriso malinconico di Castelao nel suo esilio argentino
No full textArgentina di Renata Mambelli : dalla fine all’inizio del mondo
No full textRenata Mambelli’s novel Argentina (2009) belongs to the overall discourse on the history of the Italian migration to Argentina. Such a subject emerged in Italian literature beginning from the nineties, with the purpose of representing the silent and unknown flow of people from one country to the other. A female novel, Argentina deals with the theme of Italian emigration during the thirties by embracing a gender perspective. The heart of the representation is the migrant’s creatural dignity. By restoring the voice of women and mothers – the key figures in her narrative – Mambelli tackles them of marginality. The symbolic articulation of the protagonist’s migration exposes mythemes such as giving birth, home, roots
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