147 research outputs found
"Thomas Otway: Don Carlos"
No full textWhen Thomas Otway’s Don Carlos was performed at Dorset Garden Theatre in June 1676, early Restoration rhymed heroic plays were almost out of fashion. In the Prologue to Aureng-Zebe
(1675), John Dryden declared he had grown “weary of his long-lov’d Mistris, Rhyme” (Dryden
1995, Prologue 8), yet Otway’s second stage effort – written in heroic couplets – triumphed and
repaid its author for the failure of his abortive first tragedy, Alcibiades, which had been
unsympathetically received one year earlier. John Downes records that Otway’s new play “lasted
successively 10 days” and “got more money that any preceding Modern Tragedy” (Downes 1987,
36)
Ritorno a Thornfield. La "storia segreta" di Adèle Varens in Thornfield Hall di Emma Tennant
No full textIn the line of the Neo-Victorian movement within postmodern literature, in 2002 British author Emma Tennant (1937-2017) re-wrote Charlotte Brontë’s 1847 Jane Eyre as Thornfield Hall. Even though its subtitle, The Hidden Story of Jane Eyre, anticipates a new appendix to Jane’s widely known adventures, the novel is in fact centred on Adèle Varens, “the French dancer’s bastard”. In particular, Tennant’s narrative looks back at the Brontean novel by exploring the Parisian milieu in which the young Adèle breathes the air of the Révolution and learns how to resist the patriarchal and political established order; and yet, later on, she seems to forget the teachings she drew from Céline Varens, her mother, and her world in a problematic intertextual twist that questions the presence of the Other – once again represented by Bertha Antoinette Mason, echoing Jean Rhys’s 1966 masterpiece Wide Sargasso Sea – but ultimately/inevitably pays homage to Brontë’s classic
L'épiflore des substrats de l'étage circalittoral dans la Baie de Calvi (Corse-Méditerranée): 1. Inventaire
No full textThe author describes the biotopes seen during 55 diving-sessions (1977-'81) between 30 m and 75 m depth in the Bay of Calvi (Corsica). The phycological epiflora is shortly characterized and a list of the collected species is given, it contains 194 taxa of which 26 Chlorophyceae, 40 Phaeophyceae and 128 Rhodophyceae; 4 species are new to Corsica. This species-list is compared with those of Molinier (dredging, Cap Corse) and of Giaccone (diving, Tyrrhenean Sea)
The three layers of adaptation granularity
No full textIn spite of the interest in AHS, there are not as many applications as could be expected. We have previously pinpointed the problem to rely on the difficulty of AHS authoring. Adaptive features that have been successfully introduced and implemented until now are often too fine grained, and an author easily loses the overview. This paper introduces a three-layer model and classification method for adaptive techniques: direct adaptation rules, adaptation language and adaptation strategies. The benefits of this model are twofold: on one hand, the granulation level of authoring of adaptive hypermedia can be precisely established, and authors therefore can work at the most suitable level for them. On the other hand, this is a step towards standardization of adaptive techniques, especially by grouping them into a higher-level adaptation language or strategies. In this way, not only adaptive hypermedia authoring, but also adaptive techniques exchange between adaptive applications can be enabled
Il Dictionarium Latino-Slavonorossiacum di Ivan Maksymovyč: il contributo lessicografico
No full textIn the present article the author, after briefly characterizing the figure of the Ukrainian translator and lexicographer Ivan Maskymovych, describes the “Dictionarium Latino-Slavonorossiacum”, that is the most complete Latin-(Slavic)Russian (and Ukrainian) dictionary of the first quarter of the eighteenth century. The author illustrates at length the critical studies on this dictionary, and then analyses the dictionary itself starting with the preface, in which Maksymovych illustrates the principles he has followed in the compilation of the dictionary. The author thoroughly illustrates how these principles are reflected in the dictionary and provides a in-depth analysis of all the lexical-grammatical categories as they are presented in the dictionary. The author shows that the semanticization of the dictionary entries, characterized by the contextualization of the words, and by the numerous meanings provided, makes this dictionary a precious work. Finally, the author draws a comparison between the two extant copies of the dictionary (the second of which is here analyzed for the first time), and comes to the conclusion that the second exemplar, which contains about 80 added lexemes, witnesses to Maksymovyc’s gradual russification due to his prolonged stay in Russia and provides a living picture of the linguistic use of Petrine Russia
L' épiflore des substrats de l'étage circalittoral dans la Baie de Calvi (Corse-Méditerranée): 2 . Méthodes et relevés
No full textThe author describes the methods used for the phytosociological study of the epiflora of the upper part of the circalittoral zone (-30/-68 m), mainly on loose substrate, in the Bay of Calvi (Corsica-Mediterranean Sea). A description of the 32 relevés is given and a table is added with the results of the sorting: number and cover of Chloro-, Phaeo- and Rhodophyceae, total number of species and the sum of the coverages for each rélevé
"The 'Gracious Dealings' of Healing: Madness and Regeneration in Mrs Hannah Allen's A Narrative (1683)"
No full textWhen Hannah Allen, née Archer in 1638, published her A Narrative of God’s Gracious Dealings With that Choice Christian Mrs Hannah Allen, etc. in 1683, John Bunyan’s Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners (1666) had already become a classic in nonconformist households. Allen’s Narrative, which looks back at the mid-1660s, may indeed be included in the spiritual autobiographical tradition that was deep-rooted among Protestant dissenting groups in seventeenth-century England, and of which Bunyan’s is the most famous representative. Protestant concern with self-scrutiny of one own’s conscience, free from the authority of an Established church, together with the constant worry about sin and salvation, found natural and best expression in autobiographical writings that also served as a proper instrument of conversion and illustration for the reading community of brothers (Delany 1969 and MacDonald 1992).
As happens in Grace Abounding, Allen’s distress refers to the terror of having committed the «Unpardonable Sin» against the Holy Ghost (Allen, 4), which gives way to the conviction of being nothing but «a cursed Hypocrite» (Allen, 21). Her narrative is therefore one of regeneration from a state of spiritual dejection in a trajectory that leads from early episodes of temptation down to the very pit of despair and on to an eventual recovery of faith and quiet. Yet, not only does her descent into «the Language of Despair» – as she styles it – (Allen, 10) take on the Bunyanesque pattern of conflict between the opposing forces of God and the Devil, but also relates of what the author herself acknowledges as a melancholic condition (especially violent after the death of her first husband). This extends the possibilities of critical analysis to the discourse of insanity and cure with regard to contemporary medical treatises on (religious) melancholy and mental illness. Although Allen was never confined to Bedlam, A Narrative traces her gradual subjection to affliction and madness, while the protagonist reaches what was called a «metaphorical Bedlam [...] a dungeon, not shallower than Hell» (Adams 1615, 78). Eventually, after telling of her descent to the nadir (marked by a couple of attempts at suicide), she draws the stages of an ascent towards a regenerated spiritual as well as social well being. To be sure, Allen’s book interestingly becomes at the same time the product of regeneration, being written retrospectively from the vantage point of view of a ‘healed I’, and the instrument of it, as the protagonist struggles to become that ‘I’.
My aim is therefore to explore, and possibly correlate, both these critical paths of analysis: the one fitting into traditional nonconformist narrative of spiritual growth towards salvation, and the other following the original phases of medical and psychological recovery from a state of mental disturbance in the words and memories of a late seventeenth-century woman
Analysis of Driver’s Behaviour in Road Tunnels: a Driving Simulation Study
No full textThe subject of safety in road tunnels has always been one of the topics most discussed in literature, especially in applying the risk theories to the design of new galleries or measures for adaptation of existing tunnels. In this paper the author presents the main results of a preliminary study, developed in virtual reality environment with a driving simulator, on the dynamic and cinematic effects of road tunnels in driving behaviour: a sample of drivers has driven along the same stretches of an existing highway implemented on CRISS driving simulator, but in two different cases: in presence and in absence of road tunnels along the same scenario. The outcomes have been elaborated for comparing driving behaviours. Results show significant differences in terms of speed and trajectory adopted by drivers along the road sections with tunnels and along the same path in the absence of the galleries.
Moreover it is presented the enlargement of the database of a previous research developed on other highways stretches, to verify the correlation between an experimental indicator able to interpret driver’s behaviour and the actual accident rate recorded in each kilometre of the road stretches implemented on driving simulation
A Complementary Approach for Adaptive and Adaptable Hypermedia: Intensional Hypertext
No full textIn this paper we describe a methodology and an authoring/publishing tool for adaptable Web documents (user-determined adaptable Web pages) as a complementary approach to Adaptive Hypermedia. Our approach is based on intensional logic, the logic of assertions and expressions, which vary over a collection of contexts or possible worlds. In our approach the contexts are sets of values for parameters which specify the current user profile as supplied by the current Web page URL, and the latest user input. The author produces generic (multi-version) source in the form of HTML with extra markup delimiting parts that are sensitive (in various ways) to the parameters. This source (in what we call Intensional Markup Language) is translated into a Perl-like language called ISE (Intensional Sequential Evaluator). To generate the appropriately adapted individual pages, the server runs the ISE program in the appropriate context. The program produces HTML that, when displayed in the user's browser, is rendered into the desired adaptation of the requested page. Although this intensional approach was originally designed to work without any explicit user model, we can extend it (and make the documents adaptive as well as adaptable) simply by incorporating a user model that monitors the user and computes some of the profile parameters
Sur les propagules de <i>Fosliella farinosa</i> (Lamouroux) Howe var. <i>farinosa</i> (Rhodophyceae-Cryptonemiales)
No full textThe author describes and figures propagules of Fosliella farinosa (Lamouroux) Howe var. farinosa after material from Calvi (Corsica). These reproductive organs have been figured -without any description- by Solms-Laubach (1881) forFosliella farinosa var. solmsiana (Falkenberg) Foslie. They have never been observed again since then
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