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«Dal latte e miele del Carcano al pane nero del Verga». Il cibo come distinzione tra due tradizioni letterarie
No full textNel saggio Per l’arte Capuana utilizza un’efficace metafora alimentare per rimarcare la distanza, e la superiorità, del verismo rispetto alla precedente tradizione rusticale. Sfruttando il suggerimento dell’autore di Mineo, è possibile condurre un confronto tra la campagna verista e quella rusticale attraverso l’uso esclusivo del dato alimentare, dimostrando come questo diventi tanto il veicolo di posizioni ideologiche quanto un espediente della narrativa verista.In his essay Per l’arte Capuana employs a suggestive food metaphor to highlight the distance, and the superiority, of verism compared to the previous rustic tradition. Following on from Capuana’s observation, we may compare a veristic landscape with a rustic one by the sole means of references to food, showing how the latter becomes a vehicle for ideological positions and an expedient for veristic fiction
«Il vino inventa»: la menzogna alla tavola di Zeno Cosini
No full textZeno è un narratore inattendibile, un personaggio sospeso tra verità nevrotica e bugia. I suoi comportamenti rivelano sempre un'ambiguità di fondo, esasperata da alcuni giochi ironici operati dallo stesso autore, Svevo. La contraddittorietà dei comportamenti del protagonista della Coscienza si manifestano, prima di tutto, intorno alla tavola, là dove il paradigma antropofagico ed edipico di Freud viene ribaltato in una serie di sviamenti e dubbi riscontrabili tanto negli atteggiamenti quanto nelle parole di Zeno. Partendo dall'analisi del banchetto nella Coscienza e di alcuni significativi episodi che hanno il vino come protagonista, si tenta di esaminare lo straniamento di questo complesso personaggio, avvalorando, in tal modo, la teoria di Giuseppe Langella.In Svevo studies, the truth about Zeno's illness remains an open question, partly because the protagonist's behaviors in Coscienza di Zeno are always ambiguous and depicted by Svevo's irony. The dining room and mealtime, in particular, are some of the passages in the book where the contradiction of the character can be observed, both in his attitudes and in his words. In this paper, starting from the analysis of the banquet in Conscience and some significant episodes that have wine as the protagonist, an attempt is made to examine this complex character, so as to confirm Giuseppe Langella's theory
La tavola degli umili e lo stomaco malato della modernità. La questione alimentare nella letteratura italiana del secondo Ottocento
No full textLa presente ricerca analizza la letteratura del secondo Ottocento (1848-1901) attraverso una linea interdisciplinare, capace di mettere in luce i legami intercorsi tra le produzioni letterarie, afferenti in particolare all’area del realismo e del romanzo sociale, la scienza dell’alimentazione e la gastronomia. Soffermandosi a rilevare le contaminazioni apportate dalle moderne scienze del ventre sui testi, lo studio analizza le modalità con cui le questioni alimentari, con la relativa fame, sono state colte e rappresentate dalla letteratura italiana durante il complesso periodo dell’Unità e anche l’eventuale legame intercorso con le principali inchieste alimentari. È stato così approfondito l’intenso clima di relazioni scientifico-culturali proprio di questo secolo politecnico, proposto tramite quattro ambiti geografici specifici divisi nei rispettivi capitoli dell’elaborato: le campagne settentrionali con l’inerente tradizione rusticale (Carcano, Percoto, Nievo); la Milano scapigliata (Valera, Dossi, sopra a tutti); il mondo rurale siciliano e verghiano (Capuana, Verga, De Roberto); la Napoli unitaria (Mastriani, Serao). Per mezzo di questi affondi sono state scoperte le differenze di declinazione della questione tra i due ambienti della città e della campagna, il divario tra Nord e Sud della penisola e, quindi, le conseguenti e molteplici sfumature che la pretesa di realismo assume.This research aims to examine the Italian literature of the second half of the 19th century (1848-1901) employing an interdisciplinary approach that highlights the links between literary productions, pertaining to the area of realism and social novels, with food science and gastronomy. The study analyses how food issues, with the related hunger, were represented by Italian literature during Italy’s Unification period and elucidates the intricate fusion of literary expression with scientific discourse on food. Examining works from four distinct geographic regions - the rustic landscapes of the north, exemplified by authors such as Carcano, Percoto, and Nievo; the vibrant milieu of Milan and the Scapigliatura movement, represented by figures like Valera and Dossi; the portrayal of Sicilian rural life by Capuana, Verga, and De Roberto; and the urban panorama of Naples as depicted by Mastriani and Serao - the research illuminates variances in the treatment of food-related themes across urban and rural settings, as well as disparities between the northern and southern regions of Italy. By delineating these regional nuances, the study unveils the diverse manifestations of realism within Italian literature during this epoch
La gastronomia negli scritti giornalistici di Francesco Mastriani
No full textTra le molteplici tematiche affrontate da Francesco Mastriani nella sua produzione un posto d’onore spetta alla gastronomia. Approfondendola dapprima negli scritti giornalistici e, sebbene con sguardo differente, nei Vermi e nei Misteri di Napoli, questo poliedrico autore dedica sempre una particolare attenzione alle questioni del ventre, verso cui mostra spesso uno sguardo duplice, a metà strada tra le conoscenze gastronomiche di Brillat-Savarin e le teorie illuministe di Rousseau. Con questo saggio si intende mettere in luce un aspetto della produzione di Mastriani mai prima d’ora considerato, in grado di offrire l’inedito ritratto di un intellettuale gastronomo illuminista.This article illustrates an aspect of Francesco Mastriani’s writing that has so far received little attention. In his works, which range from journalistic writings to major novels such as I Vermi and I Misteri di Napoli, gastronomy occupies a prominent place. In exploring this theme, the author demonstrates
a deep understanding of Brillat-Savarin’s theories, although these are often re-examined through the reflections of Roussea
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Cannibali antimoderni. Il 1799 di Francesco Mastriani
No full textMastriani’s traditional classification as an author of social novels now seems overly restrictive. In some of his major works, he transforms his novels into a privileged space for exploring the complex relationships between history and fiction. This paper intends to explore the relationship between history and fiction in Francesco Mastriani’s novels dedicated to the Revolution of 1799. In fact, during the Risorgimento, Mastriani finds in this significant event of Neapolitan history a way to understand the present and to write a national history. In particular, the focus on Neapolitan cannibalism proves useful in probing the author’s ideology and the sources he used in his narrative.La tradizionale definizione di Mastriani come autore di romanzi sociali appare ormai stretta per definire la sua produzione letteraria. In alcune delle sue opere principali, Mastriani mostra infatti le attitudini di uno storico, così che i suoi romanzi si presentano come uno spazio privilegiato per provare le sottili e complesse relazioni tra storia e finzione. Nei delicati anni risorgimentali, l’autore è impegnato a più riprese nella comprensione del presente e in una riscrittura della storia nazionale dalla prospettiva napoletana, trovando un’importante ispirazione nella Rivoluzione del 1799. In questo contributo si intende indagare il rapporto tra fedeltà storica e libera reinvenzione degli eventi rivoluzionari all’interno dei romanzi mastrianei dedicati alla Rivoluzione. Per farlo, si segue un focus specifico, quello del cannibalismo napoletano, utile per sondare l’ideologia dell’autore e per aprire riflessioni sul rapporto intessuto dall’autore con le fonti utilizzate per l’elaborazione finzionale
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Get PDFWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Get PDFWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
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