364 research outputs found
The meaning of 'dark*' in Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness
No full textIn this article the author makes a contribution to the still ongoing debate concerning the relation among Joseph Conrad's representations of the African continent in Heart of Darkness and the phenomenon of Imperialism. She does so through an analysis of the lemma DARK* and its diverse word forms. This is a crucial aspect of Heart of Darkness, as it is precisely this stylistic feature that has been pointed out as having played a decisive role in the construction of the well-know modern myth of 'dark Africa'
Remembering in Translation: Language and Memory in Eva Hoffman's Lost in Translation. A Life in a New Language
No full textGround(s). Mapping, Designing and Caring: Towards a Convivial Society
No full textThis contribution reports the results of the international conference ‘Grounds’, where the topic of grounds was discussed on three levels: Mapping the ground(s) means the act of description: how can we produce knowledge that reveals the relationship between humankind and the environment? Designing the ground(s) involves an active response to contemporary challenges: how can we imagine new rules and forms in the long term? Caring for the ground(s) encircles the act of prevention: a process of daily maintenance to generate a co-evolving relationship. Is it possible to strengthen (inter)dependency between the human and non-human world
Writing the Self: The Autobiographical Subject as Language Construct. The Case of Lost in Translation. A Life in a New Language by Eva Hoffman
No full textThis paper focuses on Lost in Translation: A Life in a New Language, a translingual memoir published in 1989 by Eva Hoffman (Ewa Wydra, at birth), a Polish writer who, aged thirteen, emigrated to Vancouver and then to the States, learnt English from scratch and finally became editor of the New York Review of Books as well as the most important contemporary Polish female writer in English. The translingual memoir is a fairly recent sub-genre in autobiographical writings which deals with immigrants’ recounting their progress from alienation towards integration into the host culture. This progress revolves around a process of language acquisition, or, as Hoffman’s memoir title signals, of translation by which the migrant gradually loses her mother tongue to acquire the language of her host country. Being a writer, and thus well aware of the fact that discourse is constitutive of, and determined by identity, Hoffman starts from the general assumption that “nothing fully exists until it is articulated” and moves on to explore the ways in which the close interrelation between “languaging” and the Self is re-defined and adapted to a post-modern bilingual context, in which individuals are more and more often divided between two cultures, languages and nations. Through a detailed functional linguistics analysis of the roles of the two “I”s in the memoir (the cognitive active “I” of the author, who knowingly presides over her writing, and the narrativized “I” as the passive object of the language she does not know but in which “[she has] been written”), this paper shows that acts of designation and translation construct a split subject and, at the same time, function as a bridge that connects the subject’s linguistic and social status. Thus, the analysis of Lost in Translation makes a significant contribution to the exploration of migrants’ identities through “translation” – intended, in one of its etymologies, as a tool to represent the identity of a split subject who has been “carried across” different countries, cultures and languages
Space in E.M. Forster's Howards End
No full textThis article is a discussion of space and places in E. M. Forster’s novel Howards End. This analysis begins by considering select linguistic aspects of the description of the actual places of the novel - Howards End and the city of London - and evolve into a discussion of the consistent use of a metaphoric articulation of space that appears in evidence in the description of the Schlegel neighbourhood
PROFILI DI TUTELA CONSUMERISTICA DEL COMMITTENTE NEL CONTRATTO DI COSTRUZIONE DI NAVE
No full textL’autore si interroga a proposito dei margini di applicabilità delle norme previste dal Codice del Consumo ai contratti di costruzione di nave. Individuate le caratteristiche suscettibili di ricondurre tale fattispecie nell’alveo dei rapporti
consumeristici, lo scritto si sofferma, in particolare, sulle principali tutele offerte al
committente e sui profili di responsabilità del costruttore, evidenziando i principali
profili controversi.The Author examines the margins of application of the rules provided by the
Consumer Code to shipbuilding contracts. After having identified the main features
susceptible to make this matter fall within the scope of Consumer Law, the paper
focuses, particularly, on the principal guarantees offered to the consumer and on the
shipbuilder’s liability profiles, outlining the most controversial issues
Primitivismo in Heart of Darkness
No full textL'articolo, incluso in un volume di rilevanza internazionale, intende fornire un contributo alla copiosa critica su "Heart of Darkness", con particolare riferimento al discorso sul primitivo e il primitivismo. Originale è la metodologia interdisciplinare che intreccia un'analisi stilistica del testo con teorie dei cultural studies. In particolare, l' analisi stilistica del lemma DARK* si svolge in due fasi: una quantitativa e una qualitativa. I risultati sono infine considerati in relazione al contesto culturale in cui viene scritto questo romanzo. Le conclusioni dell'articolo teorizzano una contiguità tra Heart of Darkness e alcuni salienti aspetti della cultura Vittoriana (per esempio, con le teorie del fisico W. Thompson, o con teorie sociali e antropologiche sulla degenerazione) e una rete di intertesti originali (per esempio il quadro di Turner "The Slave Ship"), che si vanno a sostituire a quelli classici generalmente citati quali i romanzi africani di H.M. Stanley
Ostia (Roma)
No full textL'articolo presenta i primi risultati delle ricerche archeologiche, dirette da Massimiliano David e Angelo Pellegrino, svolte nel 2008 nel surburbio di Ostia antica, fuori porta Marina
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