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Gabriella Moretti, Gli Antipodi. Avventure letterarie di un mito scientifico
No full textDehon Pierre-Jacques. Gabriella Moretti, Gli Antipodi. Avventure letterarie di un mito scientifico. In: L'antiquité classique, Tome 66, 1997. pp. 721-722
Topoi funerari e tradizione proverbiale
No full textMany proverbs that are still commonplace concern death. The following
items are very important: 1. All the people are destined to die: birth implies
death; nobody can avoid death; only the death makes us all equal. 2. People
should not fear death or look forward to it: we do not know we do not know
whether being dead is bad or good; death could be freeing 3. Death is quite
similar to sleep 4. Dead people are always good people. Other proverbs, on
the contrary, are simply expressions of greetings and good wishes
Conversazioni in limine mortis: forme di dialogo esplicite e implicite nelle iscrizioni sepolcrali greche in versi
No full textIl dialogo è una delle forme più tradizionali degli epitafi greci, e può coinvolgere svariati interlocutori, quali il defunto, i suoi parenti, il passante anonimo, il monumento stesso. Il cambio di interlocutore non è sempre evidente: può essere indicato o meno. Il presente lavoro intende raccogliere ed analizzare alcuni esempi di dialoghi funerari, con particolare attenzione alle soluzioni formali che vengono adottate per evidenziare questa particolare forma di discorso. / Dialogue is one of the most traditional forms followed in Greek epitaphs, and may involve speakers as varied as the dead person, his/her relatives, the anonymous passerby, the monument itself. The change of speaker is not always self-evident: it may or may not be marked. This paper aims at collecting and analysing a few examples of funerary dialogues, focusing on the formal features which reveal this particular form of speech
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
Antipenthos. Antiretorica della morte nella satira di Luciano di Samosata
No full textIn his pamphlet On Mourning, Lucian of Samosata presents a speaking
dead man as a character: in a paradoxical speech to his father, this young dead
man systematically overturns the rhetorical and thematic clichés of death and
mourning that we find in traditional and contemporary practices, funeral discourse,
consolationes and epigrams
Pastiches sovversivi. Strategie della parodia e della satira in Luciano di Samosata
Get PDFParody and pastiche are among the main literary and satirical strategies used by Lucian of Samosata. The aim of this article is to explore the relationship between the reuse of the tradition of Greek paideia and the new perspectives of literature through the analysis of a serie of examples (cat., hist. conscr., VH, Peregr., Alex.). On the one hand, there is the recognition of the greatness of the ancient authors and certainly there is also the literary pleasure of pepaideumenos. At the same time, in contrast to what happens for mimesis
in the Second Sophistic, Lucian’s parody and satirical pastiches look in other directions, because parody, by its nature and through the 'necessary gap', always implies a principle of subversion of the tradition: in Lucian's Works the satiric rule of «believing in nothing» produces its effects in the development
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