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    Contemporary Literature. Analysis of Jonathan Bazzi's novels

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    openDopo una breve panoramica della letteratura italiana degli ultimi vent’anni si analizzano i due romanzi di Jonathan Bazzi "Febbre" e "Corpi minori" dai punti di vista formale, stilistico e tematico. Si discute inoltre il rapporto tra social media, autofiction e autore; nel capitolo 4 si riporta l'intervista che Bazzi ci ha gentilmente concesso, in cui questi argomenti vengono ripresi. Si individuano alcune differenze che i testi mostrano rispetto alla letteratura moderna, e gli aspetti che hanno in comune con quella contemporanea; nel fare questo si accennano quindi alcune caratteristiche della società che li ha prodotti.The paper starts off with a brief overview of the contemporary Italian literature; then the reader is guided through an analysis of Jonathan Bazzi's novels, "Febbre" ("Fever") and "Corpi minori" ("Minor bodies"), both translated in English and published by Scribe. The relationship between author, autofiction and social media will also be discussed; in chapter four the reader will find the interview Bazzi kindly granted us

    Citizen participation in news

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    The process of producing news has changed significantly due to the advent of the Web, which has enabled the increasing involvement of citizens in news production. This trend has been given many names, including participatory journalism, produsage, and crowd-sourced journalism, but these terms are ambiguous and have been applied inconsistently, making comparison of news systems difficult. In particular, it is problematic to distinguish the levels of citizen involvement, and therefore the extent to which news production has genuinely been opened up. In this paper we perform an analysis of 32 online news systems, comparing them in terms of how much power they give to citizens at each stage of the news production process. Our analysis reveals a diverse landscape of news systems and shows that they defy simplistic categorisation, but it also provides the means to compare different approaches in a systematic and meaningful way. We combine this with four case studies of individual stories to explore the ways that news stories can move and evolve across this landscape. Our conclusions are that online news systems are complex and interdependent, and that most do not involve citizens to the extent that the terms used to describe them imply

    Jonathan Kozol - 03/18/2002 - (Riall Lecture Series)

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    Begun in 1988, the E. Pauline Riall Lecture Series brings to the University and community outstanding national lecturers in the field of education. The series was established by the late Miss Riall, long-time principal and teacher of the former Salisbury University's Campus School. A generous bequest was provided by Miss Riall's will to fund this special program. Jonathan Kozol, Author, Activist, Teacher - 3/18/2002 (2 pm) and (7:30 pm)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NO4ltRJDUF

    Jonathan Kozol - 03/18/2002 - Afternoon Lecture - (Riall Lecture Series)

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    Begun in 1988, the E. Pauline Riall Lecture Series brings to the University and community outstanding national lecturers in the field of education. The series was established by the late Miss Riall, long-time principal and teacher of the former Salisbury University's Campus School. A generous bequest was provided by Miss Riall's will to fund this special program. Jonathan Kozol, Author, Activist, Teacher - 3/18/2002 (2 pm) and (7:30 pm)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w_CWU8SVFT

    "Una coppia di serpenti allacciati". L'incesto nelle "Benevole" di Jonathan Littell

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    The article reads the novel "The Kindly Ones" (2006) by French author Jonathan Littell and focuses on the issue of incest displayed in the plot

    Focused Laser-Induced Marangoni Dewetting for Patterning Polymer Thin Films

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    Highly-localized focused laser spike (FLaSk) heating of polymer thin films is a resist- and developer-free alternative to 2D laser direct write for creating patterns on the single micron or, by exploiting overlap effects, submicron scale. The massive temporal and spatial thermal gradients and resulting thermal Marangoni stresses generated by FLaSk are an effective means for the directed dewetting and patterning of such films. Here, the general applicability of this technique to glassy amorphous polymer thin film systems is investigated through systematic investigation of film thickness, glass transition temperature, and polymer mobility. The results reveal that the important parameters are the film thickness (coupled to the optical heating effects through anti-reflection coating effects) and the high-temperature polymer melt mobility, allowing for generation of single features with linewidths of down to ~1 μm. Further, the introduction of spatial mobility variations by using polymer brushes, bilayers, and microphase separated block copolymers leads to additional profile manipulation effects (i.e. spontaneous 2D pattern generation and flattened top profiles).Peer reviewe

    Preservar y proteger. Historias. Revista de la Dirección de Estudios Históricos. Num. 86 (2013) septiembre-diciembre

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    Jonathan Foyle realizó estudios de arquitectura e historia y es doctor en arqueología. Su tesis doctoral es sobre la historia temprana de Hampton Court. Durante ocho años fue curador de edificios históricos, de los palacios reales históricos, y desde 2007 dirige en Inglaterra el Fondo Mundial de Monumentos (World Monuments Fund), organización no gubernamental cuya oficina central está en la ciudad de Nueva York. Tomado del Financial Times del 10 de marzo de 2012

    Jonathan Swift in Context

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    Jonathan Swift remains the most important and influential satirist in the English language. The author of Gulliver\u27s Travels, A Modest Proposal, and A Tale of a Tub, in addition to vast numbers of political pamphlets, satirical verses, sermons, and other kinds of text, Swift is one of the most versatile writers in the literary canon. His writings were always closely intertwined with the English and Irish worlds in which he lived. The forty-four essays collected in Jonathan Swift in Context advance the latest research on Swift in a way that will engage undergraduate students while also remaining useful for scholars. Reflecting the best of current and ongoing scholarship, the contextual approach advanced by this volume will help to make Swift\u27s works even more powerful and resonant to modern audiences

    Sonja Longolius, Performing Authorship. Strategies of “Becoming an Author” in the Works of Paul Auster, Candice Breitz, Sophie Calle and Jonathan Safran Foer

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    In Performing Authorship. Strategies of “Becoming an Author” in the Works of Paul Auster, Candice Breitz, Sophie Calle and Jonathan Safran Foer, Sonja Longolius analyzes how two writers (Auster and Foer) and two performing artists (Calle and Breitz) have not only been producing works but, in the process, have also consciously “become authors” by creating their own authorial personae. In the beginning of her introduction, Longolius quotes a remark taken from one of Auster’s interviews about hi..

    Entre palavras e imagens: as narrativas de Valêncio Xavier e de Jonathan Safran Foer

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    This thesis studies the works of Brazilian author Valêncio Xavier and North American author Jonathan Safran Foer, both of which, through narratives composed by newspaper articles, drawings, photographs, maps, flip books and by a peculiar textual disposition, transcend the traditional notion of romance mostly by incorporating other artistic manifestations, which allows them to be denominated as hybrid and interartistic narratives. Discussing these authors’ works consists on using alternative and current theories in order to analyze the intersection between word and image. Such contemporary and profane narratives, if they are considered through the concepts of Giorgio Agambem, subvert and illuminate the book as object and support, restoring the playful aspect of reading and the pleasure of the unexpected in each page. Hence, the aforementioned texts are analyzed as representatives of a narrative that is contemporary because it profanes themes and supports and, consequently, analyzed through questions related to visual narratives and interartistic poetics, to fictional games and intertextual collage and still, and through the reflection on the themes shared by them: the re-elaboration of memory as well as the joys and sorrows of childhood and old age. The narratives Minha mãe morrendo e o menino mentido, Meu sétimo dia: uma novella rébus, “Rremembranças de menina de rua morta nua”, “Maciste no inferno” and “Mistério mágico”, written by Valêncio Xavier and the novels Everything is illuminated and Extremely loud & incredibly close, the unclassifiable Tree of Codes and the short story “If the Aging Magician Should Begin to Believe”, by Jonathan Safran Foer are discussed in order to highlight their similarities in terms of formal composition strategies. Just as much as Valêncio Xavier and Jonathan Safran Foer profane themes and supports, the present thesis also aims to subvert the subjectile it deals with in a certain way, playing and interacting with the works and authors, since, as Roland Barthes once said, there’s no other way of dealing with authors and their works other than writing with them.Esta tese estuda as obras do autor brasileiro Valêncio Xavier e do autor estadunidense Jonathan Safran Foer, que, a partir de narrativas compostas por artigos de jornal, desenhos, fotografias, mapas, flip books e por uma disposição textual peculiar ultrapassam a concepção tradicional do que se entende como romance ao incorporarem, sobretudo, outras manifestações artísticas, o que permite que sejam denominadas como narrativas híbridas e interartísticas. Discutir as obras de Valêncio Xavier e as de Jonathan Safran Foer consiste na utilização de teorias tradicionais e contemporâneas para a análise da intersecção entre palavra e imagem. Tais narrativas contemporâneas e profanadoras, se pensadas a partir de conceitos de Giorgio Agamben, subvertem e iluminam o livro enquanto objeto e suporte, restituindo o aspecto lúdico à leitura e o prazer do inesperado a cada página. Desse modo, os textos desses escritores são analisados aqui como representantes de uma literatura que é contemporânea por ser profanadora de temas e de suportes e, consequentemente, analisadas a partir de questões relacionadas às narrativas visuais e às poéticas interartísticas, aos jogos ficcionais e da colagem intertextual e, ainda, a partir da reflexão sobre os temas que compartilham: a reelaboração da memória, as alegrias e tristezas infantis e senis. As narrativas Minha mãe morrendo e o menino mentido, Meu sétimo dia: uma novella rébus, “Rremembranças de menina de rua morta nua”, “Maciste no inferno” e “Mistério mágico”, de Valêncio Xavier, e os romances Everything is illuminated e Extremely loud & incredibly close, o inclassificável Tree of Codes e o conto “If the Aging Magician Should Begin to Believe”, de Jonathan Safran Foer, são discutidos a fim de se evidenciar as suas semelhanças nas estratégias formais de composição. Assim como Valêncio Xavier e Jonathan Safran Foer profanam temas e suportes, esta tese também objetiva subverter em certa medida o subjétil com que lida, jogando e dialogando com as obras e os autores estudados, pois, como afirma Roland Barthes, não há como se tratar de obras e de autores sem escrever com eles
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