146 research outputs found
Adapting Gaskell: Screen and Stage Versions of Elizabeth Gaskell’s Fiction
No full textThis book offers a range of perspectives on Elizabeth Gaskell and adaptation. The contributors – Alan Shelston, Raffaella Antinucci, Thomas Recchio, Brenda McKay, Katherine Byrne, Patricia Marchesi, Marcia Marchesi and Loredana Salis – discuss the afterlives of Gaskell’s fiction, from the author as adaptor of her own work to the role of the BBC in re-inventing Gaskell’s narratives. The volume brings together a collection that tackles the remediation of Gaskell’s fiction from Gaskell’s own time to the 21st century, enabling her to join those authors, most prominently, Shakespeare, Austen and Dickens, who have received full-length book studies on adaptations of their work. The collection, as a whole, seems to confirm the notion that since the inception of film, the number of adaptations of an author’s work equates to the writer’s canonical status. No doubt, this book will prompt many more investigations into the adaptability of Elizabeth Gaskell’s fiction.
Remediating Gaskell: "North and South" and its BBC Adaptation, 2004
No full textThis book offers a range of perspectives on Elizabeth Gaskell and adaptation. The contributors – Alan Shelston, Raffaella Antinucci, Thomas Recchio, Brenda McKay, Katherine Byrne, Patricia Marchesi, Marcia Marchesi and Loredana Salis – discuss the afterlives of Gaskell’s fiction, from the author as adaptor of her own work to the role of the BBC in re-inventing Gaskell’s narratives. The volume brings together a collection that tackles the remediation of Gaskell’s fiction from Gaskell’s own time to the 21st century, enabling her to join those authors, most prominently, Shakespeare, Austen and Dickens, who have received full-length book studies on adaptations of their work. The collection, as a whole, seems to confirm the notion that since the inception of film, the number of adaptations of an author’s work equates to the writer’s canonical status. No doubt, this book will prompt many more investigations into the adaptability of Elizabeth Gaskell’s fiction
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No full textThis book offers a range of perspectives on Elizabeth Gaskell and adaptation. The contributors – Alan Shelston, Raffaella Antinucci, Thomas Recchio, Brenda McKay, Katherine Byrne, Patricia Marchesi, Marcia Marchesi and Loredana Salis – discuss the afterlives of Gaskell’s fiction, from the author as adaptor of her own work to the role of the BBC in re-inventing Gaskell’s narratives. The volume brings together a collection that tackles the remediation of Gaskell’s fiction from Gaskell’s own time to the 21st century, enabling her to join those authors, most prominently, Shakespeare, Austen and Dickens, who have received full-length book studies on adaptations of their work. The collection, as a whole, seems to confirm the notion that since the inception of film, the number of adaptations of an author’s work equates to the writer’s canonical status. No doubt, this book will prompt many more investigations into the adaptability of Elizabeth Gaskell’s fiction.
Seeing or Not Seeing Your Conversational Partner: The Influence of Interaction Modality on Prosodic Entrainment
No full textIn speech entrainment research, a less investigated yet crucial aspect for modelling multimodal interactive dialogue systems is the influence of inter-action modality, i.e. whether conversational partners who are visible to each other would entrain their speech more with respect to when eye contact is inhibited, or not. In our study, we compared prosodic adaptation behaviour (convergence and synchrony) of the same speaker pairs involved in collaborative game sessions under two conditions: audiovisual vs audio-only interaction. Results provide a complex picture, with a tendency to vocal entrainment enhancement when the speech/audio channel is the only one available
Prosodic convergence in Italian game dialogues
No full textIn this study we explore the manifestation of prosodic convergence between pairs of Italian speakers involved in a non-competitive game. Results show evidence of prosodic convergence and/or divergence between partners, where prosodic parameters and coordination strategies involved can vary across dialogue pairs. Also, degree of asymmetry in prosodic convergerce appears to be related to speaker empathy
Measuring prosodic entrainment in Italian collaborative game-based dialogues
No full textIn a large number of studies, it has been observed that conversational partners tend to adapt each other’s speech over the course of the interaction. This phenomenon, variously named as entrainment, coordination, alignment or adaptation, is widely believed to be crucial to mutual understanding and suc-cessful communication in human interaction. Modelling human adaptation in speech behaviour would also be very important for improving naturalness in voiced-based human-machine interaction systems. Recently, a body of research in this field has been devoted to find evidence of prosodic entrainment by measuring a number of acoustic-prosodic parameters in some languages, yet not in Italian. Our study offers a contribution to this research line. We analysed game-based collaborative dialogues between Italian speakers, by measuring their articulation rate, pitch range, pitch level and loudness. Results show some evidence of overall speech coordination (convergence and synchrony) between conversational partners, wherein the combination of specific prosodic parame-ters involved may vary across dialogues. Our results are in line with those ob-tained in previous studies on other languages, thus contributing to providing a useful basis for modelling prosodic adaptation in multilingual spoken dialogue systems
The Modeling of the ERP Systems within Parallel Calculus
No full textAs we know from a few years, the basic characteristics of ERP systems are: modular-design, central common database, integration of the modules, data transfer between modules done automatically, complex systems and flexible configuration. Because this, is obviously a parallel approach to design and implement them within parallel algorithms, parallel calculus and distributed databases. This paper aims to support these assertions and provide a model, in summary, what could be an ERP system based on parallel computing and algorithms.ERP Systems, Modeling, Parallel Calculus, Incremental Model
About Parallel Programming: Paradigms, Parallel Execution and Collaborative Systems
No full textIn the last years, there were made efforts for delineation of a stabile and unitary frame, where the problems of logical parallel processing must find solutions at least at the level of imperative languages. The results obtained by now are not at the level of the made efforts. This paper wants to be a little contribution at these efforts. We propose an overview in parallel programming, parallel execution and collaborative systems.Parallel Programming, Parallel Execution, Collaborative systems, Collaborative parallel execution
AN E-BROKERAGE APPROACH BASED ON MULTI-AGENT TECHNOLOGY
No full textIn this paper the author shows the importance of multi-agent system in the e-commerce domain, specially for brokerage. He also propose an agent-based architecture for brokerage and a structure for the intelligent broker. The structure may be seen like a multi-agent system, having intelligent agents that are doing specific tasks for brokerage activity. In the end, conclusions reveal some aspects that may be start points for future researches.E-commerce, intelligent agent, brokerage, multi-agent systems.
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