253 research outputs found
"'Traumatic Screens': l'11 settembre visto dal televisore della Sig.ra Thompson"
No full textThe paper aims to read David Forster Wallace’s essay “The View From Mrs Thompson” (appeared in the October 25, 2001 issue of Rolling Stone) through the exegetic filter of trauma theory, in order to interpret the manner the author chose to account for his own account of the horror of 9/11, which he experimented not directly, but mediated by the screen of a television in a Midwest living room, namely Mrs Thompson
"La mano del saggista. W. H. Auden tra saggio e poesia"
No full textThis essay aims at assessing three longer poems 1940s by W. H. Auden’s, in which the author manages to insert his personal reflection about some critical issues, mainly that of the mimetic rapport between Art and World, either into the canonical poetic structure of the literary epistle (Letter to Lord Byron, New Year Letter) or in a very peculiar hybrid of drama and poetry (The Sea and The Mirror
Saberes a la Olla: Un recorrido por la cocina de la Quebrada valle del Cajón (Catamarca)
No full textFil: Bugliani, María Fabiana. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Universidad de Buenos Aires. Instituto de las Culturas; ArgentinaFil: Fernández Sancha, Sofía. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Universidad de Buenos Aires. Instituto de las Culturas; ArgentinaFil: Moro, Leda. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Universidad de Buenos Aires. Instituto de las Culturas; ArgentinaEs un libro de divulgación donde se plasman los conocimientos alcanzados sobre los cambios y continuidades de las prácticas culinarias de poblaciones campesinas del valle del Cajón (Catamarca).La primer parte del mismo reúne los resultados de las investigaciones arqueológicas en torno a la cocina y la vida doméstica de hace 2000 años y 500 años atrás, con una línea de tiempo de la zona. Además, se resumen algunos datos actuales y se incluye el testimonio de una habitante. La segunda parte, contiene las recetas recopiladas las cuales constituyen la cocina cotidiana de la zona, entre las que se cuenta la humita, el locro, la mazamorra, el quesillo, el maíz tostado y algunas bebidas como el bebi y el chilcampa.Bugliani, M. F., Fernández Sancha, S. y Moro, L. (2019). Saberes a la Olla: Un recorrido por la cocina de la Quebrada valle del Cajón (Catamarca). Buenos Aires, Argentina: Bugliani, M. F., Fernández Sancha, S. y Moro, L
A Family Affair: Michel de Montaigne Meets William Hazlitt & Son
No full textThis paper aims at illuminating a very interesting cultural-mediation case that involved Romantic essayist William Hazlitt and his son, also named William. The linking point was constituted by Michel de Montaigne’s Essais, which, for William Hazlitt Sr., had represented a source of inspiration to fashion his own kind of modern essay. Hazlitt Jr., on his part, committed himself to editing a volume of Montaigne’s Complete Works, where he managed to provide a nuanced profile of the French author to an audience who had already become familiar with him via his father. Such an example was to have many followers and imitators
Diminishing Figures: Spectral Simulacra of Authors in Henry James’s and Max Beerbohm’s Decadent Short Stories
No full textThis paper analyses two stories by Henry James and two others by Max Beerbohm whose protagonists are, at the same time, writers and ghosts. Such a diegetic scenario is interesting because it seems to point at a disguised metaliterary treatment of current ideas about fin de siècle authoriality and a peculiar metalepsis of the concept of the death of the author, later popularized in post-structuralist France. After a contextualization of Henry James’s and Max Beerbohm’s dissimilar but equally significant contribution to the genre of the ‘Decadent short story’, the discourse turns to the features of their writer-ghosts, in order to retrace not only their conjunctural literary value, but also their fascinating impact on aesthetical matters.
 
"Le conversazioni tradite: The Last Days of Immanuel Kant di Thomas De Quincey tra saggio e biografia"
No full textThe paper addresses Thomas De Quincey’s The Last Days of Immanuel Kant with the goal of
underlining how the author constructed an image of the philosopher that transcends the strictly
biographical facet at which the title clearly hints. The core assumption of this analysis is an
acknowledgement of the essayistic nature of the text, in which the historical Kant is substituted
by a personnage conceptuel. This label, borrowed from Deleuze and Guattari, clarifies how De
Quincey’s Kant, far from representing a faithful avatar of the historical German philosopher (and
of his doctrine), is the result a literary process whose aim is producing a literary embodiment of
civil conversation. This multifaceted goal is achieved by De Quincey in a quite original manner,
since his last essayistic memoir builds on an apologetic memoir that Kant’s last disciple, Christoph
Wasianski,wrote just two decades before The Last Days was published
"Armonie botaniche e simmetrie geometriche: The Garden Of Cyrus di Sir Thomas Browne come anatomia del mondo in prospettiva saggistica"
No full textThis essay offers a reading of Sir Thomas Browne’s The Garden of Cyrus (1658) in connection with the light thrown on it by one of Browne’s most ardent devotees, i.e. the German writer Winfried Georg Sebald (1944-2001). At the same time, The Garden of Cyrus will be analyzed with an eye to the wider context of a relevant essayistic tradition which, in many significant cases, drew inspiration from the literary topos of the garden. Finally, a close reading will reveal how the main subject of Browne’s text proves to be the quincunx, a geometrical pattern through which the author, as if spurred by an irrepressible exegetical/esoteric enthusiasm, set out to find a principle of metaphysical design in all Creation
Snug Retreats : The Romantic Essay’s Grammar of Domesticity
No full textThe history of the essay as a genre notoriously began in a very
peculiar room: the library of Michel de Montaigne’s estate near
Bordeaux. After many centuries, the form has passed through many
other rooms, such as Robert Burton’s and Sir Thomas Browne’s
libraries or the apartments of Sir Isaac Bickerstaff and Mr. Spectator,
retaining an undeniable conjunction to the lodgings of its author.
The house of the essayists has always been a place to which their
readers were granted a special right of entry. This article aims to
reflect on the spatial dimension of the English Romantic familiar
essay as exemplified by the writings of Leigh Hunt and Charles
Lamb. In particular, I will discuss the importance both writers
attributed to the domestic interior as the most congenial scenario
in which the essayistic act should be performed. Romantic essayists
seemed to be more attuned with the early modern model of
Montaigne. This allegiance is striking as the most frequent outlet
through which essays in early nineteenth-century England were
published was the same periodical press that during the
eighteenth century seemed to have repudiated the private space
of the parlor in favor of the socialized communal dimension of the
coffee house
Snug Retreats: The Romantic Essay’s Grammar of Domesticity
No full textThe history of the essay as a genre notoriously began in a very peculiar room: the library of Michel de Montaigne’s estate near Bordeaux. After many centuries, the form has passed through many other rooms, such as Robert Burton’s and Sir Thomas Browne’s libraries or the apartments of Sir Isaac Bickerstaff and Mr. Spectator, retaining an undeniable conjunction to the lodgings of its author. The house of the essayists has always been a place to which their readers were granted a special right of entry. This article aims to reflect on the spatial dimension of the English Romantic familiar essay as exemplified by the writings of Leigh Hunt and Charles Lamb. In particular, I will discuss the importance both writers attributed to the domestic interior as the most congenial scenario in which the essayistic act should be performed. Romantic essayists seemed to be more attuned with the early modern model of Montaigne. This allegiance is striking as the most frequent outlet through which essays in early nineteenth-century England were published was the same periodical press that during the eighteenth century seemed to have repudiated the private space of the parlor in favor of the socialized communal dimension of the coffee house
Vaquerías ceramics: a techno-stylistic study of the earliest polychrome pottery in the Argentine Northwest
No full textFil: Pereyra Domingorena, Lucas. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Universidad de Buenos Aires. Instituto de las Culturas; ArgentinaFil: de Feo, María Eugenia. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Universidad Nacional de La Plata. Facultad de Ciencias Naturales y Museo. División Arqueología; ArgentinaFil: Bugliani, María Fabiana. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Universidad de Buenos Aires. Instituto de las Culturas; ArgentinaDating to the Early Formative period, Vaquerías pottery is the earliest polychrome ceramic in the Argentine Northwest. Questions about its provenance, use and circulation persist, however. To address these, the authors employ, for the first time, an integrated methodology comprising petrographic, morphological, iconographic and contextual analyses of ceramic samples from three regions of north-western Argentina. The results suggest five distinct modes of manufacture of Vaquerías ceramics, the non-centralisation of their production, their wide geographic distribution and their use in a variety of functional contexts. The methodology is applicable elsewhere and illustrates the potential of this approach over traditional stylistic-morphological studies.Pereyra Domingorena, L., de Feo, M. E. y Bugliani, M. F. (2020). Vaquerías ceramics: a techno-stylistic study of the earliest polychrome pottery in the Argentine Northwest. Antiquity, 94(373), 62-75
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