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Come un colpo di cannone? Il potere della calunnia in due campagne presidenziali Usa
No full textL’articolo mette a confronto i casi di calunnia elettorale che hanno caratterizzato le campagne presidenziali statunitensi del 2004 e del 2008. Si tratta dell’attacco portato dal gruppo Swift Boat Veterans for Truth contro la carriera militare e la successiva svolta pacifista di John Kerry e quello, generatosi in rete, secondo cui Barack Obama sarebbe musulmano.
Questa ricerca descrive l’origine e lo sviluppo delle due calunnie, il ruolo giocato dalle diverse piattaforme mediali e la reazione dell’opinione pubblica. La comparazione finale consente di individuare alcune condizioni per il successo o il fallimento delle calunnie nella comunicazione politica statunitense contemporanea
Forme della censura
No full textI saggi raccolti nel volume intendono indicare le strade dell'approfondimento del tema della censura, con prospettiva incentrata su testi letterari e teatrali e le loro varianti, talvolta con attenzione alle condizioni extratestuali e dei documenti giuridici relativi alla produzione e alla fruizione dei testi
Words and Images: Verstegan’s “Theatre of Cruelties”
No full textThe subject of the article is Verstegan’s “Theatre of Cruelties” (in its Latin and French versions, Theatrum crudelitatum haereticorum nostri temporis and Théâtre des cruautez des hereticques de
nostre temps, published in 1587 and 1588 respectively), a booklet showing and illustrating the persecution of Catholics in painstaking and painful detail, and thereby seeking to promote the reader’s emotional response. After reminding us that the theatre-metaphor was employed in many fields of Renaissance science, Zacchi proceeds to reconstruct the compositional history of the
“Theatre of Cruelties”, which is read as a Catholic answer to the well-known Protestant martyrologies produced in England by John Foxe, Thomas Cooper and Jean Bodin. Much as it loses
itself in the particulars of Verstegan’s ‘visual rhetoric’, Zacchi’s reading never loses sight of the contemporary forces giving shape to his textual tactic – in particular, the Jesuits’ deployment of
theatrical techniques and pictorial policies as symbolic weapons on the religious battlefield of Europe
Introduction
No full textEmploying a blend of historical, philological, literary and linguistic methods, the book paints a full-bodied portrait of Richard Rowlands Verstegan (or Verstegen, 1550?-1640) – a man whose multiple and variously-spelled name reflects a multi-faceted public personality. English by birth and upbringing, Dutch by fatherly descent, Verstegan spent most of his life on the Continent, employed intermittently as a Catholic spy, poet, religious translator, polemicist, and philologist. While this many-sidedness is typical of the Renaissance period, some of Verstegan’s interests and positions were innovative or extravagant – witness his familiarization of the epigram in the Netherlands (1617), or his depiction of Teutonic England in the Restitution of Decayed Intelligence (1605). An all-encompassing view demonstrates the centrality of a figure who has long been relegated to the margins of English, Dutch and European history
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe 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
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