27 research outputs found
Una modesta proposta per gli studi letterari
No full textThe essay examines the current status of literary studies and critical analysis. Reassessing the intellectual tradition within the humanities, the Author discusses the significance of literature, narratology and semiotics to other disciplines. In this perspective, even the interdisciplinary method(s) or approach(es) are re-investigated and re-qualified. The Author emphasizes the power associated to the metaphorical nature of literary language; critically explores the mutual illuminations between hermeneutics and philology; inspects the multifarious morphologies of meanings and the different patterns of words and texts which had moulded literary production
SOS Podcasts: Surviving in Deutschland
No full textThe first part of this thesis is the creative work, a memoir, SOS Podcasts: Surviving in Deutschland. The memoir is narrated in the present continuing voice by the author, a quirky, assertive urbanite from New York. The work is an exploration of self and podcasts while living for a four-year period on the outskirts of a NATO base in a rural, little-known part of Germany. The differences are challenging (also entertaining), and podcasts begin to serve as a support mechanism for the lonely, isolated author. They also serve as friends and encouraging mentors. The themes explored include parenting, aging, food, weather, holidays, language, and comedy among others. The situation becomes more complex and conflicted when the four years are nearly finished and there is a possibility of staying in Germany indefinitely.The succeeding exegesis is the lens through which to view the creative work, the memoir writing genre, also known as life writing, and the related literary theory. In part one, the personal chain of events that led to the creation of the memoir are explained by sharing background information about the author and her beginnings. The organization and writing style are examined through the comparison of other memoirs, in particular memoirs driven by special topics and activities, as well as interesting familial situations. The author’s listening experience is explained through the genres of podcasts including news, information, and entertainment. The author also studied the parasocial interactions that people develop with members of the media. Furthermore, the critical and theoretical life writing literature is studied through an examination of confessional memoirs and motherhood memoirs. Finally, the craft of life writing is examined. In part two, the history of podcasting and the evolving technologies showed the media’s expansion and explained why podcasts began to occupy a larger role in the author’s life and therefore the subject of this topical memoir. Lastly, the author argued for a new form of orality and studied podcasting’s impact on the democratization of radio and audio
A seismic analysis for masonry constructions: The different schematization methods of masonry walls
No full textIl Conformista by Bernardo Bertolucci: themes and patterns
No full textopenIl Conformista di Bernardo Bertolucci è una delle prime opere di rilievo del grande regista parmense. La tesi si propone, dopo una breve panoramica sulla biografia ed i temi inerenti all'autore, di analizzare l'opera filmica nel dettaglio e nel suo insieme, studiando la sua struttura narrativa, la fotografia, la trama, il rapporto con fascismo e comunismo e la fedeltà nell'adattamento dell'omonimo romanzo di Alberto Moravia.Il Conformista is one of the most important work of Bernardo Bertolucci, the great italian director from Parma. After a brief overview of the biography and the themes inherent to the author, this thesis proposes to analyze the filmic work in detail and as a whole, studying its narrative structure, photography, plot, the relationship with fascism and communism. and the fidelity of the adaptation of the novel by Alberto Moravia
Jovens e experimentações da violência no brasil: estética da destruição, sociabilidades limítrofes
No full textEl artículo aborda algunos fenómenos de violencia en ciudades brasileñas, desde un punto de vista comunicacional; la autora logra identificar intersecciones entre ellos, particularmente frente a aspectos de visibilidad, construcción de identidad y sociabilidad que involucran a jóvenes urbanos.Buscando sintetizar reflexiones acerca de ciertas ocurrencias de la violencia –acto social y simbólico- en tal contexto, centra su preocupación en la experimentación de una “cultura do risco” – desafiante, personalista y a veces letal.Propone, además, que la violencia se manifiesta y puede ser percibida bajo un proceso dinámico y dialógico fundado en originales ordenaciones sociales y visuales. Postula, finalmente, que la violencia hoy constituye un poderoso lenguaje, una pedagogía percibida e “incorporada” por diversos sectores juveniles.Este por demás inquietante componente de la comunicación urbana, termina poniendo en evidencia lugares de construcción identitaria a veces tensionados y explosivos, a veces estetizados, poéticos, demarcados por la creciente simbiosis media/sociedad, por la vivencia de los media en cuanto nuevo espacio público y de las ciudades en cuanto peculiares escenarios y focos preferenciales de la visibilidadmediatizada.The article approaches the phenomena of violence in Brazilian cities from a communicational perspective; the author is able to identify intersections between these phenomena, particularly what they have to do with aspects of visibility and construction of identity and sociability as these concepts relate to urban youth.Looking to summarize reflections about certain occurences of violence — a social and symbolic act –- in that context, the author focuses her concern on the experimentation of a “culture of risk,” which is challenging, personalist, and sometimes lethal.In addition, she proposes that violence manifests itself and can be perceived in a dynamic and dialogic process founded on original social and visual orderings. Finally, she postulates that violence today constitutes a powerful language, a pedagogy perceived and “incorporated” by diverse sectors of youth.This very perturbing component of urban communication shows places of construction of identity that are sometimes tense and explosive, sometimes aesthetized, poetic, delimited by the growing media-society symbiosis, by personal experience with the media as a new public space and the cities as peculiar scenarios and preferential focuses of mass media visibility
