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Spazi e tempi di una metafora. Poetica del viaggio e cultura giovanile
No full textThe essay is a deep exegesis of a collection of poems by young authors from many different countries and various literary canons. The themes interwoven in these poems constitute a fabric with a changing weft, which invite us to reflect upon the relationship which the poetics of the journey, with its burden of experiences and imagination, of different cultures and emotions, establishes with time and history.
The same places of our civilization, its figures and its words acquire different meanings: the ongoing journey carries a baggage of complex stories. It appears as if the same places, which throughout the centuries have hosted several paths and destinations, spoke the language of prophecy when the past and the present, seen with a swift glance, already talked about the enigma of the future.
Ismael travelling through history, Ismael crossing the desert, Ismael with his Arab-Israeli identity, a refugee, a stranger, a dumb person – the languages surrounding him cannot become his languages – Ismael naked, who is afraid of love – in a civilization which mocks him is represetnative of the poetics of the journay. The poem remains suspended but the journey of Ismael beyond history and civilization goes on just like him, who drinks water from a source which is unable to quench his thirst.
The exegesis of several other poems contextualises the journey in a peculiar post-modernity which retells the “great story” (the reference is to François Lyotard and to the debate surrounding him) between languages and multiple symbolical universes, literary suggestions and poetical experiences.
After history comes the shame, the need to reset the time, to restart the journey, to come back home, to our origins. All around us, the landscapes have undergone a metamorphosis, like in the poem “Adriatic” by the Polish author Agnieszka Żądło-Jadczak: “Stones nestled in the hard skin, / burning with the sun, carving reliefs. // [...] stones like drowned dreams” (cf. the cosmic inspiration in the poem “Before the after”, by Theodora Bauer, Austria).
The poem by Michela Pusterla is a ballad whose rhythms are interrupted by broken metrics which are put together verse after verse through a sequence of enjambments. The great protagonists are: war (she is over), peace, the past, and a long silence in the deepest side of thought. Peace is a past which is falling silent. This deep silence after the grenades, the devastation, the exiles and the death itself wear history down. The protagonist comes back but everybody has already gone away: perhaps to other countries? Did they die? This strange return journey comes back to a history, which no longer exists. However, the dance begins here (the dance of rambling tales) under shattered skies with the tragedy in her heart.
We have to talk about s very “poetics of journey”. This generation of young poets is undoubtedly one of those, which makes virtual or real journeys, more than other generations. However, the exegesis of their verses, though partial and selective, has shown that the journey is not the only element characterising their poems. In all poems, many references and fil rouges could be found. Apart from the aspects pointed out in this introduction, the reader could also find many other recurring themes and discover nothing else than a “culture” with its figures and its changing contexts, ready to be posed with different values in different frames and to compose a mosaic with reverberating colours.
At the heart of this culture, the thought of the word “after” (it is no coincidence that this is one of the most recurring words in the current research on the paradigms of knowledge) has marked the authors’ inspiration. As if the “journey” did not exist without a “after-journey” and this “aftermath” in time could be always represented and lived as a “journey”: return, regret, salvation, bewilderment a memory, oblivion, after civilization, after history.
The young poets who wrote this book, “travelling” from different parts of the world towards the ideal place of poetry, are like an emerald which absorbs reflected faces. The essay focuses primarily on the thematic element of the book, although the expressive force, which overwhelms the reader, cannot be underestimated. There is a lot of thinking in the book (after the journey the thought), which expresses itself with a riveting and emotional poetics, a prophetic answer to the enigma of time and its transcendence
Collins and de Valera : Friends or Foes ?
No full textAlthough a life-long admirer of Eamon de Valera, Jack Lynch who succeeded Sean Lemass as leader of the Fianna Fail Party and Taoiseach (1966-1973 ; 1977-79), recognises that to a large extent de Valera and Collins shared the same views, philosophies and ideals. He deplores that the Collins/De Valera Pact was not given the chance it deserved, and questions Collins's attitude to the Treaty if he had known that sixty years later, such little progress would have been made in bringing the two parts of Ireland together. In a remarkable effort to rise above past bitterness the author claims that the only durable solution of Ireland's problems, be it the Ulster crisis or the current recession, will be based on the coming together of the people of the island in peace and reconciliation and the co-operation of all in the national interest.Although a life-long admirer of Eamon de Valera, Jack Lynch who succeeded Sean Lemass as leader of the Fianna Fail Party and Taoiseach (1966-1973 ; 1977-79), recognises that to a large extent de Valera and Collins shared the same views, philosophies and ideals. He deplores that the Collins/De Valera Pact was not given the chance it deserved, and questions Collins's attitude to the Treaty if he had known that sixty years later, such little progress would have been made in bringing the two parts of Ireland together. In a remarkable effort to rise above past bitterness the author claims that the only durable solution of Ireland's problems, be it the Ulster crisis or the current recession, will be based on the coming together of the people of the island in peace and reconciliation and the co-operation of all in the national interest.Lynch Jack. Collins and de Valera : Friends or Foes ?. In: Études irlandaises, n°9, 1984. pp. 249-257
Zonopimpla torrellasi Valera, sp. nov.
No full text<i>Zonopimpla torrellasi</i> Valera, sp. nov. <p>(Figs 2, 19)</p> <p> <i>Female</i>: Mandibles strongly tapered, apical teeth subequal in length, upper tooth 1.7 times width of lower tooth; malar space 0.4–0.5 times basal mandibular width; lower face polished, with sparse setiferous punctures, about as wide as medially high from supraclypeal suture to level of insertion of antenna. Head in dorsal view with genae evenly rounded behind eye; posterior ocellus separated from eye by 1.3–1.4 times its own maximum diameter; ocelli forming a wide-based isosceles triangle. Pronotum smooth, shining. Mesoscutum smooth, shining, with isolated fine hairs, anteriorly evenly rounded, notauli moderately impressed; mesopleuron polished, smooth, with sparse fine hairs; epicnemial carina reaching over level of lower corner of pronotum; metapleuron weakly convex, smooth and polished, with scattered hairs in posterior margin; submetapleural carina complete. Propodeum in profile abruptly declivous, with fine punctuation and scattered hairs especially on anterior and lateral margins; pleural carina present. Fore wing length 7.0– 8.5 mm; vein 3rs-m complete, enclosing an obliquely rhombic areolet; abscissa of Cu1 between 1 m-cu and Cu1b 1.3–1.5 times as long as Cu1b; hind wing with abscissa of Cu1 between M and cu-a straight, 1.5–1.7 times as long as cu-a. Metasoma moderately stout; tergite 1 about 1.0–1.2 times as long as posteriorly broad, with anteriorly smooth, broadly concave, central area defined laterally by longitudinal carinae on anterior 0.3 of tergite, posterior part of tergite shining, with fine punctuation and scattered fine hairs; tergite 1 steeply rounded in profile, lateral carina present at anterior and posterior ends of tergite; tergite 2 with convex central area, polished, very sparsely punctuate and with scattered hair especially in lateral margins; tergites 3–5 with biconvex central area, almost impunctate, with sparse hairs. Ovipositor length 5.0– 5.9 mm, projecting beyond apex of metasoma by 1.9–2.4 times the length of hind tibia; subgenital plate centrally membranous, ovipositor shaft straight, slender and subcylindrical, apex of lower valve not dorsolaterally expanded, not enclosing upper valve, with distinct oblique teeth; apex of upper valve slightly flattened, with weak nodus.</p> <p> <b>Color:</b> Head yellow, interocellar area black; antennae dark brown with apex orange, palps yellow. Mesosoma yellow, fore and middle legs yellow; hind legs dark brown, coxae yellow with dorsal apical margin brown, trochantellus light brown. Tegula similar in color mesosoma. Fore wings slightly infumate with darker area on 0.25 apexes, pterostigma dark brown. Metasoma black with lateral and hind margins of all tergites white. Ovipositor orange, sheath black.</p> <p> <i>Male</i>: Unknown.</p> <p> <b>Variations:</b> Two specimens showed head and mesosoma dark yellow.</p> <p> <b>Etimology:</b> This species is named for Franklin Torrellas, junior author’s husband.</p> <p> <b>Comments:</b> Yellowish coloration, apical dark band in anterior wings and moderately long ovipositor distinguish <i>Z. torrellasi</i>. This species is similar to <i>Z. moralesi</i> but differing in having metasoma stouter and by ovipositor features mentioned in the key.</p> <p> <b>Material examined:</b> Holotype female, Venezuela, Lara state, Humocaro Alto, vía Paramito, sector La Palomera, 1500 m, XII-2002 (Díaz & Valera) (UCOB). Paratypes, Venezuela, Lara state, 1 female, Yacambú National Park, sector El Blanquito, 1450 m, V-1981 (Díaz & Townes) (UCOB); 1 female, Terepaima National Park, 1200 m, IX-1993 (Chávez) (UCOB); 2 females, same locality and collectors as holotype, XI-2002 and I- 2003.</p>Published as part of <i>Valera, Neicy & Díaz, Francisco, 2010, Nine new Zonopimpla Ashmead (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae, Pimplinae) and key to species from Venezuela, pp. 37-51 in Zootaxa 2438</i> on pages 47-48, DOI: <a href="http://zenodo.org/record/194900">10.5281/zenodo.194900</a>
Carta, novela y erotismo en don Juan Valera
No full textEn este trabajo se analiza las ideas de don Juan Valera ante el erotismo, en la triple faceta de este escritor como crítico literario, novelista y autor de un nutrido e interesantísimo epistolario. Valera adapta su temperamento literario estos tres géneros de escritura, que requieren actitudes distintas ante el hecho creativo, y a la vez que los entremezcla singularmente enriqueciendo sus escritos de manera singular en cualquiera de los cauces señalados.This paper examines Juan Valera´s ideas on eroticism, with a triple focus on this writer as literary critic, novelist and author of a large and interesting collection of letters. Valera´s literary temperament adapts to each of these three genres of writing, which require different attitudes to the creative act; yet he also uniquely intertwines these genres to enrich his writings in any of the above forms of expression
Lecturas de Petrarca: Cipriano de Valera, un reformado español del XVI ante el Canzoniere
No full textCipriano de Valera published in his book Dos tratados (1588), a parcial translation of four sonnets of Petrarca. The relationships between the author and Italy are shown in this paper, which tries to determine the orginals editions that Valera could have used to do his version.Cipriano de Valera publicó en su libro Dos Tratados (1588), una traducción parcial de cuatro sonetos de Petrarca. En este artículo se muestran las relaciones del autor con Italia y se intenta determinar las ediciones originales de que pudo servirse Valera para su versión
Questione di confini: diritto, diritti e guerra in Michael Walzer
No full textBy a comparative analysis of Walzer’ scientific works in the field “social criticism” and
“just/unjust war”, the essay shows that the tension between the categories internal/
external is working in the complex of author arguments. Such a contraposition,
examined from the strict perspective of the disciplinary languages, which articulate the
“modern” moral-historical world, has to be considered constitutive of the separation
between juridical and moral paradigm, social acting and communitarian belonging,
reasons and meaning, critics and interpretation. Walzer’ attitude to contaminate
disciplinary languages, on the contrary, make it impossible for him to investigate the
aporetic overcoming from the juridical “boundaries” to political and cultural “frontier”
Jenofonte y Juan Valera: La voz del narrador desde la historiografía griega a la novela española del siglo XIX
No full textJuan Valera cita y comenta un pasaje de la Anábasis de Jenofonte
en dos épocas distintas de su vida (1851 y 1874). No nos parece tan
importante el hecho en sí como su significado, ya que refleja las ideas
de Valera sobre la función del narrador en la obra. Por lo demás, el
hecho se inscribe dentro de la rica relación que la historiografía
antigua mantiene con la novela moderna.____________________________________Juan Valera twice quotes and comments a passage from
Xenophon's Anabasis in different years (1851 and 1874). This fact, it
not significant in itself, helps to clarify several main ideas Valera had
about the role of the narrator in his fictions. The twofold presence of
the Greek author in Valera, moreover, is revealingly viewed within the
complex relations that link ancient historiography and the modern
novel
Imagination in novels and autobiography in letters : the female presence in Juan Valera\u27s life and fiction
No full textTHESIS 10838Juan Valera (1824-1905) left behind a substantial epistolary corpus. Some of the author?s letters have been destroyed over the years, others lost, but all those penned by Valera which still exist have been painstakingly sought out and compiled by Leonardo Romero Tobar and a team of colleagues in their series, Correspondencia, spanning eight volumes and Valera?s life from the age of 23 in 1847 to his death in 1905, at the age of 81. The series, published between 2002 and 2009, has created an invaluable opportunity to build upon the research of biographers and scholars of the 20th century, and indeed, those of the early years of the 21st who were limited to the study of Valera?s letters through more modest collections or, indeed, the elusive and fragmentary collections held by Valera?s descendents
Diritto di dialogo, etica del discorso e nuovi diritti (dopo il decostruzionismo)
No full textAbstract
Il saggio dimostra che la profonda crisi della coscienza Europea vissuta nella cultura europea del tardo 19simo e della prima metà del 20simo secolo, indicata anche con il nome di Kulturkritik, è in ultima analisi una crisi della Cultura giuridica europea, prodotta dal problema non ancora risolto delle relazioni e della differenza fra Diritto ed Etica. Figure e vocabolario usati dall’autore di Totalità e Infinito. Saggio sull’esteriorità, ed alcune coppie oppositive di concetti (esteriore/ interiore, visibile/ invisibile, per esempio) sono stati contestualizzati nel paradigma scientifico della Modernità, sottolineando la posizione originale di Lévinas che considera l’ermeneutica come un aspetto del pensiero razionalistico totalizzante. Soppressione del dialogo sarebbe la conseguenza di una setratta applicazione del paradigma di Lévinas. Nuovi studi sulla Dialogicità inducono però a riconsiderare le teorie delle fonti dei diritti e il paradigma moderno del Soggetto, sovrano e Individuo, con conseguenze rilevanti negli studi su culture e valori.
Keywords
Dialogicità, Modernità, Etica, Diritto, Ermeneutica
RIGHT TO DIALOGUE, ETHICS OF DISCOURSE AND NEW RIGHTS (AFTER DECONSTRUCTIONISM)
Abstract
The essay aims to demonstrate that the deep Crisis of the European Consciousness experienced in the European Culture late 19th and the first half of the 20th century, passed under the name of Kulturkritik, is ultimately a crisis of the European Juridical Culture produced by the hitherto unsolved problem of the relationship and difference between Law and Ethics. Figures and vocabulary used by the author of Totality and Infinite. Essay on Exteriority and some oppositional concepts (exterior/interior; visible/invisible for instance) have been contextualized in the scientific paradigm of Modernity stressing the original position of Lévinas, who considers hermeneutics as an aspect of the rationalist, totalizing thought. Loss of the dialogue would be the consequence of a strict application of Lavinas’ paradigm. New studies on Dialogicity lead to rethink and reassess the theories of the sources of rights and the Modern paradigm of the Individual and Sovereign Subject with relevant consequences in the studies about cultures and values.
Keywords
Dialogicity, Modernity, Ethics, Law, Hermeneutic
Metadiégesis y pseudodiégesis en la narrativa de Juan Valera
No full textMetadiegesis and pseudodiegesis in the œuvre of Juan Valera
The narrators in Valera generally appear as representations of their author's voice. Valera uses textual doubles to frame the story by reflecting on it and identifying its (ficticious) source, usually either a manuscript or an informant's account. While in either case the identification of the source leads the reader to expect the narrative presentation of the story proper to be delegated from the extradiegetic level to the diegetic level, in most of his texts Valera does not follow this obvious path. Rather, his homo-extradiegetic narrators tend to appropriate the narrating voice of the original source, taking over the narration on their own behalf. From a narratological perspective, on erasing the textual marks that allow readers to distinguish between different levels of narration, Valera infringes the narrative hierarchy, thereby producing instances of what has been termed pseudodiegesis.
Altenberg shows that the narrative frames in Valera's œuvre, with their numerous reflections and refractions, not only raise a number of poetological issues but, more importantly, function as metafictional mises en abyme, whose performative dimension consists in illustrating the attitude that, according to the author, underlies the poetic-narrative appropriation of reality. It becomes clear that verisimilitude and coherence are the key concepts that, in Valera's view, set fiction apart from history. While the explicit confrontation of the 'historical method' and the 'novelistic method', with a clear preference for the latter, appears at a relatively late stage of Valera's writing, the dissociation of the narrator from the source of information as well as the poetological attitude behind it are characteristic of his narrative from the beginning. In conclusion, far from being an end in itself, the pseudodiegetic trangression is a textual representation of a particular way of appropriating reality that is essential to Valera's narrative poetics
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