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Roth's The Counterlife and the Negotiation of Reality and Fiction
No full textIn her article "Roth's The Counterlife and the Negotiation of Reality and Fiction" Pia Masiero analyzes some aspects of the readers' negotiations of Phillip Roth's 1986 novel. Masiero shows how Roth in the novel's first chapter "Basel" anatomizes what follows and provides the rules of pertinence which guide the text and the keys to interpret its meaning. Masiero argues that the effects of perspec- tive created by the employment of third-person narration and contra-punctual simultaneous narratives prepare readers to the metafictional choices they encounter in the final chapters of the book. With her analysis, Masiero posits that the novel turns out to be a journey in Nathan Zuckerman's writerly mind and a window on how our own minds work
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No full textThe original version of this Article contained an error in the spelling of the authors Francesco Piccione, Paolo Tonin, Antonio Cerasa and Stefano Masiero, which were incorrectly given as Piccione Francesco, Tonin Paolo, Cerasa Antonio, and Masiero Stefano, respectively. This has now been corrected in both the PDF and HTML versions of the Article
A Liminal Narcissus: Philip Roth's The Human Stain
No full textThe article explores the interconnections between the narrator’s narratological stance as a writer and the protagonist’s decision to repudiate his African American ancestry and pass for Jew. Masiero claims that the way in which Roth plots Coleman Silk’s passing goes a long way in illuminating the author’s countertextual poetics. The race issue turns out to be reflected and refracted in Zuckerman’s highly conscious handling of his material – a veritable postmodern hide-and-seek game he plays with the reader
On Focalization Once Again. What about the Reader?
No full textThe article analyzes the dynamics of the readers’ involvement alongside the narrator’s in the
plight of the main character of Philip Roth’s American Pastoral. To tackle the narrative core of the book, namely, an empathetic immersion on the narrator’s part resulting in a figural situation, Masiero employs Vittorio Gallese’s notion of “we-centric space.
Names across the Color Line. William Faulkner's Short Fiction 1931-1942.
No full textMasiero argues that the interplay of proper names and appellations, definite descriptions and demonstratives provides a perfect stage to illuminate the dynamic drawing of communal boundaries and group belonging in William Faulkner’s fictional South.
Focusing on short stories Faulkner wrote between 1931 and 1942, Masiero’s onomastic analyses explore and elucidate Faulkner’s Southern stance: his involvement in pivotal social and moral issues, his perception of class conflicts and racial hierarchies, his thoughts on racially inflected negotiations of identities, his recognition of the strictures imposed on the definition of the Southern self (both black and white), his immersion in and dependence on those very ideologies and vocabularies of the racial difference he stigmatizes. (Pubblicazione luglio 2012
Über das Abhängigkeitsverhältnis der ersten zwei deutschen Übersetzungen des Cortegiano (1528)
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Selling Rooms Online: The Use of Social Media and Online Travel Agents
No full textPurpose
– This paper aims to focus on the reason why hoteliers choose to be present in online travel agent (OTA) and social media web sites for sales purposes. It also investigates the technological and human factors related to these two practices.
Design/methodology/approach
– The research is based on a survey sent to a wide range of hotels in a Swiss touristic region. The empirical analysis involves the specification of two ordered logit models exploring the importance (in terms of online sales) of both social media and the online travel agent, Booking.com.
Findings
– Findings highlight the constant tension between visibility and online sales in the web arena, as well as a clear distinction in social media and OTA web site adoption between hospitality structures using online management tools and employing personnel with specific skills.
Practical implications
– The research highlights the need for the hospitality industry to maintain an effective presence on social media and OTAs in order to move towards the creation of a new form of social booking technologies to increase their visibility and sales.
Originality/value
– This research contributes to understanding the major role played by OTAs and social media in the hospitality industry while underlining the possibility of a major interplay between the two
PHOTOGRAMMETRIC 3D RECONSTRUCTION IN MATLAB: DEVELOPMENT OF A FREE TOOL
No full textThis paper presents the current state of development of a free Matlab tool for photogrammetric reconstruction developed at the University
of Padova, Italy. The goal of this software is mostly educational, i.e. allowing students to have a close look to the specific
steps which lead to the computation of a dense point cloud. As most of recently developed photogrammetric softwares, it is based on a
Structure from Motion approach. Despite being mainly motivated by educational purposes, certain implementation details are clearly
inspired by recent research works, e.g. limiting the computational burden of the feature matching by determining a suboptimal set of
features to be considered, using information provided by external sensors to ease the matching process
Abitare la schifezza. Brevi interviste di uomini schifosi di David Foster Wallace
No full textIl saggio studia il gruppo di testi che conferiscono il titolo alla seconda raccolta di racconti di David Foster Wallace, Brief Interviews with Hideous Men (1999), e si concentra sull’aspetto formale più appariscente e al tempo stesso sconcertante di questi testi, ossia la «sistematica cancellazio- ne» delle domande delle intervistatrici. Quale senso può as- sumere questo dispositivo di sottrazione e quale compito vi si può ravvisare per il lettore? Masiero lega la questione morale e di genere della hideousness maschile al concetto narratologico di prospettiva – a mancare, nella cancellazione delle domande, è la prospettiva delle intervistatrici – e perviene, di domanda in domanda, a cogliere nel testo un invito a immergerci nella hideousness e a prenderne insieme le distanze, per resistere al suo contagio e insieme al «non-volersi-sentire-riguardati da essa». L’interpretazione dei dispositivi narrativi dei testi di Wallace si definisce così in relazione al loro tema morale dominante e si prolunga in una riflessione sull’etica della lettura a cui i lettori sembrano chiamati
NANOSCALE MONITORING OF RESPONSIVE SUPRAMOLECULAR NANOSTRUCTURES AT THE SOLID-LIQUID INTERFACE
No full textThe self-assembly of small molecular modules into non-covalently linked polymeric nanostructures is a subject of continuous interest [1]. In particular, supramolecular structures with a high degree of order can be obtained through the self-association of organic molecules on flat solid surfaces. Such structures can be used as scaffolds to position electrically/optically active groups in pre-determined locations in 2D [2] thereby paving the way towards a wide range of applications, e.g. in electronic and optical devices. Among weak interactions, H-bonding offers high control over the process of molecular self-assembly because it combines reversibility, directionality, specificity and cooperativity. Such a unique character is the basis of sophisticated programs for self-assembly such as those based on the Watson–Crick base pairing which directs the formation of the helical structure of DNA.
While the self-assembly of guanines into G-quartet based architectures on solid surfaces has been studied by Scanning Tunneling Microscopy (STM) under ultrahigh vacuum (UHV) [3], STM explorations at the solid-liquid interface have been primarily carried out on guanosine derivatives [4]. In this lecture we will present a sub-molecularly resolved STM study at the solid-liquid interface of the metal templated reversible assembly/reassembly process of a N9-alkylguanine into highly ordered quartets and ribbons on highly oriented pyrolitic graphite (HOPG) surfaces. The self-assembly of guanine derivatives on HOPG has been studied as neat component[5] and upon sub-sequent addition of cryptand [2.2.2] molecules, potassium picrate and triflic acid to trigger the reversible interconversion between two different highly ordered supramolecular motifs, i.e. H-bonded ribbon and G-quartet based architectures. In-situ STM imaging provided the first direct evidence on the sub-nm scale of a dynamer operating at surfaces. [6]
Finally we will also provide the first example of sub-molecularly resolved vertically oriented switchable chromophores in physisorbed monolayers by monitoring the cis-trans isomerization of a physisorbed azobenzene at surfaces. [7]
The nanoscale visualization of such supramolecular interconversion at the solid-liquid interface opens new avenues towards understanding the mechanism of formation and functioning of complex architectures. Furthermore, the in-situ reversible assembly and re-assembly between two highly ordered supramolecular structures at a given surface represents the first step towards the generation of nanopatterned responsive architectures.
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[3] R. Otero, M. Schock, L. M. Molina, E. Laegsgaard, I. Stensgaard, B. Hammer, F. Besenbacher, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2005, 44, 2270.
[4] G. Gottarelli, S. Masiero, E. Mezzina, S. Pieraccini, J. P. Rabe, P. Samorì, G. P. Spada, Chem. Eur. J., 2000, 6, 3242; T. Giorgi, S. Lena, P. Mariani, M. A. Cremonini, S. Masiero, S. Pieraccini, J. P. Rabe, P. Samorì, G. P. Spada, G. Gottarelli, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2003, 125, 14741; S. Lena, G. Brancolini, G. Gottarelli, P. Mariani, S. Masiero, A. Venturini, V. Palermo, O. Pandoli, S. Pieraccini, P. Samorì, G. P. Spada, Chem. Eur. J., 2007, 13, 3757.
[5] A. Ciesielski, R. Perone, S. Pieraccini, G.P. Spada, P. Samorì, Chem. Commun 2010, 46, 4493.
[6] A. Ciesielski, S. Lena, S. Masiero, G. P. Spada, P. Samorì, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2010, 49, 1963.
[7] D. Bléger, A. Ciesielski, P. Samorì, S. Hecht, 2010 submitted
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