34 research outputs found
Compliance mechanisms under selected multilateral environmental agreements, (Co-author Ulrich Beyerlin)
No full textThe Figure of the Limit: Metalepsis
No full textIn 1972, Gérard Genette introduced in narratology the figure of metalepsis, that is «any intrusion by the extradiegetic narrator or narratee into the diegetic universe (or by diegetic characters into a metadiegetic universe, etc.), or the inverse». In other words, metalepsis is a transgression of narrative levels, a perturbation of hierarchy that raises the question of the porosity of boundaries between diegetic and metadiegetic, author and reader, fact and fiction.
In my presentation, I will show how this phenomenon is ubiquitous nowadays, and how it is settled both in highbrow and lowbrow cultural representations across various media.
Furthermore, I wish I can discuss the role of metalepsis in poetics: in my opinion, it is possible to relate this device with the history of the novel. In XVIII and XIX centuries authorial narrators made extensive use of rhetoric metalepsis for humoristic purposes (such as playing with the story-time and the discourse-time) or to exhibit their authority (through the manipulation of different threads of the narration). With Naturalism and Modernism metalepsis disappeared, according to the poetic of impersonality: authors stopped being intrusive and eclipsed behind their characters. The golden era of the figure came in the temper of Postmodernism, where ontological metalepsis flourished and the public got used to author and reader literary entering the fiction or characters exiting from it and chitchatting with their creators
Andrea e gli argentieri Memingher in Sicilia
No full textAndrea Memingher è una tra le più enigmatiche figure di argentieri attivi a Palermo nella seconda metà del XVII secolo. Si può ritenere che la famiglia avesse origini nordiche e che, dopo un passaggio a Napoli, si stabilisse definitivamente a Palermo, inserendosi nella maestranza degli orafi e argentieri della città, probabilmente grazie ad un matrimonio con una figlia o una sorella o una vedova di un membro palermitano della maestranza. La presenza di Paolo Memingher nel capoluogo siciliano è attestata già nel 1660, due anni prima della data di inizio della sua attività, protrattasi fino al 1678. Il più importante esponente della famiglia fu Andrea, figlio di Paolo, il quale dovette la sua fama, al di là dell’abilità e dell’origine straniera, anche al suo status di padre gesuita. Il saggio studia la figura dell’artista, attivo dal 1670 al 1738, anno di morte, autore di un consistente corpus di opere giunto fino a noi, e dei congiunti che operarono nel medesimo contesto.Andrea Memingher is one of the most enigmatic figures of silversmiths active in Palermo in the second half of the seventeenth century. It can be assumed that the family had Nordic origins and that, after a passage to Naples, it settled permanently in Palermo, entering the mastery of the goldsmiths and silversmiths of the city, probably thanks to a marriage with a daughter or a sister or a widow of a Palermitan member of the mastery. The presence of Paolo Memingher in the Sicilian capital is attested as early as 1660, two years before the start of his activity, which lasted until 1678. The most important exponent of the family was Andrea, son of Paolo, who owed his fame, beyond the ability and foreign origin, even to his status as a Jesuit father. The essay studies the figure of the artist, active since 1670 to 1738, the year of his death, author of a substantial body of works that has come to us, and of the relatives who worked in the same context
La Vita S. Rosaliae di van Dyck nella Biblioteca della Fondazione Sicilia
No full textThe essay examines the Vita S. Rosaliae, a very rare collection of engravings taken from drawings by Antoon van Dyck, identified by the author and Maria Concetta Di Natale in the Sicily Foundation Library during preparatory research for the realisation of the exhibition 'The Ecstasies of Saint Rosalie - Antoon van Dyck, Pietro Novelli, Mattia Preti, Luca Giordano'
Experimental Investigations of Heat Transport Dynamics in a 1d Porous Medium Column
No full textAbstractThe present study involves the experimental investigation of heat transport due to the forced convective flow through a thermally isolated porous medium column.The experiments regard the observation of thermal breakthrough curves obtained through a hot flow injection in correspondence of two thermocouples positioned along a thermally isolated column of porous medium. The experiment has been carried out for three flow rates in order to investigate the critical issues regarding heat transport phenomena such as the relationship between the thermal dispersion with the flow velocity and the validity of the local thermal equilibrium assumption between the fluid and solid phase
Una scrittura della memoria. Le prose e i versi di Maria Attanasio
No full textMaria Attanasio (born in 1943) is an author of novels, stories, poetic collections, essays
and a photographic book illustrated by the shots of Giuseppe Leone, a refined iconotesto
whose subtitle reveals a clear Sciascian inspiration: Il divino e il meraviglioso. Feste religiose in Sicilia. The work of Attanasio, who published with Sellerio short novels such as Correva l’anno 1698 e nella città avvenne il fatto memorabile, Di Concetta e le sue donne and Il falsario di Caltagirone, is in some ways close to the formula of the Sciascian “cronachette”, which the writer has renamed “little chronicles” (“piccole cronache”). In her novels and in her verses the problems of memory, of archives, of documents and therefore of re-writing are central
Lymphoepithelioma-like carcinoma of the ovary
No full textOnly one case of lymphoepithelioma-like carcinoma of the ovary has been reported so far. A new case is herein illustrated in a 69-year-old woman: an ovarian mass adherent to urinary bladder dome with peritoneal carcinomatosis. Histologically, undifferentiated carcinomatous areas were intermingled with abundant lymphoid tissue. Epstein-Barr virus has not been detected either in neoplastic or in lymphoid cells. © The Author(s) 2011
Epidemiological and clinical boundaries of heart failure with preserved ejection fraction
No full textHeart failure with preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF) is highly prevalent and is associated with relevant morbidity and mortality. However, an evidence-based treatment is still absent. The heterogeneous definitions, differences in aetiology/pathophysiology, and diagnostic challenges of HFpEF made it difficult to define its epidemiological landmarks so far. Several large registries and observational studies have recently disclosed an increasing incidence/prevalence, as well as its prognostic significance. An accurate definition of HFpEF epidemiological boundaries and phenotypes is mandatory to develop novel effective and rational therapeutic approaches. VC The Author(s) 2021
Does Indonesia have a"low-pay"civil service?
No full textGovernment officials and polcy analysts maintain that Indonesia's civil servants are poorly paid and have been for decades. This conclusion is supported by anecdotal evidence and casual empiricism. The authors systematically analyze the realtionship between government and private compensation levels using data from two large household surveys carried out by Indonesia's Central Bureau of Statistics: the 1998 Sakernas and 1999 Susenas. The results suggest that government workers with a high school education or less, representing three-quarters of the civil service, earn a pay premium over their private sector counterparts. Civil servants with more than a high school education earn less than they would in the private sector but, on average, the premium is far smaller than commonly is alleged and is in keeping with public/private differentials in other countries. These results prove robust to varying econometric specifications and cast doubt on low pay as an explanation for government corruption.Decentralization,Public Health Promotion,Health Monitoring&Evaluation,National Governance,Knowledge Economy,Health Monitoring&Evaluation,NationalGovernance,Knowledge Economy,Education for the Knowledge Economy,Parliamentary Government
La tutela del diritto all'unita' familiare e i minori Islamici in kafalah
No full textFamily rejoining is a protection instrument of the family unity right. It is a very difficult item in the immigration policy, above all when it regards forms of minority protection different from Italian regulations. Author studies kafalah institute according to the Islamic filiation, Italian and French jurisprudence to highlight some similar elements with Italian adoption.peer-reviewe
