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Contemporary Literature. Analysis of Jonathan Bazzi's novels
No full textopenDopo una breve panoramica della letteratura italiana degli ultimi vent’anni si analizzano i due romanzi di Jonathan Bazzi "Febbre" e "Corpi minori" dai punti di vista formale, stilistico e tematico. Si discute inoltre il rapporto tra social media, autofiction e autore; nel capitolo 4 si riporta l'intervista che Bazzi ci ha gentilmente concesso, in cui questi argomenti vengono ripresi.
Si individuano alcune differenze che i testi mostrano rispetto alla letteratura moderna, e gli aspetti che hanno in comune con quella contemporanea; nel fare questo si accennano quindi alcune caratteristiche della società che li ha prodotti.The paper starts off with a brief overview of the contemporary Italian literature; then the reader is guided through an analysis of Jonathan Bazzi's novels, "Febbre" ("Fever") and "Corpi minori" ("Minor bodies"), both translated in English and published by Scribe. The relationship between author, autofiction and social media will also be discussed; in chapter four the reader will find the interview Bazzi kindly granted us
Arranging 'Babel': Special Collections, Undergraduate Research, and Librarian Engagement"
No full textUndergraduate research offers academic librarians and archivists an additional motivation to engage students with special collections. Curriculum design, course instruction, and mentoring by librarians and archivists can benefit not only students but the institution as well. I explore an example of such engagement with a collection of New Jersey sheet music. The project gives students experience producing work with real-world implications. In addition, it increases digital holdings, reduces the backlog of under-cataloged materials, demonstrates the archive’s unique value to the institution, and makes new information available to scholars nationally and internationallyPeer reviewe
Satirical boomerangs and author personae : Jonathan Swift and Charlotte Lennox
No full textIn this paper I will investigate the function of personae in satirical texts, with particular attention to texts where this persona bears a relation to the historical author. Jonathan Swift’s “Verses on the Death of Dr. Swift,” for instance, reads like a dramatic monologue, but considering the ironic reference to the author, the effect is that of self-irony – most often called self-parody. This effect is made possible, as I argue here, precisely by a mixture of parody and satire. This kind of evasive irony, in Swift’s case termed “the art of disbelief” (Suarez), has sometimes been harnessed by critics with reference to the author’s life. The same is true about a very different author (in terms of canonicity), writing in a different genre: in Charlotte Lennox’ Cervantine novel, The Female Quixote, a Fieldingesque authorial persona parades her skills in chapter headings. Given the range of possibilities for female authorial personae in the mid eighteenth-century, this is taking on airs. In the critical history of this novel, scant historical records of the author’s life can be seen to limit the novel’s satirical potential. I use these two cases to discuss the use of biographical evidence as an interpretive key, and suggest a different persona concept, contextualized through the texts’ own boomerang effects, in an attempt to give full scope to their satirical intent. This paper is part of a larger project that traces changing views of authorships through the eighteenth century, by a hypothetical author concept (Nelles). </p
Le basi ontologiche e metafisiche della filosofia della mente. Essere e soggetto in Jonathan Lowe
No full textIn recent years analytic philosophy has shown a growing interest in ontology and metaphysics, through a path that has led to a clearer awareness of methods and aims of these disciplines. Today the fact that ontology and metaphysics fulfill the aims of determining what there is and why this is the case is generally accepted, but the meta-theoretical debate about their legitimacy, the way they relate to different scientific disciplines and, especially, their implications in other areas of research (primarily in logic and in philosophy of mind) are more controversial. Jonathan Lowe, metaphysician, ontologist and philosopher of mind, is a very active author in this debate. The purpose of these pages is to analyze and to discuss his main theses in metaphysics and ontology and their impact on philosophy of mind, especially as regards the mind-body relation and the ontological status of the subject
German, Joyce, Ulysses
No full textIn the case of languages, English was James Joyce's native language but he was also an accomplished polyglot understanding Latin, Italian, French, Norwegian, some Irish-Gaelic and German. I intend to examine in greater detail the German used in Ulysses and see what connection it has with Joyce. Joyce was fluent in German but I believe that he utilized these Germanic references to complement his characters and themes as well as his highly allusive narrative style. This paper will be divided into two parts. The first part will consist of sections dealing with Joyce's connection to the German language and culture. The second part will consist of a list of all his German allusions in Ulysses.M.A.Includes bibliographical referencesIncludes summaryby Jonathan A. Parke
Historicizing authorship - the run-away author in Jonathan Swift’s A tale of the tub : The attribution debate reconsidered
No full textThe analysis of the author-function in Jonathan Swift’s A Tale of a Tub in this paper is part of a project that traces the changing notions of authorship through the eighteenth century, primarily in relation to satire, parody, and meta-fiction, which are often interpreted with reference to authorial intention. As I argue here, if we are to historicize authorships in a way that elucidates the literary works, a discussion of intentionality is indeed necessary. A versatile approach to authorial intention serves this purpose, seeking “the best position for receiving the utterance of a … particular, historically embedded author” (Levinson), a position which, in the case of satiric and parodic works, includes the rhetorical situation. Criticism of Jonathan Swift’s Tale of a Tub is often informed by the attribution debate around the first, 1704 edition; the fifth, 1710 edition, inscribes these speculations about authorship through the added Apology and footnotes, presumably unmasking the author’s true intent (though not his identity), and providing a key to ironic allusions. However, as I argue here, rather than arresting the carnivalesque game (through the Hack persona) of the Tale proper, these additions feature a new version of the “run-away author," highlighting the “densely allusive intertextual nature” of the text (Griffith). As part and parcel of the dedications and the preface of the first edition, the new texts of the 1710 edition exhibit the kind of self-reflexive irony that characterizes metafictive novels of a later date, reflecting on the authorial activity, on other writers, and on the audience.</p
Gulliver's travels : A tale of a tub, Battle of the books, etc / by Jonathan Swift; edited with introduction and notes by William Alfred Eddy ...
No full textGULLIVER'S TRAVELS : A TALE OF A TUB, BATTLE OF THE BOOKS, ETC / BY JONATHAN SWIFT; EDITED WITH INTRODUCTION AND NOTES BY WILLIAM ALFRED EDDY ...
Swift / by Jonathan Swift (-)
Gulliver's travels : A tale of a tub, Battle of the books, etc / by Jonathan Swift; edited with introduction and notes by William Alfred Eddy ... (I) (1)
Cover (1)
Title page (2)
Titelseite (4)
Contents (6)
Introduction (7)
A Letter From Captain Gulliver To His Cousin Sympson (20)
The Publisher To The Reader (23)
Contents (24)
Travels Into Several Remote Nations ... Part I. (26)
Travels. Part I. A Voyage To Lilliput (27)
Travels Into Several Remote Nations ... Part II. (65)
Part II. A Voyage To Brobdingnag (66)
Travels Into Several Remote Nations ... Part III. (107)
Part III. A Voyage To Laputa, Balnibarbi, Glubbdubdrib, ... (108)
Travels Into Several Remote Nations ... Part IV. (149)
Part IV. A Voyage To The Country Of The Houyhnhnms (150)
A Tale Of A Tube (197)
Introduction (198)
Analytical Table (206)
An Apology (212)
Postscript (219)
John Lord Somers (220)
The Bookseller To The Reader / The Epistle ... Prince Posterity (222)
The Preface (226)
A Tale Of A Tube (231)
The History Of Martin (290)
A Full And True Account Of The Battle Fought Last Friday ... (295)
Introduction (296)
The Bookseller To The Reader (298)
The Preface Of The Author / The Battle Of The Books (299)
A Discourse Concerning The Mechanical Operation Of The Spirit (315)
The Bookseller's Advertisment / Mechanical Operation Of The Spirit (316)
Notes (329
Multiscale Patterning of a Metallic Glass using Sacrificial Imprint Lithography
No full textBulk metallic glasses have been advanced as a means to achieve durable multiscale, nanotextured surfaces with desirable properties dictated by topography for a multitude of applications. One barrier to this achievement is the lack of a bridging technique between macroscale thermoplastic forming and nanoimprint lithography, which arises from the difficulty and cost of generating controlled nanostructures on complex geometries using conventional top-down approaches. This difficulty is compounded by the necessary destruction of any resulting reentrant structures during rigid demolding. We have developed a generalized method to overcome this limitation by sacrificial template imprinting using zinc oxide nanostructures. It is established that such structures can be grown inexpensively and quickly with tunable morphologies on a wide variety of substrates out of solution, which we exploit to generate the nanoscale portion of the multiscale pattern through this bottom-up approach. In this way, we achieve metallic structures that simultaneously demonstrate features from the macroscale down to the nanoscale, requiring only the top-down fabrication of macro/microstructured molds. Upon detachment of the formed part from the multiscale molds, the zinc oxide remains embedded in the surface and can be removed by etching in mild conditions to both regenerate the mold and render the surface of the bulk metallic glass nanoporous. The ability to pattern metallic surfaces in a single step on length scales from centimeters down to nanometers is a critical step toward fabricating devices with complex shapes that rely on multiscale topography for their intended functions, such as for biomedical and electrochemical applications.Peer reviewe
Kromatiska dragspelets uppbyggnad och underhåll
No full textDetta examensarbete bearbetar det kromatiska dragspelets uppbyggnad och dess olika former och modeller, men även underhållet och hur man själv bäst kan underhålla sitt eget dragspel. Meningen med detta arbete är att förevisa hur mångfaldigt ett kromatiskt dragspel kan vara och vilka möjligheter man har att använda dragspel i olika sammanhang, och examensarbetet visar även hur komplext ett dragspel är. Jag har här undersökt olika modellers fördelar, nackdelar och hur dragspel är uppbyggda och hur de utformar sig i denna moderna värld, men även varför ett dragspel är det mest fördelaktiga instrumentet att använda i teorilära och i vanlig musikundervisning. Första delen avhandlar det allmänna sättet att bygga ett dragspel, det vill säga med diskant, bälg och bas, medan den andra delen förevisar några av oändliga olika variationer det finns av det kromatiska dragspelet. Jag kommer att undersöka noggrannare i hur man själv kan underhålla och reparera ett dragspel.This thesis is about the structure of a chromatic accordion and its different types. This thesis will also describe how an accordion can be used in everyday situations. An accordion’s complex structure is also described in the text, and in the first part the general structure of an accordion is described and in the second part the thesis focuses on a few of the many shapes an accordion can take. The methods I will use in this research includes different books, talking to repairmen and teachers,and the author ́sown knowledge as an accordionist.
The purpose of this research was to find out how an accordion is structured and what shapes it can take. The author will also research how to maintain an accordion in the best possible way and how to perform various simple maintenance, which anyone can do at home with some of the most usual things accordionists have in their home. The most common problems of accordions will be in the center of this thesis. A Lasse Pihlajamaa Sirius Bayan accordion will be used in the examples as the center of this thesis.
The results of this research show that the most important part of the maintenance of an accordion is to control the temperature and moisture, keeping the leather in good condition and to tune the instrument regularly. It also shows that an accordion has a lot of different models for both hands and many different possibilities in music
Paranoia and irony in the Anglophone dectective narrative and the novels of Umberto Eco
No full textThe thesis provides a reading of Umberto Eco's three novels, The Name of the
Rose, Foucault's Pendulum, and The Island of the Day Before, that, while it
acknowledges the importance of the Italian literary tradition in which they stand, also
seeks to explain why their author appeals so frequently to literary models outside
Italy, and in particular the Anglo-American detective genre.
Chapter One explains Eco's relationship to the development of Italian literature
through his lifetime. It is noted that Eco is beginning, both in his semiotics and his
fiction, from a position where post-structuralism has been extensively explored by
neo-avant-gardew riters. Eco positions himself alongsides uchw riters as Italo Calvino
and Jorge Luis Borges, who wish to explore the ludic possibilities of working within
structures, while all the time acknowledging the epistemological limitations of so
doing. Eco's chosen structure, more often than not, is the highly defined genre of
the detective story.
From here, the following chapters engage in close readings of the three novels,
with particular emphasis on The Name of the Rose and Foucault's Pendulum,
demonstrating that they explore problems of interpretation central to the detective
narrative. In doing this, they display an intimate knowledge of generic developments
within the detective tradition, and of the philosophical and aesthetic uses made of the
genre by other writers. The embedding of intertextual references to other detective
narratives within Eco's novels is an important factor, as they come together to form
a narrative of epistemological inquiry that itself follows Eco's philosophical progress
through the years. In short, the novels, inter alia, map a systematic inquiry into the
possibility of systematic inquiry. They reserve the space to engage in such an ironic
and self-referential project precisely through their fictionality
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