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Contro la memoria
No full textTra pochi anni morirà l’ultimo ebreo che ha vissuto la Shoah.
Come tramandarla dopo? Esiste una forma d’espressione efficace per la tragedia?
Alessandro Piperno indaga sul concetto di memoria e i rischi connessi. Per farlo l’autore utilizza l’opera di Proust che viene interpretata in una chiave profetica.
Proust fu il paladino di quei giovani letterati ebrei che alla fine del diciannovesimo secolo scelsero di ripudiare la propria origine. Ma dietro l’apparente antisemitismo si nascondeva una crudele ricerca di autenticità e verità.
Ansia di piacere, di essere bene accolti, di promuoversi socialmente utilizzando tutti gli strumenti della seduzione costituiscono il marchio del vizio congenito che rende insopportabili gli ebrei agli occhi di Proust; vizio da cui egli stesso vuole emendarsi. Conformismo e mascheramento accomunano gli ebrei della Recherche con gli omosessuali così come in essa appaiono: entrambe le ‘razze’ (è così che Proust le considera) sviluppano impressionanti qualità mimetiche in modo da confondersi con l’habitat ostile in cui si trovano fatalmente a vivere.
Attraverso Proust l’autore decifra la retorica della memoria in voga nei nostri giorni che spesso con la celebrazione depotenzia il valore della tragedia. Dalle pagine di Piperno esce fuori che la Recherche è un’opera nichilista in cui la memoria non è conforto, ma dannazione
Il demone reazionario. Sulle tracce del "Baudelaire" di Sartre
No full textBaudelaire, visto attraverso gli occhi critici di Sartre, cui l'opera varia e complessa, la poesia incentrata sulla perfezione musicale dello stile, ha aperto la strada al simbolismo e allo sperimentalismo.
In questo testo l'autore incentra la sua riflessione sul misterioso rapporto di contiguità e diffidenza che lega Baudelaire a Sartre, e cioè il criticato all’esegeta, il demaistriano allo stalinista, il disperato demone ottocentesco al fazioso alfiere della libertà.
Attraverso quest’analisi matura e spregiudicata, tratta le origini letterarie del nichilismo europeo e colloca il poeta maledetto (insieme a Flaubert, a Dostoevskij ed a Heine) tra i massimi a dipingere la formazione spirituale del nulla
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Evidence of heterogenicity of hemochromatosis in Italy
No full textAbstract: Background & Aims: Patients with hemochromatosis show variable phenotype expression. We evaluated the frequency of hemochromatosis gene (HFE) mutations and the contribution of HFE genotype, ancestral haplotype, ethnic background, and additional factors (alcohol intake, hepatitis viruses, and beta-thalassemia trait) to the severity of iron overload in a large series of Italian patients with a hemochromatosis phenotype. Methods: HFE genotype was studied in 188 patients. Phenotype evaluation was available in 153 men and 20 women and was based mainly on iron removed. HFE genotype was determined by a polymerase chain reaction restriction assay and ancestral haplotype through D6S265 and D6S105 microsatellite analysis. Results: The frequency of C282Y homozygotes was 64%, with a decreasing gradient from north to south. C282Y homozygotes showed more severe iron overload than the other HFE genotypes. In the same group, ancestral haplotype was associated with a more severe phenotype. Additional factors may favor the development of a relatively mild hemochromatosis phenotype in patients nonhomozygous for the C282Y mutation. Conclusions: Hemochromatosis in Italy is a nonhomogenous disorder in which genetic and acquired factors are involved. In patients with a single or no HFE mutation, further studies will enable a differentiation between true genetic disorders and interactions between genetic and acquired factors
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
The ancestral hemochromatosis haplotype is associated with a severe phenotype expression in italian patients
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