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Realtà, realismo, straniamento : Auerbach e il romanzo cavalleresco fino a Cervantes
No full textAuerbach’s research, besides exploring the three main fields the author explicitly names (i.e. the succession of different and differently grounded forms of realism in literary fiction, the alternate splitting and melting of styles, the link between literary work and a Christian vision of the world), in various chapters of Mimesis, and particularly in chs. 2, 6, 12, 14 and 20, is also focused, albeit only implicitly, on the developments of a further distinctive feature in Western literature, which is the emergence of subjectivity in the representation of reality. Focusing mainly on the chapter on courtly romance (ch. 6) and on the Quijote (ch. 14), this essay will examine Auerbach’s interpreting work on texts that adopt, in different ways, a ‘subjective point of view’; this kind of interpretation is, in part, unexpectedly similar to the approach of other critics and theorists of literature contemporary to Auerbach, like Bachtin, Américo Castro and Viktor Šklovskij
Shedding light on the black hole: The roll-out of broadband access networks by private operators
No full textSeveral market studies have indicated that the roll-out of broadband has significant economic and social relevance. The investments in broadband infrastructures needed to realise these economic and social benefits are, however, high-risk. This is firstly caused by the fact that the roll-out of access networks is extremely costly and requires high initial investments. Moreover, the multidisciplinary environment and involvement of many actors with diverging objectives and interests cause high complexity. Moreover, the market for broadband is changing fast and continuously. Although broadband has been on the academic research agenda for quite some time, this has as yet not resulted in a structured insight into the decision-making process around the upgrading of broadband networks, seen from the perspective of private operators and taking into account the vast complexity of the surroundings in which this decision-making process takes place in. The objective of this research was to provide a unifying theory combining technical, economic, market-related and regulatory factors with regard to an evolutionary, flexible approach of network upgrading from a decision-maker perspective. The result of this research is a robust, explanatory, parsimonious model for the impact and outcomes of broadband roll-out. This model provides a certain degree of stability in this multidisciplinary, unpredictable and highly dynamic research field.Technology, Policy and Managemen
The relationship between X-ray luminosity and duty cycle for dwarf novae and their specific frequency in the inner Galaxy
No full textWe measure the duty cycles for an existing sample of well-observed,
nearby dwarf novae (DNe) using data from American Association of
Variable Star Observers, and present a quantitative empirical relation
between the duty cycle of DNe outbursts and the X-ray luminosity of the
system in quiescence. We have found that log DC = 0.63(±0.21)
× (log LX(erg s-1) - 31.3) -
0.95(±0.1), where DC stands for duty cycle. We note that there is
intrinsic scatter in this relation greater than what is expected from
purely statistical errors. Using the DN X-ray luminosity functions from
Pretorius & Knigge and Byckling et al., we compare this relation to
the number of DNe in the Galactic Bulge Survey which were identified
through optical outbursts during an 8-d-long monitoring campaign. We
find a specific frequency of X-ray-bright (LX ≳
1031 erg s- 1) cataclysmic variables (CVs)
undergoing DNe outbursts in the direction of the Galactic bulge of
6.6± 4.7{×} 10^{-5} M_{{*sun;}}^{-1}. Such a specific
frequency would give a solar neighbourhood space density of long-period
CVs of ρ = 5.6 ± 3.9 × 10-6 pc-3.
We advocate the use of specific frequency in future work, given that
projects like Large Synoptic Survey Telescope will detect DNe well
outside the distance range over which ρ ≈ const
“Maistre (certa)”. Niveaux de savoir et conception du monde chez Guillaume IX d’Aquitaine
No full textStarting with a study by M. Black (Models and Archetypes, 1958), the author examines the possibility of broadening this heuristic perspective to include literature. In particular, she analyses a text by William IX, in which the troubadour seems identify himself with God
The space density of post-period minimum cataclysmic variables
No full textBinary evolution theory predicts that accreting white dwarfs with sub-stellar companions dominate the Galactic population of cataclysmic variables (CVs). In order to test these predictions, it is necessary to identify these systems, which may be difficult if the signatures of accretion become too weak to be detected. The only chance to identify such "dead" CVs is by exploiting their close binary nature. We have therefore searched the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) Stripe 82 area for apparently isolated white dwarfs that undergo eclipses by a dark companion. We found no such eclipses in either the SDSS or Palomar Transient Factory data sets among our sample of 2264 photometrically selected white dwarf candidates within Stripe 82. This null result allows us to set a firm upper limit on the space density, , of dead CVs. In order to determine this limit, we have used Monte-Carlo simulations to fold our selection criteria through a simple model of the Galactic CV distribution. Assuming a K, the resulting 2 limit on the space density of dead CVs is pc, where is the typical effective temperature of the white dwarf in such systems
Oltre lo specchio: il Joufroi de Poitiers e la cultura lirica del suo autore
No full textCome è stato a più riprese osservato, il Joufroi de Poitiers, romanzo d’autore borgognone collocabile verso la metà del XIII secolo, si ispira molto da vicino alla figura di Guglielmo IX d’Aquitania, grande signore e primo trovatore di cui ci siano giunti i componimenti. Ma a quali materiali si ispira veramente l’autore del Joufroi? Alla vida provenzale conservata, o piuttosto a una più ampia biografia latina perduta, o ad altri testi ancora? La presente ricerca cercherà di mettere in luce quali siano state le effettive fonti del romanzo e di abbozzare un’ipotesi che spieghi le motivazioni di questi recuperi.As has been repeatedly noted, Joufroi de Poitiers, a novel written by a Burgundian author and composed around the middle of the thirteenth century, is based very closely on the figure of William IX of Aquitaine, great lord and first troubadour whose poems have been compiled. But what materials did truly inspire the author of Joufroi? The extant Provençal vida, or rather a lost broader Latin biography, or still other texts? This research will try to shed light on what were the actual sources of the novel and to outline a hypothesis that explains the motivations of these works
Proceedings of the Per Bruun Symposium
No full textHolocene sea level rise, shoreline erosion and the Bruun Rule-overview (J.J. Fisher) The Bruun Rule: A historical perspective (M.L. Schwartz and V. Milicic) Hypothetical shore profiles in response to rising water level (R.N. Dubois) Shoreline erosion, Rhode Island and North Carolina coasts-test of Bruun Rule (J. J. Fisher) An application of the Bruun Rule in the Chesapeake Bay (P.S. Rosen) Bruun's Concept applied to the Great Lakes (E.B. Hands) Enigma of the Bruun's formula in shore erosion (H. Allison) The 11 Bruun Rule", Discussion on boundary conditions (P. Bruun)KWP-collectio
Realtà, realismo, straniamento: Auerbach e il romanzo cavalleresco fino a Cervantes
No full textAuerbach’s research, besides exploring the three main fields the author explicitly names (i.e. the succession of different and differently grounded forms of realism in literary fiction, the alternate splitting and melting of styles, the link between literary work and a Christian vision of the world), in various chapters of Mimesis, and particularly in chs. 2, 6, 12, 14 and 20, is also focused, albeit only implicitly, on the developments of a further distinctive feature in Western literature, which is the emergence of subjectivity in the representation of reality. Focusing mainly on the chapter on courtly romance (ch. 6) and on the Quijote (ch. 14), this essay will examine Auerbach’s interpreting work on texts that adopt, in different ways, a ‘subjective point of view’; this kind of interpretation is, in part, unexpectedly similar to the approach of other critics and theorists of literature contemporary to Auerbach, like Bachtin, Américo Castro and Viktor Šklovskij
La guerra interdetta : "Il campo 29" di Sergio Antonielli
No full textIl campo 29 is the debut as novelist of Sergio Antonielli. It was
published in Milan in 1949 by “Edizioni Europee” and in 1976
by “Editori Riuniti”. The novel tells the personal experience of
imprisonment in British Raj during the Second World War with other
ten thousand Italian officers.
Through the analysis of the text and documents from the archives
of the author, stored in the Centro Apice, I would like to discuss the
techniques of composition that make this work a peculiar case in the
post-world war literary system. Antonielli, forcing himself to overcome
the tragedy suffered, commits to the writing a dual purpose: to avoid
mere “documentarismo” without overindulging in the romance, and
to take the advantage of the exceptional nature of his experience to
create a work that exceed all individual and historical contingencies.
In respect of these moral and stylistic imperatives, the writer refuses
the autobiography and choices a choral intonation, different from
sentimental style, typical of other writers involved in the literature
of war. His critic studies and the introductions, written by author for
two editions, show distinct interpretations about his work and about
typical methods and category of neorealist literature: document,
diary, autobiographical novel.
The story does not give way to political disquisitions or to sentimental
parenthesis, but it consists of representation of the life in prison
camps. A “city of prisoners” comes alive, where coexist vices and
virtues of the normal society, and where the war is banned
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