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Filippo Pennacchio, Il romanzo global. Uno studio narratologico
Full text linkRecensione di Filippo Pennacchio, Il romanzo global. Uno studio narratologico.Review of Filippo Pennacchio, Il romanzo global. Uno studio narratologico
«Out there in the world»: la violenza del reale nell'America di fine millennio
Full text linkThis essay draws inspiration from two novels and a film realized at the end of the 20th Century, Underworld by DeLillo, American Pastoral by Roth, and Fight Club by Fincher, in order to develop a reflection upon the relationship between reality and fiction, focusing mainly on the depiction of violence. The analysis of formal and structural aspects is alternated with thematic considerations. Each of these three case studies refers to an «out there» chaotic world in contrast to the characters’ ordinary lives, which are perceived as inauthentic. Il saggio prende spunto da due romanzi e un film statunitensi di fine Novecento, Underworld di DeLillo, Pastorale americana di Roth e Fight Club di Fincher, per sviluppare una riflessione sul rapporto tra realtà e finzione prestando particolare attenzione alla tematizzazione della violenza. All’analisi degli aspetti formali e strutturali delle opere si alternano considerazioni di carattere tematico. In tutti e tre i casi emerge un significativo rimando a un mondo «là fuori», caotico e non consolante, contrapposto alle esistenze ordinarie dei personaggi, avvertite come inautentiche.
Storie di rifiuti, rifiuti nelle storie: due prospettive sullo scarto
No full textScrap, as a residual and not easy to place element, is a common topic in a great number of works in contemporary fiction, where it takes on a precise meaning: waste. This paper aims to analyse this theme focusing on some emblematic passages of two maximalist novels published at the end of 20th Century: Underworld, by Don DeLillo, and Infinite Jest, by David Foster Wallace.In the former, Nick Shay’s job consists of the disposal of waste, which becomes something that questions the concept of functionality (Scaffai 139). Moreover, waste becomes the tangible equivalent of adolescent traumas, surfacing all over again. In Infinite Jest, the stories told by the drug addicts who live in Ennet House, the real “scraps” of the novel, represent an effort made by characters to re-elaborate narratively their suffering, giving voice to their own experience. Waste symbolizes the return of the rejected, what was relegated to the margins of the community or characters\u27 lives; it becomes a means to advocate for space in the complex plots of the novels
Introduzione a Afterworlds. Comunicazione e rappresentazione dell'aldilà
No full textIntroduzione al volume 6 (2024) di "Echo. Rivista interdisciplinare di comunicazione
Introduzione a Leggere, (Ri)scrivere e condividere. Vecchie e nuove pratiche di significazione
No full textIntroduzione al volume "Leggere, (Ri)scrivere e condividere. Vecchie e nuove pratiche di significazione", che raccoglie gli Atti del Convegno organizzato dai dottorandi e dalle dottorande del dipartimento LILEC dell'Università di Bologna nel 2021
Whose Reading ? A qui appartient la lecture ? La sémiologie de Barthes et ses perspectives multiples
No full textVol. 1 : Atti del Convegno annuale dell’Associazione di Teoria e Storia Comparata dellaLetteratura, Padova, 14-16 dicembre 2023 / a cura di Simone Carati, Marco Malvestio, Luigi Marfè, Alessandro Metlica, ValentinaVignottoInternational audienc
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
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
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