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“We none of us spoke of money”: Economy in Elizabeth Gaskell’s Novels
No full textEconomy figures in its many aspects throughout Gaskell’s fiction, both within and beyond the mere “cash nexus” that connotes the relations between employers and laboring classes [Mulvihill]. The characters’ lives unfold against the background of industrialism, showing how private experience and historical forces may intersect. In her Manchester novels, Mary Barton (1848) and North and South (1855), the author focuses on the fluctuations in the economy of the 1830s and 1840s, which resulted in poverty and starvation among the workers [Matus]. The absence of money to buy basic essentials and the preoccupation with the cost of living lie at the root of social divisions, which Gaskell proposes to heal by discovering grounds for understanding and sympathy between the classes.
Making her characters act in dramatic circumstances, as protests, riots and strikes, the author records the effects of social transformations on the individual. Cranford (1853) is seemingly far from the public theme: the genteel women who inhabit the village try to preserve traditions against the pressures of progress. Nevertheless, they witness the developments that affect landscape and economy – the construction of the railway is an emblematic example – and they experience the incursion of commerce into their enclosed world. Although they ignore and despise money, their life is paradoxically tied to pecuniary considerations, as the bankruptcy episode shows.
Gaskell is aware of living in an age of transition, and the ending of North and South confirms the possibility of reaching a compromise between financial interests and ethical values: the protagonist, Margaret Hale, inherits property and invests her capital in a business providing new jobs.
Hence, the analysis of the novels reveals the author’s intention to reconcile the poles of domestic and commercial culture
Valutazione comparativa allo Stereomicroscopio dell’effetto di due differenti tipi di curette
No full textValutazione comparativa clinico-microbiologica degli strumenti sottogengivali tradizionali ed innovativi
No full textTerapia Rigenerativa dei difetti parodontali infraossei con amelogenina: Valutazione clinica e radiografica
No full textRadical Reversals: Commerce and Natural Rights in John Thelwall's Farce _Inkle and Yarico, or Ingratitude Rewarded_ (1787)
No full textIn the early months of 1787, young John Thelwall (1761-1834) submitted the manuscript of a two-act farce to George Colman, the well-known playwright and manager of the Haymarket Theatre. A sharp satire of British commercial spirit, institutions and urban culture, the play was silently dismissed, and only returned to its author in 1814. Its tremendously popular subject, however, was reshaped into one of the most successful comic operas of its time, _Inkle and Yarico_, which was penned by the manager’s son, George Colman the Younger, and premiered on August 4 of that same year at Haymarket. In this essay, I will consider how Thelwall’s brief and incisive play encapsulates John Thelwall’s radical politics, exposing the inconsistencies underlying British mercantile ethos, and questioning its very foundations
An American Shakespeare: David Belasco’s arrangement of The Merchant of Venice (1922)
No full textCristina Consiglio explores the role of David Belasco in the
context of eighteenth and nineteenth-century American drama. In
particular, her essay analyses how Belasco arranges The Merchant of
Venice (1922), cutting and condensing it with a view to adapting
Shakespeare’s play to a three-dimensional scenery. As Consiglio
remarks, Belasco’s aim was to bring theatrical truth to Shakespeare’s
poetry. He accordingly presented a wide picture of Venetian life,
bringing to the stage the canals, the bridges, the gondolas and several
real details of Venetian palaces. As the essay points out, though
Belasco had a concern for illusionistic scenic investiture, he discarded
the traditional archeological verisimilitude and, together with his
designer Ernest Gros, created a Venice remote and colorful, romantic
and picturesque. The essay shows how Belasco preferred the use of
single, realistic details as subordinate elements in a harmonious entity in which externals like canals or gondolas had no function, while those specific details were meant to create a concrete and vivid atmosphere
The Dynamic Efficiency of Cognitive Metaphors in Economic Discourse: from The Language of Economy to the Economy of Language
No full textRecent research has intensely focused on the close relationship between Language and Economics (Rubinstein 2000). The relationship has been investigated both in terms of Language of Economics and in terms of Economics of Language: the former includes the whole of features which characterize the economic domain and sub-domains at linguistic level, (e.g. nominalization, metaphors and other rhetorical tropes, terminology, text types and genres), while the latter refers to the study of language from an economic perspective, also involving a way of telling a story through implicit and explicit references to other stories, which may be, or may be not, shared by other participants (Baker 2013). A major role in this bi-directional relationship between Economy and Language is played by cognitive metaphor and other rhetorical tropes, which “shape the conceptual structure of our language.” (Rojo et al. 2013: 12), including our view of economy. In this paper, we adopt a dynamic perspective to investigate economic metaphors; by dynamic perspective, we mean an approach that entails a study of metaphors in their actual context of use, where social, cognitive and affective processes interact. It implies a rejection of the standard theories of cognition based on abstract and amodal representations of entities, events and processes, which ignore human interventions and the space and time context. More specifically, we investigate how the economic theory of dynamic efficiency, i.e. “the capacity of an economic system to stimulate entrepreneurial creativity and coordination” (Huerta de Soto 2009: 29) may apply to the study of economic metaphors, especially those associated with the concepts of movement, progress, creativity, ingenuity, long-term innovation, which, figuratively, represent the ever changing situations affecting the global market in the face of the outburst of financial crises. Methodologically, our study is based on cognitive linguistics (Evans and Green 2006), Resche’s study of economic metaphors (Resche 2013), recent contributions from corpus cognitive linguistics (Arppe et al. 2010; Gries 2012), as well as Jenkins’s principles of transmedia storytelling, in particular continuity, worldbuilding, subjectivity and performance. We show how events and concepts related to the 2008 financial crisis are constructed and explained metaphorically through the dynamic interplay of different media, in particular movies, fiction, comics, video-tutorials
The potential of apulian olive biodiversity: The case of oliva rossa virgin olive oil
Full text linkIn this study, the drupes and virgin olive oils extracted from the Oliva Rossa landrace are characterized. Oliva Rossa is an old landrace part of the autochthonous Apulian olive germplasm for which only few data have been reported till now. During the study, the maturity patterns of the drupes had been followed. Four samplings per year were planned, one every 14 days starting from the middle of October. The pigmentation index, the oil content and the total phenolic content of the drupes were measured. Simultaneously, virgin olive oils were extracted at the lab scale and analyzed for the fatty acid composition, the basic quality parameters and the content of minor compounds. The pigmentation pattern of the drupes was different among the years and, despite this trend, at the third sampling time the stage of maximum oil accumulation was always over. The extracted virgin olive oils had a medium to high level of oleic acid. With colder temperatures, a higher level of monounsaturated fatty acids, oleic/linoleic ratio and antioxidants was observed. The phenolic profile was dominated by 3,4-DPHEA-EDA and p-HPEA-EDA while the volatile profile by (E)-2-hexenal and 3-ethyl-1,5-octadiene
Valutazione comparativa allo stereomicroscopio dell’efficacia di due differenti tipi di curettes per il trattamento della Parodontite
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