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Il volto nascosto di Dio. Dall’analisi di Barthes della lotta di Giacobbe (Genesi 32,23-33) all’analisi del racconto di Ester
No full textIn 1972 Roland Barthes published a brief analysis of the text of Genesis 32,
traditionally called Jacob Wrestles with the Angel. In that period, the first structural
analysis tools were being tested and among them Barthes used also Greimas’
actantial model. The episode of Jacob’s struggle is interesting because the patriarch
fights against a God who conceals his identity, hiding himself under the guise of a
man, or an angel. Starting from this point, in the article I have tried to ideally
continue Barthes’ analysis, examining the Book of Esther, all built around the idea of
the concealment of identity: God never appears, but he governs the plots of the
world; with wise foresight, Esther hides, as well as her guardian Mordekhài, and
together they defeat their opponents, who would like to eliminate the Jews living in
the kingdom of Ahashveròsh. The hidden identity, later revealed with strategic
wisdom, seems – in the biblical texts– a prerogative of the winners
The slow pace of change in advertising: new family types in advertisements for people carriers
No full textThe aim of this article is to examine in the context of today a theory put forward by Umberto Eco in 1968 (in his book La struttura assente, The Absent Structure). Eco stated that advertising does not increase public understanding and is simply a consolatory art. In this paper I shall analyse a number of advertisements (made between 2009 and 2014) for 5 different models of people carrier to see what type of families are portrayed and how, in order to see if Eco’s theory still holds true. The analyses in fact show that the way families are portrayed in advertising continues to favour traditional models and values, even though there are some indications of social changes that are taking place. In addition, as recent sociosemiotic studies have shown, advertising communication has a dual social and commercial status that obliges it to move slowly: so while it can portray innovations and increase public understanding, this must be done without any destabilizing effects and therefore must always take place very gradually
Indicazioni metodologiche per l'ordinamento dei personaggi mascherati nel Magreb, in Studi in onore di F.Gabrieli, per il suo ottantesimo compleanno, , a cura di R. Traini, Università di Roma-La Sapienza, 1984, pp.237-247
No full textUmberto Eco’s semiotics of the text: Theoretical observations and an analysis of the parable of the banquet
No full textIn this article I have attempted to use Umberto Eco’s semiotics of the text
in order to analyze the famous “parable of the banquet,” which has come down to
us in three versions from the gospels of Luke (14,15–24), Matthew (22,1–14) and
Thomas (logion 64). In particular I have tried to consider (i) the socio-cultural
context, or in other words the Sitz im Leben of the community within which the
parable was written; (ii) the narrative structure of the parable, with the narrative
nodes that stimulate the reader to cooperate in the work of interpretation and to
draw inferences; (iii) the way in which the Model Author is portrayed in the text;
(iv) the kind of Model Reader who is prefigured in the parable. The analysis has
shown how in the parable of the banquet, the original level (deriving directly from
the preaching of Jesus) characterized by a salvationist and social slant is always
overlaid with another level that is hortatory, pedagogical or ecclesiological, and
which takes on different connotations according to the different contexts. Generally
the Evangelists are suggesting to their communities that theymake changes in their
behavior ranging from renunciation of wealth to the resetting of social ties, from a
stance of constant vigilance to the practice of an active faith, from healthy detachment
from worldly frivolity to a rigorous asceticism. Thus the editorial layers reveal
differing narrative nodes in function of particular interpretative responses, different
Model Authors and different Model Readers
La satira grottesca nelle tre ‘povesti’ di Michail Bulgakov: la tragica carnevalizzazione della Russia degli anni Venti
No full textAt the end of 1921 Mikhail Bulgakov, a young doctor from Kiev with literary expectations, finally moved to Moscow. The capital of the new Soviet world is entering into the Nep’s years, featured by the figure of a new social climber, the nepman. Moscow and the entire Russia are changing, by staging a kind of huge Carnival of which Bulgakov chooses to portrait its contradictory and paradoxal nature throughout the instruments of a grotesque satire. The writer intends to represent the relativity and absurdity of situations that cross the threshold of reality to penetrate the world of paradox and absurd, where mistaken identities, amazing discoveries and unlikely experiments may be read as dethronizations of inauthentic heroes, unmasking of false myths, tragi-comic teasing of the authoritarian word.
This paper analyses three examples of the bulgakovian satire in the ‘povesti’ D’javoliada, Rokovye jajca e Sobač’e serdce and, with the aid of Bachtin’s interpretations, it suggests a new reading of the three writings and an insight into the reasons for the choice of the satirical genre in the whole literary work of the writer
Behaviour towards leaching of fly ash from a municipal solid waste incineration plant
No full textAn examination was made of the behaviour towards leaching of fly ash produced by a municipal solid waste incineration plant. The release of heavy metals and chloride and sulphate ions was evaluated by means of leaching solutions of different pH values. The chemical composition and mineralogical characteristics of fly ash leached with water was compared with those of the same fly ash untreated. It was found that the water-fly ash interaction causes a marked reduction in the more soluble salts and the formation of some hydrate products in the fly ash. The leaching test at pH 5.0 with 0.5 M acetic acid applied to fly ash solidified with pozzolanic cement revealed a good degree of stabilization achieved
Release of pollutants from hydrated mixtures of cement and fly ash with a high sulphate and chloride content
No full textMixtures of cement and fly ash from Municipal Solid Waste (MSW), with a high content of sulphate and chloride as well as a large concentration of heavy metals, were appropriately hydrated. In the leaching test using deionised water, these mixtures showed an efficient interaction of the sulphate with the cementitious matrix. The behaviour of chloride release from pastes hardened has shown that an acceleration of the hydration process takes place. This acceleration was particularly intense for the mixtures with an intermediate fly ash content. The release of polluting elements as Cu, Zn, Cd, Pb, Cr(VI) from the solidified mixtures was correlated to the degree of stabilisation of the fly ash
Malte Idrauliche per il Restauro di Strutture Murarie di Opere di Interesse Storico-Architettonico
No full textDue prospettive a confronto sulla post-verità: il «nuovo realismo» e la semiotica
No full textNell'articolo vengono messe a confronto due prospettive sulla "post-verità": la prospettiva del «nuovo realismo» e la prospettiva semiotica. Alla fine vengono discussi dei casi per delineare alcune caratteristiche testuali delle fake-news
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