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Alexandre Dumas figlio, La signora delle Camelie. Traduzione, nota al testo, introduzione e postfazione di Marisa Verna. Introduzione e postfazione tradotti in lingua inglese
No full textIl dramma a tesi di Dumas figlio si propone come un teatro “intelligente”, di riflessione morale, in più o meno aperta polemica con il vaudeville e il puro divertissement.
Il volume contiene, oltre a una nuova traduzione del dramma e della prefazione di Dumas fils (edita a scopi didattici nel 2008 presso EduCatt), un capitolo introduttivo nel quale viene indagata la forza mitogena e la canonicità del testo per la cultura europea ed extraeuropea. Il saggio introduttivo si propone di mettere in luce l’intrinseca dualità del testo stesso, dalla quale si è generato appunto il mito: delle due strutture drammatiche presenti nella pièce (quella neoromantica e quella borghese), è la prima, contro ogni previsione dello stesso Dumas figlio a prevalere nei decenni e poi nel secolo successivo alla sua creazione.
Nel saggio finale si propone invece l’analisi di due rappresentazioni considerate cruciali per la storia drammaturgica del testo (poiché la storia scenica di questo dramma è letteralmente immensa, si propone l’analisi di una rappresentazione coeva, e di una novecentesca), in Francia e in Italia. Segue un brevissimo excursus della fortuna scenica della pièce nel mondo, e una bibliografia selettiva.The Lady of the Camellias, by Alexandre Dumas fils
Marisa Verna ed., Edizioni ETS, Pisa 2011
The drame à thèse by Dumas fils appears as a form of intelligent theatre, proposing moral reflections in at times explicit opposition against the vaudeville and the pure divertissement.
Besides a new translation of the drama and of the preface by Dumas fils (previously published by EduCatt in 2008 for teaching purposes), the volume contains an introductory chapter which investigates the mythopoeic force and the canonicity of the text within the European and non-European cultures. The introductory essay aims at highlighting the intrinsic duality of the text which has originated the myth: of the two dramatic structures which make up the pièce the neo-romantic and the bourgeois one the former prevailed in the years and centuries following its creation, contrary even to any prediction of the author himself. The concluding essay analyzes two performances, in France and in Italy, acknowledged as crucial for the dramaturgical history of the text (since the staging history of this drama is immense, the analysis concerns one coeval performance and one from the 20th century). The essay is followed by a brief digression on the international staging success of the pièce and by a selected bibliography
GUADALUPIAN BRACHIOPODS FROM TUNISIA AND TURKEY: SYSTEMATICS AND PALAEOBIOGEOGRAPHIC IMPLICATIONS
No full textIn the present PhD Thesis two Guadalupian brachiopod faunas are described respectively
from succession cropping out at Djebel Tebaga de Medenine, S Tunisia, and from the
Guadalupian lower-middle part of the Pamuçak Formation at Çürük Dağ, Antalya (Turkey). The
study is based on collection already available in Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra “A. Desio”,
Milano and on material newly collected by the writer. The taxonomic study and description of
the brachiopod collections, based on the observations of the macro- and micro- external and
internal morphological features, with critical comparison with the available literature, has
allowed the determinations of 1260 specimens at generic and specific level into 68 species
(including the undetermined ones) and 42 genera; they belong to orders Productida, Orthotetida,
Orthida, Rhynchonellida, Athyridida, Spiriferida and Terebratulida for the Tunisian fauna; to the
orders Productida, Orthotetida, Orthida, Rhynchonellida, Athyridida, Spiriferida, Spiriferinida
and Terebratulida for the Turkish fauna.
Five new species and two new genera are identified and established and are in press in two
publications (Verna et al. in press a, b). Several brachiopod taxa are revised and their diagnostic
characters better identified in order to make their determination, up to now problematic, easier
(i.e. Squamularia Gemmellaro, 1899 and Permophricodothyris Pavlova). In the course of this
research, the Gemmellaro collection of brachiopods from Sosio, Sicily has been also revised in
part.
The stratigraphic range of the Tunisian brachiopods is consistent with the Wordian- early
Capitanian age suggested by the associated fusulinids and conodonts which are the tools on
which the Permian Time Scale is based, allowing the correlation of the International (Global)
with the Tethyan regional scale, particularly for the Guadalupian part.
The age of the Turkish brachiopods coming from the lower middle part of the Pamuçak
Formation is mid-Roadian to Capitanian, based on conodonts, fusulinids and already published
data (Angiolini et al. 2007). The brachiopod record at Çürük Dağ section (Turkey) has
implications to understand the pattern of the end-Guadalupian biotic crisis which is here
represented by highly diversified pre-crisis assemblages terminating rather abruptly and being
followed by Lopingian brachiopod taxa which show a significantly lower biodiversity.
The last part of this study consists of a palaeobiogeographic analysis based on the
comparison of the brachiopod faunas from Tunisia and Turkey originally collected and studied by the writer, with coeval ones described in several publications in the recent and distant past
coming from the successions of Sosio (Sicily), Oman, N Iran, Central Afghanistan, Karakorum,
Salt Range, SE Thailand. This palaeobiogeographic analysis aims to test the palaeogeographic
reconstructions, independently derived from palaeomagnetic data and to derive the possible
dispersal pattern of the brachiopod genera during the Guadalupian. The methods used for this
analysis are cluster analysis and principal coordinate analysis (PCO), based on the similarity
indices of Jaccard and Simpson applied to a presence/absence data matrix (taxa per geographic
areas) of the brachiopod genera coming from Tunisia, Turkey and the other faunal stations
quoted above, using the software PAST (Hammer et al. 2001). The palaeobiogegraphic affinities
of the analyzed faunal stations are in agreement with the Guadalupian palaeogeographic
reconstruction based on palaeomagnetic data of Muttoni et al. (2009) and indicates a consistent
degree of isolation of Tunisia and Sosio from the other regions and strong faunal links between
Turkey and the Gondwanan margins, represented by Oman, Salt Range and S Thailand
Interview of Verna E. Howard
No full textNoted radio evangelist, author and businessman, V. E. Howard was inducted into the Harding College Oral History library on August 14, 1970
Correction to: Performance measurement for offline inspections under variable interactions and inspection errors in low-volume production
No full textIn the published article “Performance measurement for offline inspections under variable interactions and inspection errors in low-volume production. Prod. Eng. Res. Devel. (2021). https:// doi. org/ 10. 1007/ s11740- 021- 01077-9” the order of author's name is given incorrectly. Erratum: Verna Elisa, Genta Gianfranco, Galetto Maurizio & Franceschini Fiorenzo was the Authors list in the article. Corrige: the correct Authors list should be: Elisa Verna, Gianfranco Genta, Maurizio Galetto & Fiorenzo Franceschini. Erratum: the previous citation of the article was: “Elisa, V., Gianfranco, G., Maurizio, G. et al. Performance measurement for offline inspections under variable interactions and inspection errors in low-volume production. Prod. Eng. Res. Devel. (2021). https:// doi. org/ 10. 1007/ s11740- 021- 01077-9”. Corrige: the article should be cited as “Verna, E., Genta, G., Galetto, M., et al. Performance measurement for offline inspections under variable interactions and inspection errors in low-volume production. Prod. Eng. Res. Devel. (2021). https:// doi. org/ 10. 1007/ s11740- 021- 01077-9”. Original article corrected
Verna Becker
No full textMarietta High School Students; studio portrait. Verna Becker (Orian, v. 19, 1937, p. 37)
Ultrastructural analysis of the brachiopod shells of the Saiwan Fm. (Lower Permian, Oman) for isotope studies and paleoclimatic interpretation.
No full textVerna Reese
No full textVernetta "Verna" Reese is pictured her eighth grade at Uintah High School. She was born to Jacob Burton and Esther Reese on June 24, 1927. She married Author L. Holt. She worked for and retired Boeing Aircraft for thirty years. She died December 7, 2009
The comparative ecology of Minuartia verna (L.) Hiern and Thlaspi alpestre L. in the southern pennines, with special reference to heavy metal tolerance.
No full textMinuartia verna (L.) Hiern and Thiaspi alpestre L. are
recognized as relict elements of a preglacial montane flora in the
British Isles and, as such, display a markedly disjunct distribution
pattern. Their present-day distribution shows a close association with
metalliferous mine workings, particularly in the Pennines, where both
species have become prominent components of the flora of calcareous
lead mine wastes. By comparison with M. verna, T. alpestre is more
restricted in its distribution and is a rarer species.
The work reported in this thesis attempted to provide an
explanation for this pattern of distribution in the southern Pennines
on the basis of comparative studies of the autecology and genecology of
the species, their population biology and dynamics in the field and
their responses to competition from other species.
Both field and laboratory studies confirmed that the two
species were highly tolerant of the heavy metals lead, zinc and
cadmium. Short- and long-term solution culture experiments on tolerance and uptake of these heavy metals by a range of populations of both
species are reported. Tolerance to other toxic metals was also
investigated. T. alpestre showed superior tolerance to M. verna in
these experiments, and emerged as a metal-accumulating species. M.
verna by contrast, operated some degree of metal exclusion, but metal
uptake and distribution differed for the various metals in both species
and seasonally. Differences in metal tolerance and uptake characteristics alone could not explain the different local distribution patterns
in the field, as sites of similar metal status are colonized by both
the two species together and by M. verna alone.
A study of inter-population variation in morphological
characters showed considerable genetically-based variation in both
species. M. verna was however more variable. Some of the variation
detected was interpreted as being ecotypic in origin. The contrasting
breeding of the two species and their seed biology are considered to be
major factors in explaining the present-day distributions of the two
species. The tendency for inbreeding in T. alpestre has severely
limited its genetic variability within populations and potential for
spread. Seedling mortality of both species in their natural habitats
is very high, and survival can be related to early shelter effects of
neighbouring plants. Both species, however, emerge as weak competitors
as predicted from their preference for open habitats with much more
bare ground.
The relevance of these studies to the interpretation of the
present-day global distribution of the two species and their evolutionary biology is discussed
The Legacy of Verna E. Pratt.
No full textWhen Ginger Hudson purchased her first Field Guide to Alaskan Wildflowers in 1999, she had no idea she was destined meet the author, Verna Pratt-twelve years later. Today, Ginger is the newsletter editor for the Master Gardeners in Anchorage and secretary of the Native Plant Society. She is enrolled in the UAA MFA Creative Writing and Literary Arts Program to complete her forthcoming publication, The Life and Legacy of Verna Pratt, Alaska's Wildflower Wizard
Sam & Verna
No full textLosing a parent is one of those inevitable moments for which no one is ever truly prepared. For Sam, whose relationship with his mother was never exactly easy, the news of her sudden and accidental death leaves him numb and unsure of how to mourn beyond handling her affairs and attempting to forge on with his life, hand-in-hand with his girlfriend, Arianna. Not long after he buries everything left unsaid along with his mother’s body, however, a series of comical, supernatural experiences clue him in that his mother may be dead, but is far from gone. When Verna returns from the dead as vivacious and intrusive into her son’s life as she was when she was alive, her newfound abilities as a ghost and her mysterious second chance to experience the world and spend time with Sam tear his life asunder. With good intentions and terrible execution, Sam forges onward, hell-bent on doing right by his mother while simultaneously setting her up to haunt and be happy in a way that he failed to while she lived. Sam & Verna takes every trope of every ghost story, horror movie, and mama’s boy tale and twists them into a comic farce with heart (that maybe doesn’t beat) and sass that refuses to remain silent, even in the face of death.M.F.A.by Alexander Rui
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