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«For the ages and for right now»: un’analisi dell’Antigone (2019) 229 di Merlynn Tong, con un’intervista all’autrice
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«For the ages and for right now»: an analysis of Antigone (2019) by Merlynn Tong, with an interview with the author
The article analyzes one of the most recent adaptations of Sophocles’ Antigone, written in 2019 by the young Australian author and actress, Merlynn Tong. After providing a first synthetic evaluation of the reasons for continuity and innovation of the work (among which, the adoption of a Creon woman), the essay explores the drama, scene by scene, studying the operation carried out on the hypotext through a precise comparison with it. The conclusions are then subsequently summarized, with particular attention on the one hand to the actualizing solutions regarding the story of the external space (the city), but above all showing how – while depicting Antigone as an activist (according to a very common redefinition in the rewritings of recent years) – the focus of the drama is the picture of the human bonds between the characters and their suffering: an emotional approach to the tragedy, distant from the eminently political rewritings that the myth of Antigone has developed since the twentieth century. In the Appendix to the article, a short interview with the author is given
Una Ghost story del XVI secolo: la leggenda sulla morte dell'umanista Carlo Valgulio
No full textThe article investigates the origin of the legend about the death of the Brescian
humanist Carlo Valgulio: a seventeenth-century biography by Ottavio Rossi states in fact that Valgulio would have died of fright after seeing a ghost. After examining four aspects (the humanists’ interest in the supernatural; the use of ghosts in the religious dispute between Catholics and Protestants; the content and construction of the story; a pamphlet written by Valgulio against the Dominicans of Brescia in defense of a municipal law against funeral expenses), the hypothesis suggested is that the legend was born as an instrument of defamation of the humanist by his opponents after his death
LA TRAGEDIA GRECA DI III SECOLO. I FRAMMENTI DI MOSCHIONE E SOSITEO
No full textThe thesis work falls within the framework of studies on post-classical Greek tragedy, focusing in particular on authors from the 3rd century BC. The thesis consists of three sections. The first, of a synthetic nature, acts as a historical-literary contextualisation to the following sections and contains a discussion of post-classical Greek tragedy (4th-3rd centuries), dealing with some fundamental issues: 1. state of the art and criticism; 2. review of the main sources; 3. historical-social changes with respect to the 5th century (Panhellenism, the emergence of the actor, the adoption of the Euripides model, the emergence of other alternative centres to Athens, in particular Alexandria); 4. some innovations in the staging of tragedies; 5. main thematic differences from the classical age (mythical variants, new myths, historical and biblical topics); 6. some elements of style (rhetoric, metrics, the evolution of the chorus, etc.); 7. post-classical satirical drama; 8. the influence of post-Euripidean tragedy on Roman tragedy.
The second and third sections contain two studies of the surviving fragments of two particularly significant tragedians of the early Hellenistic age, the Athenian Moschion (TrGF I 97) and Sositheus (TrGF I 99), a native of Alexandria in Troas but active in Athens and Alexandria. Each study consists of an introduction to the tragedian complete with status quaestionis, analysis of the evidence on the author's life and work, and critical review of the sources of the fragments. Of the fragments (12 by Moschion for 72 verses; 5 by Sositheus for 27 verses), a contextualisation is provided (also with a brief discussion of topical elements that may be present in the fragment), the text of the fragment (quoted according to the Snell edition, with minor variations), a complete critical apparatus, the translation and an extensive commentary (lexical, stylistic and thematic) word by word. In addition, a concluding assessment of both tragedians is provided in order to emphasise the main characteristics of the remaining verses and to express the value of their work, which, with (pre?)callimachean aptitude and finesse, constructs literature from the tragic tradition of the classical age (as can be seen from the strongly allusive style), treated, however, with a free aemulatio that constantly varies the models through mechanisms of variatio, contaminations, the introduction of new vocabulary and some innovations in content as well.Il lavoro di tesi si inscrive nell’alveo degli studi sulla tragedia greca post-classica, concentrandosi in particolare su autori del III sec. a.C. La tesi è costituita da tre sezioni. La prima, di carattere sintetico, funge da contestualizzazione storico-letteraria alle successive e contiene una trattazione della tragedia greca post-classica (secoli IV-III), di cui affronta alcune problematiche fondamentali: 1. stato dell’arte e della critica; 2. rassegna delle principali fonti; 3. cambiamenti storico-sociali rispetto al V secolo (panellenismo, emergere dell’attore, l’adozione del modello euripideo, l’affermarsi di altri centri alternativi ad Atene, in particolare Alessandria); 4. alcune innovazioni nello staging delle tragedie; 5. differenze tematiche principali rispetto all’età classica (varianti mitiche, nuovi miti, argomenti storici e biblici); 6. alcuni elementi di stile (la retoricizzazione, la metrica, l’evoluzione del coro, ecc.) 7. il dramma satiresco post-classico; 8. l’influsso della tragedia post-euripidea sulla tragedia romana.
La seconda e la terza sezione contengono due studi dei frammenti superstiti di due tragediografi particolarmente significativi della prima età ellenistica, l’ateniese Moschione (TrGF I 97) e Sositeo (TrGF I 99), nativo di Alessandria in Troade ma attivo ad Atene e ad Alessandria. Ciascuno studio è costituito da un’introduzione al tragediografo completa di status quaestionis, analisi delle testimonianze sulla vita e l’opera dell’autore, rassegna critica delle fonti dei frammenti. Dei frammenti (12 di Moschione per 72 versi; 5 di Sositeo per 27 versi), si fornisce una contestualizzazione (anche con breve trattazione di elementi topici eventualmente presenti nel frammento), il testo del frammento (citato secondo l’edizione Snell, con minime variazioni), un apparato critico completo, la traduzione ed un ampio commento (lessicale, stilistico e tematico) parola per parola. Di entrambi i tragediografi, inoltre, si fornisce un bilancio conclusivo volto a sottolinearne le caratteristiche principali riscontrabili dei versi rimasti e a esprimere il valore della loro opera, che, con attitudine e finezze (pre?)callimachee, costruisce letteratura a partire dalla tradizione tragica di età classica (come si evince dallo stile fortemente allusivo), trattata però con una libera aemulatio che varia costantemente i modelli tramite meccanismi di variatio, contaminazioni, immissione di lessico nuovo e alcune innovazioni anche contenutistiche
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
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Full text linkWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
I drammi di Sositeo. Testimonianze e frammenti
No full textThe volume contains an edition of the tragic and satyr fragments of Sositeus of Alexandria of Troas (3rd century BC). Sositheus was an important author in his era and enjoyed considerable fortune in antiquity. He is remembered among the seven authors of the "Pleiad" of Alexandria in Egypt, the group of the most illustrious tragedians under Ptolemy II. The epigrammatist Dioscorides (AP 7, 707 = 23 Gow-Page) praises him as the third great author in satyr drama together with Pratina and Sophocles, attributing to him an archaizing reform of the genre. His main work, "Dafni (or Litierse)", in addition to presenting a highly original contamination between satyr drama, Euripidean romantic tragedy, comic motifs and bucolic poetry, constitutes a meeting point between post-classical theater and the future Greek novel. The fragments, which arrived by indirect tradition and were largely reported by an anonymous mythographer (Laur. Plut. 56.1, 14th century), are here accompanied by a critical apparatus, translation, contextualizations and extensive textual, thematic and lexical commentary, which updates the few studies available today: among the majors, the now dated dissertation in Latin by Franz Schramm (Münster 1929), the article by Felicia Napolitano published in «Rendiconti della Accademia di Archeologia, Lettere e Belle arti» in 1979 and the commentary by Paolo Cipolla hosted in "Minor poets of satyr drama" (Amsterdam 2003), excellent, but without the fr. 1 by Sositheus. The volume also contains three introductory chapters dedicated to a brief history of studies on Sositheus, to the analysis of the testimonies on the author and to the illustration of the sources reporting the poetic fragments
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