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Lungo i futuri possibili del poliziesco. The Minority Report di Philip K. Dick
Full text linkIn its rigorous and highly normative framework, the detective story often allows productive analyses on the functioning of its mechanisms and on the role of its elements when it is subjected to structural infringements in order to obtain specific narrative effects. The Minority Report (1956), science fiction story by Philip K. Dick, represents a particular case of ‘science fiction detective story’, a cross between science fiction and the context of the detective investigation, in which the knowability itself of reality and criminal actions change radically, thus providing the starting point for some considerations on how some key elements of the detective story are modified (or how, despite the different approach, they keep their role and function) in a context that represents a substantial and basic infringement of the genre scheme
Partitura di un mistero, tra talento e tecnica. Le dinamiche del sistema musicale di Canone inverso di Paolo Maurensig
Full text linkDrawing widely from his deepest passions, Paolo Maurensig builds his intricate narrative architectures, often characterised by the multiplication and interlocking of story plans with a frequent alternation of narrative voices, starting from a fundamental thematic core that constitutes the main track of development of the story and at the same time a parameter by which to measure the entire fictional experience. In Canone inverso, a 1996 novel, the story revolves around a mysterious violin and the theme of music penetrates deeply into the two protagonists, not only to condition their life events but also to irremediably mark their essence and inner dimension
Alberto Cantoni e il rapporto con il pubblico e il mercato editoriale: fra testo, metatesto ed edizioni
No full textWeakly weighted generalised quasi-metric spaces and semilattices
Full text linkCastellano I, Bruno AG, Zava N. Weakly weighted generalised quasi-metric spaces and semilattices. Theoretical Computer Science. 2023;977: 114129.Motivated by recent applications to entropy theory in dynamical systems, we generalise notions introduced by Matthews and define weakly weighted and componentwise weakly weighted (generalised) quasi-metrics. We then systematise and extend to full generality the correspondences between these objects and other structures arising in theoretical computer science and dynamics. In particular, we study the correspondences with weak partial metrics and, if the underlying space is a semilattice, with invariant (generalised) quasimetrics satisfying the descending path condition, and with strictly monotone semi(-co-)valuations. We conclude discussing, for endomorphisms of generalised quasi-metric semilattices, a generalisation of both the known intrinsic semilattice entropy and the semigroup entropy.(c) 2023 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved
Giochi parodici nella produzione boiardesca
No full textOne of the ways in which Matteo Maria Boiardo made his readers smile – not the most frequent in quantitative terms, but nevertheless present with greater continuity throughout his production – was by quoting and parodying certain excerpts from classical and vernacular authors. This paper will focus on these passages, questioning the contexts and mean- ings of such references: which authors did he recall? How do their vers- es fit into Boiardo’s text? What does their inversion mean? The article aims to observe one of the most important strategies by which the complicity between the author and his audience is expressed: in a non- explicit, cultivated and refined form
Social withdrawal in early childhood: shyness, unsociability and social avoidance
Full text linkTheoretical and empirical literature extensively underline that both the quantity and the quality of peer social interactions and relationships are important components of human life and fundamental contributors to positive children’s social, emotional, and cognitive development (Gazelle, & Ladd, 2003; Ladd, & Burgess, 1999). From early in childhood, establishing and being involved in positive social relationships influence long-term trajectories of well-being, health, and positive adjustment (Rubin, Bukowski, & Parker, 2006; Umberson & Montez, 2015). A lack in the quantity or in the quality of social interactions may negatively alter or impair children’s socio-emotional development (Edwards, & Hans, 2015; Ladd, & Burgess, 1999). Accordingly, children who engage in comparatively infrequent social interactions may ‘miss out’ on these benefits, with potential implications for their long-term socio-emotional adjustment (Caspi, Harrington, Moffitt, Milne, & Poulton, 2006; Kopala-Sibley, & Klein, 2017; Rubin, Coplan, & Bowker, 2009). Nevertheless, some children tend to withdraw from the opportunity to play or socialize with others. The term used to define the process of removing oneself from opportunities for social interactions is social withdrawal (Coplan, & Rubin, 2010; Rubin, et al., 2009). In recent years, researchers have proposed increasingly complex models to describe social withdrawal, shifting from a unidimensional to a multidimensional approach that reflects a range of underlying emotional and motivational substrates (Coplan, Ooi, Xiao, & Rose-Krasnor, 2018). As a result, contemporary researchers now conceptualize subtypes of social withdrawal that 8 can be detected during childhood, that may have different psychological meanings, and appear to be related to different outcomes (e.g., Asendorpf, 1990; Coplan, Ooi & Nocita, 2015; Li et al., 2016). Despite growing interest in the study of social withdrawal in recent years (see Coplan, Ooi, & Baldwin, 2019; Coplan et al., 2018; Sette, Baldwin, Zava, Baumgartner, & Coplan, 2019; Sette, Hipson, Zava, Baumgartner, & Coplan, 2018), to date it remains an underexplored aspect of children's development that still merits further empirical investigation. In this regard, the present dissertation aimed to investigate still unexplored facets of social withdrawal in preschool-aged children. In the first section of this dissertation, the theoretical aspects of social withdrawal will be discussed, with a main focus on definitions, functions, and implications for young children’s emotional development and social adjustment. In the second section, three studies will be presented: Study 1. Shyness, Unsociability and Social Avoidance. Social withdrawal from young children's perspective: preschool children’s understanding and beliefs about hypothetical socially withdrawn peers. Study 2. Shyness and Unsociability. Social withdrawal and protective factors: the positive role of peer acceptance for shy and unsociable preschool children. Study 3. Shyness. Social withdrawal moral emotion: Shyness and Empathy in Early Childhood: Examining Links between Feelings of Empathy and Empathetic Behavior
Applications of dimension theory to embeddability problems in topological data analysis: the case study of the Gromov-Hausdorff distance
No full textZava N. Applications of dimension theory to embeddability problems in topological data analysis: the case study of the Gromov-Hausdorff distance / N. Zava // Algebraic and geometric methods of analysis - 2024 : abstr. of the Intern. sci. conf., Odesa, 27-30 May - 2024 / [Odesa Nat. Univ. of Technology et al.] ; sci comm.: [ Yu. Fedchenko, N. Konovenko et al.]. – Odesa, 2024. – P. 131. – Ref.: 1 tit
Orizzonti mantovani. Spunti e dinamiche paesaggistiche ne L'Illustrissimo di Alberto Cantoni
Full text linkIn the literary production of Alberto Cantoni, short story writer and novelist between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, the novel L'Illustrissimo is highly important both because it is the last publication of the author, from Pomponesco, a small town a few kilometers south of Mantua, both because it summarizes in a single text the different nuances and different directions that his writing has taken over the course of his literary career, also due to a writing and processing time that embraces the entire span of years of his career itself. In the foreground, in addition to the numerous and brilliant characters, one of the protagonists is the Mantuan landscape which, not a simple background, becomes a true literary parameter which in different and significant ways affects the purposes and mechanisms of the novel
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