Le simplegadi
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description: On-line academic journal of the Association of Alumni in Modern Languages and Literatures (ALL), University of Udine ISSN 1824-5226 It is the first scientific journal in the field of humanities at the University of Udine and is rated "Class A" by Anvur (Italian National Agency for the Evaluation of Universities and Research Institutes). Le Simplegadi began publication in 2003. The journal seeks to disseminate research in modern languages and literatures, particularly anglophone. The publication is open to innovative contributions which can promote ‘equalitarian’ and collaborative principles and practices towards individuals, societies, literatures and cultures from a multiplicity of points of view (hybridisation of languages and literatures, migrant writing, intercultural and transcultural identities and subjectivities, post-colonial studies, subaltern studies, and related areas). The main aim is to foster critical resistance towards hegemonic and hierarchical models of culture, and positively promote, as viable alternatives, discourse practices of partnership and mutuality. Le Simplegadi is an open access journal, DOAJ approved in recognition of the high level of openness, best practice and high publishing standards. The journal is included in ERIHPlus, AUSTLIT, Harvard, GIGA, Google Scholar, Sherpa/roMEO. Editor-in-Chief Antonella Riem This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.
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items: Another Kind of Death
items: This Thing of Darkness I (Now) Acknowledge Mine
items: More than Language and Literature: Postcolonial Connections and Linguistic Paradigms in Hansda Sowvendra Shekhar’s Indian English Fiction
items: Narrative Form and Palimpsestic Memory in Namwali Serpell’s The Old Drift
items: Depression on a Screen. “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” in the Light of Cognitive Theories of Depression
items: Michael Field: spazi poetici alternativi attraverso ispirazioni ecfrastiche
items: La rinascita della tragedia dallo spirito del blues nel teatro di August Wilson
items: Fra ‘letterario’ e digitale: alle origini delle Digital Humanities
items: Metaphors of Psychological Deterioration: the Case of Depression
items: La luce e l’inchiostro: letteratura e fotografia a confronto
items: “The Origins of Speech Lie in Song”: Music as Language in Coetzee’s Age of Iron
items: "Alice’s Daughter": Co-writing for Recognition, Recovery and Reconciliation
items: Spots of Time: Lectures on the English Literary Tradition
items: Lockdown Beauty: Naturalist Meditations
items: Dystopia
items: Il medico a teatro: Lucius Junius Brutus di “Mad Nat” Lee
items: Alfabetizzazione di adulti immigrati: le donne burkinabé a Spilimbergo
items: Suspended Quotations: A Corpus Analysis of Functions
items: Because the Poet: Pasolini According to Patti Smith
items: Plurivocal Narration as an Empathetic Response of Resistance to Colonial Prejudice. Writing Alterity in The Voyage Out
items: Not to Worry, Not to Be Unduly Concerned
items: “Once Upon a Time” by Nadine Gordimer: A Fairy Tale for Peace
items: Speaking Out: Lawrence Ferlinghetti@100
items: Empathy and Irony in “Keeping Fit” by Nadine Gordimer
items: ‘Her-stories’ per una cultura di pace: Indigo, La tempesta al femminile di Marina Warner tra passato e futuro
items: “Albion beheld hy beauty”. Vala, Jerusalem and Blake’s Holistic Approach to the Cosmos
items: Narrative Empathy in James Bradley’s Clade: Disability, Ecosickness and Hope
items: Building Empathy and Intercultural Citizenship through a Virtual Exchange Project
items: We Are Going by Oodgeroo Noonuccal. Aboriginal Epos, Australian History, Universal Poetry
items: ‘To Inhabit in Tranquility’: Landscape, Vision and Empathy in Ford Madox Ford’s No Enemy

Another Kind of Death
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description: DOI: 10.17456/SIMPLE-151
subject: Poetiche
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creator: Alessia Tamer
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date: 2020-11-15
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starting page: 22
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This Thing of Darkness I (Now) Acknowledge Mine
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description: DOI: 10.17456/SIMPLE-152
subject: Poetiche
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creator: Giovanni Verdoliva
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date: 2020-11-15
publication date: 2020-11-15
starting page: 24
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More than Language and Literature: Postcolonial Connections and Linguistic Paradigms in Hansda Sowvendra Shekhar’s Indian English Fiction
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description: This article investigates the interdisciplinary connections between language and literature in the Indian postcolonial context. I argue that a linguistic approach to contemporary Indian English fiction is useful to unpack complex cultural, social and identitarian questions. As a case study, I analyse some of the short stories from The Adivasi Will Not Dance (2017) by Hansda Sowvendra Shekhar, a contemporary author from a marginalised ethnic group of rural India. My methodology benefits from postcolonial studies, sociolinguistics and critical stylistics, to show how Shekhar reshapes the canon by foregrounding Indian English, borrowings from the Santhali language and registers of specialised discourse. DOI: 10.17456/SIMPLE-155 Keywords Language and literature, Indian English, identity, Hansda Sowvendra Shekhar, Adivasi. Bibliography Auddy, Ranjan Kumar. 2020. In Search of Indian English. History, Politics and Indigenisation. Abingdon: Routledge. Ashcroft, Bill. 2009. Caliban’s Voice. The Transformation of English in Post-Colonial Literatures. London: Routledge. Bandyopadhyay, Sumana. 2010. Indianisation of English. Analysis of Linguistic Features in Selected Post-1980 Indian English Fiction. New Delhi: Concept Publishing Company. Bendi, Jaskiran. 2020. English Language in India. A Dichotomy between Economic Growth and Inclusive Growth. Abingdon: Routledge. Census of India 2011 https://censusindia.gov.in/2011-common/censusdata2011.html (consulted on 13/05/2020). Chakraborty, Abin. 2017. Examining Subalterneity in Hansda Sowvendra Sekhar’s The Adivasi Will Not Dance. Postcolonial Text, 12, 1: 1-15. Chandra, Bipan, Mridula Mukherjee & Aditya Mukherjee. 2008. India since Independence. Gurgaon: Penguin Random House India. Choksi, Nishaant. 2017. From Language to Script: Graphic Practice and the Politics of Authority in Santali-language Print Media, Eastern India. Modern Asian Studies, 51, 5: 1519-1560. Denke, Charles Ngiewih. 2013. The Vulnerability of Imperial Language as…
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creator: Esterino Adami
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Narrative Form and Palimpsestic Memory in Namwali Serpell’s The Old Drift
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description: This essay explores Namwali Serpell’s debut novel The Old Drift (2019) through the lens of ‘palimpsestic memory’, contending that the novel articulates an interconnectedness between memory and migration. Firstly, I will investigate how the tension between aeonic temporality and some paratextual elements that attempt to install order and direct the reader’s orientation mimic and resonate with the intricate motif of the palimpsest. Then, I will illustrate how the alternation between extradiegetic and intradiegetic narration and the format of the multigenerational novel contribute to create a palimpsestic tale where several generations and different stories are inextricably intertwined, generating a spiral pattern where the multiple and invisible trajectories of temporality are refracted and eventually converge. DOI: 10.17456/SIMPLE-159 Keywords Palimpsestic memory, migration, narrative form, postcolonial fiction, allegory. Bibliography Basile, Giambattista. 2007 [1634]. Pentamerone. Detroit: Wayne State University Press. Benjamin, Walter. 1999. The Arcades Project. Cambridge (MA): Belknap Press. Bhabha, Homi. 1992. The World and the Home. Social Text, 31-32: 141-153. Booker, Keith M. 2009. The African Historical Novel. Abiola Irele ed. The Cambridge Companion to the African Novel. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 141-157. Creet, Julia. 2011. Introduction: The Migration of Memory and Memories of Migration. Creet, Julia & Andreas Kitzmann eds. Memory and Migration: Multidisciplinary Approaches to Memory Studies. Toronto: Toronto University Press, 3-25. Deleuze, Gilles. 1990. The Logic of Sense. New York: Columbia University Press. Dery, Mark. 1994. Black to the Future: Interviews with Samuel R. Delaney, Greg Tate and Tricia Rose. Mark Dery ed. Flame Wars: The Discourse of Cyberculture. Durham: Duke University Press, 179-222. Doolittle, Hilda. 1968 [1926]. Palimpsest. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press. Erll, Astrid. 2017. Fictions of Generational Memor…
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creator: Angelo Monaco
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date: 2020-11-15
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starting page: 92
ending page: 106

Depression on a Screen. “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” in the Light of Cognitive Theories of Depression
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description: This article analyses “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” in the light of the American psychiatrist A. T. Beck’s diagnostic criteria and cognitive theories for interpreting and evaluating symptoms and levels of depression. This study aims to show that many symptoms listed in Beck’s Inventory for Measuring Depression (sixteen out of twenty-one) are recognizable – at different levels of signifier and signified – in both the poetical structure and the imagery of the poem, whereas specific aspects included in Cognitive Therapy of Depression (for instance, the cognitive process defined by Beck as “Faulty Information Processing” and two crucial points of this process, “Selective abstraction” and “Arbitrary inference”) are identifiable in some of the most relevant figurative isotopies of the poem. DOI: 10.17456/SIMPLE-154 Keywords Prufrock, Beck, Modernism, psychology, depression. Bibliography Beck, Aaron T., C. H. Ward, M. Mendelson, J. Mock, & J. Erbaugh. 1961. An Inventory for Measuring Depression. Archives of General Psychiatry, 4: 561-571. Beck, Aaron T., A. John Rush, Brian F. Shaw & Gary Emery. 1979. Cognitive Therapy of Depression. New York: The Guildford Press. Calimani, Dario. 1998. T. S. Eliot. Le geometrie del disordine. Napoli: Liguori. Crivelli, Renzo Stefano. 2015. T. S. Eliot. Roma: Salerno Editrice. Eiss, Harry. 2016. The Joker. Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Publishing. Eliot, Thomas Stearns. 1962. An Interview. Grantite Review, 24, 3: 17. Eliot, Thomas Stearns. 2018. The Poems of T. S. Eliot, Volume I, Collected and Uncollected Poems. Cristopher Ricks & Jim MacCue eds. London: Faber & Faber. Goodwin, Frederick K. & Kay Redfield Jamison. 2007 [2nd ed.]. Manic-Depressive Illness: Bipolar Disorders and Recurrent Depression. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Kenner, Hugh. 1978 [1960]. “Prufrock”. Brian Charles Southam ed. “Prufrock”, “Gerontion”, Ash Wednesday and Other Shorter Poems. A Selection of Critical Essays. London: MacMillan, 127-134. Paige, Douglas…
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creator: Angela Leonardi
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Michael Field: spazi poetici alternativi attraverso ispirazioni ecfrastiche
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description: The allure of the connection between literature, journey and the sister arts interlaces with the endeavours of human beings and with the act of writing about it, of transforming it into a story and sharing it with others (Pantini 1999). The poems included in the collection Sight and Song (1892) by Michael Field, male pseudonym of authoresses Katherine Harris Bradley and her niece Edith Emma Cooper, not only manage to celebrate the affiliation between literature and the figurative arts, but they also become a verbal representation of the visual art, namely of that ékphrasis deemed to be as an exchange between visual and textual cultures. In this analysis, the revolutionary ekphrastic inspiration of the two authoresses will validate the possibility of observing art and reality in a different way and translating it into poetic texts so as to allow the rise of that political capability of subverting Victorian identities and social hierarchies. DOI: 10.17456/SIMPLE-158 Keywords Michael Field, ékphrasis, Sight and Song. Bibliography Abbatecola, Emanuela & Luigia Stagi. 2017. Pink is the new black. Stereotipi di genere nella scuola dell’infanzia. Torino: Rosemberg & Sellier. Ashbee, Charles Robert. 1863-1942. 7 letters to Sir William Rothenstein; 1904-1932. Sir William Rothenstein Correspondence and Other Papers, 1887-1957. MS Eng 1148 (32). Houghton Library, Harvard University, https://digitalcollections.library.harvard.edu/catalog? page=2&q=Rothenstein&search_field=all_fields (consulted on 27/04/2020). Barthes, Roland. 1985. L’ovvio e l’ottuso. Torino: Einaudi. Bickle, Sharon. 2008. The Fowl and the Pussycat: Love Letters of Michael Field. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press. Borghi, Rachele & Antonella Rondinone (a cura di). 2009. Geografie di genere. Milano: Unicopli. Butler, Judith. 1993. Bodies That Matter: On the Discursive Limits of “Sex”. New York: Routledge. Butler, Judith. 2004. Undoing Gender. New York: Routledge. Butler, Judith. 2006. Gender Trouble:…
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creator: Carla Tempestoso
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La rinascita della tragedia dallo spirito del blues nel teatro di August Wilson
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description: Born in 1945 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, August Wilson was the most prolific and represented African American playwright of the twentieth century. His Century Cycle, a series of ten plays that chronicle the lives of African Americans from the early 1900s to the late 1990s, is an expression of Wilson’s spiritual realism, a form of drama that, while adhering to some conventions of the Western realist tradition, also introduces elements of innovation inspired by blues music and Yoruba cosmology. This essay analyses the double cultural genealogy of Wilson’s work to show how, despite respecting the Aristotelian principle of mìmesis, his playwriting draws on a quintessentially black aesthetic. In conceiving of theatre as a ritualistic performative context where music and words intertwine, Wilson restored what Friedrich Nietzsche regarded as the authentic spirit of Greek tragedy – the harmony between Dionysian and Apollonian – while at the same time injecting an African American ethos into the Western theatrical canon. DOI: 10.17456/SIMPLE-163 Keywords August Wilson, tragedia, blues, Yoruba, Nietzsche. Bibliography Antonelli, Sara. 2005. Il Black English. Anna Scacchi (a cura di). La Babele americana. Lingue e identità negli Stati Uniti d’oggi. Roma: Donzelli, 145-161. Aristotele. 1998. Poetica. Traduzione e introduzione di Guido Paduano. Roma-Bari: Editori Laterza. Benston, Kimberly W. 1975. Tragic Aspects of the Blues. Phylon, 36, 2: 164-176. Burian, Peter. 1997. Myth into Muthos: The Shaping of Tragic Plot. Patricia Elizabeth Easterling ed. The Cambridge Companion to Greek Drama. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 178-208. Caporaletti, Vincenzo. 2002. Prefazione del curatore. Ring Shout. Rivista di Studi Musicali Afroamericani, 1, 1: 5-10. Christian, Barbara. 1988. The Race for Theory. Feminist Studies, 14, 1: 67-79. Du Bois, William Edward Burghardt. 2015 [1903]. The Souls of Black Folk. Jonathan Scott Holloway ed. New Haven: Yale University Press. Falola, Toyin &…
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creator: Valentina Rapetti
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Fra ‘letterario’ e digitale: alle origini delle Digital Humanities
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description: Father Roberto Busa is widely recognised as the founder of Humanities Computing (HC) because of his pioneering approach to text analysis, which paved the way for computational linguistics. Over the years, this early focus on linguistic analysis has evolved to include new ways of combining humanities with computing. Digital Humanities (DH) provide a common outlook that has a markedly methodological nature and an interdisciplinary focus. The aim of this paper is to review some of the key issues behind the shift from HC to DH, highlighting elements of continuity and/or change. DOI: 10.17456/SIMPLE-162 Keywords Humanities Computing, Digital Humanities, critica e analisi dei testi, rappresentazione della conoscenza. Bibliography Cecire, Natalia. 2011. When Digital Humanities Was in Vogue. Journal of Digital Humanities, 1, 1, http://journalofdigitalhumanities.org/1-1/when-digital-humanities-was-in-vogue-by-natalia-cecire/ (consultato il 2/7/2020). Cuna, Andrea. 2019. Developing an Online Catalogue for the L. P. Tessitori Manuscript Collection. Tessitori Collection. The Indian Manuscripts of the “Vincenzo Joppi” Municipal Library in Udine. Udine: Società Indologica L.P.T., 83-90. Davis, Randall, Howard Shrobe & Peter Szolovits. 1993. What is a Knowledge Representation? AI Magazine, 14, 1: 17-33. Gunkel, Lutz & Gisela Zifoun. 2009. Classifying modifiers in common names. Word Structure, 2, 2: 215-218. Hockey, Susan. 2004. The History of Humanities Computing. Susan Schreibman, Raymond G. Siemens & John Unsworth eds. A Companion to Digital Humanities. Malden (MA): Blackwell, 3-19. Jones, Steven E. 2016. Roberto Busa, S. J., and Humanities Computing. The Priest and the Punched Cards. New York: Routledge. Kirschenbaum, Matthew G. 2010. What is Digital Humanities and What’s It Doing in English Departments? ADE Bulletin, 150: 55-61. Nowviskie, Bethany. 2014. On the Origin of “Hack” and “Yack”, http://nowviskie.org/2014/on-the-origin-of-hack-and-yack/ (consultato il 2/7/2020). Orla…
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creator: Andrea Cuna
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Metaphors of Psychological Deterioration: the Case of Depression
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description: The present article aims at identifying and analysing the linguistic metaphorical behaviours of people living with depressive disorders. To this end, four online fora dealing with mental illnesses were selected in order to gather data on how individuals metaphorically describe their depressive states. The data were interpreted by means of Conceptual Metaphor Theory and Self-determination Theory. Combining a linguistic theory with a psychological one allows to deepen our comprehension of depression and helps diagnose it: linguistic behaviour paves the way for accessing the psychological dimension of individuals while revealing a potential tendency towards harmonic or problematic mental states. DOI: 10.17456/SIMPLE-161 Keywords Depression, conceptual metaphor theory, self-determination theory, online fora. Bibliography Bartczak, Marlena & Barbara Bokus. 2015. Cognitive representations (Metaphorical Conceptualizations) of past, future, joy, sadness and happiness in depressive and non-depressive subjects: cognitive distortions in depression at the level of notion. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 44, 2: 159-185. Beyond Blue: https://www.beyondblue.org.au/get-support/online-forums/depression (consulted on 31/08/19). Boden, Margaret A. 2004. The Creative Mind: Myths and Mechanisms. London-New York: Routledge. Deci, Edward L. & Richard M. Ryan. 2000. The “what” and “why” of goal pursuits: Human needs and the self-determination of behavior. Psychological Inquiry, 11, 4: 227-268. Demjén, Zsófia. 2014. Drowning in negativism, self-hate, doubt, madness: Linguistic insights into Sylvia Plath’s experience of depression. Communication & Medicine, 11, 11: 41-54. Depression Understood: https://www.depression-understood.org/forum/viewforum.php?f=6 (consulted on 31/08/19). Evola, Vito. 2008. La metafora come carrefour cognitivo del pensiero e del linguaggio. Vie della metafora: linguistica, filosofia, psicologia. Chieti: Editore Prime Vie-Sulmona, 55-80. Friedman, Edward S., Ian…
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creator: Cristiana Tonon
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La luce e l’inchiostro: letteratura e fotografia a confronto
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description: DOI: 10.17456/SIMPLE-165
subject: Recensioni
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creator: Angelo Monaco
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“The Origins of Speech Lie in Song”: Music as Language in Coetzee’s Age of Iron
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description: In Disgrace, David Lurie finds preposterous the proposition that “Human society has created language in order that we may communicate our thoughts, feelings and intentions to each other”, privately believing that, on the contrary, “the origins of speech lie in song” (Coetzee 2000: 3-4). In my 2010 book J. M. Coetzee and the Power of Narrative, I included a brief survey of references to music as a type of language in Coetzee’s work. In this paper I will examine my claim in greater depth, seeking musical resonances in his novel Age of Iron, both in his prose and in the form and structure of the novel. I will attempt to account for my impression that despite his reputation for spare, academic prose, Coetzee is a lyrical and impassioned writer, and that musical rhythms and structures are an essential element in his work. DOI: 10.17456/SIMPLE-153 Keywords J. M. Coetzee, Age of Iron, music in literature. Bibliography Clarkson, Carrol. 2009. J. M. Coetzee. Countervoices. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. Coetzee, J. M. 1990. Age of Iron. New York: Random House. Coetzee, J. M. 1992. Doubling the Point. Essays and Interviews. Cambridge (MA): Harvard University Press. Coetzee, J. M. 2000. Disgrace. London: Vintage. Coetzee, J. M. 2001. What is a Classic? Stranger Shores. Literary Essays 1986-1999. New York: Viking. Dooley, Gillian. 2016. “Hades this Place, and I a Fugitive Shade”: Classical Languages and Cultures in J. M. Coetzee’s Age of Iron. English in Africa, 43, 1: 101-108. Jacobs, Arthur. 1958. A New Dictionary of Music. Harmondsworth: Penguin. Macaskill, Brian. 2014-2015. Fugal Musemathematics. In 3 parts: Word and Text, 4, 1 (June 2014): 158-175; 4, 2 (Dec 2014): 115-129; 5, 1-2 (Dec 2015): 235-258. Purcell, William M. 2013. “How Shall I Be Saved?” The Salvation of Mrs Curren in Coetzee’s Age of Iron. Transnational Literature, 6, 1, http://dspace.flinders.edu.au/xmlui/bitstream/handle/2328/27123/How_Shall_I_be_saved.pdf?sequence=1 (consulted on 02/07/2017). Rousseau, J…
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creator: Gillian Dooley
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"Alice’s Daughter": Co-writing for Recognition, Recovery and Reconciliation
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description: DOI: 10.17456/SIMPLE-149 Bibliography Aboriginal Psychological Services. 2017. Local Hero: Aunty Rhonda Collard-Spratt: Does Time Heal All Wounds? Jilya (July) 10: 28-37. Beresford, Q. 2006. Rob Riley: An Aboriginal Leader’s Quest for Justice. Canberra: Aboriginal Studies Press, AIATSIS. Brennan, Bridget. 2017 (May). Stolen Generations Survivor. ABC National TV News. Collard-Spratt, Rhonda & Jacki Ferro. 2017. Alice’s Daughter: Lost Mission Child. Canberra: AIATSIS. Commonwealth of Australia. 1990. Royal Commission into Aboriginal deaths in custody, Report of the inquiry into the death of Ronald Mack Ugle. Canberra. Faktorovich, Anna. Interview with Aboriginal Memoirists: Rhonda Collard-Spratt and Jacki Ferro. PR for People. Seattle, Washington: Xanthus Communications, 32-40, https://view.joomag.com/pr-for-people-monthly-december-2017/0775182001511980361?short (consulted on 23/7/20). Fry, Elaine. 2017. Finding Self Through ‘Lost’ Journey. The West Australian. Perth: Seven West Media. Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission (HREOC). 1997. Bringing Them Home: Report of the National Inquiry into the Separation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Children from their Families. Sydney. Mann, Trisha & Audrey Blunden eds. 2010. Australian Law Dictionary. Oxford University Press. Pilkington-Garimara, Doris. 1996. Follow the Rabbit-Proof Fence. Brisbane: University of Queensland Press. Powley, Kathryn. 2017. Book Review: Alice’s Daughter: Lost Mission Child, Rhonda Collard-Spratt (with Jacki Ferro). Herald Sun. Melbourne: News Corp Australia. Radio National. 2017. Interview with Rhonda Collard-Spratt: Stolen Generations (podcast). Canberra: Australian Broadcasting Corporation, http://mpegmedia.abc.net.au/rn/podcast/2017/05/lms_20170531_0939.mp3 (consulted on 23/7/20). Sewell, Betty. 1990. Carnarvon: Interaction of Two Cultures. North Essendon (Vic): Vital Publications. Shafer, Emma. February 2018. Stolen Child: I Still Suffer from the Trauma. The Courier-Mail. Quee…
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Spots of Time: Lectures on the English Literary Tradition
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description: DOI: 10.17456/SIMPLE-166
subject: Recensioni
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creator: Giovanni Bassi
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Lockdown Beauty: Naturalist Meditations
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description: DOI: 10.17456/SIMPLE-148
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creator: Robert Clark-Majerus
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Dystopia
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description: DOI: 10.17456/SIMPLE-150
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creator: Patrick Early
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Il medico a teatro: Lucius Junius Brutus di “Mad Nat” Lee
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description: The original style and contents of Nathaniel Lee’s production have often been interpreted as indicative of the author’s alleged mental illness. This contribution proposes a new approach to Lee’s works, suggesting that the tragedy Brutus (1680), which contains a sort of nosology of alterations in thought and behaviour, is a liminal text on the border between literature and medical treatise. Lee appropriates the scientific discourse of his time not only to question recent notions of mental disorder, but also to articulate a reflection on the condition of power in the political world. DOI: 10.17456/SIMPLE-156 Keywords Nathaniel Lee, madness, internment, Restoration drama, history of medicine. Bibliography Andrews, Jonathan et al. 1997. The History of Bethlem. London-New York: Routledge. Andrews, Jonathan. 1998. Begging the Question of Idiocy: The Definition and Socio-cultural Meaning of Idiocy in Early Modern Britain: Part 1. History of Psychiatry, 9: 65-95. Armistead, J. M. 1979. Nathaniel Lee. Boston: Twayne. Auchter, Dorothy. 2001. Dictionary of Literary and Dramatic Censorship in Tudor and Stuart England. Westport (CT): Greenwood Press. Bacon, Francis. 1972 [1597]. Of Boldness. Michael J. Hawkins ed. Essays. London: Dent. Brown, Richard. 1983. Heroics Satirized by “Mad Nat. Lee”. Papers on Language and Literature, 19, 4: 385-401. Burton, Robert (pseud. Democritus Junior). 1638 [1621]. The Anatomy of Melancholy: What it is, with all the kinds causes, symptomes, prognostickes & seuerall cures of it. Oxford: Henry Cripps. Chambers, Robert & William Chambers eds. 1844. Cyclopædia of English Literature (Vol. 1). Edinburgh: William & Robert Chambers. Crooke, Helkiah. 1615. Microcosmographia: A Description of the Body of Man. London: Jaggard. D’Aquino, Tommaso. 1969. La somma teologica. Traduzione e commento a cura dei domenicani italiani; testo latino dell’edizione leonina. Vol. XXIV: Incarnazione: b) difetti assunti e implicanze. Firenze: Salani. Danby, Jennifer Renee. …
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creator: Ilaria Natali
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Alfabetizzazione di adulti immigrati: le donne burkinabé a Spilimbergo
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description: Language courses for immigrant women have recently attracted the interest of scholars. A number of cases are cited by literature and studied from both a linguistic and socioeconomic point of view. Immigrant women are vulnerable, especially when they arrive from countries where the gender gap is wider. In Italy, they may experience social isolation, when they are confined to family and childcare. Participating to L2 courses has subsequently not only a linguistic value; it contributes to emancipation and offers a chance for a higher participation to social life. A specific case is represented by Burkina Faso women in Spilimbergo (Pordenone), who in 2010, 2012 and 2015 attended three literacy courses specifically dedicated to them. DOI: 10.17456/SIMPLE-164 Keywords Adult education, literacy, gender equality, L2, Burkina Faso. Bibliography Baldo, Gianluca. 2017a. Plurilinguismo e immigrazione nel pordenonese: il caso di Spilimbergo. Italiano LinguaDue, 9, 2: 121-161. Baldo, Gianluca. 2017b. Una “piccola città”. Plurilinguismo e immigrazione a Spilimbergo. Fabiana Fusco. Le lingue della città. Plurilinguismo e immigrazione a Udine. Roma: Carocci, 213-234. Baldo, Gianluca. 2018. La comunità burkinabé di Spilimbergo: misure lessicali e implicazioni didattiche da campioni di parlato spontaneo. RILA, 50, 1: 37-50. Baldo, Gianluca. 2019. Lessico di alta disponibilità nel parlato spontaneo di stranieri immigrati: i burkinabé a Spilimbergo. Carla Marcato (a cura di). Italiano L2/LS in Friuli. Situazioni, esperienze, applicazioni didattiche. Trieste: LINT, 119-133. Beacco, Jean-Claude et al. 2014. L’integrazione linguistica dei migranti adulti. Guida per l’elaborazione di strategie e la loro attuazione. Italiano LinguaDue, 6, 1: 1-37. Berthelette, John. 2001. Survey Report on the Bissa Language. SIL Electronic Survey Reports, 002(54). Bertolotto, Giulia. 2013. Imparare a leggere e a scrivere in età adulta. Il caso delle donne arabofone analfabete a Torino. EL.LE, 2, 3: 691-709. …
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Suspended Quotations: A Corpus Analysis of Functions
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description: By joining manual analysis and corpus linguistics methods, this paper compares and contrasts the use of suspended quotations in Charles Dickens and Jane Austen. An analysis of two authors whose styles, aims and literary contexts are so different is functional to creating a list of functions typically performed by suspended quotation generally. The study shows that some roles of the suspended quotation reported for Dickens’ novels in previous literature are indeed specific to this writer and his idea of narrative, while others can be considered ‘author-independent’. Furthermore, the current analysis has revealed that suspended quotations lend themselves to a much wider range of functions than those reported and described in the literature thus far. DOI: 10.17456/SIMPLE-157 Keywords Dickens, Austen, CLiC database, POS tagging, semantic tagging. Bibliography Babb, Howard S. 1962. Jane Austen’s Novels. The Fabric of Dialogue. Columbus (OH): Ohio State University Press. Culpeper, Jonathan & Jane Demmen. 2015. Keywords. Douglas Biber & Randi Reppen eds. The Cambridge Handbook of English Corpus Linguistics. Cambridge (UK): Cambridge University Press. Gabrielatos, Costas & Anna Marchi. Keyness: Matching metrics to definitions. Corpus Linguistics in the South: Theoretical-methodological challenges in corpus approaches to discourse studies – and some ways of addressing them. University of Portsmouth, 5 November 2011,http://eprints.lancs.ac.uk/51449/ (consulted on 5/05/2017). Lambert, Mark. 1981. Dickens and the Suspended Quotation. New Haven (CT)-London: Yale University Press. Mahlberg, Michaela. 2012. The Corpus Stylistic Analysis of Fiction or the Fiction of Corpus Stylistics? Joybrato Mukherjee & Magnus Huber eds.Corpus Linguistics and Variation in English: Theory and Description. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 77-96. Mahlberg, Michaela. 2013. Corpus Analysis of Literary Texts. Carol A. Chapelle ed. The Encyclopedia of Applied Linguistics. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 1479-1485. Mahlberg,…
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creator: Francesca Bianchi
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Because the Poet: Pasolini According to Patti Smith
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description: The transdisciplinary dialogue, the rebellious attitude, and the sublimation of dissidence by experimenting new forms as an act of hope are the key features of the relationship between Pier Paolo Pasolini and Patti Smith, who saluted the Italian writer as one of her greatest teachers throughout her entire career, along with Blake, Rimbaud and the Beats. From the poetry of Babel to the lyrics of Easter, passing through the photographic series Pasolini es vie, the eclectic American artist has never ceased to appraise the literary works and movies of this author as a constant source of inspiration, creating a bond that became very important to the audience but was never properly explored by the critics. In terms of reception, one should not forget that this original relationship also led many (especially outside Italy) to discover the figure of Pasolini. This article seeks to investigate Patti Smith’s Pasolini and the works that influenced her most, revealing through an intertextual and interdiscursive approach how the poet contributed to shape the imaginary and spiritual vision of one among the most important lyrical voices in the world today. DOI: 10.17456/SIMPLE-160 Keywords Pier Paolo Pasolini, Patti Smith, literature and music, poetry, lyrics. Bibliography Alighieri, Dante. 2008. The Divine Comedy (trans. C. H. Sisson). Oxford: Oxford University Press. Blake, William. 2007. Poems: Introduction and selection by Patti Smith. London: Vintage Classics. Benjamin, Walter. 2002. Selected Writings. Volume 3: 1935-1938. H. Eiland & M. W. Jennings eds. Cambridge (MA): Harvard University Press. Bloom, Harold. 1997 [1973]. The Anxiety of Influence: A Theory of Poetry. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Bockris, Victor & Roberta Bayley. 1999. Patti Smith: An Unauthorized Biography. New York: Simon & Schuster. Carrera, Alessandro. 2001. La voce di Bob Dylan. Una spiegazione dell’America. Milano: Feltrinelli. Chiriacò, Gianpaolo. 2016. Around the sound: paesaggi e prospettive tra …
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creator: Giulio Carlo Pantalei
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Plurivocal Narration as an Empathetic Response of Resistance to Colonial Prejudice. Writing Alterity in The Voyage Out
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description: This essay proposes that literature is instrumental to the development of an ‘ethics of the empathetic imagination’. Literature illustrates, and often propounds widely shared cultural beliefs. But literature’s association with any cultural system is also manifest a contrario, in the fact that it interrogates and challenges the very logic, codes, and elements of the system, not only at the level of characters’ values and behavior, but also starting from the writer’s special use of language and narrative strategies. The plurivocal quality of complex literature enhances the perception of widely different subject positions and becomes a powerful tool of resistance against prejudice in favour of a sophisticated assessment of alterity. This thesis will be argued also with reference to Virginia Woolf’s The Voyage Out, and special attention will be paid to the novel’s empathetic dismantling of a dominator’s colonial mentality. The antithetical positions of the narrator and most of the characters allows for a scathing and subtle critique of the colonial mentality. DOI: 10.17456/SIMPLE-128 Bibliography Bachmann-Medick, Doris.2017. Alterity - A Categoryof Practice and Analysis. Preliminary Remarks. On_Culture: The Open Journalfor the StudyofCulture, 4: 1-12. http://geb.uni-gies- sen.de/geb/volltexte/2017/13387/ (consulted on 3/06/2019). Batson, C. D. 2009. Two forms of perspective taking: Imagining how another feels and imagining how you would feel. K. D. Markman, W. M. P. Klein & J. A. Suhr eds. Handbook of imagination and mental simulation. New York: Psychology Press, 267-279. Bhabha, Homi K. 1994. The Location of Culture. London-New York: Routledge. Braidotti, Rosi. 2013. The Posthuman. Cambridge: Polity Press. Deleuze, Gilles. 1964. Proust et les signes. Paris: PUF. Deleuze, Gilles. Critique et clinique. Paris: Minuit. Eisler, Riane. 1989. The Chalice and The Blade: Our History, Our Future. New York: Harper & Row. Eisler, Riane. 2002. The Power of Partnership: Seven flelat…
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creator: Angela Locatelli
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Not to Worry, Not to Be Unduly Concerned
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description: DOI: 10.17456/SIMPLE-121
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creator: Riane Eisler
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“Once Upon a Time” by Nadine Gordimer: A Fairy Tale for Peace
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description: Critically acclaimed as one of the most significant and dramatic anti-apartheid testimonies, “Once Upon a Time” by Gordimer is also an astute rhetorical construction. By placing the contentious theme of infanticide at the centre of the narration, and with a touch that is unexpectedly both light and ironic, the author creates a fairy tale that, while meeting the requirements of the genre, also manages to distance itself from this through weight of grief. It is classical tragedy – as the promulgater of a bitter model of peace – that dictates both the form and the content of this brief story, which perfectly mirrors the three Aristotelian unities, with its classical structure and principal arguments drawing on the repertoire of Greek mythology. DOI: 10.17456/SIMPLE-127 Bibliografia Aristotle. 1961. Poetics. New York: Hill & Wang. Bettelheim, Bruno. 1976. The Uses of Enchantment: The Meaning and Importance of Fairy Tales. New York: Knopf. Calvino, Italo. 1988. Sulla fiaba. Torino: Einaudi. Campo, Cristina. 1987. Gli imperdonabili. Milano: Adelphi. Colleran, Jeanne. 1993. Archive of Apartheid: Nadine Gordimer’s Short Fiction at the End of the Interregnum. Bruce King ed. The Later Fiction of Nadine Gordimer. Houndmills-London: Macmillan, 237-245. Gordimer, Nadine. 1977. Flashes of Fireflies. Charles E. May ed. New Short Story Theories. Athens (OH): Ohio University Press. Gordimer, Nadine. 1991. Jump and Other Stories. London: Bloomsbury Publishing. Lazar, Karen. 1992. “Jump” and Other Stories: Gordimer’s Leap into the 1990s. Journal of Southern African Studies, 18, 4: 783-802. Louvel, Liliane. 1994. Nadine Gordimer. Nancy: Presses Universitaires de Nancy. Màdera, Romano e Luigi Tarca. 2003. La filosofia come stile di vita. Introduzione alle pratiche filosofiche. Milano: Mondadori. Pessoa, Fernando. 1984. Una sola moltitudine, II, Ortonimo. Antonio Tabucchi e Maria José de Lancastre (a cura di). Milano: Adelphi. Propp, Vladimir Jakovlevič. 1928. Morfoldgija skdzki. Leningr…
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Speaking Out: Lawrence Ferlinghetti@100
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description: DOI: 10.17456/SIMPLE-123 Bibliography Bevilacqua, Emanuele. 1994. Guida alla Beat Generation. Roma: Theoria. Faas, Ekbert. 1978. Towards a New American Poetics. Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow Press. Ferlinghetti, Lawrence. 1955. Pictures of the Gone World. San Francisco: City Lights. Ferlinghetti, Lawrence. 1958. A Coney Island of the Mind. New York: New Directions. Ferlinghetti, Lawrence. 1961. Starting from San Francisco. New York: New Directions. [Ferlinghetti, Lawrence]. 1963. Penguin Modern Poets 5: Gregory Corso, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Allen Ginsberg. London: Penguin Books. Ferlinghetti, Lawrence. 1968. An Eye on the World. Selected Poems. London: McGibbon & Kee. Ferlinghetti, Lawrence. 1969. The Secret Meaning of Things. New York: New Directions (trad. italiana: Il senso segreto delle cose. Roma: minimum fax, 2000). Ferlinghetti, Lawrence. 1971. Back Roads to Far Places. New York: New Directions. Ferlinghetti, Lawrence. 1973. Open Eye, Open Heart. New York: New Directions. Ferlinghetti, Lawrence. 1976. Who Are We Now? New York: New Directions. Ferlinghetti, Lawrence. 1978. Northwest Ecolog. San Francisco: City Lights. Ferlinghetti, Lawrence. 1979. Landscapes of Living and Dying. New York: New Directions. Ferlinghetti, Lawrence. 1980. A Trip to Italy and France. New York: New Directions. Ferlinghetti, Lawrence. 1981. Endless Life: Selected Poems. New York: New Directions. Ferlinghetti, Lawrence. 1981. The Populist Manifestos. Grey Fox Press. Ferlinghetti, Lawrence. 1984. Over All the Obscene Boundaries. New York: New Directions. Ferlinghetti, Lawrence. 1993. These Are My Rivers: New & Selected Poems. New York: New Directions. Ferlinghetti, Lawrence. 1996a. The Poet as Painter. Dipinti dal 1959 al 1996. Sandra Giannatta- sio (a cura di). Roma: Progetti Museali. Ferlinghetti, Lawrence. 1996b. Poesie. Questi sono i miei fiumi. Massimo Bacigalupo (a cura di). Roma: Newton Compton. Ferlinghetti, Lawrence. 1997. A Far Rockaway of the Heart. New York: New Directions. F…
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Empathy and Irony in “Keeping Fit” by Nadine Gordimer
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description: This essay proposes a close textual analysis of “Keeping Fit”, a story published in 1991 in Jump and Other Stories at a time when South Africa was in a post-apartheid but pre-democratic situation. “Keeping Fit” is arguably one of the most polarised and ironic short stories in the volume. I suggest that the story challenges the polarisations that it installs by bringing about an ironic and carnivalesque dissolution of boundaries while conjuring up a strong sense of the uncanny, which destabilizes its own partitions and differences. While the black protagonist is presented as empathetic and caring, the white couple is described as selfish and indifferent, yet the open ending ironically suggests the possibility of change and renewal. DOI: 10.17456/SIMPLE-129 Bibliography Decety, Jean & Philip. L. Jackson. 2006. A Social-Neuroscience Perspective on Empathy. Cur- rent Direction in Psychological Science, 15, 2: 54-58. Eisenberg, Nancy & Paul A. Miller. 1987. The Relation of Empathy to Prosocial and Related Behaviors. Psychology Bulletin, 101, 1: 91-119. PMID: 3562705. [Gordimer, Nadine] Stephen Clingman ed. 1988. The Essential Gesture: Writing, Politics and Places. London: Jonathan Cape. Gordimer, Nadine. 1992 [1991]. Jump and Other Stories. London: Penguin. Gutleben, Christian & Vanessa Guignery eds. 2018. Nadine Gordimer, Jump and Other Sto- ries. Parcours Critiques. Cycnos, 34, 3. Jacobs, Johan T. 2001. Finding a Safe House of Fiction in Nadine Gordimer’s Jump and Other Stories. Jacqueline Bardolph ed.Telling Stories: Post-Colonial Short Fiction in English. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 197-204. New, William. 2004. Grandchild of Empire: about Irony mainly in the Commonwealth. Vancouver: Ronsdale Press. Rahimi, Sadeq. 2013. The ego, the ocular, and the uncanny: Why are metaphors of vision central in accounts of the uncanny?The International Journal of Psychoanalysis, 94, 3: 453-476, DOI: 10.1111/j.1745-8315.2012.00660.x. Smith, Adam. 2006. Cognitive empathy and emotional empathy i…
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‘Her-stories’ per una cultura di pace: Indigo, La tempesta al femminile di Marina Warner tra passato e futuro
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description: This article offers a reading of Marina Warner’s novel Indigo (1992) along the lines of Riane Eisler’s “Cultural Transformation Theory” in order to point out the crucial role played by narrations and stories in the process of forging individual and collective consciousness and to reflect upon the power of the creative word in a literature of partnership. The novel, a re-writing of Shakespeare’s The Tempest from a feminine perspective, assigns to storytellers, ancient and modern Sybilles, the task of revealing the inextricable connections of peoples and territories, of past and present, in order to explore wifh a contrapuntual approach (Said 1993) those ‘shared histories’ whose awareness represents the essential premise to build a culture of peace grounded in mutual understanding and respect for the Other. DOI: 10.17456/SIMPLE-147 Bibliography Adichie, Chimamanda. 2009. The Danger of a Single Story,https://www.ted.com/talks/chimamanda_ngozi_adichie_the_danger_of_a_single_story (consultato il 01/08/2019). Bogosyan, Natali. 2012. Postfeminist Discourse in Shakespeare’s The Tempest and Warner’s Indigo: Ambivalence, Liminality and Plurality. Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Publishing. Brinzeu, Pia. 2009. The Colour of Intertextuality: Indigo. Nordic Journal of English Studies, 8, 2: 27-36. Cakebread, Caroline. 1999. Sycorax Speaks: Marina Warner’s Indigo and The Tempest. Marianne Novy ed. Transforming Shakespeare: Contemporary Women’s Re-visions in Literature and Performance. New York: St Martin’s Press, 217-235. Connor, Stephen. 1996. The English Novel in History: 1950-1995. London: Routledge. Corona, Daniela. 2001. C’era due volte. La narrativa realistica di Marina Warner. Palermo: Flaccovio. Coupe, Laurence. 2006. Marina Warner. Northcote: British Council. Eisler Riane. 2002. The Power of Partnership. Seven Relationships that Will Change your Life. Novato (CA): New World Library. Eisler, Riane. 2007. The Goddess as Metaphor in the Cultural Transformation Theory. Antonel…
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“Albion beheld hy beauty”. Vala, Jerusalem and Blake’s Holistic Approach to the Cosmos
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description: Moving from the current relevance of Blakean studies and focusing on the two female characters of Vala and Jerusalem, this essay discusses the author’s still debated approach towards nature and femininity. Vala’s role as a terrifying goddess of Nature can be reassessed if read in the light of the symbolism of the Egyptian deity Isis, in its turn associated with the topos of the veil and with the weaving imagery. Also considering the figures of Thel and Lyca, this study is an attempt to demonstrate that Blake’s revolutionary use of the writ- ten and visual media celebrates the necessity of an empathic identification between the Human, the Natural, and the Divine: on the model of ancient Mysteries, this relationship of inter-in-dependence between microcosm and macrocosm can be comprehended only through initiatory revelation. DOI: 10.17456/SIMPLE-139 Bibliography Apuleius of Madauros. 1975. The Isis-Book (Metamorphoses, Book XI). John Gwyn Griffiths ed. and trans. Leiden: E. J. Brill. Assmann, Jan. 1997. Moses the Egyptian: the Memory of Egypt in Western Monotheism. Cambridge (MA): Harvard University Press. Assmann, Jan. 2001. The Search for God in Ancient Egypt. Translated from the German by David Lorton. Ithaca-London: Cornell University Press [1984. Ägypten: Theologie und Fröm- migkeit einer frühen Hochkultur. Stuttgart: W. Kohlhammer]. Barkan, Leonard. 2013. Mute Poetry, Speaking Pictures. Princeton: Princeton University Press. Beer, John B. 1969. Blake’s Visionary Universe. Manchester: Manchester University Press. Beer, John B. 2007. Coleridge the Visionary. Tirril: Humanistic-Ebooks [1969. London: Chatto & Windus]. Blake, William. 1972. Complete Writings. Geoffrey Keynes ed. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Böhme, Jacob. 1651. Signatura Rerum: or the Signature of all Things. London: Printed by John Macock for Gyles Calvert. [1622. Jacob Böhme. De Signatura Rerum oder von der Geburt und Bezeichnung aller Wesen]. Bouwer, Izak & Paul McNally. 1978-1079. “The Mental …
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Narrative Empathy in James Bradley’s Clade: Disability, Ecosickness and Hope
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description: In his latest novel Clade (2015), Australian author James Bradley portrays apocalyptic scenarios in the aftermath of the ubiquitous climate change that is affecting our planet, while following the human conflicts of three generations of the Leith family. And yet, this article argues that the novel privileges an optative mood instead of the traditional collective catastrophe of canonical eco-fiction. To do so, the article scrutinises some formal strategies of narrative empathy, such as character identification and multiple focalisation, which favour the reader’s emotional engagement. In the novel, vulnerable manifestations disclose a profound empathic orientation, addressing an ethics of care that implicates the reader affectively. DOI: 10.17456/SIMPLE-138 Bibliography Bradley, James. 1997. Wrack. London: Vintage. Bradley, James. 1999. The Deep Field. New York: Henry Holt & Co. Bradley, James. 2006. The Resurrectionist. Sydney: Pan Macmillan. Bradley, James. 2015a. Clade. London: Titan Books. Bradley, James. 2015b. The End of Nature and Post-Naturalism: Fiction and the Anthropo- cene, https://cityoftongues.com/2015/12/30/the-end-of-nature-and-post-naturalism-fic- tion-and-the-anthropocene/ (consulted on 21/03/2019). Buell, Frederick. 2003. From Apocalypse to Way of Life: Environmental Crisis in the American Century. London-New York: Routledge. “Clade”. Definition of clade in English. English Oxford Living Dictionaries, https://www.lex- ico.com/en/definition/clade (consulted on 26/03/2019). Coplan, Amy. 2004. Empathic Engagement with Narrative Fictions. The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, 62, 2: 141-152. Coplan, Amy & Peter Goldie. 2011. Introduction. Amy Coplan & Peter Goldie eds. Empathy: Philosophical and Psychological Perspectives. Oxford: Oxford University Press, ix-xlvii. Defoe, Daniel. 2003 [1772]. A Journal of the Plague Year. London: Penguin. Freud, Sigmund. 1956 [1917]. Mourning and Melancholia. James Strachey ed. The Standard Edition of the Complet…
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creator: Angelo Monaco
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Building Empathy and Intercultural Citizenship through a Virtual Exchange Project
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description: The article explores possibilities of creating a space to develop empathy in teaching foreign languages and cultures. It draws upon studies on empathy (Deardoff 2006; Bloom 2016; Guntersdsorfer & Goulbeva 2018), the ideas of intercultural competence and citizenship (Byram 1997, 2008; Byram et al. 2017) and “thirdspace” as theorised by Edward Soja (1996), highlighting the importance of emotions in intercultural education. If we consider the phenomenon of the “spatial turn” in its pedagogical dimension, Soja’s conceptualisation of a “thirdspace” can be connected to the development of an alternative learning space for interlinguistic and intercultural interactions, enhanced and shaped by social relationships, designed through cross-institutional collaborations, and achieved through virtual exchanges. A space that is built in terms of the lived experiences of those who inhabit it can foster empathy. The author presents a virtual exchange project for intercultural citizenship between Italy and the U.S.A. where one of the key objectives is building empathy and allowing the verbalisation of students’ emotional understanding. DOI: 10.17456/SIMPLE-136 Bibliography Ames, Daniel, Lily Benjamin Maissen & Joel Brockner. 2012. The Role of Listening in Inter- personal Influence. Journal of Research in Personality, 46: 345-349. Bennett, Janet M. 2008. Transformative Training: Designing Programs for Culture Learning. Michael A. Moodian ed. Contemporary Leadership and Intercultural Competence: Exploring the Cross-cultural Dynamics within Organizations. Thousand Oaks (CA): Sage, 95-110. Bloom, Paul. 2016. Against Empathy. London: Bodley Head. Breithaupt, Fritz 2017a. Kulturen der Empathie. 5. Auflage. Berlin: Suhrkamp. Breithaupt, Fritz 2017b. Die Dunklen Seiten der Empathie. 3. Auflage. Berlin: Suhrkamp. Byram, Michael. 1989. Cultural Studies in Foreign Language Education. Clevedon: Multilingual Matters. Byram, Michael. 1997. Teaching and Assessing Intercultural Communicative Compete…
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creator: Roberta Trapè
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We Are Going by Oodgeroo Noonuccal. Aboriginal Epos, Australian History, Universal Poetry
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description: The first collection of poetry by an Aboriginal author, Oodgeroo Noonuccal, was published in 1964 by Jacaranda Press. We Are Going embodies key features of Aboriginal literature and can be interpreted as an Aboriginal epos as well as a document in Australian history. Individual stories often painfully interface with the macro-history of white policies towards Indigenous people. This poetical remembering of a recent and traumatic past becomes a form of recovery from trauma itself, since Oodgeroo’s poetics preserve the memory of a much older past, the one of pre-invasion Indigenous culture. This paper aims at analysing Oodgeroo’s poems in this perspective, by focussing on both their epical and historical features, while keeping in mind their specificity as artistic, literary, and poetic texts. The experience of translating We Are Going for its first Italian edition (Oodgeroo 2013) has been greatly instrumental in coming to terms with the richness and significance of the poems. DOI: 10.17456/SIMPLE-132 Bibliography Assmann, Aleida. 2006. Memory, Individual and Collective. Robert E. Goodin & Charles Tilly eds. The Oxford Handbook of Contextual Political Analysis. Oxford: Oxford Tniversity Press, 210-224. Brathwaite, Edward Kamau. 1995. Nation Language. B. Ashcroft, G. Griffiths & H. Tiffin eds. The Postcolonial StudiesReader. London: Routledge, 309-313. Carlson, Keith T., Kristina Fagan & Natalia Khanenko-Friesen eds. 2011. Orality and Literature: Reflections Across Disciplines. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. Carroll, Noël & John Gibson eds. 2011. Narrative, Emotion, and Insight. University Park (PA): The Pennsylvania State University Press. Deleuze, Gilles e Félix Guattari. 1996. Kafka. Per una letteratura minore. Macerata: Quodlibet. Di Blasio, Francesca e Margherita Zanoletti. 2013. Oodgeroo Noonuccal, con We Are Going/E noi andiamo. Trento: Editrice Università degli Studi di Trento, Collana Labirinti. Di Blasio, Francesca. 2005. The Pelican and the Wintamarra…
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‘To Inhabit in Tranquility’: Landscape, Vision and Empathy in Ford Madox Ford’s No Enemy
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description: In Ford Madox Ford’s No Enemy, the mortal threat posed by the war affects the forms and even the possibility of empathy. After showing how he participates in contemporary discourses on Einfühlung, I investigate his musings on the distortions of his sympathetic imagination and his grief for mutilated territories. The aim is to show how rare surreal visions of landscapes untouched by the war offer him the possibility of reconnecting himself with the deepest thoughts, fears and longings of his fellow beings. Recent psychological research on different levels of empathy and its impairment under stress provide the conceptual framework of my analysis. DOI: 10.17456/SIMPLE-130 Bibliography Chantler, Ashley & Rob Hawkes. 2015. War and the Mind: Ford Madox Ford’s Parade’s End, Modernism and Psychology. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. Conrad, Joseph. 1979. Preface. The Nigger of the “Narcissus”. Robert Kimbrough ed. New York: Norton, 145-148. Cooke, Simon. 2008. Unprofitable Excursions: On the Ethics of Empathy in Modernist Discourses on Art and Literature. Astrid Erll, Herbert Graves & Ansgar Nünning eds. Ethics in Culture: The Dissemination of Values through Literature and Other. Berlin:de Gruyter, 153-170. Ford, Ford Madox. 1934. It Was the Nightingale. London: Heinemann. Ford, Ford Madox. 1984. No Enemy. A Tale of Reconstruction. New York: The Ecco Press. Ford, Ford Madox. 1992. The Good Soldier. Thomas Moser ed. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Ford, Ford Madox. 1997. Parade’s End. Gerald Hammond ed. Manchester: Carcanet. Ford, Ford Madox. 1999. War Prose. Max Saunders ed. Manchester: Carcanet. Hammond, Meghan Marie. 2015. Fellow Feeling in Ford’s Last Post: Modernist Empathy and the Eighteenth-Century Man. Ashley Chantler & Rob Hawkes eds. War and the Mind: Ford Madox Ford’s Parade’s End, Modernism and Psychology.Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 63-76. Hammond, Meghan Marie. 2014. Empathy and the Psychology of Literary Modernism. Edinburgh: Edinburgh Univers…
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creator: Laura Colombino
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