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Polar Bear in 'Fortitude'. Affective Aesthetics and Politics of Climate Change

2021

In the first season of the television Eco Noir crime series “Fortitude” (2015) the polar bear appears as a sticky object that embodies an ambiguous affective charge as an icon of global warming. This article discusses the ways in which the polar bear evokes viewer affect in the series through two discourses. The first one relates to violence, essentially present in crime narratives, and how the human and nonhuman animal are positioned in relation to global warming, violence and each other. It raises questions of place and belonging in a local and global context and examines how the polar bear is constructed in terms of stranger danger and victimization in relation to human animals and the t…

Prefazione al romanzo di Jumoke Verissimo, Memoria e desiderio

2021

A well established and renowned poet residing in Canada, Jumoke Verissimo debuted with her first novel, A Small Silence, in 2019. The Preface to the Italian edition elucidates how in Verissimo's fictional account of a dissident intellectual released from prison after the end of Abacha's dictatorship, and in his friendship with a young woman studying at the local University, we find a portrait of today's Nigeria trying to survive its post-independence, post-colonial, post-dictatorship era.

Counter-Clock World: How Planning Backwards Helps in Moving Forward in Collapsing Environments

2021

Research on corporate decline and turnarounds as well as the strategic use of history have so far remained two separate research fields. We integrate these two fields with a thought experiment, proposing ways in which strategists can work with, and through time in managing and turning around declines. Our thought experiment involves two very different types of analogies: a textual one from Philip K. Dick’s science fiction novels, on the one hand, and a visual one from Einsteinian relativity science, on the other hand. Inspired and informed by these different conceptualizations of the past and time, we develop four forms of backward strategizing to successfully manage a struggling corporatio…

Recensione a P. Pellini, Il quadro animato. Tematiche artistiche e letteratura fantastica

2005

About the book “Il quadro animato” and more in general about the representation of art in modern fiction.

Female Cyborgs, Gender Performance, and Utopian Gaze in Alex Garland’s Ex Machina

2020

The cyborg as a metaphor for cultural encodings of the interaction between humans and technology has been an accepted trope since the publication of Donna Haraway’s “Cyborg Manifesto.” Alex Garland’s 2015 film Ex Machina shares many of its key themes and motifs with earlier science fiction films, from Fritz Lang’s Metropolis to Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner. A first viewing of the film thus suggests an interpretation that focuses on the film’s portrayal of its female cyborgs Ava and Kyoko as another version of the “pleasure model” in the mode of Lang’s Maria or Scott’s Pris. However, it is the tension between Ava’s intelligence and visual attractiveness and her performance of a female gender …

Clotilde Bertoni, Letteratura e giornalismo Roma, Ed. Carocci - 2009

2010

Journeying Through Space and Time Towards the Sources of Artistic Inspiration: Jeanette Winterson’s Art & Lies (1992)

2009

Baltic Journal of English Language, Literature a Culture, Volume 7

2017

A New Extraordinary Dream: A Study of Late-Qing Foreign Fiction Translations from the Perspective of Titology

2022

In the early stage of the introduction of foreign fiction to Chinese readers, newspapers and magazines played a pioneering role in the development of the discourse on the social role of fiction in modern Chinese society. This is particularly true for Shanghai newspaper Shenbao, which introduced a large number of Western novels, trying to fuel readers’ curiosity while avoiding any possible discomfort caused by foreignising or destabilising content. As a privileged type of paratext and the first element with whom readers came into contact, titles and their translations were key elements for promoting the new literary section and increasing daily sales. By adopting the theoretical framework of…

Trails and Vestiges in the Stories and Travels of Eduardo L. Holmberg venezolano

2010

Este trabajo pretende estudiar la narrativa breve de Eduardo Holmberg, la manera cómo el escritor argentino traza, mediante acotaciones metaliterarias sobre los procesos constructivos del relato, fantasías científi cas y juguetes policiales desde una conciencia fi ccional que asume el estatuto literario como artifi cio y simulación. No sólo en este pliegue metafi ccional se funda el orden fantástico de las fábulas de este escritor, pues de una u otra manera, ese orden se nutre de los juegos alrededor del paradigma de la representación, del poder del simulacro, la pérdida del control narrativo y la posibilidad de una refl exión sobre el límite de la ficción. This paper is an analysis of the …