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“Literature as (a) Detail”

2012

International audience

Alternative discourses in science fiction: human cloning in Glory Season (1993) by David Brin

2005

: The medical FASP genre as a teaching tool: authentic or doctored material?

2011

Abstract: This article falls within the scope of an action-based research project conducted at the Dijon School of Medicine. It focuses on the medical FASP genre as a potential pedagogical tool From December 2009 to April 2010, I asked 10 experienced health care professionals from various fields of medical practice, who had obtained an inter-university diploma in medical English, to fill in a questionnaire. The participants, who did not know the titles of the novels or the names of the novelists, were required to comment on six medically-based extracts taken from thrillers during continuing education classes. The aim of the questionnaire was to check the relevance of the specialized vocabul…

Astronomy and space on the big screen : how accurately has cinema portrayed space travel and other astrophysical concepts?

2016

"Since its origins, cinema has been fascinated with the subject of scientific developments. In particular, astronomy and astrophysics have played an important role in science fiction stories about space travel and exploration. Though the science has not always been accurately represented, in the last decades there has been more and more interest from the cinema industry in approaching scientists to make sure that the stories and concepts shown in films are closer to our true understanding of the universe. In this article, I will explore how cinema has portrayed astrophysical concepts throughout the decades, and how sometimes cinema has even inspired the direction of scientific research."

Recensione di: "Eccessi d'autore. Retoriche della voce nel romanzo italiano di oggi" di Filippo Pennacchio, Mimesis, 2020

2022

Review of: Excesses of the author. Rhetoric of the voice in today's Italian novel, Milan-Udine, research iulM, communication, arts and media, Mimesis, 2020

Parlers populaires et paysans dans la fiction en prose (XVIe-XVIIe siècles)

2018

In fictional narrative and comedy of sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, staging lower-class or country people is a pretext to make up a comic stereotype. One of the main attributes of this stereotype is the use of a low language level, a faulty French, soiled by regionalisms. To this « popular » French language are often associated dull-wittedness, naivety, foolishness, as well as conversations limited on common place subjects. This linguistic standard is often presented on the occasion of a dialogue with a learned, well-read and refined interlocutor. Contrasting standards make laugh and disqualify as rough some uses and turns of phrase of French, at the time when grammatical and stylisti…

A Conference Report from Uses of Fantasy in Changing Media Landscapes Seminar

2016

Conference Report : Worldcon 77 Academic Track

2019

From whodunnit to whydunnit : the transformation of the traditional detective story into a modern crime novel

2008

Cartoline da Palermo

2021

Con migliaia di anni di storia alle spalle, una straordinaria complessità culturale e una posizione geografica all’esatto confine fra il nord e il sud del mondo, la Sicilia è il perfetto laboratorio per iniziative di innovazione sociale e ambientale. Palermo, in particolare, è un luogo urbano adatto a sperimentare modelli diversi, nuove tecnologie e soluzioni, in condizioni molto simili a quel 80% di città del pianeta che non possono permettersi di riprogettare o trasformare rapidamente il proprio tessuto sociale e urbano. Il contributo offre una panoramica sul percorso del laboratorio PUSH nell'ambito del design per l'innovazione sociale e la sostenibilità a Palermo ed espone l'approccio "…