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"Lo specchio della terra": Down Below e le visioni fantasmagoriche di Leonora Carrington
2020
This article focuses on the phantasmagorical vision that can be observed in Leonora Carrington’s memoir Down Below, a work which mingles autobiography with some elements of fiction to tell about the author’s experience of mental disorder during World War II. The work is disseminated with hermetic messages animated by animal transfigurations of human beings and symbolic descriptions of space which are analysed here with the aim to restore literary value to the conscious phantasmagorical representation of this life experience. The memoir is here considered as an admirable surrealist narration of the young artist’s resistance towards family and social constraints. The rich visual language used…
Challenges concerning argumentative writing in a second language context
2018
The current study is based on parts of the data collected in a quasi-experiment conducted in four English classes of Norwegian upper secondary school students. The purpose of the quasi-experiment was to explore whether a teaching intervention based on systemic functional linguistics and genre-pedagogy would support students in improving their competence in writing argumentative texts in English. The improvement was measured by comparing evaluations of pre-and post-tests. The current study investigates what seemed to be the main challenges for Norwegian students concerning this type of genre in a second language context based on the pre-tests and the evaluations of the pre-tests. The most ch…
Terahertz electrical writing speed in an antiferromagnetic memory
2018
The speed of writing of state-of-the-art ferromagnetic memories is physically limited by an intrinsic gigahertz threshold. Recently, realization of memory devices based on antiferromagnets, in which spin directions periodically alternate from one atomic lattice site to the next has moved research in an alternative direction. We experimentally demonstrate at room temperature that the speed of reversible electrical writing in a memory device can be scaled up to terahertz using an antiferromagnet. A current-induced spin-torque mechanism is responsible for the switching in our memory devices throughout the 12-order-of-magnitude range of writing speeds from hertz to terahertz. Our work opens the…
Traduzione: Ann Heilmann, Mark Llewellyn, "Historical Fictions, Women Re-writing and Re-reading History", in D. Corona, V. Castagna, S. D'Alessandro …
2007
Le storie proibite sono le uniche che valga la pena di leggere, o così avrebbe potuto dire Oscar Wilde. Ma cosa c'è nella storia che suggerisce l'idea del segreto o del proibito? E per quale motivo le autrici contemporanee dovrebbero mostrare un siffatto fervore nel riscriverle? Negli ultimi decenni del ventesimo secolo e nei primi anni del nuovo millennio si è registrata una crescita della narrativa storica nella produzione delle donne: Margaret Atwood, Antonia S. Byatt, Angela Carter, Tracy Chevalier, Margaret Forster, Valerie Martin, Tony Morrison, Michèle Roberts, Katie Roiphe, Adhaf Soueif, Sarah Waters, Jeanette Winterson e molte altre [...] hanno fatto della storia, del coinvolgiment…
Annie Leigh Smith’s Algerian Palermo
2011
Palermo strana e meravigliosa. Lo sguardo inglese e la Golden Shell nella stampa periodica d'Ottocento
2013
Questo volume mette a fuoco le interconnessioni che durante il XIX secolo legano la scrittura odeporica inglese, la pubblicazione e la diffusione del periodico e la rappresentazione della città di Palermo. I resoconti di viaggio analizzati sono pubblicati su alcuni dei periodici britannici più popolari in un arco di tempo che va dal 1800 al 1900, periodo in cui la quasi totalità dei travelogue racconta un itinerario di cui Palermo rappresenta solamente una tappa e che prevedeva la visita dell’intera isola, iniziando e concludendo il percorso nella capitale, o Messina, e proseguendo l’itinerario passando per Alcamo, Calatafimi, Segesta, Erice, Enna, Calatnissetta, Canicattì, Girgenti (l’odie…
Harry Clifton’s On the Spine of Italy: A Year in the Abbruzzi: A Travel-Book or a Political Account?
2008
The article examines a text written by contemporary Irish writer Harry Clifton with a special focus on the peculiarities of its genre: is it a real travel account of his stay in Italy or some narrative written with the aim of reflecting upon Italy during the years of the fall of the Berlin wall, upon religion and Italian life?
IL VIAGGIATORE IRLANDESE CON LA MAFIA E IL VIOLINO.
2008
The language-(in)dependence of writing skills: translation as a tool in writing process research and writing instruction
2014
A pilot study was conducted in which 6 students with L1 German had to produce a German version of a text they had composed in their L2 English. The goals were to explore (a) in what respects the ability of advanced university English students to express themselves in their L2 English differs from their ability to do so in their L1 German, and (b) for which aspects of writing the implementation of translation exercises is useful as a tool to improve writing skills. The methods of data collection used were think-aloud and keystroke logging. In the analysis, special emphasis was placed on text-level errors as opposed to formal, lexical and grammatical errors. In their L1 versions, students wer…
Feminist Perspectives on Teaching Masculinities
2019
The chapter discusses the positive public role of gay and queer masculinities in their intersection with other identity configurations (class, race, and able-bodiedness). It presents an overview of the main perspectives on social construction and representation of homosexual masculinities within educational and academic settings using critical masculinities theory. While challenging homonormativity in research and education representations of the ‘rational man’ and ‘macho ethics’ of male researchers who ‘discover’, ‘conquer’ investigate ‘systematically’ or ‘rigorously’ are analyzed. Criticizing the play of inexpressiveness and emotionlessness objectivity as criterion of academic writing, re…