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: 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 "…
American family culture of the mid- 20th century : Gender roles, marriage and child-parent relationship as portrayed in fact and fiction
2009
J.D. Salingerin romaania The Catcher in the Rye on kutsuttu amerikkalaiseksi klassikkoteokseksi. Sitä on opiskeltu kouluissa kautta Amerikan ja myös muualla maailmalla, mutta samalla myös haastettu oikeuteen ja estetty sen käyttö opetuksessa. Tätä ristiriitaista teosta ja sen kirjailijaa on tutkittu ja niistä on kirjoitettu paljon. Tässä tutkimuksessa mielenkiinnon kohteena oli romaanin välittämä kuva 1900-luvun puolivälin amerikkalaisesta perhekulttuurista, jota ei ilmeisesti juurikaan ole aiemmin tutkittu. Tutkimuksen tarkoituksena oli ennen kaikkea selvittää kuinka romaani esittää sukupuoliroolit avioliiton sisällä, itse avioliittoinstituution sekä lasten ja vanhempien väliset suhteet t…
Writing Oneself into Someone Else’s Story – Experiments With Identity And Speculative Life Writing in Twilight Fan Fiction
2015
Fan fiction offers rich data to explore readers’ understanding of gendered discourses informing the narrative construction of fictional and real-life identities. This paper focuses on gender identity construction in self-insertion fan fiction texts – stories that involve avatars of fan writers – based on Stephenie Meyer’s Twilight novels. Self-insertion fan fiction stories can be considered a form of life writing where authors play with their identity in a virtual context in texts that mix documentary elements and fiction; a combination that is here termed as speculative life writing. While earlier studies have discussed self-insertion fan fiction as a potentially empowering form of resista…