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Poe: cor científic. Els antecedents de la ciència-ficció
2014
Al hablar sobre los orígenes de la ciencia ficción y la literatura de anticipación, inmediatamente pensamos en los nombres de Herbert G. Wells o Jules Verne, prolíficos autores de finales del XIX y fuente de inspiración de posteriores generaciones. Pocos incluyen a Edgar Allan Poe, autor de principios del mismo siglo y fuente de inspiración de los ya mencionados. Y es que si Verne y Wells fueron los padres de la ciencia ficción, sin duda Poe fue el abuelo.
Les Fleurs bleues de Raymond Queneau : le roman hybride
2015
“How Did Child of Light Save Me?” Engagement with a Children’s Multimodal Game Narrative as Adult Play and Self-Therapy
2021
This chapter investigates the online reception of the Canadian video game Child of Light (Ubisoft, Child of Light. Montreal: Ubisoft Studios. Video Game, 2014) as a space of encounter between imaginary childhoods and experienced adulthoods. Child of Light is a well-selling video game involving a conventional fairy-tale narrative about a young princess Aurora battling against darkness with a party of companions. The game contains narrative elements typical of children’s stories but has been popular among adult players. The focus of this chapter is on a specific case study: an adult male professional game reviewer and his publicly shared online life narrative, in which he discusses his real-l…
The Power of Fiction in Creating a Territory’s Image
2021
The current economic crisis, and its effects on the European sovereign debt, has resulted in a significant reduction in Italian investments in the field of preservation and enhancement of cultural heritage. In fragile contexts, such as Sicily, the contraction of investments has put further into crisis the already weak manage- ment and planning system. Despite this scenario of crisis, in South-Eastern Sicily, the province of Ragusa shows a significant resilience to the crisis also due to the “Mon- talbano effect” and the capability to rethink the traditional heritage policies (Maga- zzino and Mantovani 2012). The paper, based on the analysis of the South-Eastern Sicily case study, reflects o…
L’intreccio, il dettaglio e le cose: un apologo sulla fortuna sovietica di un termine dei formalisti
2022
The term siuzhetnaia proza, or ‘plot-based prose’, is recurrent in Soviet literary debate. Its roots lie in the basic Formalist opposition: if plot is the main device of prose, everything which is not plot must be regarded as motivation. This opposition involves psychology, but also details, i.e. objects (bourgeoisie idols). The term survived in Soviet debate as a euphemism for mass literature, called ‘plot-based literature’ by critics from a range of backgrounds. But is it possible to measure the space that plot occupies in a given work? And what about science fiction, a mass genre where the invention and the depiction of a world is fundamental?
Robots socials. Un punt de trobada entre ciència i ficció
2014
Els robots industrials i els androides de la ciència-ficció, tan diferents fins ara, comencen a confluir gràcies al ràpid desenvolupament de la robòtica social. Atesa la creixent necessitat de mà d’obra en el sector assistencial i de serveis, s’estan dissenyant robots que puguin interaccionar amb les persones, ja sigui atenent a discapacitats i gent gran, fent de recepcionistes o dependents en centres comercials, i àdhuc actuant de mestres de reforç o mainaderes. En aquest context, proliferen les iniciatives per facilitar la inspiració mútua entre tecnociència i humanitats. Qüestions ètiques com la influència de les mainaderes robòtiques sobre el psiquisme infantil, abans tractades en obres…
Social robots: A meeting point between science and fiction
2015
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The sleep of (scientific) reason produces (literary) monsters. : or, how science and literature shake hands
2016
La rao il·lustrada i la imaginacio romantica van ser vistes com dues maneres oposades de concebre l’art i la vida. Ara be, amb la perspectiva que ens atorga la historia, sembla dificil entendre l’una sense l’altra. Com si els malsons de la ciencia no fossin en el fons altra cosa que l’aliment dels monstres romantics. Aquest article analitza l’evolucio de la narrativa fantastica i el naixement de la narrativa cientifica en el segle xix, i l’enfrontament entre allo racional i allo sobrenatural.
Les topologies imaginaires de Lauren Beukes dans Moxyland (2008) et The Shining Girls (2013)
2019
International audience; This article examines two novels published by South African writer Lauren Beukes. More specifically, it explores the way in which the two cities in which the novels are set blur a number of boundaries, thus creating paradoxical, and intermedial, topologies.
Introduzione
2015
"Vittima degli eventi", web film, web serie, fenomeno crossmediale viene analizzato alla luce dei nuovi formati del web, delle nuove eeperienze e pratiche audiovisive