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Un cuento de robots : La hija cibernética de descartes
2021
French philosopher René Descartes is today valued as a forerunner of the studies of human mind, artificial intelligence and robotic systems. Throughout his work there are large references to automata and the possibility of artificial life, as well as an assessment of the differences between rational behavior of human beings and the purely mechanical of animals and automata. In addition to these references, there is a fable about the creation by the philosopher of an automaton that replicated his deceased daughter Francine, a story that is well known among the French and Anglo-Saxon specialists, but not so much in the Spanish ones, which is what settles this short work
Reminiscenze e rielaborazioni avianee in due carmi di Bellino Bissolo (Spec. vite I 5; I 9)
2020
L'intervento è dedicato alla figura e all'opera di Bellino Bissolo, poeta milanese del Duecento, autore di tre testi didattico-moralistici in latino e in distici elegiaci, il «Liber legum moralium», il «De regimine vite et sanitatis» e, soprattutto, lo «Speculum vite». Nella prima parte del testo viene tracciato lo "status quaestionis" relativo all'autore, all'opera e agli studi su di essa. La seconda e più ampia parte è invece fondata sulla lettura e l'analisi di due brevi componimenti dello «Speculum vite» (I 5; I 9), di carattere e impianto narrativo-favolistico, per entrambi i quali si ipotizza una fruizione, da parte del Bissolo, delle favole di Aviano, che tanto successo hanno avuto n…
Shoah y Spielberg: 25 años de un modelo narrativo para contar el Holocausto
2020
La lista de Schindler representó un punto de inflexión en la narrativa sobre el Holocausto. A pesar de que fue bien recibida por crítica y público, algo nada habitual en la trayectoria de un Steven Spielberg al que se tildaba de autor infantil y bueno sólo como realizador de cine de aventuras, la película no lo fue tanto en los círculos intelectuales judíos. La crítica negativa a la fábula cruel pero esperanzada de Spielberg fue ejercida especialmente por el director de otra de las propuestas cinematográficas que desde el extremo opuesto formalmente, también sentó referencia en el género: Claude Lanzmann y su monumental Shoah. Ahora, un cuarto de siglo después, queremos analizar en este art…
Violenza, frustrazione, vanità. La visione pessimistica di Leonardo da Vinci nel «Bestiario» e nelle «Favole»
2019
Nel «Bestiario» e nelle «Favole» di Leonardo da Vinci compare a più riprese una visione della realtà e dei rapporti fra gli individui (qui ovviamente simboleggiati dagli animali e dalle piante) caratterizzata da violenza e sopraffazione: aspetti, questi, che provocano sovente un senso di frustrazione (o di impotenza) in chi li subisce, onde si giunge, da parte dello scrittore, a una conclusione pessimistica, improntata alla considerazione della ineluttabile vanità delle cose. Violence, frustration, vanity. The pessimistic vision of Leonardo da Vinci in the «Bestiary» and in the «Fables» · Leonardo da Vinci’s «Bestiary» and «Fables» often show a vision of reality and relationships between in…
La Dánae burlesca de Pedro Silvestre. Edición anotada / The burlesque Danae by Pedro Silvestre. An annotated edition
2017
Ofrecemos en el presente trabajo la edición de un poema basado en el mito de Dánae que fue compuesto en el siglo XVIII por un autor que firmaba bajo el seudónimo de Pedro Silvestre. El mayor interés de esta composición radica en el hecho de ser una de las escasas muestras que encontramos en la literatura española de una fábula burlesca que desarrolla este mito clásico. Nuestro trabajo ofrece la transcripción modernizada –basada en el único manuscrito existente– de este texto hasta ahora inédito, además de una breve introducción y diversas notas lingüísticas y aclaratorias.Palabras clave: mitología, Dánae y Perseo, fábula burlesca, manuscrito, Pedro Silvestre. Abstract:We offer in this paper…
Prefazione a La fiaba russa
2020
Vladimir Jakovlevič Propp was born in St Petersburg on 17 April 1895 and died in Leningrad on 22 August 1970. As if to say that, although he always stayed in the same city, history passed him passed in front of him, and those places took on a different meaning in the course of (his) time an entirely different sense and flavour. Of course, for a folklorist like him, used to reflecting on the distance of centuries, if not not millennia, those seventy-five years of the 20th century must have been trifles. The fact remains, however, that the heavy epochal changes he witnessed - the Russian revolution and the long Soviet political and cultural regime that followed - have weighed heavily on his w…
Recens. a C. Mordeglia, Animali sui banchi di scuola. Le favole dello pseudo-Dositeo (ms. Paris, BnF, lat. 6503), Firenze, SISMEL-Edizioni del Galluz…
2019
Recens. al vol. di Caterina Mordeglia, Animali sui banchi di scuola. Le favole dello pseudo-Dositeo (ms. Paris, BnF, lat. 6503), pubblicato a Firenze nel 2017 dalla SISMEL-Edizioni del Galluzzo.
On Long-Lasting Humanimal Friendships: Gayness, Aging, and Disease in Lily and the Octopus
2021
This paper analyzes the significance and structural development of the theme of aging in Steven Rowley’s debut novel, the bestselling Lily and the Octopus (2016), a narrative that extends and reinvents the literary approach to manhood through alternate forms of humanimal relations. The novel intersects postmodern conceptions of madness, grief, loneliness, intimacy, and death through a tragicomic exploration of the symmetry between an unlikely (insofar as literary tradition goes) couple: Ted, a gay white male in his early forties, and his senior female dachshund, Lily. As signs of the end of Lily’s life are fleshed out by the cancerous “octopus” that chokes her brain, Ted inadvertently paral…
La fable comme exemple. Autour de "L'art de la transition chez la Fontaine" de Leo Spitzer
2011
The body fables in Babrius, Fab. 134 and 1 Corinthians 12: Hierarchic or democratic leadership in crisis management?
2021
Body metaphors and body fables were frequently used in ancient discourse for social communities and politics. This article will examine a body fable by the Greek fabulist Babrius (Babrius, Fab . 134) that has been overlooked in research so far. It shows a remarkable similarity to 1 Corinthians 12 through the use of central terms such as σῶμα and μέλος or personified speaking body parts such as an eye and head. Even if no literary direct dependence is claimed, the text, which was written at about the same time as 1 Corinthians, sheds light on Paul’s understanding of the body fable. It becomes apparent, however, that the rhetorical function is fundamentally different in the two texts. Whilst …