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And the World Continues to Spin…: Secularism and Demystification in Good Omens
2018
Pratchett’s narratives tend to portray not only multicultural but also multireligious societies. In contrast to earlier writers of fantasy, however, Pratchett writes from a decidedly atheistic point of view, an issue Daniel Scott explores in depth in this chapter. He argues that co-authors Pratchett and Gaiman use Good Omens to perform what, following Rosemary Jackson’s theory of fantasy literature (1989), is a dual subversion; in using biblical prophecy to hold a mirror up to society, they also show the faults and cracks in the mirror itself, sometimes overtly, but mostly by implication. By reducing it to this level of intertextuality, they strip it of its higher or absolute metaphysical v…
Reliability, Validity, and Factor Structure of the Maladaptive Daydreaming Scale (MDS–16) in an Italian Sample
2019
Maladaptive daydreaming (MD) is an extensive fantasy activity that replaces human interaction and interferes with work and interpersonal functioning. In this study, we investigated the nomological network of the MD construct and examined the psychometric properties of the Maladaptive Daydreaming Scale (MDS-16) in an Italian sample. The MDS-16 is a self-report measure composed of 16 items designed to assess MD. Participants in this study were 468 individuals (333 volunteers, 56.8% female; 135 self-diagnosed maladaptive daydreamers, 78.5% female) between 18 and 56 years of age. MDS-16 scores showed good internal reliability. An exploratory factor analysis suggested a 2-factor solution (interf…
Forme e significati dell'architettura nei dipinti, tra Xv e XVIII secolo
2012
I legami e le interazioni tra pittura e architettura hanno origini antiche e propongono durante tutta l’età moderna una immensa casistica di occasioni e momenti di confronto dialettico tra le due arti. Una delle vie di questo dialogo passa per la rappresentazione pittorica di soggetti architettonici. La gamma delle modalità e delle scale di raffigurazione dell’architettura nei dipinti è molto ampia,. Si passa cioè da rappresentazioni nelle quali le immagini architettoniche, siano esse di interni o di esterni, entrano nella finzione pittorica per contestualizzare un racconto, al loro assurgere a protagoniste della scena, sotto diverse forme e con diversi gradi di approfondimento, caricate no…
Spanish History in The Fairy Country: Dealing with Social Trauma in 'Pan's Labyrinth'
2014
Resumen: La celebrada El laberinto del fauno (Del Toro, 2006) pone en escena un cuento de hadas situado en los convulsos tiempos de la primera posguerra civil espanola. La critica ha senalado las dificultades para evaluar la conflictiva relacion entre historia y fantasia en el ambiguo final feliz de la pelicula, y ha tratado de relacionar la moraleja final con el trauma de la Guerra Civil. En este trabajo, preferimos leer el film a la luz de otro trauma social, el que marca el momento de su produccion. Si tenemos en cuenta que la Transicion de una dictadura fascista a una monarquia parlamentaria no ha sido abierta ni pacificamente debatida en las decadas siguientes y que cierto silencio sob…
Translating Polish Fantasy – translational challenges and problems concerning culture‑rooted elements
2015
Tłumacząc polską fantasy – wyzwania i problemy tłumaczeniowe związane z elementami kulturowymi
 Niniejszy artykuł porusza kwestię trudności i problemów, które może napotkać tłumacz podczas przekładu polskich powieści z gatunku fantasy na język angielski. Zwrócono szczególną uwagę na charakterystykę i specyfikę gatunku oraz jego historię w polskiej tradycji literackiej. Druga część artykułu została poświęcona możliwym wyzwaniom towarzyszącym przekładowi gatunku fantasy zaprezentowanym przez Guttfeld [2008] oraz związanym z tłumaczeniem elementów nacechowanych kulturowo omówionym przez Hejwowskiego [2004]. W trzeciej części podano wybrane przykłady elementów kulturowych i ich tłumaczeń z…
Touring the magical North : Borealism and the indigenous Sámi in contemporary English-language children’s fantasy literature
2017
Discourses of exotic Lapland with its indigenous inhabitants, the Sámi, are widely circulated in the tourist industry and also surface in contemporary English-language children’s fantasy fiction. In contrast to the ‘self-orientalism’ of discourses of tourism, where places and people are represented as exotic to a tourist gaze, the portrayals of the North and its inhabitants gain different symbolic meanings in fictional texts produced by outsiders who rely on earlier texts – myths, fairy tales and anthropological accounts – rather than on their own lived experience of the North or indigeneity. This article applies the concept of Borealism to examine cross-cultural intertextuality and discou…
The Biopolitical Logics of Settler Colonialism and Disruptive Relationality
2016
This essay argues that the biopolitical logics of settler colonialism function according to a naturalization in Western thought of politics as a project of hierarchically ordering life in relation to the sphere of politics. Significantly, such a mode of thinking discredits socio-political orders that operate on the basis of a non-hierarchical place-based relationality of all life forms including the land. Through a reading of Foucault and Agamben in their use of Aristotle, I want to show how hierarchy as a principle of the political is already implemented in the premise they draw upon for analyzing the biopolitical. In the same way it remains unrecognized in their analysis of biopolitics, …
Los fenómenos disociativos: una revisión conceptual
2003
En el presente trabajo se lleva a cabo una revisión del concepto de disociación y de los fenómenos asociados, haciendo un recorrido desde las posturas clásicas, como la de Janet, hasta los planteamientos que actualmente se centran en el estudio de los fenómenos disociativos. Se aborda, además el planteamiento acerca de la existencia de un continuo de experiencias disociativas, o modelo dimensional, que actualmente se formula conjugado con un modelo tipológico, y se hace una breve revisión de los estudios que se han centrado en las relaciones entre la variable disociación y ciertas variables que tradicionalmente han sido asociadas a este concepto, como la hipnotizabilidad o la represión. Fin…
“Come, Dark-eyed Sleep”: Michael Field and the Performance of the Lyric as a Radical Fantasy
2021
This article seeks to illustrate how the Michael Fields articulate their Sapphic poetry in Long Ago (1889) not only in keeping with their own Shakespearean aspirations and with Robert Browning’s hybrid formula of dramatic lyrics, but also in connection with Jonathan Culler’s theory of the lyric as a performative genre. Much recent scholarship has broken ground in the rediscovery and reappraisal of the Fields’ literary stature, yet the general critical approach has been divisive in addressing their poetry and their verse dramas separately. Some critics have taken heed of how their lyrics in general exhibit an intrinsic dramatic temper, yet no systematic inquiry has discussed how this lyrical…
Il trono di spade. Geopolitica e ombra del potere nel fantasy.
2014
La serie TV Game of Thrones (GoT) ha ottenuto grande successo di pubblico e di recensioni. Le ragioni sono varie: il budget speso da HBO, la qualità degli attori e delle ambientazioni, la trama cruda e “forte”, in linea con gli standard più recenti, ma sicuramente anche il fascino dell’estremizzazione. GoT ha provocato (anche con l’originale serie di libri di George Martin, ma più ancora con la serie TV) dibattiti filosofici. In Game of Thrones vi sono aspetti connessi strettamente alla cultura e alla geopolitica popolare. L’aspetto che intendo indagare in particolare è il cambio di statuto, iconografia, filosofia e cornice geopolitica nel passaggio dal fantasy tradizionale, che nel campo d…