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Tragedia griega: una metáfora de debate público y participación democrática
2019
Athenian citizens deliberate in the assembly, but the theatre also becomes a place for public debate. In addition to being a consequence of economic or cultural aspects, democracy is a consequence of the development of a democratic imaginary. Located in that imaginary, Greek tragedies, regarded as «democratic myths», work to reaffirm Athenian democracy. Far from being dogmatic, the tragic myth explores the contradictions of social and personal life and implicitly or explicitly seeks their correction. This dramatic genre encourages participation from the spectator (citizen) that greatly exceeds the schematic reduction in Aristotelian theory of catharsis. Greek tragedy proposes the existence …
Obras de ficción, formas de conciencia y literatura
2017
espanol"Relatar lo ocurrido como invencion: una introduccion a la filosofia de la ficcion contemporanea (2016a)" ofrece al lector en castellano una magnifica oportunidad para familiarizarse con algunos aspectos centrales de la filosofia del lenguaje contemporanea y sus implicaciones para la teoria de la ficcion. Garcia-Carpintero recorre los argumentos fundamentales en favor y en contra de cada una de las posiciones relevantes, y nos propone finalmente un analisis alternativo de la norma de la ficcion y una teoria neofregeana de los terminos referenciales que logra esquivar algunas objeciones tradicionales. Esta discusion incluye, no obstante, dos objeciones a su norma de la ficcion: una se…
Images of the health emergency in contemporary poetry
2021
Pictures portraying the health emergency around the world, such as those of the potter’s field in Hart Island, of the field hospitals in New York or of the column of military trucks transporting the coffins of COVID-19 victims in Bergamo, had worldwide resonance. This research investigates their metaphorical value in two recent poems: Plaguey Hill by Paul Muldoon and Requiem per una casa di riposo lombarda (Requiem for a Lombard Rest Home) by Fabio Pusterla. The preliminary aim is a complete analysis of the two poems. Thereafter, I will focus on the metaphorical function of the aforementioned pictures. In Muldoon, they convey a new sense of community, and also work on a meta literary level,…
Nación, emoción y fantasía. La España melodramática de Ayguals de Izco = Nation, Emotion and Fantasy. Ayguals de Izco's Melodramatic Spain
2017
El artículo analiza las novelas por entregas de Wenceslao Ayguals de Izco (1801-1873) desde su dimensión melodramática para señalas de qué modo participaron en la creación de los imaginarios, las narrativas sociales y políticas y la "comunidad emocional" del radicalismo democrático español de mediados del siglo XIX. Posteriormente examino una serie de "fantasías nacionales" que se repiten con insistencia en estas novelas melodramáticas: la unión matrimonial como metáfora de la plenitud nacional, el mártir por la patria y el "ángel de salvación" que socorre a los desfavorecidos. Todas estas fantasías se fundan en la diferencia sexual (al tiempo que la construyen) y permiten la identificación…
Superheroes, Social Responsibility, and the Metaphor of Gods in Mark Waid and Alex Ross’s Kingdom Come
2015
Some decades ago, Umberto Eco, in » The Myth of Superman, « pointed out the paradoxical nature of the all-powerful superhero. » Superman, « Eco notes, » is practically omnipotent; « consequently » one could expect the most bewildering political, economic, and technological upheavals in the world « from Superman – or any other › practically ‹ omnipotent superhero. But no such transformations occur in the narratives.
Puppeteering as a metaphor for unpacking power in participatory action research on climate change and health
2021
The health impacts of climate change are distributed inequitably, with marginalized communities typically facing the direst consequences. However, the concerns of the marginalized remain comparatively invisible in research, policy and practice. Participatory action research (PAR) has the potential to centre these concerns, but due to unequal power relations among research participants, the approaches often fall short of their emancipatory ideals. To unpack how power influences the dynamics of representation in PAR, this paper presents an analytical framework using the metaphor of ‘puppeteering’. Puppeteering is a metaphor for how a researcher-activist resonates and catalyses both the voices…
Ricerche metaforiche. Verso un'ipotesi pluralista e deflazionista sulla metafora.
2022
Cosa “significa” una metafora? Davidson e le Teorie Neodavidsoniane sulla metafora
2022
In this paper I will discuss Davidson's theory of metaphor and the neodavidsonian theories of metaphor. I will show points of force and points of weakness of this kind of account of metaphor and I will propose a synthetic perspective on metaphor that brings together "imagistic theories of metaphor" with "cognitive theories of metaphor".
The conceptualisation of austerity in the Portuguese, Spanish and Irish press
2017
The aim of this chapter is to analyse the conceptualisation of austerity in three different European cultures by identifying metaphorical expressions used in one representative newspaper of the Portuguese, the Spanish and the Irish press between 2011 and 2012. The metaphors were identified by searching for three keywords from the field of economy and politics (austeridade-austeridad-austerity, corte-recorte-cut and divida-deuda-debt) and were then classified according to the type of schema they instantiate, namely, propositional schema, image schema or event schema. Assuming the general framework of Cultural Linguistics and corpus-based and discourse-based approaches to conceptual metaphor,…
On temporal deixis and cognitive models in early Indo-European
2013
Crosslinguistic evidence suggest that there are two different (often coexistent) basic cognitive models for time, on the basis of which the world’s languages express time in terms of conceptual metaphor from the source spatial domain to the target temporal domain: i) the Time-based (Time-Reference-Point) model, in which time is conceptualized in terms of sequentially arrayed objects moving in space, so that a temporal event is relative to another earlier or later temporal event; ii) the Ego-based (Ego-Reference-Point) model, which is considered to have a more complex structure in which times are conceptualized as objects relative to a canonical deictic observer (Ego) located at the hic et n…