Search results for "Myth"

Tra alterità e domesticazione: il mare tra i Wayuu

2011

Stones, maps and cities

2021

Il presente contributo, articolato in tre paragrafi, propone una riflessione sulla prospettiva che, all'interno dell'approccio geografico, sottolinea il valore della rappresentazione cartografica. Dopo aver sintetizzato brevemente il contesto teorico attraverso una serie di spunti ed episodi, si propone una riflessione sugli spazi urbani contemporanei, che intreccia i discorsi geografico, urbano e letterario, sulla necessità inalienabile di risolvere la complessità nel segno cartografico. La mappa, intesa come modello di conoscenza, accompagna da sempre l'uomo nella rappresentazione dei luoghi ma, soprattutto, nella rappresentazione del sé nello spazio. Può la città contemporanea, apparente…

Natural Limits and other stories/Limiti naturali e altre storie

2014

Il volume Natural Limits and other stories/Limiti naturali e altre storie costituisce la prima edizione italiana dei racconti di cinque dell'autrice britannica Marina Warner, con testo a fronte e introduzione critica.

The Norman myth in the artistic culture of Hapsburgs’ Sicily: identity construction and representation of power

2015

In Sicilia, nell’Ottocento, si assistette in architettura a un revival neonormanno che trovava in quel momento glorioso della storia isolana la legittimazione per rivendicazioni autonomiste mirate alla ricostituzione di un regno di Sicilia finalmente libero dal giogo borbonico e da Napoli. Tuttavia, un fenomeno culturale analogo si era già registrato nel corso del xvi secolo. Nel rinascimento siciliano, infatti, si guardò non soltanto al classicismo e alla Roma dei Cesari, ma anche all’eredità del medioevo normanno, nel tentativo forse di costruire un’identità per un’isola, come la Sicilia asburgica, non libera e melting pot di culture diverse. Il caso del mito normanno presenta, però, in s…

Effectiveness of a mobile app intervention to prevent dating violence in residential child care

2020

ABSTRACT This study focuses on the effectiveness of an app-based, monitored intervention using the Liad@s app in a residential youth-care setting. The aim of this intervention is to reduce maladaptive beliefs and attitudes linked to dating violence: distortions or myths about romantic love and hostile and benevolent dimensions of sexism. A quasi-experimental pre-post study with a control group was carried out. Participants were 71 adolescents from 9 group homes in Valencia (Spain). The outcomes measures were hostile and benevolent sexism (Ambivalent Sexism Inventory - ASI), ambivalence and prejudice towards men (Ambivalence toward Men Inventory - AMI), and myths about romantic love. The res…

Festive Traditions in Modernity: The Public Sphere of the Festival of the ‘Fallas’ in Valencia (Spain)

2002

Festive sociability is central for the transmission of tradition and is a fundamental field of interaction between the festive tradition and modernity. This sociability has a reflexivity and a public sphere of its own. The dominant modernist opposition between tradition and modernity is questioned with the help of a recent study of the Fire Festival of the ‘Fallas’ (Valencia, Spain).

Gender-Differences in Sport and Movement in Finland

1988

Male and female age-cohorts resemble each other quite clearly in their sport involvement. The greatest differences between men and women are shown to be in organized and competitive sports mainly practiced by men, and in so-called "untied" movement (i.e. physical exercise that does not require any pre-arrangements), more of a female domain. The various age-cohorts differ in sport involvement from each other more among men than among women. This is examined from several angles: as a question of role or gender expectations, of different life-situations and possibilities, of different meanings and contents of sport and movement, and of different sport cultures and myths.

Le cinéma roumain pendant la période communiste : représentations de l'histoire nationale

2011

The subject of this PhD dissertation is the historical reconstructions films produced in Romania under communist rule and more precisely between 1960 and 1989. It analyses the social and cultural significance of the representation of national past but also the social and political aspects involved in the production process. In order to understand these research objectives our approach we stress first various logics which chairing the state action towards the culture and in particular towards the cinematography. We intend to analyze the economic, political and ideological conditions of the film production, the directives concerning the general thematic and the orientation that the party trie…

BOLOGNE ET LES ÉTUDES : CONSIDÉRATIONS SUR LE CHAPITRE V DES FIORETTI

2013

International audience; Le chapitre V des Fioretti de saint François évoque la fondation des Frères Mineurs à Bologne. Des éléments historiques y sont repérables, des éléments polémiques aussi, puisque la "question des études" animait fortement les débats entre Spirituels et Communauté. Les Fioretti traitent-ils pour autant cette question de façon polémique? Une approche à la fois historique et comparative permet de déceler la dimension mythique de ce chapitre sous forme de mise en scène littéraire et hagiographique. Les Fioretti ne sont ni apocalyptiques comme les textes d'Angelo Clareno, ni polémiques comme un Iacopone da Todi qui s’écriera « Mal vedemo Parisi, che àne destrutt’Asisi », n…

Od symbolu animozji polsko-niemieckich do retoryki pojednania. Obraz Góry św. Anny w XX i XXI wieku

2021

The article describes the way St. Anne’s Mountain has been presented over time by giving it different meanings and (re)interpretations on religious and historical-political levels. The religious description of this place is defined by a pompous narrative style and appealing to readers’ emotions. In the historical-political dimension, the mechanism of national mythologization and instrumentalization of St. Anne’s Mountain were shown. It was also pointed out that after 1989 another reinterpretation took place, taking the form of the reconciliation rhetoric. The role of the Catholic Church in the process is presented and the dangers are indicated: reducing reconciliation to a vapid expression …