Search results for "Wright"

Cose dell'altro mondo

2022

Emigrato negli anni Trenta da Palermo in America, Ferdinando Sesti Lojacono fu corrispondente del Giornale di Sicilia con la rubrica "Lettere dall'America". A quasi cento anni di distanza, il volume curato da Flavia e Maurizio Schiavo consegna ai lettori una serie sorprendente di scritti sofisticati, ironici e profondi, che mettono in prospettiva nuove forze economiche, trasformazioni sociali e urbane, modi di abitare, mestieri e desideri. Cose dell'altro mondo, attraverso le quali situare in una prospettiva leggermente più ampia altri celebri racconti europei dell’America, da Le Corbusier a Baudrillard, sino alle narrazioni più recenti che utilizzano New York come metafora eterna di deside…

Così reale da poter essere immaginato: il ruolo dell’immaginazione sociologica e i “fatti sociali” globali

2023

The understanding of contemporary economic geographies and global “social facts” represent the best challenge for Burawoy’s public sociology. Scholars wonder whether sociology can successfully address our time’s problems, keeping its spirit of service to the community alive. Indeed, recent political and economic events require formulating a new sociological imagination that is more creative, open, and accessible to the general public. In this paper, we use some of the most significant intersections of Mills’ work, between history and personal biography, to highlight the sociological imagination’s significant role in understanding the present. We use practical cases of applying the concept o…

Playing with Time in Digital Fiction

2015

The exceptional quality of digital fictions lies in their inherently dynamic nature, how they may be flexibly programmed to generate new content and alter the already existing contents. This adds a new temporal level, compared to traditional fictions. Digital games, especially, incorporate aspects of simulation and narration in their structure. As interactive and dynamic media form, games are specifically temporal in nature. They offer us the flexibility and preciseness of digital simulations, with the potential of psychologically engaging narrative qualities, which together open up a whole new field of experimenting with temporally dynamic media. Much of the new media fictions partake in a…

Measuring Child-Rearing Values. A Research Note

2012

Abstract Large scale comparative studies, such as the value surveys (EVS and WVS) or the Eurobarometer, include measurements for parental/child-rearing values. This reflects a persistent interest for the topic, which produced salient studies starting with the first half of the twentieth century (Lynd and Lund 1929; Duvall 1946). Various scholars report data on parental values which use versions of the Q-sort methodology (Kohn 1977), ranking variables (Alwin 1990; Lenski 1961), scale indicators (Tulviste et al. 2007). Q-sort methodology remains the most widely employed. One of its versions is included in the value surveys as well. However, it fails to produce comparable indicators in differe…

Short-Term Adaptation to Stress and Task-Demands: Covariation of Psychological and Physiological Manifestations

1986

Energetic aspects of adaptation to stress and task demands are reflected in autonomic and somatic nervous system (ANS/SNS) changes (see, eg Lyytinen, 1985). Related psychophysiological individual differences have been illustrated widely in the literature. The reported differences have varied from constitutional ones, like temperament (see, for recent references Nebylitsyn, 1972; Strelau, 1983), via dispositions/traits (Eysenck, 1983) and tonic states (Fahrenberg, Walschburger, Forster, Myrtek and Muller, 1983) to situation-dependent individual differences (eg research on type A; Contrada, Wright and Glass, 1984). The present paper argues that experimential and situational factors are import…

Wright, Sewall, 1889-1988

1996

Writing and Misleading on Screen: Atonement (Ian McEwan/Joe Wright)

2008

How does the film adaptation of Atonement by Joe Wright find original ways to adapt what lies at the core of the novel by Ian McEwan—the ins and outs of writing? The film endeavours to transfer, cinematically or not, the metafictional and definitely postmodern dimensions in McEwan's story. Wright first works on point of view, sticking to young Briony's in the first part and elaborating on her re-vision and revisiting of events the meaning of which she thinks she can grasp. But seeing is constantly equated with writing in the novel, and Wright's film convincingly plays around this equation. “Writing on screen” it does indeed, either thematically—with the definitions and aims of writing accor…

Les auteures absentes dans les manuels de clase: des propositions pour leur inclusion

2014

El presente trabajo es consecuencia de la investigación de la Universitat de València que analizó la presencia de las mujeres en los contenidos de todas las asignaturas de la ESO en tres editoriales distintas. Se revisaron 109 manuales y los resultados que se obtuvieron fueron desastrosos: solo un 7,6 % de los personajes citados eran mujeres (López-Navajas, 2014). En el presente trabajo se ejemplifica con dos relevantes dramaturgas, las propuestas didácticas que se están desarrollando en el marco del proyecto Las mujeres en la ESO. Estas podrían convertirse, además, en un vehículo adecuado para dar a conocer en las aulas un mayor número de voces femeninas. The purpose of this paper is to ca…

Marxilainen filosofia porvarillisen filosofian arviointikohteena Suomessa vuosina 1960-2005

2007

Books and Letters in Joe Wright's Pride & Prejudice (2005): Anticipating the Spectator's Response through the Thematization of Film Adaptation

2007

International audience; About Books and letters in Pride & Prejudice.