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Narrative Tools for Games : Focalization, Granularity, and the Mode of Narration in Games
2015
This article looks at three narratological concepts—focalization, granularity, and the mode of narration—and explores how these concepts apply to games. It is shown how these concepts can be used as tools for creating meaning-effects, which are understood here as cognitive responses from the player. Focalization is shown to have a hybrid form in games. This article also explores the different types of narrators and granularities in games, and how these three concepts can be used to create meaning-effects. This is done by discussing examples from several games, for example, Assassin’s Creed III, Skyrim, Fallout: New Vegas, and Civilization.
Phoenician and Punic Sites in Sicily
2013
A survey of Phoenician and Punic archaeological sites and monuments in Sicily. An update of recent excavations and finds.
Algunas reflexiones sobre el significado de Hernán Cortés a finales del Antiguo Régimen: Discursos de poder, identidad y usos de la historia
2016
This article aims to reflect on the construction of identities about the conqueror Hernan Cortes in the Late Eighteenth Century. It deals with the different channels which were used to transmit his image and to build the myth of Cortes. This approach allows us to pay attention to the connections and relationships between the individual and the collective scopes. It focuses on how the interests of different historical actors (peninsular Spaniards) were projected on Cortes as a symbol of the modern subject. The political uses of Cortes and his historical uniqueness allow us to establish connections between the national question, colonialism, the production of discourses of power and the trans…
La scoperta, sistemazione e conservazione della grande Iscrizione di Gortina, nell'isola di Creta (1884-1921): la protezione delle testimonianze e le…
2013
La scoperta e la conservazione della Grande Iscrizione di Gortina a Creta, da parte degli studiosi italiani, fra la fine del XIX sec. e i primi decenni del XX sec., rappresentò un grande riconoscimento scientifico-culturale per la giovane nazione italiana. Nel passato, l’isola di Creta era stata legata alla Repubblica di Venezia e anche questo rapporto favorì l’invio a Creta del giovane epigrafista F. Halbherr, il quale fra notevoli peripezie rinvenne, assieme all’epigrafista tedesco E. Fabricius, la famosa l’iscrizione nell’antica città di Gortina. L’iscrizione, fra le più antiche e complete finora conosciute in tutta Europa, conteneva le norme sulla famiglia, l’eredità e in generale i dir…
Continuous Professional Training and the Situation of Labour Market in Romania
2013
Abstract This study is part of a wider research carried out in recent years, in North-East Moldova – important socio-economic region of Romania – ancient Romanian culture and civilization hearth. It addresses issues of human capital development in the context of sustainable development of the City Suceava and Botosani. This study addresses the issue of human resource development, focusing on continuous training and employment. It is known that the development is based on the human resource, so there must be local responsabilities in terms of skilled labour and increase the adaptability of environamental changes. The results obtained from the research will reflect some of the practical steps…
Culture – A Value of Public Management
2014
Abstract Culture has become the most dynamic component of our civilization. This dynamism, the search for new forms and means of expression, is the result as well as the engine of the “knowledge society”. Any analytical approach of cultural policies of European countries must be based on recognition and measurement of changes in political, economic and social field that brought the end of the second millennium: globalization and European integration.
«History’s stained canvas»: Uses and appropriations of medieval past in Enlightenment Historiography. The case of Peter «the cruel»
2020
The aim of this paper is to explore the political meanings of the medieval past in the historical understanding of individuals in the 18th century. Beyond the familiar Gothic myth, I will focus on the multilayered image of the monarch Peter of Castile (1334–1369), considered cruel, lustful and passionate in the eyes of enemies and historians. The aim is to analyse the different attitudes towards and uses of this historical figure (one that was quite problematic given the cultural values of the period), ranging from the most negative of connotations to the most passionate of defences and including some more ambiguous stances. For this analysis, I will explore certain Enlightenment debates th…
The visual principle and the correlation between teaching of the Catholic religion and art education in Polish school
2017
Contemporary culture – as already noted – is becoming more and more visual. Contemporary catechesis, referring to its rich, centuries-long experience, should also use different types of images. The first part of this article presents the visual principle as one of basic educating principles, and the second part presents the correlation between the teaching of Catholic religion, and art education in Polish schools. One specific example of using religious painting are in textbooks. Masterpieces of painting, created during centuries and expressing particular desires of their creators, still remain an important inspiration, among others, to the religious search. Faith, though strongly anchored …
Sobre la Risa y el Malestar en la Cultura / On Laughter and Discomfort in Civilization
2017
En este trabajo trazaremos las relaciones entre risa y malestar cultural basándonos en la posición de tres autores: S. Freud, H. Plessner y M. Bakhtin. Nuestra tesis propondrá que la risa posee una doble función: como paliativo del sufrimiento, por un lado, y como oposición al malestar cultural, por otro. Por último, examinaremos en detalle el aspecto opositor de la risa, planteando el siguiente interrogante: ¿es lo cómico realmente subversivo? Palabras clave: Risa, Malestar en la Cultura, Placer, Subversión, BakhtinAbstractThis paper aims to present the relations between laughter and cultural discomfort, analysing the works of S. Freud, H. Plessner and M. Bakhtin. We will propose that l…
Between the Darkness of Barbarism and the Light of Civilization: British Images of the Finn in the Late Eighteenth Century
2014
This article aims to show that it was the British travellers (Coxe, Tooke, Clarke,et al.) to Finland in the late eighteenth century who discovered Finland for theBritish reading public. As they distinguished the Finns as a separate ‘race’ fromthe Russians, the Swedes, and the Lapps, they contributed to the proto-racialistimage of them that would become popular in the nineteenth century. BecauseSweden had become an important maritime trading partner (in iron ore, tar, andtimber) to the British, its eastern part, Finland, also became an interesting countryto visit en route from Stockholm to Saint Petersburg (or from Saint Petersburgto Stockholm). The travellers were astonished to realize that…