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On Long-Lasting Humanimal Friendships: Gayness, Aging, and Disease in Lily and the Octopus
2021
This paper analyzes the significance and structural development of the theme of aging in Steven Rowley’s debut novel, the bestselling Lily and the Octopus (2016), a narrative that extends and reinvents the literary approach to manhood through alternate forms of humanimal relations. The novel intersects postmodern conceptions of madness, grief, loneliness, intimacy, and death through a tragicomic exploration of the symmetry between an unlikely (insofar as literary tradition goes) couple: Ted, a gay white male in his early forties, and his senior female dachshund, Lily. As signs of the end of Lily’s life are fleshed out by the cancerous “octopus” that chokes her brain, Ted inadvertently paral…
Suorittaminen, riippuvuus ja seurakunta : essee Päättymättömästä riemusta
2021
Le réalisme social américain à l'ère postmoderne : (Russell Banks, Raymond Carver, Richard Ford)
2012
His study focuses on the works of Russell Banks, Raymond Carver and Richard Ford. They started writing during the 1960s and 1970s, at a time when the self-reflexivity and metafictional play of postmodernist writers were drawing a lot of critical attention in academic circles. However, they consider themselves to be realist writers. In “A Few Words about Minimalism,” John Barth suggested that the return to realist fiction in the mid-1970s could be both a reaction against so-called “postmodernist” fiction and a symptom of the social and economic unease of the period. Indeed, Cathedral, Continental Drift and The Sportswriter describe in accurate detail the everyday lives of ordinary American m…
Pearls in Motion
2011
Religione, Cristianesimo, Modernismo nel giovane Gentile
2009
Lo studio Basile. Crocevia di arti e mestieri.
2013
C’è una continuità nell’attività dello studio professionale dei Basile. Non è solo un fatto di appartenenza familiare o di affinità professionale tra i protagonisti di questa storia, di generazione in generazione. È una questione di oggetti e luoghi, di memoria tramandata negli spazi privati e riattualizzata negli spazi della città, fino ai nostri giorni. La dimensione di uno studio di architettura, per quanto ci possano essere dei sodalizi con la committenza privata – naturalmente, in questa vicenda l’associazione più immediata è quella con il nome dei Florio – tende a configurarsi comunque come elemento di connessione con “la cosa pubblica”, le municipalità in prima istanza (figg. 1-3). È…
Problematics of Bonds in Hugh MacDiarmid's Poetry
2012
Hugh MacDiarmid is considered the most important Scottish poet of the 20th century. He is mostly celebrated for the Scots lyrics he wrote in the 1920s and his long poem A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle, published in 1926. Because of their fragmentation, the poems of the Thirties, most of which were part of the unpublished project Mature Art, and In Memoriam James Joyce (1955), have not attracted the same critical attention. However, they represent the culmination of a very complex stylistic crisis that this study offers to analyse thanks to the question of bonds, especially problematic bonds. The poetry portrays humanity torn by social division, treason and death, but it deals with loss too…
La fobología, ¿ciencia o forma de entretenimiento?
2011
In last years, a wide range of manifestations linked to fear have been certainly become in a serious concern and challenge for citizenry worldwide. Ranging from the war on terror, outbreak of a new virus, natural or man-made disasters to the risk of a nuclear accidents we are now witness (in the inception of a new millennium) of a proliferation of fears and panic. As a result of the high-related degree of uncertainty that characterizes our postmodern life of consumption, our ontological state of security seems to be overloaded. As the previous argument given, the present paper provides readers with a new discipline to research these types of issues in a near future, the phobology. To what a…
Monoscopic Photogrammetry to investigate the buildings in the period of the Modernism in Salerno: the case study of Torquato Tasso High School
2022
The city of Salerno and the expansion that underwent in the 1920s in order to respond to the urban expansion following the demographic increase that occurred at the beginning of the century will be the topics discussed in this paper. Transformations that created a face to the city that, in its forms, although not linked to the most advanced avant-garde, represents a testimony of the new characteristics of the “modern” city. Within this evolutionary process of the province of Salerno there is the 1928 project of two engineers, Michele and his son Luigi De Angelis for the construction of the “Regio” School. In a first moment, several projects found in the archives refer mainly to the various …
La “religione mediterranea”. Un problema storico-religioso tra storia e ideologia
1999
i modelli interpretativi utilizzati dagli studiosi talvolta tendono a ipostatizzarsi, creando "realtà" storiche inesistenti. E' il caso della "Grande Madre" mediterranea, frutto di una lunga tradizione che nasce nell‘Ottocento e vede contrapposti visioni diverse del mondo antico, da Bachofen ad Engels fino all‘importante ruolo culturale svolto dal movimento modernista e la nascita della storia delle religioni in Italia.