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Mapping Leisure across Borders
2013
Leisure has become an important domain in sociological research. While time is often spent in daily “pressing” activities, leisure time, in its multifaceted aspects, is rather oriented to convey new answers for individual and collective needs. Such answers are an important field for leisure studies as well as for the sociological questions connected with leisure. For instance, in developed countries, some of these answers concern the ways in which leisure may be spent in “the best way possible for me”, or “for my family”, or “for me with my friends”, hence focusing on it as a new basic human need/desire oriented to foster self-fulfillment. However, this idea of leisure as self-fulfillment m…
Introduction: McDonaldization, Ikeaization, Appleization of Leisure. Is it Cool Enough?
2012
Recent studies on leisure time and the relationship between work and free time highlight two paradoxes that modern advanced societies have to face (Glorieux, Laurijssen, Minnen and van Tienoven 2010). On the one hand, we notice a significant reduction in the number of hours dedicated to working activities and an increase of the hours devoted to leisure activities and activities done in a non-working context and time. This constant lack of time contributes to spreading the perception of pressure on daily life (Gershuny 2000; Goodin, Rice, Bittman and Saunders 2005; Robinson and Godbey 1997) especially in women1 (Freysinger and Flannery 1992). On the other hand, while productivity and wealth …
Bioy Casares: neo-fantástico y deconstrucción
2016
The complex dynamics of space and time present in some of the stories of Adolfo Bioy Casares have their roots in the interstitial that separates the genres of fantasy and neo-fantasy, and most of all in the suggestion of ontological ideas and doubts that characterise the latter. Deeply rooted in the unknown land of a reality that is full of doubts, the literature of Bioy Casares seeks to restore, through the multiple games of fiction, the perception and perceptions of a continuous changes that end with generating parallel worlds. The neo-fantastic passes the crucial limit of traditional fantasy, the stable and certain dichotomy between the real and the imaginary, and to do this it relies on…
Palinsesti del moderno. Canoni, generi, forme nella postmodernità letteraria
2005
Il riciclaggio dei materiali e delle forme della modernità letteraria, la loro ‘degradazione’ a repertorio al quale attingono le scritture di secondo grado sono alcune delle prerogative della letteratura postmoderna. In questo saggio si indaga qualcuno di questi nessi tra moderno e postmoderno nonché alcune questioni teoriche relative alla trasmissione della tradizione e alla sua ricodificazione dopo la modernità. Alle trattazioni prevalentemente teoriche dei primi due capitoli, dedicati al dibattito degli ultimi quindici anni sul canone letterario e alla trasformazione dei generi nella postmodernità, si collega specularmente la seconda parte del lavoro: l’interpretazione del Pinocchio para…
Kreacyjna zabawa z konwencją w "Listach" Michala Šandy do/i Karla Havlíčka Borovskiego
2020
Przedmiotem analizy jest niewielka książka zatytułowana Dopisy / Listy (2009) współczesnego pisarza Michala Šandy (1965), w której autor nawiązuje korespondencyjny dialog z Karlem Havlíčkiem Borovskim (1821–1856). Kreatywnie wykorzystuje w tym celu autentyczne listy, jakie czeski publicysta wysyłał z Brixen do brata Františka i splata je z półroczną relacją ze swojego życia opisywaną w konwencji realizmu magicznego. Dzięki wykorzystaniu motywu gry w scrabble oraz sięgnięciu po zasadę „ponownego napisania”, Šanda tworzy wielowarstwowy system odniesień, w którym znajdzie się m. in. miejsce dla Ernesta Hemingwaya. Ten swoisty dwugłos, zachowujący formalnie konwencję dyskursu epistolograficzneg…
Foreign Language Students’ Perceptions of Their Identity
2019
Foreign language learning innvolves cognitive, affective and social functioning of the persons involved in this experience. As a social practice, it is also related to the learners’ perceptions of their identity, specifically to their language identity which refers to the relationship between one’s sense of self and the language used to communicate. This implies that using a system of communication, the speaker develops a new sense of self that remains in a dynamic relation with other senses of self, based on (an)other language(s) the person knows.Language learners’ identity is no longer defined as fixed and stable but as “complex, contradictory and multifaceted” (Norton 1997, p. 419). It i…
Fragmentation(s) and Realism(s): Has the Fragment Gone Mainstream?
2019
This article tackles what seems to be a revival of fragmentary fiction in English in the 21st century. It briefly traces the lineage of critical interest in the fragment from German Romanticism through Bertolt Brecht and Modernism to postmodern film studies, in an attempt to highlight not only the temporal, but also the spatial and visual dimension of discontinuity evinced by recent fragmentary fiction. Six novels published between 2005 and 2017 are discussed sequentially, in a manner redolent of cinematic movement: Tom McCarthy’s Remainder 2005, Anne Enright’s The Gathering 2007, Yaa Gyasi’s Homegoing 2016, Mohsin Hamid’s Exit West 2017, Ali Smith’s Autumn 2016, and George Saunders’s Linco…
Towards Other Worlds, Towards Other Meanings: Screenplays on the Edge of the Plot
2015
Il saggio riguarda la tematizzazione del cinema nella letteratura, in particolare l'elaborazione di sceneggiature mai realizzate: dopo un'inquadratura generale dell'argomento, considera in particolare opere di Alba de Céspedes e Saul Bellow. The essay concerns cinema's representation in literature, focusing on novels about never realized screenplays, especially on those by Alba de Cespedes and Saul Bellow
The Clash of Epochs: Traditional, Modern, Postmodern, and Evolutionity
2019
Several authors have written about the clash of civilizations and have described it as the main form of conflict in today’s world. My thesis is that the clash of epochs is far more fundamental. It is the hitherto insufficiently noted ground on which different forms of conflict can take place. The clash of epochs, in the form of a conflict among traditional society, modernity, and postmodernity, has led the West to be internally torn apart and increasingly incapable of withstanding new emerging challenges. I argue that to reverse this trend, the Western world has to reconstruct itself again as a civilization. It needs to rediscover the value of its classical moral and intellectual traditions…
Mediated sacralization and the construction of postmodern communio sanctorum: The case of the Swedish foreign minister anna lindh
2005
In the media age, the linkage between mediated communities and images is established by the sacralization of images. Based on the theoretical insights of Michel Maffesoli and on an influential tradition in French sociology, which includes Emile Durkheim, Georges Bataille, and Rene Girard, this article attempts to apply the theory of sacred images to the empirical analysis of images in the media. The analysis of the Swedish and Finnish newspapers' visual coverage of the assassination of Swedish Foreign Minister Anna Lindh suggests that the process of sacralization is actually performed as a communicative behavior involving the media and the crowd as the main actors and a number of symbols wh…