Search results for "solitude"
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Void Zone: Readings of Fear and Solitude in the Post-industrial/Post-modern City
2009
The explosion of the city consequent to the industrial revolution and, even more, the sprawling diffusion arising in Europe from the post-industrial transformations let us talk about the disappearing of the border of the city. A diffuse urbanization cancer wastes the landscape and finally the city can be defined more for what it's not (it's no country, it's no natural landscape, it's no nature) than for a definite urban space. If the city is configured principally by its surplus (interstices, spaces under, undefined extensions of un-urban urbanization, infrastructural nets...), in a different sense we may, finally, talk about the thickening of the border of the contemporary, postmodern, Eur…
Association between current physical activity and current perceived anxiety and mood in the initial phase of COVID-19 confinement
2020
The World Health Organization (WHO) has declared a world pandemic due to COVID-19, and several enacted measures such as compulsory confinement may have collateral consequences on both physical and mental health. We aimed to investigate associations between current physical activity (PA) and current perceived anxiety and mood among a sample of Spanish adults confined due to COVID-19 restrictions of movement. Using an online survey, we collected data on the Spanish adult population regarding health habits during the first days of enacted confinement. A total of 2250 participants (54.8% women) aged 35.3 (SD 13.6) completed the survey, which included questions about sociodemographic characteris…
COVID-19 Confinement and Health Risk Behaviors in Spain
2020
The World Health Organization (WHO) has declared a world pandemic due to COVID-19. In response, most affected countries have enacted measures involving compulsory confinement and restrictions on free movement, which likely influence citizens' lifestyles. This study investigates changes in health risk behaviors (HRBs) with duration of confinement. An online cross-sectional survey served to collect data about the Spanish adult population regarding health behaviors during the first 3 weeks of confinement. A large sample of participants (N = 2,741) (51.8% women; mean age 34.2 years [SD 13.0]) from all Spanish regions completed the survey. Binomial logistic regressions adjusted for socioeconomic…
Opposite Ends: widows' narratives of contemporary late life
2020
The life course perspective frames this study of contemporary late life. Thematic narrative analysis is employed to analyse the stories of 16 Finnish widows aged 79–89 years (Moving in Old Age: Transitions in Housing and Care research project) in order to explore the experiences related to growing old. The results indicate two kinds of narratives: nostalgic reminiscences about a happy past are typical of the retiring to solitude story, characterised by experiences of life nearing its end and of letting go; and those inclined towards the keeping up narrative are still seeking new experiences and playing active roles in everyday life. Both kinds of stories encompass well-being, in spite of…
Adeus a Georges Moustaki
2013
Lembro-me de momentos felizes, no nosso apartamento do Rio, na Equitativa, em Santa Teresa: os raios do sol que, das janelas, batiam nas paredes brancas, numa atmosfera ao mesmo tempo fresca e quente; eu desenhando em papéis, paredes, capas de LPs, quadro negro, cada traço representando para mim uma primeira idéia de luto, pois sabia que estes desenhos desapareceriam logo e para sempre.
”Aika on kaikkein haurain pinta”
2016
“Time Is the Flimsiest Surface.” Affective Distance and the Weight of History in Yiyun Li’s Kinder Than Solitude
 This article examines the linkages between personal and political history and their relationship to the experience of time and a ective distance in Yiyun Li’s (b. 1972) novel Kinder an Solitude (2014). The method of analysis is a combination of close reading with a specific focus on affective distance, and a historically contextualizing approach. In this article, the notion of affective distance refers to an individual level psychic and emotional experience of estrangement, loneliness, and temporal and spatial discontinuity. The manifestation of a ective distance in Li’s no…
A View from the Garden: Contemplative Isolation and Constructive Sociability in Lucretius and in the Epicurean Tradition
2021
It is often assumed that Epicurean philosophy and its foremost Roman prophet, T. Lucretius Carus, adopted a deeply hostile attitude towards both politics and religion. Individualistic (or even solipsistic) interpretations of Epicureanism – as well as of the Epicurean catechism of De Rerum Natura – have long co-existed with, and provided support to, the claim that the Epicureans attached little value to religious experiences. In the present paper, I shall argue that, in this and many other respects, the modern reception of Epicureanism – with its brave aspirations after the liberation of science from social and religious restraints – has had undue influence on our understanding of De Rerum N…
Poética y Política sin Mundo
2018
The relationship between poetics and politics is fractured due to being in a world equally fractured, in crisis. The resulted split moves poetics and politics towards a so-called (and often sublimated) relationship between ethics and aesthetics. In fact, it seems that poeisis and politeia are learning to survive in a sterile and confine solitude. In the limits of a subjectivity bored by new ways of pressure, this article seeks to answer to this question: what are the options for creativity to become a new manner of communication and, most importantly, a critical link? The attempted answer will consider the current theoretical and practical circumstances of the relationship between poetics a…
Fantasmas en un desierto que brilla o la soledad del lector de palimpsestos. Los relatos del regreso en Max Aub, Francisco Ayala y Arturo Barea
2018
Ghosts in a shining desert or the solitude of the palimpsests reader. Stories of the return in Max Aub, Francisco Ayala and Arturo Barea worksDuring the long years of exile, writers like Max Aub, Francisco Ayala or Arturo Barea wrote stories in which they fictionalized the returns of the exiles before their own returns occurred. This is the case of the works collected in Las vueltas 1965 originally written in 1947, 1960 and 1964, and of Max Aub’s story “El remate” 1965, of “El regreso”, by Francisco Ayala 1948 and of the novel La raíz rota by Arturo Barea 1951. In this article I intend to draw the common lines of meaning between all these fictions and compare them with La gallina ciega. Dia…
Les victimes de viol devant les tribunaux à la fin du Moyen Âge d'après les sources dijonnaises et lyonnaises
2005
At the end of the Middle Ages, the manner in which the courts of justice punished rapists clearly shows how seriously such crimes were judged at that time. Endeavoring to increase their juristic power and worrying that the propagation of rape would corrupt the entire society and threaten its survival, impelled the judges and their officials —princes, bishops, and municipal bodies — to deal with all complaints and to initiate inquiries about them. A study of the progressive steps undertaken in the preliminary investigations of these cases reveals that after an inquiry into the accuser's reputation, the judges demanded numerous proofs from the victim about the rape. Moreover, a clinical exami…