Hasil untuk "Style. Composition. Rhetoric"

Olaf Kramer

Valentina Vignotto

Negli anni Settanta, con la pubblicazione di La violenza e il sacro (1972), René Girard coglie le implicazioni sociali dell’ipotesi mimetica nata dallo studio del romanzo moderno e contenuta in Menzogna romantica e verità romanzesca (1961) e Dostoevskij. Dal doppio all’unità (1963). Uno studio incrociato degli strumenti ermeneutici che Girard adotta per ciascuna di queste fasi ci permette di tracciare una precisa strada ermeneutica che colleghi la figura di Edipo e il suo crimine, il parricidio, ai grandi epilettici del romanzo dostoevskiano. Dopo aver introdotto i termini con cui Girard coglie la derivazione paterna dell’orgoglio in Dostoevskij e dopo aver illustrato i caratteri del capro espiatorio girardiano presenti nella tragedia sofoclea Edipo re, il saggio analizza il ruolo dell’epilessia nella biografia e nell’opera di Dostoevskij, sino a giungere ad una rilettura girardiana degli schemi narrativi del romanzo I fratelli Karamazov, simbolo per eccellenza del delitto parricida.

Lucie Donckier de Donceel

Conspiracy theories are now central to our democratic societies, the academic world, and civil society. All seem to agree that we should be able to prevent the presence and spread of conspiracy theories in the public sphere. While this objective is generally recognized, the way to achieve it remains unclear. Like others, we believe that interdisciplinarity is one possible answer. However, this path presents several challenges, the first of which is mutual understanding. In this article, we examine the book of Iacone, Loria, and Meini on conspiracy (2023), to show how the psychological and rhetorical approaches to conspiracy theories can dialogue and understand each other.

Brian Hughes, C. Miller-Idriss, R. Piltch-Loeb et al.

Vaccine hesitancy (delay in obtaining a vaccine, despite availability) represents a significant hurdle to managing the COVID-19 pandemic. Vaccine hesitancy is in part related to the prevalence of anti-vaccine misinformation and disinformation, which are spread through social media and user-generated content platforms. This study uses qualitative coding methodology to identify salient narratives and rhetorical styles common to anti-vaccine and COVID-denialist media. It organizes these narratives and rhetorics according to theme, imagined antagonist, and frequency. Most frequent were narratives centered on 'corrupt elites' and rhetorics appealing to the vulnerability of children. The identification of these narratives and rhetorics may assist in developing effective public health messaging campaigns, since narrative and emotion have demonstrated persuasive effectiveness in other public health communication settings.

Corinne Pontillo

Tra le forme di ibridazione che caratterizzano la scrittura letteraria del Novecento, la rappresentazione del museo nei testi narrativi dà luogo a diverse declinazioni tematiche e retoriche, e si presta dunque ad essere analizzata attraverso molteplici prospettive ermeneutiche. Configurandosi come spazio di ambientazione del plot, o di trasfigurazione in chiave letteraria di musei reali, oppure ancora come raccolta sistematica di oggetti, di collezioni che assumono talvolta una valenza metatestuale, il dispositivo museale interagisce con la scrittura narrativa e delinea un campo d’indagine ancora poco esplorato dagli studi critici. Prendendo avvio da tali premesse, il contributo intende proporre la lettura di alcune occorrenze contemporanee del tema, sia italiane che straniere, in particolare nei testi La casa della vita (1958) di Mario Praz, Il museo dell’innocenza (2008) di Orhan Pamuk e, a guidare le riflessioni finali, Non luogo a procedere (2015) di Claudio Magris.

Doug Downs, E. Wardle

Valery Quezada Morante

Al revisar las publicaciones de Revuelta Editores, se evidencia que una parte de su catálogo se encarga de la difusión tanto de la obra de Julio Ramón Ribeyro como de los estudios críticos dedicados a este autor. De esta forma, es notorio el interés por publicar la investigación realizada por Giancarla Di Laura para su tesis doctoral, la cual fue sustentada en el año 2004 y cuyo objetivo se centró en analizar cómo la ironía funciona en tanto herramienta retórica que recorre la novelística de Ribeyro y que, además, contribuye a involucrar al lector con el mensaje que propone el autor.

Filippo Pennacchio, Silvia T. Zangrandi

"Se una notte d'inverno un viaggiatore" quarant'anni dopo. Atti del Seminario MOD, Università IULM, 17-18 ottobre 2019. A cura di Filippo Pennacchio e Silvia T. Zangrandi

Yana Grinshpun

Dawn S. Opel, Jacqueline Rhodes

Abstract User-centered design (UCD) as a concept has begun to enter composition studies, particularly through scholar-teachers of technical communication. We question further incorporation—specifically, the collision course of industry-driven language such as “efficiency” and “expediency” and the potential positioning of students as “users” in the composition classroom. We argue that this positioning places us in unproductive opposition to multimodal composition. Rather than a wholesale incorporation of UCD into the composition classroom, we outline a “theory + play” approach that combines scholarship in rhetoric, speculative design, and multimodal composition. This approach, we argue, better aligns with the political and social investments of Johnson’s (1998) theory of user-centered technology, in which our students are critical makers and engaged citizens in the public sphere.

Luis Ernesto García Jara

Este artículo plantea que Una esperanza i el mar, uno de los libros más importantes de la vanguardia peruana, no solo representa un cambio en la configuración del nuevo sujeto poético femenino, sino que construye un modelo complejo porque interpreta la realidad en términos matemáticos. En toda la bibliografía revisada, no hemos podido rastrear el tratamiento del poemario como un modelo matemático, que desarrolla un nuevo concepto muy similar al libro objeto ampliamente estudiado.

Casey Boyle

This article examines the role of reflective practice in rhetoric and composition scholarship and argues for reconsidering practice through posthumanism. It (re)introduces posthumanism as a productive frame for considering rhetorical training in a networked age. In place of reflective practice, the article develops the concept of "posthuman practice" as a serial and material activity for rhetorical training. The article concludes by reconsidering metacognition and how reframing rhetoric as a posthuman practice could affect rhetorical pedagogy and ethics.

Alessio Cerreia Varale

Recensiamo l’edizione italiana, curata da Massimo Bonafin, del libro di Eleazar Moiseevič Meletinskij Archetipi letterari. Trad. Laura Sestri. Macerata: eum, 2016.   Review of the Italian edition of Eleazar Moiseevič Meletinskij’s book Archetipi letterari, edited by Massimo Bonafin. Translation by Laura Sestri. Macerata: eum, 2016.

Yelena N. Penskaya

There is no unambiguous perspective on Russia’a cultural and political processes of the second half of the 19th century. Their patterns are largely approached through the lens of the key figures that had a determining influence at a relevant period. Yevgeny Feoktistov was a writer, a journalist, a staff member of the magazines Sovremennik and Otechestvennye Zapiski, the editor of Russkaya Rech and Journal of the Ministry of National Enlightenment (1871–1883), later a censor, the privy councillor (since January 1, 1883), the head of the Central Administration for Printing Press for almost 13 years (1883–1896) (Russia’s censor-in-chief), a senator (from May 23, 1896 until his death), and part of Russia’s administrative elite. He came an impressive way of personal growth that brought him from the ranks of active liberals and Otechestvennye Zapiski journalists to the position of Russia’s censor-in-chief, who signed the order to close that same magazine twenty years later. His biography is partly captured in Ivan Goncharov’s novel The Same Old Story. This article investigates the modifications of linguistic peculiarities in Feoktistov’s essays and statements and draws his linguistic portrait, which doesn’t only explain the patterns of his behavior and everyday style but also sheds light on the shady sides of the events that Russia witnessed in the 1860s–1890s and shapes new optics of the elite circles Feoktistov was part of.

Giovanni Bottiroli

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Alessandro Ceteroni

L’articolo sviluppa un’analisi testuale del primo romanzo di Giuseppe Pontiggia, La morte in ban- ca, sfruttando la teoria degli schema e degli script per ricostruire i processi della fruizione narrativa del lettore, e la teoria della conoscenza incarnata per l’analisi dell’identità narrativa del protago- nista Carabba. Si propone un’interpretazione complessiva del testo incentrata sul tema dell’utopia, che consente di cogliere la profonda attualità di questo romanzo.

Valeria Invernizzi

Questo articolo esamina l'intreccio di identità e scrittura nel romanzo nabokoviano The Real Life of Sebastian Knight (1941) da una prospettiva psicoanalitica, seguendo in particolare l'insegnamento di Freud e Lacan sul concetto di desiderio, significante e sublimazione artistica. L'attenzione principale sarà dedicata al rapporto tra i fratellastri, V. (il narratore) e Sebastian. Dopo aver dimostrato che Sebastian Knight ha assunto il ruolo di oggetto del desiderio per chi lo ha conosciuto intimamente (soprattutto V.), muovendo i personaggi secondo ciascun modo d'essere, si passerà al trauma della sua morte e all'elaborazione del lutto da parte del narratore, grazie alla creazione letteraria (la biografia fittizia che leggiamo); il paragrafo conclusivo analizza i cosiddetti 'inganni' del significante, episodi chiave in cui il narratore prende contatto con la verità del desiderio. Dato l'ineludibile interrogativo sulla paternità fittizia della Real Life (se l'autore fosse Sebastian Knight?) e la questione del 'tocco artistico' di V., in questa argomentazione non verranno trascurati gli aspetti metaletterari dell'opera.     This paper examines, from a psychoanalytic standpoint, the intersection between identity and writing in the novel The Real Life of Sebastian Knight (1941) by Vladimir Nabokov. In particular, in the wake of Freud and Lacan, the following contribution will take the notions of desire, signifier, and the process of sublimation involved in artistic creation as interpretative devices. The main focus of the analysis will be the relationship between the two half-brothers of the novel, V (the narrator) and Sebastian. First, I will show that Sebastian Knight holds the role of the object of desire for the characters who have established a close relationship with him and, in particular, for V. Secondly, the paper will be devoted to the analysis of the trauma experienced by the characters because of Sebastian's death, with a particular focus on the narrator's mourning through writing (the fictional biography we read in the novel); in the end, I will give evidence of the so-called signifier’s fallacy, crucial episodes in which the narrator can experience an insight into the truth of desire. Because of the not negligible question of the fictional paternity of The Real Life and the equally essential matter of V’s ‘stylistic touch’, metaliterary aspects of the novel will also be part of the following reading of the text.

Alessandro Viti

Recensiamo Elena Porciani, L’autore nel testo, Sette episodi di finti diari, implicature e auto finzioni. Perrone: Roma, 2012. Stampa.

Eithan Orkibi

Since the 1960s, there has been an active and distinct research field within rhetorical studies in the United States, which explores the “rhetoric of social movements”. Researchers affiliated with this stream have staged from the outset a rich and structured debate dealing with meta-theoretical issues related to the scientific responsibility of the researcher and the social role of the research in the context of protest and collective action. This article explores the evolution of this debate, in which the participants have initially questioned the relevance of the scientific ethos of contemporary rhetorical theory, and aspired to redefine the responsibility of the researcher with regard to the social dynamics in the public sphere. Subsequently, researchers in the rhetoric of social movements discussed the dialectical relations between rhetorical analysis and social movements, i.e. between theory and practice, and therefore aspired to define the social commitment of specialists in the rhetoric of social movements both as researchers and teachers. The article describes this debate and discusses its contribution to the evolution of rhetorical theory on the one hand, and to the ongoing thinking about the scientific and social commitment of the researcher vis-a-vis processes and practice of social change on the other.