Hasil untuk "Style. Composition. Rhetoric"

Nico Abene

Recensione di Daniele Maria Pegorari, La conoscenza amministrata. Mimesis, 2025.

Daria Evangelista

Nejma Kermele

Este artículo se centra en los capítulos dedicados a Perú por el cronista Antonio de Herrera y Tordesillas en su Historia general de los Hechos de los Castellanos en las Indias y Tierra Firme del Mar oceano publicada a principios del siglo XVII. El objetivo de este breve estudio es examinar cuáles eran para el Cronista Mayor de las Indias los fundamentos de esta historia y los datos esenciales que deseaba transmitir al lector. Analizaremos brevemente las estrategias narrativas del historiador y el modo en que pretendía contribuir a la consolidación del dominio de la Corona de Castilla en América. También se destacará la complejidad de esta obra, que forma parte de un proyecto historiográfico global.

Alexandru-Ionuț Cruceru

A less known fact about Dionysios Photeinos but equally relevant for Romanian and Greek culture is his contribution in the musical field. Far from being an occasional preoccupation, church music accompanied Dionysios from the time of his arrival in Bucharest (1796–1797) until his premature death, which occurred in full creative power. This article aims explore an unclear and little-discussed biographical aspect: his didactic activity in the field of music, seen in parallel with his compositional endeavors. In this regard, the hypothesis according to which Dionysios Photeinos taught church chants in Căldărușani Monastery (1797-1816) and then in Bucharest (1809-1816), must be reconsidered. The article also sheds light on the Bucharest school where the teacher Dionisake exercised his duties as a music teacher very seriously and rigorously. He promoted of a new current of expression on the land of Wallachia, starting from the κατὰ νόημα style, which he adopted from Iakovos the Protopsalt and developed it into a more elaborate musical rhetoric. Also, in the context of the Chrysantine reform which took place in Constantinople in 1814, Photeinos proved to be a convinced defender of the old musical notation, a fact that led to his removal from the public school and will strengthen his concerns for history and literature. For his original church compositions and didactic activity, Dionysios can be considered the theoretician, psalter and teacher with the greatest influence in the Danubian Principalities, from the beginning of the 19th century.

Tomislav Zečević

This article attempts to underline the importance of discovering and recovering the underlying traditional material in theLetter to the Ephesians. The first part of this study provides necessary information and issues concerning the letter, the author and the addressees. Although we cannot be completely certain, the internal evidence from the letter itself indicates that Ephesians is written by one Paul’s disciple from Asia Minor, a Jewish-Christian from larger Ephesus area. For the same reason, we believe that this letter does not address exclusively the community within the city of Ephesus, but rather it includes other Christian communities from the same Ephesus surroundings that would have been familiar to the author. Even the date and the place of composition is hard to determine, but the peaceful tone of the letter, developed Christian liturgical material and closeness to Colossians (written around AD 80) in vocabulary and in theology, suggest a later date towards the last decades of the 1st century, possibly around AD 85-90. The place of composition could be the city of Ephesus, because this is the administrative center and center of Pauline missions in Asia Minor that covers a large area. We are dealing with a predominately Gentile Christian community (communities), whose members have been recently converted. The second part of the article addresses very briefly the style and the genre of the letter, which combines epideictic and deliberative rhetoric. This part aims to provide the guidelines for the most important issue of this article, respectively the sources and traditions. The third part finally takes on various proposals on sources and traditions found in Ephesians, including a possible pre-Gnostic influence on the letter. This procedure enables us to understand better the context of the letter and the letter itself. According to their origin, these traditions can be divided in three main groups: Jewish, Christian and Gentile traditions. The purpose of this study is not just to give general information on sources and traditions but to arouse scholarly discussion and a more profound investigation of this important issue in the Croatian biblical and liturgical milieu. Indeed, the letter’s important evidence regarding the early Church’s liturgy is essential for the history of liturgy.

Evan M. O'Dorney

By a scheme of a musical canon, we mean the time and pitch displacement of each entering voice. When the time displacements are unequal, achieving consonant sonorities is especially challenging. Using a first-species theoretical model, we quantify the flexibility of schemes that Renaissance composers used or could have used. We craft an algorithm to compute this flexibility value precisely (finding in the process that it is an algebraic integer). We find that Palestrina consistently selected some of the most flexible schemes, more so than his predecessors, but that he by no means exhausted all feasible schemes. To add support to the model, we present two new compositions within the limits of the style utilizing unexplored canonic schemes. In the Online Supplement, we provide MIDI realizations of the musical examples and Sage code used in the numerical computations.

Michele Maiolani

This article investigates Primo Levi’s representations of the origin of life, particularly considering his essays and science-fiction short stories. After introducing the two main sources of inspiration that Levi refers to when writing narratives on this subject, classical and biblical mythologies and Darwinian evolutionary theory, the article offers a close reading of two short stories, “I sintetici” and “Disfilassi”, that depict a moment of ‘second genesis’ set in the near future. This process is seen by Levi from an ecological perspective in relation to the environmental risks that human technology and overpopulation pose to our planet. Following the analysis of the writer’s essays about recent chemical and biological theories on how life originated on Earth, the last paragraph focuses on the tangencies between Levi’s investigation of the origin of life and his reflections on the source of literary creativity, summed up by the short story “Carbonio”.

Juan Carlos Iglesias-Zoido

El objetivo de presente trabajo es ofrecer una reseña de dos importantes novedades bibliográficas dedicadas a la Historia de Herodiano, una escrita por Ch.S. Chrysanthou y otra editada por A. Galimberti, aprovechando para ofrecer al lector un cuadro general de la investigación que ha puesto las bases del reenfoque crítico y de la revalorización de la obra de Herodiano

Ruth Wodak

Mid-March 2020, European governments (and beyond) could not deny the Covid-19 dangerous pandemic anymore; they had to quickly cope with the crisis. Different modes of crisis communication have been adopted by government leaders to persuade people to abide by various measures to counteract the spreading of the virus, and thus to reduce fears and uncertainties. Some measures implied severe restrictions of human rights (such as freedom of movement, and so forth). Therefore, different legitimation strategies were applied to create society-wide consensus that such measures were indeed necessary. Some governments have also instrumentalized the pandemic for their authoritarian aims. This paper analyzes various strategies of legitimation, following the approach first developed by Van Leeuwen and Wodak (1999) and elaborated in Wodak (2018, 2021). In this way, legitimation is linked to specific argumentation schemes, always in context-dependent ways. The data for this paper stem from governmental speeches and press conferences in Austria, Hungary, Sweden, New Zealand, and France, in the period of March 2020 until December 2020.

Asalia Mendoza González

El libro de Dorian Espezúa se inscribe en el campo de la lingüística de la escritura y lo más valioso de este estudio es que aparece en un momento crucial con la intención de llenar el vacío que existe sobre la necesidad de escribir en lengua propia, debido a nuestra compleja realidad de país pluriétnico, pluricultural y plurilingüe.

J. Reid

Marianna Marrucci

abstract

Lucia Floridi, Laura Neri, Chiara Torre

Introduzione al volume. Introduction to the volume.

Fabio A. Camilletti

The import of British Gothic novels in post-revolutionary France, from 1797 onwards, triggered French publisher to capitalize on the vogue of supernatural narratives. One of the results was the publication of a number of anthologies, hastily composed by cutting and pasting Old Regime collections, whose first example was the anonymous Le Livre des prodiges (1802). This essay reinstates the supernatural anthologies of 1802-1822 as a powerful link between the British Gothic and later French fantastic literature (particularly Alexandre Dumas), at the same time analysing how the very operation of cutting and pasting pre-revolutionary texts resonates with distinctly post-revolutionary anxieties.

Alessandra Elisa Visinoni

Dal 23 al 26 ottobre dello scorso anno eminenti studiosi, specialisti di Dostoevskij, si sono riuniti a Sofia per il «Simposio internazionale: L’antropologia di Dostoevskij. L'uomo come problema e oggetto di rappresentazione nel mondo di Dostoevskij», convegno organizzato dalla Associazione bulgara di studi dostoevskiani e dall’Istituto di studi letterari dell’Accademia bulgara delle Scienze presso l’Università “S. Clemente d’Ocrida”.

C. Cobos, Gabriela Raquel Ríos, Donnie Johnson Sackey et al.

Julien Auboussier

Our paper deals with multireference and the actualization of the proper noun Europe in the context of the media. First, we analyze the stakes of multireference linked to both routine uses of metonymy in news telling as well as to the pragmatic issues of personalization. The paper then focuses on reported speech and on the uses of the “modified proper noun” which play on multireference in order to persuade and mobilize. In the last part of the paper, the actualization and the production of meaning are  called into question in the light of their political context.

Elena Fratto

In the wake of fin-de-siècle discoveries in the field of endocrinology, bodily glands and the hormones they produced featured prominently in the literary works, visual arts, and popular culture of early twentieth-century Europe. Experimental surgery promised rejuvenation and intellectual vitality through gland transplantation and grafting, while phenomena of all sorts began to be associated to hormone production in causal links—from bodily rhythms to behavioral patterns, from the pace of history to the trajectory of nations. Italo Svevo was fascinated by Basedow and Graves’s discoveries on the thyroid, a gland that was supposed to determine the speed and promptness of one’s body according to the amount of hormones it produced—hypothyroidism, or scarcity of hormones, would entail lethargic behavior and slow movements, while hyperthyroidism, or the abundant production of hormones, would lead to excessive activity and consumption. Through the analysis of an early short story by Svevo, “Doctor Menghi’s Drug” (ca. 1904), this paper addresses how the activity of the thyroid affects not only bodily rhythms, but also narrative time—intended as both the time of the story (diegetic time) and the pace of storytelling—and it explores how metabolic processes act as constraints for literary creativity by complicating narrative time and raising questions of narrative agency.

Giuseppe Saitta

Entrambi linguaggi visivi, ove la narrazione si dipana grazie al rapporto di interdipendenza cheogni singola immagine intrattiene con l'immagine che la precede e quella che le succede. Pur dovendo ricorrere dunque a un montaggio di immagini, fumetto e cinema presentano tra di loro grandi differenze, ma anche grandi similitudini. Cercheremo di scoprire quali sono affidandoci all'analisi della duplice trasposizione di "300" da parte di Frank Miller e Zack Snyder.

Aurélien Allouche

This article discusses the role of argumentation in the development of environmental activism during land-development conflicts. Argumentation is analyzed here on three levels: First, protest groups must integrate and incorporate pro-environmental content within their own arguments in order to refute their opponents’ claims. Second, the controversy leads activists to use different forms of ad hominem arguments, which consolidate the activists’ own ethos. Last, protesters use argumentation as a form of sociability. By way of confronting ideas and opinions in a sociable mode, the collective process of reasoning enforces micro-sociological dynamics, and leads to group solidification.