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DOAJ Open Access 2025
Space, Time, and Identity in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

Roberto Talamo

Sir Gawain and The Green Knight explores the transformation of Gawain’s identity through his quest, where time and space play crucial roles. The narrative juxtaposes brief, action-packed episodes with extended periods of stillness, emphasizing Gawain's passive heroism. The circular structure of the journey symbolizes a return to the self, yet transformed through encounters with the other. The use of Paul Ricœur's theory about narrative identity highlights the significance of Gawain's wounds as paths to self-recognition. The comparison with David Lowery’s 2021 film adaptation reveals contemporary concerns with identity and otherness.

Language. Linguistic theory. Comparative grammar, Style. Composition. Rhetoric
CrossRef Open Access 2025
Empowering Voices: A Holistic Approach to Enhance Public Speaking and Elocution Skills in Higher Education

B. Kanimozhi

In an increasingly globalized academic and professional landscape, communication skills are central to student success. This paper reports on a seed money project implemented at Department of English (Aided), Nirmala College for Women, Coimbatore, titled Advancing Communication Skills: A Holistic Approach to Public Speaking and Elocution in Higher Education. With a modest budget, the project aimed to enhance English language proficiency, critical thinking, and selfconfidence among undergraduate students—particularly first-generation learners— through workshops, and competitions based learning. The outcomes reveal a marked improvement in students’ communication competency, confidence, and digital literacy, underscoring the feasibility and impact of low-cost, high-engagement interventions in higher education.

DOAJ Open Access 2024
Rizoma versus micelio

Roberta Colombo

Nel 1983 Umberto Eco pubblica il saggio “L’antiporfirio”, all’interno del volume curato da Gianni Vattimo e Pier Aldo Rovatti intitolato Il pensiero debole. Il testo echiano segna uno spartiacque teorico tra i primi due romanzi dell’autore, Il nome della rosa (1980) e Il pendolo di Foucault (1988), permettendo di capire come la narrazione enciclopedica che caratterizza entrambe le opere costituisca una strategia interpretativa della realtà. Non solo: quello che qui preme mettere in evidenza è la modalità differente con cui Eco si accosta alla complessità del mondo attraverso l’impianto tematico e strutturale del racconto. Se le avventure parigine del Pendolo risultano un’applicazione dell’idea diffusiva del rizoma, la matrice del Nome della rosa corrisponde piuttosto all’organizzazione del micelio, la filigrana sotterranea dei funghi che si arresta là dove l’organismo ha sufficienti sostanze nutritive e possibilità di farsi coltivare dalle altre specie viventi, mettendo un argine al disordine dei fenomeni

Language. Linguistic theory. Comparative grammar, Style. Composition. Rhetoric
DOAJ Open Access 2023
Wilhelm Dilthey e il secondo mondo della letteratura

Giovanni Quinto Pasini

L’articolo presenta un inquadramento teorico riguardante la riflessione di Wilhelm Dilthey sulla letteratura. Si considereranno, in particolare, la proposta metodologica della Poetik del 1887 e la concezione dell’opera letteraria che compare negli scritti della maturità successivi al 1905, quando la teoria della conoscenza diltheyana è aggiornata sulla base del rapporto fra Erleben, espressione e comprensione. Si noterà in tal modo come Dilthey dalla sua fase di riflessione mediana a quella matura passa da un proposito di studio normativo della facoltà immaginativa a un discorso descrittivo sulle potenzialità conoscitive che l’opera letteraria riserba per relazionarsi a un’esperienza soggettiva ulteriore rispetto a quella personale, sulla scorta della rilevanza attribuita nei suoi ultimi scritti al concetto di comprensione riproducente.

Language. Linguistic theory. Comparative grammar, Style. Composition. Rhetoric
DOAJ Open Access 2022
Lucini ésotérique et vers-libriste : une interprétation cabaliste et prospective des Armonie sinfoniche

Andrea D'Urso

Les harmonies symphoniques sont un projet composite, apparemment rédigé par Lucini entre 1885 et 1888, dont seulement deux poèmes ont été publiés en 1892, ceux-là mêmes qui témoignent du premier emploi vers-libriste chez Lucini. Si ces deux poèmes marquent le début d’une expérimentation qui sera propre de la poésie symboliste et ‘futuriste’ de Lucini, plus tard considéré à bon escient comme l’inventeur du vers libre en Italie grâce à sa redécouverte par les néo-avant-gardistes italiens des années 1960, d’autres parties de ce projet de jeunesse restées inédites de son vivant montrent ses intérêts en matière de cabalisme. Sans sous-estimer les apports des années 1970 sur ce sujet, nous proposerons des sources possibles et une interprétation ésotérique plus approfondie de ces écrits, qui seront aussi envisagés par rapport à la production concomitante et future de Lucini.

Language. Linguistic theory. Comparative grammar, Style. Composition. Rhetoric
DOAJ Open Access 2020
Raccontare l’altro. Primo Levi, il personaggio non finzionale, l’etopea

Raffale Donnarumma

Se questo è un uomo propone una classificazione delle vittime dei Lager. Nella sua mistione di metodi scientifici e di modi letterari, Primo Levi rinnova l’antica tradizione dell’etopea. Al tempo stesso, affronta il problema specifico di ritrarre personaggi non finzionali. Essi risultano costruiti secondo la necessità di arrivare a un giudizio morale, e richiedono che i concetti usati per definirli siano più scoperti di quanto accada nella fiction.

Language. Linguistic theory. Comparative grammar, Style. Composition. Rhetoric
DOAJ Open Access 2019
Encounters, in Spite of All. Samuel Beckett and Paul Celan

Francesco Adriano Clerici

The paper investigates from a literary perspective the question of the ‘missed encounter’ between two crucial authors of 20th century: Samuel Beckett and Paul Celan. Although both living in Paris for the most part of their adult life, sharing acquaintances and friendships, Beckett and Celan never met in person. A last chance presented in March 1970, as the poet and translator Franz Wurm, a mutual friend, invited Celan to come along and meet Beckett. The meeting never took place; few weeks thereafter, Celan drowned unobserved in the Seine. In this paper, I propose a retrospective reading of the ‘missed’, or ‘failed’ encounter between Beckett and Celan within a psychoanalytic framework. I will analyse it as a negative event, re-elaborating thus an expression used by André Green in his interpretation of Henry James’ The Beast in the Jungle (1903). What Green calls negative event does not provide a patho-biographical category. On the contrary, it bridges the reverberations of the psychic work on absence with the creative process of writing and the dynamics of sublimation. Shifting the attention from the bare biographical data to the textual dimension of such ‘missed encounter’, I aim to show how the writings of the two authors may be read as an articulation of an après-coup of a non-encounter which, instead of taking place in ‘real life’, opens new margins of representation of an alterity within the ‘life of writing’. As such, writing becomes—between poetry and psychoanalysis—that ‘thirdness’ harbouring the very possibility of an encounter beyond phenomenological categories, bearing testimony for an unknown transgenerational reader.

Language. Linguistic theory. Comparative grammar, Style. Composition. Rhetoric
DOAJ Open Access 2017
Modernism and Rhetoric. Pirandello and Michelstaedter

Mimmo Cangiano

The article proposes to analyze the criticisms made by Luigi Pirandello (On Humor, 1908) and Carlo Michelstaedter (Persuasion and Rhetoric, 1909-1910) in regard to the classical idea of Rhetoric. It also proposes to show how the two different approaches derive from differing interpretations of the new modernist themes. For Pirandello, referring to the principles of imitation of the rules of rhetoric means to repropose, in works of art, universally accepted truths, suppressing in them the new modernist awareness that has upset the previous direct link between life and representation; Michelstaedter, instead, believes that the rejection of the old Rhetoric does not erase the imitative relation, because with the loss of the timeless referent of the metaphysical idea of Truth, the «mimetic regime» is simply shifted onto the historical referent of social consent. Pirandello’s analysis, based on the contrast between Life and Truth, becomes – in Italy – the perfect mirror of the new modernist themes regarding the inability of assuming Reality in the symbolisms of the I. Michelstaedter’s analysis of the same issues is meticulous but also critical, and he concludes that the crisis of the concept of Truth does not lead to the liberation of the Subject from the confines of metaphysical thought but forces it into the mimetic regime of a Truth that is, from time to time, the dominant ideology of a particular moment in history.

Language. Linguistic theory. Comparative grammar, Style. Composition. Rhetoric
DOAJ Open Access 2017
Eleonora Federici, Quando la fantascienza è donna. Dalle utopie femminili del secolo XIX all’età contemporanea

Andrea Bernardelli

Recensione di Eleonora Federici, Quando la fantascienza è donna. Dalle utopie femminili del secolo xix all’età contemporanea. Roma: Carocci, 2016. Stampa Review ofi Eleonora Federici, Quando la fantascienza è donna. Dalle utopie femminili del secolo xix all’età contemporanea. Roma: Carocci, 2016. Print

Language. Linguistic theory. Comparative grammar, Style. Composition. Rhetoric
DOAJ Open Access 2017
Il narratore algoritmico

Paolo Sordi

La promessa di Facebook è renderci autori e lettori delle nostre stesse storie, ma in realtà il social network di Mark Zuckerberg costruisce una catena di montaggio della “narrazione narrabile” che imprigiona vite, biografie e racconti possibili. Processando i metadati, i comportamenti e le interazioni di miliardi di utenti all’interno del giardino chiuso della piattaforma, l’algoritmo si impone come un narratore onnisciente e totalitario, una macchina di storytelling predittivo a beneficio degli unici lettori che contano davvero: gli inserzionisti pubblicitari. Sulla scorta di riflessioni provenienti, tra gli altri, da Christian Salmon, Stefano Calabrese, James Gottschall, Raul Mordenti, Marie-Laure Ryan, e sulla base della visibile concentrazione nei media digitali del doppio ruolo di fornitori di contenuti e fornitori di infrastrutture di distribuzione, il contributo sostiene che la dittatura narrativa di Facebook cancella la promessa del Web come spazio di narrazioni aperto, collaborativo e partecipato dal basso. Ciò che resta dell’ipertesto è una “rete televisiva”, una piattaforma di broadcasting che privilegia oralità, video e slideshow in modo che con le loro performance dai palchi di TED e YouTube i guru dell’epica digitale e dell’innovazione possano affermarsi come le vere pop star di questa epoca neoliberista.

Language. Linguistic theory. Comparative grammar, Style. Composition. Rhetoric
DOAJ Open Access 2016
Narrative forms of action and the dangers of ‘derivations’ in narratology

Raphaël Baroni

This article attempts to define the form that action takes when it is the focus of narrative plot, in a manner that avoids certain detours in the interpretation of narrative phenomenon and its anthropological function. Two such detours are evoked at the outset. First, structuralist narratology has had a tendency to analyze the “actional” structures of the narrative fabula autonomously. This has led narratalogists to lose sight of the function that actions have in conversational, or oral narrative, and to generalize a theory of action from this partial view. Second, cognitive theorists, despite having decompartimentalized narrative structures, have generally based their work on a schematic model of intentional action that is too general and too simplistic to properly determine the function that narrated actions fulfill. The author highlights the ways that certain forms of narrated action produce suspense or curiosity when used in conversational narrative. Drawing attention to the fundamental role of polemical actions in the dynamics of narration allows oppose two complementary conceptions of action: whereas “narrative” approaches highlight the uniqueness, the under-determinedness, or the surprising character of the narrated event, other forms of analysis seek to draw attention to the rules behind the apparent novelty of the event.

Language. Linguistic theory. Comparative grammar, Style. Composition. Rhetoric
DOAJ Open Access 2013
Entretien avec Catherine Depretto

Ornella Discacciati

Catherine Depretto est professeur de Langue et Littérature russe à l’Université de Paris – Sor-bonne et fait partie du comité de rédaction des “Cahiers du monde russe”. Elle est l’auteur d’une importante monographie sur le Formalisme Russe (Le Formalisme en Russie, paris IES, 2009). Elle a étudié des figures de premier plan du formalisme, telle que Jurij Tynjanov, ainsi que des linguistes proches des formalistes, comme Evgenij Polivanov. Elle a mené des recherches sur le contexte historique et théorique de l’Union Soviétique des années 30, en analysant les rapports entre marxisme et sciences du langage.

Language. Linguistic theory. Comparative grammar, Style. Composition. Rhetoric
DOAJ Open Access 2013
L’argomentazione nelle prime cento pagine dello Zibaldone

Laura Neri

Le prime cento pagine dello Zibaldone di Giacomo Leopardi sono organizzate diversamente rispetto al resto del libro: sono numerate ma non datate, e mostrano un disordine che, per contrasto, è invece sorretto da un pensiero rigoroso. Il discorso ragionativo procede prevalentemente attraverso due modalità cognitive: secondo un principio analogico, e per salti metaforicamente connessi.

Language. Linguistic theory. Comparative grammar, Style. Composition. Rhetoric
DOAJ Open Access 2012
La “gravità” dei Settanta: reticolarità e dissidenza in Gravity’s Rainbow di Thomas Pynchon

Pamela Mansutti

Uno dei cambiamenti radicali avvenuti negli anni Settanta in ambito statunitense riguarda il concetto di soggettività e la sua relazione con i sistemi politici, mediatici ed economici impegnati a produrla e controllarla. La deriva della controcultura in frange estremiste e la svolta conservatrice imposta dalla presidenza Nixon impongono un clima paranoico e cospiratorio, in cui il soggetto critico si scopre ganglio di larghe strutture ramificate che aspira a distruggere poteri oppresivi sovraindividuali, siano essi statali, militari o informativi, ri-negoziando di volta in volta la propria identità come libera o antagonistica. Tuttavia spesso la “dissidenza” rispetto a queste strutture finisce per essere un gesto fatuo, letale, o addirittura irrealizzabile. Le possibilità e i limiti di questa autodeterminazione politico-culturale del soggetto sono variamente espressi dalla letteratura americana del decennio, in particolare da Gravity’s Rainbow (1973) di Thomas Pynchon, in cui il mondo travolto dalla Seconda Guerra Mondiale appare come una metafora della rete di trame eterogenee, concatenate e impercettibili amplificate dalla Guerra Fredda e sostenute dal potere tecnologico-informativo destinato ad esplodere negli anni Settanta. Pynchon sintetizza la complessità e l’ambivalenza del sistema culturale postmoderno, nel quale l’individuo, sadicamente manipolato, fatica a concepire spazi di libertà e ad organizzare forme collettive di resistenza.

Language. Linguistic theory. Comparative grammar, Style. Composition. Rhetoric
DOAJ Open Access 2012
Interview with Lenny Kaye

Cristina Garrigós, Roberto Soler

Lenny Kaye has been Patti Smith’s long term guitarist, friend and collaborator, ever since they first began together in the early 1970s. He grew up between New York and New Jersey, graduating in American History from Rutgers University, where he later taught a course in the Department of American Studies on the History of American Rock, which became famous because of the large number of students who wanted to enroll in it. A very prolific writer and musician, he has produced an important number of records, as well as collaborated with numerous music magazines. He is the author of two books, Waylon Jennings: An Autobiography (1996) and You Call it Madness, The Sensuous Song of the Croon (2004). Nuggets (1972), his anthology of 60s garage music, is famous for defining the genre. This interview took place when he was visiting Spain in November 2012 with the Patti Smith Group. In it, we discussed the New York scene of the 70s, music, literature, drugs, politics, and many other things.

Language. Linguistic theory. Comparative grammar, Style. Composition. Rhetoric
DOAJ Open Access 2012
Silent Majority, Violent Majority: The Counter-Revolution in 70s Cinema

Peter Andrew Novick

«There is one question, Inspector Callahan: Why do they call you ‘Dirty Harry’?» Harry, it is explained, «…Hates everybody: Limeys, Micks, Hebes, Fat Degos, Niggers, Honkies, Chinks…especially Spics». Don Siegel’s Dirty Harry (1971), famously labeled «fascist» by prominent film critic Pauline Kael, nonetheless represented something new and unique—the “Silent Majority’s” entry into liberal New Hollywood, a veritable counter-reformation to the new social movements having sprung up in the late Sixties and early Seventies. Far from the traditional American Right, however, and distinctly un-Fascist (in as much as the term means more than a simple epithet), these films acted to unite traditional European philosophy and revolutionary thought with organic conservative American tendencies, resulting in hybrid films which challenged the new social movements, while working within the medium of liberal New American Cinema. The article will address three themes from the era: violence and race in the city, revenge against “liberated women”, and fear and loathing of homosexuality. In each instance, using primary evidence from films and critical reviews from the Seventies and the present era, in addition to American and European theorists, the article will show how the counter-revolution in Seventies cinema failed to expunge the “revolutionary spirit” of the era. Rather, the Silent Majority’s visions of visual violence and reactionary values became part and parcel of the new liberated culture of the “Me Decade,” forever bounding the conservative celluloid revolt to the new cinematic culture.

Language. Linguistic theory. Comparative grammar, Style. Composition. Rhetoric
DOAJ Open Access 2011
Epifania dell’astanza. Brandi, Joyce e il modernismo tradito

Davide Borsa

Davide Borsa analizza prestiti terminologici, riuso, invenzioni e ‘fossili’ lessicali come epifania, fulgurazione, astanza, nell’opera, nell’estetica e nel linguaggio di Cesare Brandi, individuando alcune caratteristiche dell’archetipo letterario italiano nel delicato momento di transizione dal postcrocianesimo allo strutturalismo, approfondendone alcune costanti ideologiche. Pur muovendosi nel segno della ricerca della continuità nei valori tradizionali, Brandi compie un’originale rilettura dell’avanguardia europea modernista e di Joyce che gli consentirà di sviluppare un originale approccio terminologico al restauro e all’estetica.

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