Hasil untuk "Style. Composition. Rhetoric"

Thierry Herman

Lucie Donckier de Donceel, Benjamin Sevestre-Giraud

Even though it is now clearly established that the rhetorical education model provides a relevant framework to question the methods and contents of a democratic citizenship education, this model still encounters difficulties in Europe for recognition as a valid pedagogical approach for working on critical thinking and citizenship skills. Based on the experience of a summer school entitled “European Citizenship and Rhetorical argumentation: the case of climate change”, we will try to answer the criticisms addressed to rhetoric and show how it can be used to develop citizenship skills nowadays.

Caterina Scaccia

The article examines in their context the discursive strategies used by the Italian Prime Minister (PM) Giuseppe Conte in his first speeches on Covid-19 to discursively build his legitimacy and his authority, while shedding light on the interdependence of the two concepts. A study of media interdiscourse reveals the constitutive character of the dialogical relationship between the speeches of the PM and the reactions in the press. The analysis shows that Conte's strategies for constructing legitimacy and authority evolve together in response to the counter-discourse of the media.

Juan Carlos Iglesias-Zoido

Noticia y comentario de libros recibidos: Eramo, Immacolata, (ed.), Frontino, Stratagemmi, Saggio introduttivo, nuova traduzione e commento a cura di Immacolara Eramo, Premessa di Giusto Traina (Testo Latino a Fronte), Milán: Rusconi Libri, 2022, 387 páginas. (ISBN 978-8818038002) Merino Jerez, Luis y Ramos Grané, Marta (eds.), Ars memorativa. Estudios sobre textos e imágenes de la memoria, Ágora. Estudos Clássicos em Debate 24, Universidade de Aveiro, 2022, 302 páginas. (ISSN 0874-5498) Durán Barceló, Francisco Javier, Los Consilia Hispaniensia de Alfonso de Palencia, Salamanca: Sánchez Álamo S.L., 2022, 316 páginas. (Depósito Legal: S 327-2022)

Angélica Tornero

Desde el último tercio del siglo xx, observamos la propagación de escrituras en las que el yo autoral está implicado de distintas maneras. Paralelamente, se ha incrementado el interés de teóricos y críticos por examinar el fenómeno. En términos generales, podemos identificar dos tipos de aproximaciones: la de aquellos que consideran imprescindible explorar estas escrituras en su dimensión ontológica y la de aquellos que rechazan esta perspectiva de manera terminante y se inclinan por el análisis textual. Los acercamientos de Georges Gusdorf y Paul de Man representan estas dos posturas. Los autores siguen caminos distintos, especialmente en la comprensión de la autobiografía, que se desprenden de postulados contradictorios. El objetivo de este artículo es analizar de manera comparada sus presupuestos, principalmente en lo relativo a cuestiones ontológicas y lingüísticas. Es en estas dos dimensiones en las que con claridad pueden advertirse sus disensos.

Marco Bazzocchi, Alberto Cadioli, Laura Di Nicola et al.

In questa sezione si riportano gli interventi esposti durante la tavola rotonda che ha chiuso il seminario, assieme al dibattito che ne è seguito.

Valerio Rota

Recensione di Paolo Desogus, Laboratorio Pasolini. Teoria del segno e del cinema (Quodlibet, 2019).

Françoise Palleau-Papin

In The Book of Dolores, a series of self-portraits in photography and drawings with accompanying text, William T. Vollmann pictures himself as a cross-dresser. He uses various techniques that emphasize the pictorial approach of photography, to create an uncanny icon of femininity. As an attempt to reach the other side, not just of gender, but of life, his negative prints in particular seem to reveal a ghostly presence. In TheBook of Dolores, una serie di autoritratti fotografici e disegnati e accompagnati da un testo scritto, William T. Vollmann si ritrae come un travestito. Utilizza diverse tecniche che enfatizzano l’approccio pittorialista alla fotografia per creare un’icona perturbante della femminilità. Tentativi di raggiungere l’altro lato, non solo del genere, ma anche della vita, i suoi negativi, in particolare, sembrano rivelare una presenza spettrale.

Roberto Nicolai

RESEÑA A: John Marincola, On Writing History. From Herodotus to Herodian, translated with an Introduction and Notes by J. M., London: Penguin Books, Penguin Random House UK, 2017, pp. LXXI + 600.  (ISBN 9780141393575)

Jesús María Nieto Ibáñez

The Presses of University of Zaragoza, in his collection "Monografías de Filología Griega", No. 28, has published a new study on the presence of prophecy and oracular compositions in the work of Herodotus. Although there are already several studies on the oracles in this author, however the originality of the work lies in its particular distribution and classification of the oracular texts, contained in the Herodotus History, and its detailed analysis taking into account the Greek prophetic tradition.

Laurence Pelletier, Marie-Josée Goulet 

Our research focuses on the government’s discursive strategy during the 2012 Maple Spring in Quebec, particularly on the formulas used to influence public opinion. Through a content analysis of 100 articles from five Quebec newspapers, we studied 152 formulas with regard to their distribution in time, the entities they targeted, the speakers who used them, and the framing strategies they conveyed. The analysis revealed several aspects, including the presence of multiple speakers and targets as part of the discursive strategy. The discourse and the formulas that were used sought to delegitimize the students, but also to frame the image of the government itself, and that of its political opponents. Eventually, the concept of formula allowed us to produce units of analysis that could be studied empirically with regard to framing, and to contribute to the analysis of the Maple Spring as a socio-discursive event.

Jesús Bartolomé Gómez

Las arengas militares que fracasan no han sido hasta ahora estudiadas de una manera sistemática. Por ello, este artículo pretende un acercamiento crítico a este tipo de discurso tanto en la historiografía como la épica latinas. Dado que el número de ejemplos no es demasiado grande, estudiaremos todos los casos encontrados en tres autores: Livio, Lucano y Silio Itálico. Los tres autores han sido escogidos teniendo en cuenta las relaciones temáticas e intertextuales existentes entre ello

Stefano Versace

Recensiamo Camilletti, Fabio. Leopardi’s Nymphs: Grace, Melancholy, and the Uncanny. Oxford: Leg- enda, 2013. Stampa.

Vyacheslav Dolinin, Dimitry Severyukhin

V. Dolinin and D. Severiukhin are authors associated with the authoritative encyclopaedia Samizdat Leningrada (2003). Both were deeply involved in Samizdat publishing in Leningrad. Dolinin was arrested in 1982 and spent four years in prison. This article is a broad survey of the origins, development and values of Leningrad unofficial culture during the ‘classical’ period (1950s-1980s) of Soviet Samizdat.

L. Flower, J. Hayes

IN THE MIDST of the composition renaissance, an odd fact stands out: our basic methods of teaching writing are the same ones English academics were using in the seventeenth century.' We still undertake to teach people to write primarily by dissecting and describing a completed piece of writing. The student is (a) exposed to the formal descriptive categories of rhetoric (modes of argumentdefinition, cause and effect, etc.-and modes of discourse-description, persuasion, etc.), (b) offered good examples (usually professional ones) and bad examples (usually his/her own) and (c) encouraged to absorb the features of a socially approved style, with emphasis on grammar and usage. We help our students analyze the product, but we leave the process of writing up to inspiration.2 Within the classroom, "writing" appears to be a set of rules and models for the correct arrangement of preexistent ideas. In contrast, outside of school, in private life and professions, writing is a highly goal-oriented, intellectual performance. It is both a strategic action and a thinking problem. But because writing as an act of thinking is messy and mysterious compared to the concrete reality of the product, we tend to leave composing up to the vagaries of chance and god-given talent to relegate it to independent warm-up exercises designated as "pre-writing."' The inner, intellectual process of composing, the complex and

Filippo Pennacchio

Si traduce qui, per la prima volta in lingua italiana, un testo di Monika Fludernik. Si tratta di un saggio, pubblicato nel 1996 sul «Journal of Literary Semantics», in cui la studiosa austriaca anticipa alcuni dei contenuti che pochi mesi più tardi andranno a costituire il primo capitolo della sua opera a oggi più nota, e cioè Towards a ‘Natural’ Narratology. Tra le sue pagine, che di quest’ultima riprendono il titolo, Fludernik si sofferma sulle basi della propria teoria narratologica, oggi assai diffusa a livello internazionale ma al contrario poco o punto penetrata in Italia. A partire dai concetti di esperienzialità, embodiedness e racconto naturale, viene illustrato un paradigma teorico – la narratologia ‘naturale’, appunto – per più versi lontano dalle proposte di molti narratologi «classici», anzitutto nella misura in cui pone al suo centro il lettore, il suo coinvolgimento cognitivo con i testi. Non solo: nel corso della trattazione, Fludernik sottolinea come tale paradigma possa essere esteso in senso diacronico, come cioè i suoi presupposti consentano d’integrare le trasformazioni dai testi subite nel corso del tempo. In altre parole, esso si presta ad accogliere al suo interno una vasta gamma di forme narrative, dallo storytelling orale alla scrittura storiografica, e dai romanzi modernisti a larga parte della fiction secondonovecentesca. La traduzione del saggio è fatta precedere da un’introduzione in cui viene presentato, più in generale, il pensiero di Monika Fludernik, e insieme valutato il suo ruolo nell’ambito del dibattito teorico sviluppatosi in seno alla comunità scientifica a partire dai primi anni Duemila.

Marco Caracciolo

Leon Festinger’s account of cognitive dissonance, published in 1957, has become one of the most successful theories in the history of social psychology. I argue that Festinger’s framework—and the research it generated over the last sixty years—can shed light on key aspects of readers’ engagement with literary characters. Literature can invite the audience to vicariously experience characters’ dissonance through an empathetic mechanism, but it can also induce dissonant states in readers by encouraging them to take on attitudes and beliefs that are significantly different from their own. I suggest that there are two strategies—or patterns of reader-response—through which the audience can cope with the dissonance between their own worldview and the characters’: attitude change and imaginative resistance. In the first, readers adjust their own beliefs and values according to what they have experienced and learned in adopting characters’ perspectives. By contrast, in imaginative resistance readers’ worldview prevents them from establishing an empathetic bond with characters. I integrate these hypotheses into a model that builds on theoretical as well as empirical insights into reader-response.

Antonio Serrano Cueto

The poetic tradition has established the so-called adlocutio sponsalis at the end of the epithalamia as a common topic. Here the poet, or a divinity (frequently the goddess Venus), adresses the couple to incite them to sexual union and to wish them everlasting love, harmony, happiness, prosperity and descendants. The epideictic rhetoric for the nuptial subject already prescribed the orator to wish these desiderata, especially gathered in a prayer to the gods. In the Latin epithalamia of the 15th-16th centuries we can see some variations of the adlocutio ─sometimes shaped as a Christian prayer─ that emphasize the laudatory features inherited from Antiquity.

Cristina Iuli

Questo intervento propone alcuni spunti di riflessione intorno alla questione della letteratura globale a partire da alcuni paradossi che hanno caratterizzato la letteratura nordamericana e i Transnational American Studies nell’ultimo quindicennio. Chi scrive ritiene che la rilevanza del caso nordamericano nella formulazione di un concetto di letteratura globale sia centrale poiché ha ispirato, sia sul piano narrativo che su quello critico, molti dei discorsi a partire dai quali si è poi sviluppata una discussine che ha interessato vari ambiti di ricerca letteraria.

Emanuele Ronchetti

The Essais’s writing generates a form of original pyrrhonian philosophical discourse, apt to express the infinite variety of the world. In this way it paves the way to a limitless method of investigation: zetetics.