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Title: Vladimir Nabokov?s Russian short stories (1921-1942): The game between real and supernatural in short fiction. (Italian title: I racconti in lingua russa di Vladimir Nabokov (1921-1942): il gioco tra reale e soprannaturale nella forma breve). In this Ph.D. research project, I examined several short stories written by Vladimir Nabokov (1899-1977). I focused my attention on the relationship between the real and the supernatural and examined how such a relationship evolved over the years. My research aims to highlight how Nabokov introduced innovations in the European literary tradition with his supernatural short fiction. The core of Nabokov?s first short stories is a binary opposition between something that can be described as real (or realistic), and something that belongs to the realm of the fantastic. The dynamic tension between the real and the supernatural allows Nabokov to renew the European and Russian tradition of ?novellas? and supernatural tales. Gradually, Nabokov phased out the fantastic elements and focused on the inner life of the characters that he unveiled through a series of epiphanic moments. The evolution of Nabokov?s short fiction reflects the crisis of the artistic representation experienced by the European intellectuals at the beginning of the 20th century. Nabokov experimented with different kinds of narratives forms to examine the condition of the Russian immigrants and how they relied on imagination and memory to deal with the pain of exile. In this regard, he underscores that only the act of remembering can give new life to the lost past thus conferring dignity to the troublesome present life. The first chapter starts with an overview of numerous studies on short fiction to determine what a ?short story? actually is. I then examine the definition of ?real? and ?supernatural? as well as the most significant scholars? interpretations of Nabokov?s short stories. Subsequently, I investigate the social, cultural, and historical background of Nabokov?s stories. Finally, I present a chronological list of the stories examined in the thesis. In the second chapter, I carry out the analysis of the short stories I selected for my research. Most of the stories are characterized by the presence of fantastic and supernatural elements. I divided the stories into five different sections, each dedicated to a specific type of supernatural. In this chapter, I examine the different interpretations that have been offered by Nabokov scholars and I provide a new understanding of the evolution of Nabokov?s narrative. In the third chapter, I analyze the relationship among the different short stories to draw a hermeneutic map of the transformations of the narrative core and the themes of the stories. In the conclusion, I outline the main insights of my research.

«Work is everywhere», Giorgio Falco said: today, the whole life of a man is interpreted according to criteria of the productive sphere, confirming the cogency of a «capitalist realism» as the only experiential dimension. For this reason Falco places the subject-worker at the centre of his narrative, because the horizon of resistance to the prevarications of the discourse of capital has shifted within psychology. Falco first outlines a subject multiplied in the many voices that animate the sketches of Pausa caffè (2004); then, in the stories of L'ubicazione del bene (2009), he gives this subject a sociological characterization, showing the time of domestic life of the petite-bourgeoisie. Finally, in Ipotesi di una sconfitta (2017), that disjointed subject is condensed into a single life, that of the author, who transforms his story into the allegory of contemporary work experience. Using formal analysis tools (Simonetti, Tirinanzi de Medici) and the most recent theories of the present (Sennett, Fisher), we show how the choice of the narrative medium (micro-story, short story, novel) influences the representative potential of the “narration of work”. From a mimetic narration respecting the codes of the neo-capitalist discourse (fragmentarity and speed), Falco arrives at the centripetal tension of the novel which, through a stratified narration, reflects on causes and effects that are increasingly impalpable in the speed of contemporary processes. If mimesis allows irony on the common complicity with the Capital, the first-person narrative lets rise to a reflection that is also a strategy of resistance., Ticontre. Teoria Testo Traduzione, N. 12 (2019)

Gli studi sulla brevità, ora declinata nell'espressione testi brevi ora in quella di forma breve, hanno rivolto attenzione al tema da molteplici angolature (diacronica, semiotica o variazionale in relazione a lingue e letterature diverse). Questo volume, incentrato sull’italiano, intende riaffrontare la questione da una nuova prospettiva, di natura pragmatica. Più precisamente, le principali domande di ricerca a cui si vuole rispondere sono le seguenti: in che modo viene strutturata una forma breve pensata per il suo specifico destinatario? E come cambia tale strutturazione al variare del tipo di discorso e di testo?

L'articolo tratta la nascita dell'aforisma e la scelta della forma breve in Lichtenberg, i giochi di parole, la critica della chiesa, la critica politico-sociale e la ricezione di Lichtenberg aforista outsider. La prima parte è tradotta da G. Cantarutti, mente S. Ruzzenenti traduce da La critica politico-sociale alla fine.

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The object of study of the present research is the dedication in the printed text, an essential element of the authorial peritext. This research focuses on textual linguistics and on the analysis of the discourse from an enunciative perspective and aims at understanding the purpose of the dedication, as speech and to grasp its functions as discursive genre. What follows is a prototypical description of the genre of the book dedication from the close survey of its main functions, taking into consideration the context, the conditions of production and the reception of the discourse, as well as the unique traits in the text of dedications. info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion