bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Coordinate Direct Input of Both KRAS and IGF1 Receptor to Activation of PI3 kinase in KRAS-Mutant Lung Cancer
Authors: Molina-Arcas Miriam , Hancock David C. , Sheridan Clare , Kumar Madhu S. , Downward Julian
Published: March 2013

Using a panel of non–small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) lines, we show here that MAP-ERK kinase (MEK) and RAF inhibitors are selectively toxic for the KRAS-mutant genotype, whereas phosphoinositide 3-kinase (PI3K), AKT, and mTOR inhibitors are not. IGF1 receptor (IGF1R) tyrosine kinase inhibitors also show selectivity for KRAS-mutant lung cancer lines. Combinations of IGF1R and MEK inhibitors resulted in strengthened inhibition of KRAS-mutant lines and also showed improved effectiveness in autochthonous mouse models of Kras-induced NSCLC. PI3K pathway activity is dependent on basal IGF1R activity in KRAS-mutant, but not wild-type, lung cancer cell lines. KRAS is needed for both MEK and PI3K pathway activity in KRAS-mutant, but not wild-type, lung cancer cells, whereas acute activation of KRAS causes stimulation of PI3K dependent upon IGF1R kinase activity. Coordinate direct input of both KRAS and IGF1R is thus required to activate PI3K in KRAS-mutant lung cancer cells.

Significance: It has not yet been possible to target RAS proteins directly, so combined targeting of effector pathways acting downstream of RAS, including RAF/MEK and PI3K/AKT, has been the most favored approach to the treatment of RAS-mutant cancers. This work sheds light on the ability of RAS to activate PI3K through direct interaction, indicating that input is also required from a receptor tyrosine kinase, IGF1R in the case of KRAS-mutant lung cancer. This suggests potential novel combination therapeutic strategies for NSCLC. Cancer Discov; 3(5); 548–63. ©2013 AACR.

See related commentary by Chen and Sweet-Cordero, p. 491

This article is highlighted in the In This Issue feature, p. 471
Biocentrism, Religion and Synthetic Biology
Authors: Attfield Robin
Published: March 2013

Biocentrism maintains that all living creatures have moral standing, but need not claim that all have equal moral significance. This moral standing extends to organisms generated through human interventions, whether by conventional breeding, genetic engineering, or synthetic biology. Our responsibilities with regard to future generations are relevant to non-human species as well as future human generations. Likewise, the Precautionary Principle raises objections to the generation of serious or irreversible harm or changes to the quality of human or non-human life, and needs to be applied when the introduction of synthetic biotechnology is envisaged. Consideration of this Principle supplements the problems raised for synthetic biology from a biocentric perspective. The bearing of biocentrism on religions is also considered, together with contrasting views about science, religion and the creation of life.
Heterodera hainanensis n. sp. (Nematoda: Heteroderinae) from bamboo in Hainan Province, China – a new cyst nematode in the Afenestrata group
Authors: Zhuo Kan , Wang Honghong , Ye Weimin , Peng Deliang , Liao Jinling
Published: March 2013

Heterodera hainanensis n. sp. is described and illustrated from bamboo (Phyllostachys pubescens) based on morphology and molecular analyses of rRNA D2D3 region of LSU and ITS. This new species belongs to the Afenestrata group and is characterised by lemon-shaped cyst with prominent vulval cone and vulval cone without fenestration and bullae but with weak and furcate underbridge. The second-stage juvenile (J2) has two lip annuli, a 15.8-17.5 μm long stylet with rounded knobs sloping slightly posteriorly, three incisures in the lateral field and a conical tail with hyaline portion forming 52.3-71.1% of the tail length. Heterodera hainanensis n. sp. most closely resembles species in the Afenestrata group but is distinguished from these species by a number of characters, including cyst shape and size, the presence of an underbridge, vulval slit length, J2 stylet length, stylet knobs shape, incisure number and lip annule number. Molecular analysis reveals that this species has unique LSU D2D3 and ITS rRNA sequences and RFLP-ITS-rRNA profiles, and it is most closest to H. koreana in dendrograms inferred from both markers. A key to all species of the Afenestrata group is presented.
Morphological and molecular characterisation of Paralongidorus plesioepimikis n. sp. (Nematoda: Longidoridae) from southern Spain
Authors: Palomares-Rius Juan E. , Cantalapiedra-Navarrete Carolina , Gutiérrez-Gutiérrez Carlos , Liébanas Gracia , Castillo Pablo
Published: March 2013

Paralongidorus plesioepimikis n. sp. is described and illustrated by light microscopy, scanning electron microscopy and molecular studies from specimens collected in a sandy soil in the rhizosphere of stone pine (Pinus pinea) in Bonares (Huelva Province), southern Spain. The new species is characterised by a very long body (9.71-14.11 mm), an expanded and rounded lip region, with a clear constriction followed by a depression posterior to the amphidial aperture, a very long and flexible odontostyle (202-227 μm), guiding ring located at 36.5-44.0 μm from anterior end, dorsal pharyngeal gland nucleus in anterior part of bulb, one subventral pair of nuclei near middle of bulb, vulva at 33-38%, and a dorsally convex tail with rounded terminus (32-39 μm long). SEM observations showed a very large amphidial fovea with conspicuous aperture ca three-fourths as wide as lip region and cephalic papillae appearing as small apertures, each located just anterior to a distinct cephalic lobe. The sequences of the D2-D3 expansion segments of 28S rRNA, partial 18S rRNA and ITS rRNA gene for P. plesioepimikis n. sp. were obtained. Phylogenetic analyses of P. plesioepimikis n. sp. rRNA gene sequences and of Paralongidorus spp. and Longidorus spp. sequences published in GenBank were done using Maximum Likelihood and Bayesian inference. Paralongidorus species (including P. plesioepimikis n. sp.) clustered together, except for P. bikanerensis which clustered within Longidorus spp. and was clearly separated from all other Paralongidorus spp. in trees generated from the D2-D3 expansion segments of 28S and partial 18S data set. ML analysis using SH-test for the validity of Paralongidorus was performed and showed the validity of the genus using the D2-D3 expansion segment of 28S and partial 18S.
The Silence of the Origin: Philosophy in Transition and the Essence of Thinking
Authors: Keane Niall
Published: March 2013

Abstract

This article pursues Heidegger’s protracted engagement with the question of silent origins. First, I explore the so-called transitional thinking grounded in the fundamental attunement of reticence as it is put forward in the Beiträge zur Philosophie. Second, I consider the complex matter of Heidegger’s reference to the intimate, yet distinct, roles of poetry and thinking when it comes to articulating a response to the attunement of reticence. I then move to explain what is at stake in Heidegger’s engagement with Hölderlin on the nature of language, silence, and listening. This latter task involves analyzing Heidegger’s contention that Hölderlin’s poetic thought is both philosophically exemplary and futural. Finally, since I take Heidegger’s interpretation of Hölderlin to be a critical appropriation, we must assess the coherence of his redeployment of Hölderlin’s thought models, especially, I will claim, his appropriation of the halfgods.
From the New Geopolitics of Resources to Nanotechnology: Emerging Challenges of Globalism in Antarctica
Authors: Hemmings Alan D.
Published: March 2013

Abstract

The Antarctic regime does not face imminent collapse, but its apparent calm disguises significant ecological and geopolitical instability. Over the past 15 years, the picture of human activity in Antarctica has transformed from one still heavily terrestrially focussed, dominated by national Antarctic programmes, largely science focussed, and situated within a Cold-War geopolitics, to one where diverse activities, increasingly including the marine environment, involving a much wider group of actors and commercial imperatives, is the norm. Globalism has brought new pressures, and increased intensity of pressures to Antarctica. Whilst the existing Antarctic Treaty System retains a theoretical capacity to develop standards and provide regulation, it has shown no obvious inclination to do so for a decade and a half. Critically, the system seems to have lost confidence in Antarctic exceptionalism as its organising principle, and to lack administrative capacity to address substantive issues. Given technology’s overcoming of the natural defences of Antarctica, if globalism now denies us the capacity to treat anywhere differently and thereby disables the principle of Antarctic exceptionalism upon which international governance of the region was predicated, Antarctica faces severe difficulties. This paper argues for continuing special treatment of Antarctica and a new deliberative exceptionalism. It suggests that significant unresolved issues within the present Antarctic dispensation need attention, notably the beginning of a debate on the abandonment of territorial sovereignty claims, a more coherent institutional development and the establishment of a political level Meeting of Parties in addition to the current officials-only meetings.
Indigenous Self-Government in the Arctic, and their Right to Land and Natural Resources
Authors: Eide Asbjørn
Published: March 2013

Abstract

The article examines the evolution in international law of indigenous self-government and their control over their land and resources, and explores the extent to which this is being followed up at the national level with particular emphasis on Arctic and other Northern indigenous peoples. It starts by discussing the concept of ‘indigenous peoples’, noting that most of them live in areas that have until recently been considered to be marginal by the dominant parts of society, and observes that two contradictory trends can presently be observed: On the one hand a growing pressure, in the context of expanding economic globalisation and intensification of consumption, for access to the natural resources in the areas where they live, but on the other hand a growing resistance through improved organisation by the indigenous peoples themselves and by a growing recognition of their rights under international law. The impact of this general evolution at the global level on specific cases are examined with regards to the Inuit-controlled self-government of Nunavut in Canada, the move towards full independence of Inuit-controlled Greenland, and the evolution of Sámi self-management in Sámi land of Fenno-Scandinavia.
Public Enemy No. 1?
Authors: Boykoff Maxwell T.
Published: March 2013

Outlier voices—particularly those views often dubbed climate “skeptics,” “denialists,” or “contrarians”—have gained prominence and traction in mass media over time through a mix of internal workings such as journalistic norms, institutional values and practices, and external political economic, cultural, and social factors. In this context, the article explores how and why these actors—through varied interventions and actions—garner disproportionate visibility in the public arena via mass media. It also examines how media content producers grapple with ways to represent claims makers, as well as their claims, so that they clarify rather than confuse these critical issues. To the extent that mass media misrepresent and/or gratuitously cover these outlier views, they contribute to ongoing illusory, misleading, and counterproductive debates within the public and policy communities, and poorly serve the collective public. Furthermore, working through mass media outlets, these outlier interventions demonstrate themselves to be (at times deliberately) detrimental to efforts seeking to enlarge rather than constrict the spectrum of possibility for varied forms of climate action.
Vittorio Sereni o L'istinto della gioia
Authors: Wittman Laura
Published: March 2013

[…] l'immagine che altri hanno di me è di un uomo incerto, dubbioso, perplesso, e addirittura pessimista o triste. Questo accade perché, avendo io una consapevolezza della gioia e vedendola svilita, porto in me un certo disagio, riservatezza, o mugugno. Tuttavia la gioia c'è. Si tratta di momenti che, chi mi sa osservare, sa anche percepire. E d'altra parte non è che io possa definire la gioia: non è un concetto, è un istinto […] –- Vittorio Sereni (in Ferretti, 95)
L'ipertesto: Genere Letterario Marginale o Emergente? Un'indagine Sugli Ipertesti di Italo Calvino
Authors: Pilz Kerstin
Published: March 2013

I romanzi lunghi scritti oggi forse sono un controsenso: la dimensione del tempo è andata in frantumi, non possiamo vivere o pensare se non spezzoni di tempo che s'allontanano ognuno lungo una sua traiettoria e subito spariscono.

ltalo Calvino, Se una notte d'inverno un viaggiatore
Translating the Contemporaneity of Neodialect Italian Poetry
Authors: Vitiello Justin
Published: March 2013

- Translation not only transforms other literatures, their authors and translating authors, but in repressive societies serves specifically as an instrument to educate, inform, and alter political and hence literary values. In totalitarian states, modes of expression not permitted native authors are allowed foreign authors in translation.1

- There has never been a creative flowering of dialect poetry like the one … taking place since the Seventies, so purposeful, cultured, often followed in many authors by the definitive renunciation of poetry in Italian … Never as in recent years has dialect appeared …, according to De Sanctis's prophecy, as “the new seedbed of literary languages.” And never as in recent years has dialect been so widely mentioned in one breath with “expressive avant-garde” and “experimentation.”2
MELCHISEDECH'S NOVELLETTA of the Three Rings as Irenic Play (DECAMERON I.3)
Authors: Masciandaro Franco
Published: March 2013

Building on Bakhtin's “plurality of voices” and on an anti-Hegelian exclusion of the subject from historical process, the essay explores how the unconventional plot of the novel symbolically resists and parodies the capitalist principles of contemporary 1960's Italian consumer society. The novel achieves this resistance by a calculated embedding of narrative spaces of transgression and rule-breaking actions within the main frame narrative, thereby positing an unproductive and non-conformist clash between the narrator-protagonist's hallucinatory and doxastic worlds (embedded texts) and the objective world of consumer society – represented by the frame narrative.
NASCITA E MORTE DELLA MASSAIA DI PAOLA MASINO E LA QUESTIONE DEL CORPO MATERNO NEL FASCISMO
Authors: Rorandelli Tristana
Published: March 2013

Il saggio esamina il romanzo di Paola Masino (1908–1989) Nascita e morte della massaia (1939; pubblicato nel 1945), interpretando i temi del corpo femminile e della maternità alla luce del contesto storico-culturale dell'epoca fascista. Questi due topoi sono letti in relazione alla socializzazione e alla meccanizzazione del corpo femminile proposte dalla propaganda e dalla politica fasciste allo scopo di promuovere la campagna demografica e l'espansione coloniale italiana. Il romanzo della Masino è successivamente collocate, pur nella sua originalità, nell'ambito della reazione negativa, evidente nella stampa femminile coeva, alla trasformazione fascista del corpo femminile in “macchina” per la produzione di prole, Esaminando il conflitto interiore della protagonista e il drammatico risultato della normalizzazione e del controllo esercitati dal regime sulla sua sfera femminile, il saggio si concentra sul modo in cui il romanzo mette in discussione i presupposti della dottrina fascista relativa alle donne e soprattutto la sua concezione riduttiva, sociale e biologica dell'esistenza femminile.
Embedded Narratives of Subversion in Luciano Bianciardi's La Vita Agra
Authors: Mastrogianakos John
Published: March 2013

Building on Bakhtin's “plurality of voices” and on an anti-Hegelian exclusion of the subject from historical process, the essay explores how the unconventional plot of the novel symbolically resists and parodies the capitalist principles of contemporary 1960's Italian consumer society. The novel achieves this resistance by a calculated embedding of narrative spaces of transgression and rule-breaking actions within the main frame narrative, thereby positing an unproductive and non-conformist clash between the narrator-protagonist's hallucinatory and doxastic worlds (embedded texts) and the objective world of consumer society — represented by the frame narrative.
“E 10 CH' AL FINE DI TUTT' I DISII APPROPINQUAVA”: UN' INTERPRETAZIONE TEOLOGICA DEL DESIDERIUM NEL XXXIII CANTO DEL PARADISO
Authors: Fasolini Diego
Published: March 2013

Alla fine del suo itinerarium mentis in Deum, Dante-pellegrino giunge “al fine di tutt'i disii” nel XXXIII canto del Paradiso. Il saggio identifica il desiderium del pellegrino come desiderium Dei, anzitutto prendendo in considerazione le dichiarazioni di insufficienza. La teologia di Dio incomprehensibilis ed il ricorso al pensiero di Otto e Rahner circa l'esperienza religiosa conducono alla tesi del saggio: Dante-poeta ha compreso la necessità teologica del primato della Rivelazione e l'ha espressa attraverso la luce che colpisce il pellegrino, forma di un Dio che, più che essere trovato, si fa trovare. Il saggio indaga inoltre il tema dell'ineffabilità e la dialettica parola-silenzio, citando come precedenti il raptus paolino e l'estasi agostiniana di Ostia ( Confessiones IX). Il saggio raggiunge due conclusioni. La prima è che le dichiarazioni di insufficienza hanno il carattere della praeparatio psicologica alla visio Dei e contengono un aspetto dossologico. La seconda riguarda il desiderium Dei che ultimamente conduce il pellegrino – ed ogni lettore della Commedia. Soltanto nel momento estremo, abbagliati dalla luce divina, ci si rende conto che il fatale andare ha un significato, drammatico in un senso: è ricerca di Dio, una ricerca che giunge a compimento solo in quanto Dio si fa trovare, attivando il processo di riconoscimento, la fede: “Credo ch'i vidi” ( Par. XXXIII, 92).
The IMMAGINAZIONE SENZA FILI and the Noise of Modern Life: Towards a Media Ecology of Futurism
Authors: Campbell Timothy C.
Published: March 2013

In this article I examine the connections running between F.T. Marinetti's Futurist manifestos and wireless communication media in the early part of the 20th century. I set forth how two literary inventions, words-in-freedom ( parole in libertà) and a wireless imagination ( immaginazione senza fili), inscribe the newness of the wireless in the medium of writing; becoming the indices of an altered media environment in which the components of writing are uncoupled via the installation of the wireless where outdated egos once resided. In the widening space that Marinetti grants his words-in-freedom, I show him moving decidedly away from a Romantic conception of imagination to one more properly resembling a 20th century wireless transmission. Detailing wirelessly transmitted sense perceptions and the poet who becomes a war correspondent capable of covering theaters of war, I offer a critical perspective onto wireless technology, speed, and data streams in the manifestos. In my reading Futurism will come to mark both the ascendancy of the wireless over aesthetics and its alliance with wartime commands.
“IL SONNO DI UN ACQUARIO”: MONTALE'S BELTÀ
Authors: Butcher John
Published: March 2013

The present study delves into Eugenio Montale's complex relationship with the verse of Andrea Zanzotto, focusing in particular on the abundant flux of ideas from La Beltà (1968) to Satura (1971). In fact, whilst these two groundbreaking collections differ quite substantially, it is nonetheless undeniable that the reading of La Beltà bore significant consequences for the genesis of Montale's later poetry.
Rome If You Want to: The Currency of John Fante's Italy
Authors: Barone Dennis
Published: March 2013

Sociologist Robert Orsi has described how Italian immigrants invented a homeland that never existed and used this invention as a fantasy to assuage their pain and as a stick to discipline their children. John Fante's fiction illustrates this pattern. In his first published novel, Wait Until Spring, Bandini, for example, the protagonist's grandmother condemns the United States and praises the values of her homeland while in the late novella My Dog Stupid Italy represents a sanctuary for the protagonist. When Fante journeyed to Italy his letters home demonstrate how important these trips were to him. Other Italian American authors such as Jerre Mangione, Helen Barolini, Jospeh Papaleo, and Maria Laurino have explored the contrast between Italy and America, have described the homeland as a paradise or as a cruel discipline. Fante's writing changes over time from depicting Italy as strap to Italy as sanctuary, from being driven from the homeland to being drawn to it. This shift demonstrates that the manufactured memories that Orsi described can be appropriated and utilized by the children of immigrants and that these constructions are mutable rather than rigid and that ethnic identification is an ever-evolving process.
Learning in Marriage: A Study of Moravia's L'AMORE CONIUGALE
Authors: Slavik Steve
Published: March 2013

Moravia's L'amore coniugale, often downplayed by critics, displays a carefully constructed and carefully articulated process of change between the protagonists. The novel reiterates a major theme in Moravia's writings, that one cannot love another person from within the constraints of conventional attitudes based on domination and submission.
Labors of Love and Fascism in the Colonial Novel FORTUNA SOTTO VENTO
Authors: Pickering-Iazzi Robin
Published: March 2013

This study draws upon theories of the emotions as complex constructions that are culturally, socially, and historically contingent, in order to posit a critical frame for examining the meanings attached to love in discourses of Italian colonial emotions. Focusing on the colonial novel Fortuna sotto vento, one of several fictional works penned by the critically acclaimed author Pina Ballario, the essay scrutinizes the ideals, values, pleasures, and prohibitions entwined with diverse representations of love and speculates about how such depictions encode ideal Italian colonial identity, along with differences of gender, race, sexuality, and space. While so doing, the discussion endeavors to situate the designs and functions of love crafted in Ballario's colonial fiction in relation to notions of love and colonial conquest in Fascist writings of the 1930s and in “postcolonial” discourse of the 1990s.
Resisting Identity: Fleur Jaeggy's Life Stories
Authors: Parmeggiani Francesca
Published: March 2013

In this paper, I discuss Fleur Jaeggy's writings from her early narrative experiment Il dito in bocca (1968) to her latest short novel Proleterka (2001). Fascinated with the notion of identity formation as fluid subjectivity, Jaeggy creates imaginary existences in which time is fragmented in non-continuous segments, and personal identity is represented in the process of being molded and dissolved. Yet, the author fails to defy the notion of identity and its world of certainties and stability, for her characters, whose all-pervading selves take over the narration, suspend time in the actual moment of their storytelling, and their becoming is in fact a being once and for all. Jaeggy does not write and does not like to speak about herself, and her narrative is only vaguely autobiographical; however, by questioning the concept of identity, she voices the individual's resistance to any binding definition of his/her psychological complexity and freedom.
LA LUNA CHE UCCIDE: L'ESPRESSIONISMO DI “LA GUARDIA ALLA LUNA” DI MASSIMO BONTEMPELLI
Authors: Cracolici Stefano
Published: March 2013

Tra tentazioni di estetismo e tentativi di verismo, La guardia alla luna di Massimo Bontempelli, rappresentata per la prima volta nel 1916, costituisce uno dei primi documenti teatrali che dimostrano di avere assorbito la polemica futurista contro il romanticismo. E tuttavia, la linea drammaturgica nella quale si inserisce il dramma di Bontempelli non è propriamente conforme a quella del futurismo, quanto piuttosto a quella dell'espressionismo storico, teoricamente illustrato negli “Stationendrama” di Strindberg. L'analisi insieme tematica e strutturale che qui si propone mette in luce una soluzione di compromesso tra critica al romanticismo, da un lato, e fascino simbolista, dall'altro, dimostrando, implicitamente, che nella pratica drammaturgica l'uso di uno stile diverso da quello futurista ne pregiudica di fatto tanto le istanze critiche quanto quelle militanti.
LE TRANSIZIONI NEL TEMPO, NELLO SPAZIO E DAL GRIDO ALL'ULTRAGRIDO: LETTURA DEL DOLORE DI UNGARETTI
Authors: Paglia Luigi
Published: March 2013

Il s aggio in dividua il do ppio v ersante in c ui s i m odula l a p oesia de l D olore l'irruzione della tragedia nell'ambito delle vicende personali del poeta (la morte del figlio Antonietto e del fratello Costantino) e degli eventi collettivi (la seconda guerra mondiale) e, dialetticamente, il superamento della depressione, dello scacco e dello strazio, nel tentativo di uscire dai limiti della situazione e, ancora più decisamente, nel balzo nella prospettiva metafisica e della preghiera (il grido del dolore diventa ultragrido religioso). Tale dialettica trova il suo correlativo sul piano semiotico, nel sistema di transizioni temporali (tempo presente, passato, futuro ed eternità), spaziali (Italia, Brasile, mondo terreno e metafisico), e a livello linguistico e stilistico: da una parte, nelle modalità dell'inarrestabile spirale sintattica e della percussiva reiterazione lessicale e, dall'altra, nelle figure metamorfiche dell'ossimoro e dell'antitesi che, da sole o in collisione con le procedure reiterative, avvalorano il rovesciamento e l'impennata dell'umano nella dimensione metafisica. La particolareggiata lettura stratigrafica dei testi fondamentali dal punto di vista semantico ed estetico del Dolore (Tutto ho perduto, Se tu mio fratello, Giorno per giorno (1–17), Amaro accordo, Tu ti spezzasti, Folli i miei passi, Defunti su montane, Mio fiume anche tu) esemplifica e rende conto in modo puntuale dell'orizzonte tematico, dialettico e stilistico delineato nell'introduttivo profilo del libro ungarettiano.
A Feminist Pirandello: Female Agency in As You Desire Me
Authors: Champagne John
Published: March 2013

Given that Luigi Pirandello's 1930 Come tu mi vuoi (As You Desire Me) is about a woman's attempt to determine her identity, one would think that the play would be praised by feminists. In fact, some critics argue that it simply reinforces traditional gender norms. This essay offers a different feminist interpretation of the play, one that foregrounds the question of female agency, L'Ignota is the only character who may know the truth of her identity. That she withholds this truth from both the other characters and the audience is evidence of the play's feminism. The character retains the right to her self, placing both the other characters and the audience in the position of “lack” and not the plenitude associated with male authority and subjectivity. The unmasking of that plenitude as illusory is for some theorists at least a feminist gesture par excellence. By the conclusion of “As You Desire Me,” both characters and audience are confronted with a woman who refuses the usual rules of the game. The essay concludes by examining an earlier work of Pirandello's that also takes up the question of the identity of a woman. This suggests that perhaps a feminist re-evaluation of Pirandello's work is in order.
The Daughter's Body in Morante's Menzogna e sortilegio and Di Lascia's Passaggio in ombra
Authors: Sambuco Patrizia
Published: March 2013

The interest in the comparison between Morante's Menzogna e sortilegio and Di Lascia's Passaggio in ombra is justified by the many similarities evident in particular in the characterization of the daughter-narrators. This analysis focuses on the two daughter-narrators and takes into consideration the function that the body and the concepts of beauty and desire assume in their narration. Use is made of post-Lacanian theories, in order to highlight how the mind/body split of patriarchal tradition, apparent in Menzogna e sortilegio leaves space to more possibilities for a corporeal subjectivity in Passaggio in ombra. Italian feminist philosophy is also drawn upon in the analysis of the body and of desire.
The American Nightmare: Reading and Teaching Pietro di Donato's Ethnographic Novel Christ in Concrete
Authors: De Angelis Rose
Published: March 2013

In the interdisciplinary course entitled The Italian-American Experience, Pietro di Donato's Christ in Concrete is examined, explored, and analyzed within historical, socio-political, and literary contexts. The novel becomes a point of focus for the discussion of immigrant life and working-class people in a broader and contextualized understanding of Italian Americans. Students read Christ in Concrete in conjunction with essays documenting the history of workers' struggles in the United States. Read as cultural artifact, Christ in Concrete documents with historical clarity and brutal honesty the way in which the American Dream turned nightmare. Using language, religion, and social politics as focal points, the paper looks at Italian-Americans, their virtues and flaws, their struggles and triumphs, as it underscores the culture's unique contributions to the American mosaic not only in the lived lives of the novel's characters but also in the poetics of its discourse.
EZRA POUND'S CAVALCANTI: Fidelity and the Masculine Spirit
Authors: West Simon
Published: March 2013

This paper aims to provide a close, rigorous and systematic analysis of Ezra Pound's various English versions of the sonnet 'Chi è questa che vèn' by Guido Cavalcati. Pound's interest in Cavalcanti began as early as 1909 when he started working on translations of the Italian poet during a period in which his own verse was influenced by the Pre-Raphaelites, including the first English translator of Cavalcanti, Dante Gabriel Rossetti. In 1912 he published The Sonnets and Ballate of Guido Cavalcanti. Pound sought a balance between a desire to capture the spirit of Cavalcanti and a desire to achieve accuracy on a semantic level. This proved to be a difficult dichotomy to overcome, and he returned to the translations, publishing rewritten versions of five sonnets in 1932. In this paper I intend to examine revisions Pound made to his verse translations of Cavalcanti. Scholars examining these versions have identified a radical archaizing technique and attention to mimicking the original cadences of Cavalcanti, and associated these with Pound's modernist agenda. Yet the motivation for these archaisms may be linked strongly to Pound's debt to Wardour Street language, and to the traditional metrical constraints he imposed on the translations. The sonnet 'Chi è questa che vèn' is an excellent case study because Pound wrote four distinct versions, the earliest in 1910, the last in 1932.
An Ethics of Nicotine: Writing a Subjectivity of Process in ITALO SVEVO'S LA COSCIENZA DI ZENO
Authors: Amberson Deborah
Published: March 2013

In La coscienza di Zeno (1923), Italo Svevo's protagonist, Zeno, engage in a determined battle with nicotine, smoking a repeated “last cigrette” that tastes, time and time again, of victory. I contend that the documentation of Zeno's addiction suggests an indictment of canonical literary Tuscan, tacitly invoked as an illusory regime of health. Countering the rigidity of linguistic form, the erratic force of Svevo's infamous “scrivere male” together with the incessant stop and start of Zeno's attempts to renounce nicotine emerge as an alternative regime founded on a principle of potentiality. Reiterating the central concern of “L'uomo e la teoria darwiniana,” an essay in which Svevo suggests that humanity's greatest strength lies in the fact that man remains a being devoid of formal finality, Zeno's decision to hober between the resolution and the renunciation, between the reality of sickness and the promise of health, constitutes the only ethics of subjectivity equipped to incarnate the infinite promise of potentiality.
Between Fiction and Ethnography: TABUCCHI'S GLI ZINGARI E IL RINASCIMENTO: VIVERE DA ROM A FIRENZE
Authors: Ferlito Susanna F.
Published: March 2013

My reading of Tabucchi's Gli Zingari e il Rinascimento: Vivere da Rom a Firenze, seeks to show how Tabucchi's text is indebted to, and critical of, a history of ethnographic observation of the “other.” My goal is to trace this debt and critique through the text as it plays itself out through Tabucchi's narrativization of a (female) anthropologist's arrival at, dwelling in, and departure from “the field.”
CENNI SULLA FRASE IPOTETICA IN DUE DIALETTI DELL' ALTO MOLISE
Authors: Iannacito-Provenzano Roberta
Published: March 2013

Quest'articolo consiste nel fornire un quadro descrittivo delle diverse configurazioni del periodo ipotetico in alcuni dialetti molisani della zona isernina. I dialetti rappresentativi in esame appartengono a Villa San Michelle (frazione del comune di Vastogirardi) e a Forli del Sannio, due località nella zona isernina. Si mira a colmare le lacune in questo campo presentando i vari costrutti riscontrati prima di tutto in una serie di registrazioni basate sulla ricerca sul campo a Villa San Michele e, in secondo luogo, esaminando le frasi ipotetiche, che dovrebbero essere riflessioni autentiche del parlato, incluse in alcune commedie scritte dal noto commediografo, pittore, poeta e maestro Antonio Angelone (1933) nel dialetto forlivese.

In primo luogo vengono trattate le frasi ipotetiche della realtà che comunque non presentano straordinarie varianti a confronto con il generale assetto linguistico delle zone contigue. In seguito si indaga in maniera approfondita sulla frase ipotetica dell'irrealtà nei dialetti in esame e si presentano dieci configurazioni diverse per questo tipo. Per quanto riguarda il periodo ipotetico dell'irrealtà nel passato vengono esaminate in modo dettagliato anche le varie combinazioni con l'imperfetto dell'indicativo, caratteristica normale in questa zona.
From Ethiopia to Harlem: Anti-Fascist Spectacles across the Atlantic
Authors: Clò Clarissa
Published: March 2013

Adopting a transnational approach to localized historical events and cultural productions, this essay explores the impact of the Italo-Ethiopian war in New York City, on Italian and African communities in particular, through the study of the connection of two plays by the Federal Theatre Project — the censored “living newspaper” Ethiopia (1936) and Orson Wells' “voodoo” Macbeth (1936) adapted for the Negro Unit of the FTP in Harlem — and the militant histrionic work of the Italian immigrant radical press in the same period, especially Carlo Tresca's Il martello This analysis posits a diasporic cultural terrain in which performance on and off stage played a central role in registering and mediating this most pressing issue of the day, including cross-racial affiliations and antagonisms on both sides of the Atlantic and in capturing the relevance of diasporas in national formations. In their experimentation with new media and technology and new ways of expressions, these cultural productions also shed new light on the history of the theatre worldwide, making visible in their script and live performance the connections among several populations across the globe brought about by histories of colonialism and emigration.
DÀGHELA, AVANTI UN PASSO: GIOVENTUÙ, MITO E POLITICA NEI MEMORIALI DEI VOLONTARI GARIBALDINI
Authors: Tosi Giuseppe
Published: March 2013

This essay analyzes the complex relationship between Garibaldi and the Italian youth during the period of the Unification of Italy. The myth of Garibaldi was born with the new generation who embraced the democratic nationalist creed propagated by Mazzini, and was later brought to the battlefields by Garibaldi. During the wars for the Italian Unification and all of the Garibaldi's enterprises, Italian youth fought for an idea of freedom and independence in a spirit of comradeship and affection. Their experiences were recounted in memoirs written over a long period of time, in which the authors returned with the memory to the main events of the Risorgimento, thus providing the character of that historical period to the later generations. Their writings, however, had an unforeseen outcome, because, in the end, they served as a means for the dominant conservative ruling class to co-opt the myth of Garibaldi in the name of a political strategy meant to attract to the Monarchy the popular support associated with Garibaldi and the democratic movement.
L'ITALIANO E LA PREDICAZIONE DI UN SACERDOTE DI PROVINCIA TRA SETTE E OTTOCENTO
Authors: Librandi Rita
Published: March 2013

The language of sermons is one of the study areas on the forms and the communicative strategies developed by the Catholic Church. Often in the preaching language, elegance and rules bent to pedagogical criteria in order to catch up a greater number of worshippers.

Even Domenico Lentini, a minor clergyman active in Basilicata at the beginning of XIX century, addressed to communicative effectiveness, while working meticulously on the words, structures and congruity of his own texts. These also were the ways through which, in many regions of the Italian peninsula, the words of the still little known Italian language, reached the ears of the people.
Borderlines: 8½, SOGNI D'ORO and the Real-Dream Continuum
Authors: Brook Clodagh
Published: March 2013

This article explores the treatment of dream and reality in Federico Fellini's 8½ (1963) and Nanni Moretti's Sogni d'oro (1981), exploring in particular the way boundaries between the states are drawn and disrupted, and the implications this disruption has for the structure of the films and for their creation of meaning. The article's approach owes more to semiotics and to recent cognitive/experimental accounts of dreaming than it does to Freudian, Jungian, or Lacanian interpretations. I make reference to a range of European and American films (e.g. Belle de jour, Persona, Vanilla Sky) which are similar (in terms of their treatment of dream) to Fellini and Moretti's films.

The article argues that Deleuze's theory of cinematic dream (whereby the dream is structured as a large circuit which returns ‘in the end to the situation which set it off’) fails to account for the narrative structure of films such as 8½ and Sogni d'oro; it favors instead Halpern's metaphor of the real-dream continuum. I describe how these films instigate the continuum and then explore the rather intriguing consequences for character subjectivity, plot development, and spectator involvement.
LA FAVOLA DI MACHIAVELLI: BELFAGOR ARCIDIAVOLO
Authors: Ghelli Samuel
Published: March 2013

L'articolo prende in esame la Favola (meglio conosciuta come Belfagor Arcidiavolo) di Machiavelli e cerca di dimostrare, partendo proprio dalla scelta significativa del titolo, come nelle intenzioni dello scrittore fiorentino fosse la riformulazione di un genere narrativo, quello della favola appunto, venuto meno nella sua specificità dopo l'azione “unificatrice” di Boccaccio. Machiavelli sembra riflettere sulla varietà e eterogeneità del Decameron e voler riaffermare, rispetto a quella confusione di generi narrativi, la specificità del genere favolistico. Avvalendosi del comico del fabliau e dell'inverosimiglianza della fabula, dando alla propria invenzione l'impostazione dimostrativa dell‘ exemplum, Machiavelli formula così un racconto-modello e, attraverso il racconto, ridefinisce le coordinate specifiche di un genere.
Visconti's SENSO: The Art of History
Authors: Lerner Giovanna Faleschini
Published: March 2013

This article examines Visconti's subversive use of Francesco Hayez's 1859 iconic painting, Il bacio, in Senso as an essential element of the director's critique of Risorgimento history. In particular, the article proposes that through the recontextualization of Hayez's most recognizable work, which played a fundamental role in shaping the Italian patriotic imagination in the nineteenth century, Visconti problematizes cultural and artistic representations of Risorgimento history, as well as historiographical accounts of the unification process. By juxtaposing artistic accounts of a heroic Risorgimento and his characters' story of passion and betrayal, Visconti denounces traditional representations of the independence movement as historically false and politically biased, and uncovers the discrepancies between individual actions and motivations and uncomplicated representations of the Risorgimento. Gramscian perspective on the Risorgimento. By using art as an instrument of ideological critique he also traces a new direction for Italian intellectuals and artists, by attempting to bridge the gap between aesthetics and ideology and reclaiming for “Poetry” an active role in history.
Against Chapter XXXVI: Sequels and Remakes of Collodi's Pinoccohio in Italian Literature
Authors: Arnaudo Marco
Published: March 2013

This article discusses the last chapter of Collodi's Pinocchio in its relationship with the rest of the novel, and analyzes how several other authors responded to the very content of that chapter. Many 20th-century authors have in fact noticed a deep discrepancy between the adventures contained in the body of the novel and the brusque, somehow extrinsic and unprepared happy ending. They have consequently created alternative versions of Pinocchio that end before Collodi's original ending, or that depart from the penultimate chapter of the novel to move in new directions. In other cases, authors have created sequels of Collodi's story where Pinocchio, now a boy, attempts to return to being a puppet. The examples discussed include short stories by Arpino and Malerba, plays by Salvini and Benni, a rhyme version by Trinci, a comic book by Bilotta and Mammucari, and a mock official dossier by Placido. The analysis emphasizes the strategies these authors have used to give open endings to their works in response to their dissatisfaction with the solution proposed in the original novel.
Lost in the Fictional Woods with Umberto Eco: LA MISTERIOSA FIAMMA DELLA REGINA LOANA in the Context of Eco's oeuvre
Authors: Cannon JoAnn
Published: March 2013

La misteriosa fiamma della Regina Loana, like each of Eco's previous novels, may be read as “a fictional summa” of much of the author's theoretical work. The peculiar malady of the protagonist, the loss of autobiographical memory coupled with an overactive “cultural memory,” allows Eco both to dramatize and call into question key notions of his theoretical work. This essay situates La misteriosa fiamma in the context of the author's previous work and examines the way in which Eco's most recent novel explores the themes of encyclopedic competence, rationality, hermetic drift and unlimited semiosis, high brow and low brow cultural production. Eco shows how the associative ability that allows unlimited semiosis to function may give way to hermetic drift, infinite deferral and even madness. The encyclopedia that contains the totality of human knowledge may suddenly come unbound, reflecting, in its loose pages, fragmentation, incompletion and disjunction. La misteriosa fiamma della Regina Loana serves as a valuable and original contribution to Eco's life-long scholarly pursuits and as a reflection on the value of those pursuits from the perspective of advancing age.
METODOLOGIE DI SOVVERSIONE: MONTE IGNOSO DI PAOLA MASINO
Authors: Boero Silvia
Published: March 2013

Monte Ignoso (1931) è una cupa storia d'amore e morte dai risvolti profondamente edipici. La maternità — protagonista principale del romanzo — strettamente correlata alla sessuofobia, è considerata un'imposizione ed una condanna; all'estremo opposto sta l'infanzia, intesa come momento magico dell'esistenza umana, che le imposizioni sociali distruggono in un crescendo di gretta convenzionalità tipica delle consuetudini borghesi.

Nonostante un immediato successo di pubblico, MI ebbe diverse recensioni negative, tra le quali quella di Gadda, che trovò lo stile della Masino infarcito di futurismi decadenti, ne criticò l'ipersurrealismo, e non ne comprese il voluto stravolgimento grammaticale. MI fu altrettanto stroncato negli anni seguenti dalla critica fascista, che lo denunciò come eversivo a causa dei toni sommessi eppure pericolosamente destabilizzanti per la propaganda demografica; toni che si faranno sempre più pesanti nelle altre produzioni dell'autrice, fino ad esplodere nel suo più maturo romanzo, Nascita e Morte della Massaia.
RE-ENVISIONING THE RISORGIMENTO: ISABELLA BOSSI FEDRIGOTTI'S AMORE MIO UCCIDI GARIBALDI
Authors: Salsini Laura A.
Published: March 2013

Isabella Bossi Fedrigotti's 1980 novel Amore mio uccidi Garibaldi destabilizes historical narration by re-imagining the accepted masculinist chronicles of Italian unification and by making central the female figure within that history. By framing this revision within the structure of an epistolary narrative, the author brings to the public stage the private lives that were once excluded from it. Bossi Fedrigotti's novel exemplifies a larger project of rewriting both the Risorgimento and the gender roles and experiences of this particular historical period. But perhaps its more significant innovation is to evoke the legacy of the unification in the tumultuous events of the 1960s and 1970s in Italy. The text acts as a mirror of Bossi Fedrigotti's own era, which like the Risorgimento, saw critical transformations in Italian culture and society.
The ‘Daughter's Construction,’ or What Happens to Italian Novels When the Daughter Tells the Story
Authors: Lucamante Stefania
Published: March 2013

The present study responds to Zwinger's general question with respect to those Italian female writers who wrote using the novel as a literary construct for family relations, particularly with the father. In fact, the main argument is that a major thematic shift has taken place within the Italian romanzo di famiglia. While the analysis of the family relations in novelistic writing relies on naturalistic effects that depict the most conventional issues at the core of Italian society, the family novel by women writers dealing with the father-daughter relationship opens new areas of reflection on the various forms of psychological dependence, identity formation, subjection to power and authority as potestas, and social construction which define the woman as a whole.
VITALIANO TREVISAN'S I QUINDICIMILA PASSI: AN AESTHETIC OF REPETITION
Authors: Pell Gregory
Published: March 2013

With a focus on Vitaliano Trevisan's novel, I quindicimila passi, this article addresses on a number of levels the writer's ‘redundant’ style: the repetition of elements borrowed from Thomas Bernhard; the repetitious syntax of his characters; the recurrence of the same narrator; the repetition of his societal critiques; and even the repetition of footsteps to the point where they could be the plot as much as a conduit to it. According to the scholar, Trevisan's style is part of a conscious strategy for defying the book industry; the author even parodies the Barthesian ‘death of the author’ in order to make his point. Additionally, Trevisan's epigonism of Bernhard is compared to that of a jazz musician playing a standard theme, the variation of which can demonstrate the virtuosity of the imitator while releasing unique richness that eludes artistic categorization.