RiCOGNIZIONI. Rivista di Lingue e Letterature straniere e Culture moderne

“Between dreams and reality”

Lucia Chiosso — 2024-07-01

“Between dreams and reality”. Félix Francisco Casanova’s literary idiolect in the novel El don de Vorace. The aim of this contribution is to highlight the significant private residue which characterizes the literary idiolect of the Canarian poet and writer Félix Francisco Casanova (Santa Cruz de La Palma, 1956-Santa Cruz de Tenerife, 1976). First of all, the article will retrace the main stages of the author’s short literary career, which was abruptly broken by his sudden and untimely death. Then, the Casanova’s novel El don de Vorace will be analysed, with special focus on the influence of the oneiric element in the text, and on its thematic and structural implications. Finally, the rhythmical aspects of Casanova’s writing will be considered, emphasising the important role played by music in the writer’s literary apprenticeship.

Europe and its Languages

Christine Fourcaud — 2024-07-01

Europe and its Languages: The Fluctuating Ambiguity. Humanity has never given up
the quest for the perfect language. From the lingua franca to the construction of a perfectly rational
multilingual algorithmic code that would deliver us from what we believe to be the curse of Babel;
automatic language processing has revived the dream of a standardized multilingual communication
tool, fully motivated, transparent, angelic, without loss or redundancy. But the more analytically
coherent and semantically bi-univocal a language is, the less able it is to signify the world and ideas.
Indeed, speaking is not just about communicating, it is also about putting thought into dialogue with
itself, so that it can exist with others in the polis. By delegating the encounter between people to
artificial intelligence, has mankind been foolish enough to try to resolve the “faltering equivocality of
the world”? Let us explore how European thought, since Antiquity, has envisaged the essence of
language; perhaps we can catch a glimpse of Europe’s Being?

Between Narrative and Essay

Gonçal López-Pampló Rius — 2024-07-01

Between Narrative and Essay. The Self as a Space of Reconciliation in Comics. Mainstream comics models have been usually understood as fictional narrative. However, the development of graphic novel and popular science comics have pointed out basic autobiographical and essayistic aspects. Often, these books reveal themselves as healing and might be labeled as graphic medicine or, at least, might be seen as an space where the self can be happily reconciled with the other, through the recognition of shared circumstances.

“Dancing with Dharma” / “Ballando con Dharma”

Martina Maggi — 2024-07-01

“Dancing with Dharma”: making wise choices in audiovisual translation in the first Students’ Symposium “Wise Choices in AVT”. During the First Student Symposium on Audiovisual Translation, organised by the West University of Timișoara, five universities, including the University of Turin, were asked to work on the 2022 British short film “Dancing with Dharma” (Sukanya- Devika.K. Jhala). In February 2023, the students involved were asked to produce subtitles, SDH (subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing) and audio description (for the blind and visually impaired) in their mother tongue. The team decided to use the subtitling software Ooona Tools, the AD software ADauthor, and the Netflix guidelines. The final aim of the project was to promote the teaching of audiovisual translation in Universities and to evaluate the different results in various languages: Chinese, English, Hungarian, Italian and Romanian. After 5 months, the results were discussed at a conference held in Timișoara, Romania, on June 13th, 2023. In this paper, two of the Italian students involved in the project discuss the translation challenges encountered (the problem of textual fidelity and loss of information, and the translation of humour, wordplay and cultural references) and comment on the final result.

Translating Poetry from Serbian to Italian

Katarina Mitić — 2024-07-01

Translating Poetry from Serbian to Italian: Two Languages in Comparison in Desanka Maksimović’s Verses. Starting from the Italian translations of the poems of Desanka Maksimović, one of the most beloved and well-known Yugoslav authors of the 20th century, this work provides insights into the challenging theme of poetic translation, with particular attention to the rhythmic aspect. It illustrates some of the main linguistic and creative difficulties that a translator may encounter when translating from Serbian to Italian and explores from a linguistic standpoint the solutions proposed by authors such as Arturo Cronia and Giacomo Scotti.

(De)costructing identities

Miriam Begliuomini — 2024-07-01

The interviews collected here were conducted by e-mail, in French, by students of the Department of Foreign Languages and Literature and Modern Cultures of the University of Turin, as part of the "Workshop: Reading, Analysis and Dissemination of the Contemporary Novel". The French version can be found on the website of the Festival du Premier Roman de Chambéry - Lectures Plurielles (https://www.lecturesplurielles.com/une-saison-avec-nous/dans-le-retro/).

[rev. of] S. MARIJANOVIĆ, N. RADOSAVLJEVIĆ, "Srpski glagoli. A Conjugation Dictionary of Serbian Verbs", Beograd, Klett, 2019

Miriam Canavese — 2024-07-01

[rev. of] S. MARIJANOVIĆ, N. RADOSAVLJEVIĆ, Srpski glagoli. A Conjugation Dictionary of Serbian Verbs, Beograd, Klett, 2019

[rev. of] E. DI NUOVO, "Introducing Valico-DU. A Parallel, Learner Italian Treebank for Language Learning Research", Bologna, Pàtron, 2023

Bianca Maria De Paolis — 2024-07-01

[rev. of] E. DI NUOVO, Introducing Valico-DU. A Parallel, Learner Italian Treebank for Language Learning Research, Bologna, Pàtron, 2023

[rev. of] V. SENTI-SCHMIDLIN, "Karl Walser: Maler – Grafiker – Bühnenbildner – Raumgestalter", Berlin, Gebr. Mann Verlag 2023

Anna Fattori — 2023-12-30

[rev. of] V. SENTI-SCHMIDLIN, Karl Walser: Maler – Grafiker – Bühnenbildner – Raumgestalter, Berlin, Gebr. Mann Verlag 2023

[rev. of] F. PERLINI, "L’Albertazzi. Dizionario, grammatica storie di slang bolognese in una variante di ballotta", Pendragon, Bologna 2023-2024

Alberto Ghia — 2024-07-01

[rev. of] F. PERLINI, L’Albertazzi. Dizionario, grammatica storie di slang bolognese in una variante di ballotta, Pendragon, Bologna 2023-2024