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2023-11-14T01:36:03ZTelling habits: a habit-based approach to narrative identity
https://hdl.handle.net/1889/5419
Title: Telling habits: a habit-based approach to narrative identity
Authors: Roversi, Teresa
Abstract: Personhood and personal identity constitute long-standing problems in philosophical discussion, as the concepts of what is a person and how persons persist through time lie at the dead centre of many issues, and especially of metaphysical and ethical ones. Among the incredible variety and richness of problems that persons display, there is one issues this thesis focus on: the relation between the notion of person and personal identity, and the embodied condition of persons. It’s a relation that has long been in the focus of philosophical analysis, and indeed constitutes perhaps one of the thorniest problems that persons present: while psychological and cognitive features are often taken for granted in the concept of person, the embodied condition of persons has often been cast as less relevant to understanding the concept. The goal of this thesis is to establish a conceptual connection between the notion of person and personal identity, and the embodied dimension of persons.
Chapter One, “Framing the problems of persons”, introduces the main conceptual points developed in the recent philosophical debate with regard to the notion of personhood and personal identity. It first offers an overview of the principal solutions that have been offered to the problem of how personal identity persist through time, and of the discussion pertaining the criteria of personhood. The analysis then follows the evolution of the debate by introducing the notions of practical and metaphysical identity and reconstructing the conceptual steps that underlie their separation; it further explores the consequences of this distinction, in particular in terms of the role played by conventions and the social dimension in the constitution of the concept of a person. The goal of the chapter is to both reconstruct the logic(s) according to which the debate moves, and to problematize some of its aspects, in particular the disparaged role the body is assigned in many conceptual solutions. The chapter concludes by endorsing a notion of person that emphasizes its practical and socially-informed dimension, while arguing that this notion still falls short of offering a view of personal identity adequately connected to the embodied dimension of the person.
Chapter Two, “A narrative approach to personal identity”, introduces the narrative approach as particularly well-suited to respond to the problems of personal identity, especially as they emerged within the psychological paradigm that has ruled much of the debate. In the first place, the concept of narrative is introduced by means of Marya Schechtman’s The constitution of the selves (1996), an influential narrative approach to personal identity. Schechtman’s work allows to structure a notion of personal identity both practical and socially-informed, but that still falls short of being deeply embodied. Next, the narrative approach is briefly contextualixed with respect to its genesis and the evolution of the concept of narrative; the analysis then focusses on the continuity thesis, the thesis that narrative identity is structured in continuity with the dimension of action and experience, as it can be reconstructed through the work of Paul Ricoeur (1984) and David Carr (1986). In order to better contextualize the narrative paradigm at hand, some of the main objections that have been moved against it are presented. Schechtman’s work is then again taken under consideration through an analysis of Staying alive (2014), in which Schechtman futher refines her approach to personal identity, moving from a theory of narrative self-constitution to the notion of person-life. The complex architecture of her work is discussed in light of the continuity thesis, and in particular to the way narrative self-conceptions interact with the embodied levels of personal identity. This brings the discussion on to the themes of how embodied experience is related to narrative self-conceptions; and in particular, how such relation fails to be concretized in narrative agency, and how such shortcoming is connected to failure to fully embody personal identity.
Chapter Three, “Telling habits”, intends to answer some of the problems that have emerged within the relation of narrative identity, narrative agency, and embodied dimension of action and experience. It does so by way of the concept of habits and habitual agency developed in the pragmatist tradition, and in particular by John Dewey. The chapter offers an overview of the pragmatist concept of habit; in particular, the notion of habitual agency is defended as a form of agency that is rooted in the agent’s embodiment and embedded in the social context. Next, it is argued that habitual agency offers a fitting notion to some of the problems of narrative agency, and in particular, of how narrative agency and narrative actions come about and are actualized. Habitual agency can both be employed in service of narrative agency, but also autonomously contribute to it. The notion of narrative agency as habitually informed translates to a strongly embodied and socially embedded notion of the person.2023-01-01T00:00:00ZLa audiodescripción eclesiástica en Italia. Análisis de corpus y estudios de recepción
https://hdl.handle.net/1889/5418
Title: La audiodescripción eclesiástica en Italia. Análisis de corpus y estudios de recepción
Authors: Lax López, María
Abstract: L'audiodescrizione (AD) è un tipo di traduzione accessibile che prevede un processo di trasferimento intersemiotico di immagini in parole, con l'obiettivo principale di consentire alle persone con disabilità visiva di costruire un'immagine mentale di ciò che non possono percepire visivamente. L'obiettivo generale di questa tesi di Dottorato è quello di studiare un tipo di AD che rimane totalmente inesplorata nel contesto accademico e professionale, che abbiamo chiamato "audiodescrizione ecclesiastica" e che a come testo di origine la chiesa, intesa qui come luogo dedicato al culto cristiano. Questo studio è realizzato da tre prospettive diversi: da un lato, l'analisi semiotica del testo di origine, in questo caso la chiesa, intesa come evento comunicativo multimodale in cui il significato è costruito dall'interazione di diverse modalità semiotiche nello stesso contesto spazio-temporale; dall'altro, la caratterizzazione strutturale, discorsiva e lessicale-semantica del testo di destinazione, cioè dell'AD verbalizzata in lingua italiana, basata su uno studio di corpus; e infine, la ricezione dell'AD da parte di utenti italiani con disabilità visiva attraverso studi di ricezione per conoscere le loro aspettative e preferenze.; Audio description (AD) is a type of accessible translation that involves a process of intersemiotic transferring of images into words, with the main aim of enabling people with visual impairment to construct a mental image of what they cannot perceive visually. This Doctoral Thesis aims to address a type of AD that remains unexplored in the academic and professional context, namely, church AD, whose source text is the church, understood here as the site dedicated to Christian worship. This study is carried out from three different approaches: on the one hand, the semiotic analysis of the source text, in this case, the church, which constitutes a multimodal communicative event in which meaning is constructed from the interaction of different semiotic modes in the same spatiotemporal context; on the other hand, the discursive and lexical-semantic characterization of the target text, that is, of the verbal description in Italian, based on a corpus study; and, finally, the reception of the AD by Italian users with visual impairment through Reception Studies in order to know their expectations and preferences.; La audiodescripción (AD) es un tipo de traducción accesible que implica un proceso de transferencia intersemiótica de imágenes a palabras, con el objetivo principal de permitir a las personas con discapacidad visual construir una imagen mental de aquello que no pueden percibir visualmente. El objetivo general de esta tesis doctoral es abordar un tipo de AD que permanece inexplorado en el contexto académico y profesional, a saber, la AD eclesiástica, cuyo texto origen es la iglesia, entendida aquí como el lugar dedicado al culto cristiano. Este estudio se realiza desde tres enfoques diferentes: por un lado, el análisis semiótico del texto origen, en este caso la iglesia, que constituye un evento comunicativo multimodal en el que el significado se construye a partir de la interacción de diferentes modos semióticos en un mismo contexto espacio-temporal; por otro lado, la caracterización discursiva y léxico-semántica del texto meta, es decir, de la descripción verbal en italiano, a partir de un estudio de corpus; y, por último, la recepción del AD por parte de usuarios italianos con discapacidad visual a través de Estudios de Recepción para conocer sus expectativas y preferencias.2023-01-01T00:00:00ZEdizione commentata delle "Rime" di Niccolò da Correggio
https://hdl.handle.net/1889/5409
Title: Edizione commentata delle "Rime" di Niccolò da Correggio
Authors: Sartor, Marco
Abstract: Questo studio si propone di fornire una prima forma di commento alle "Rime" del poeta emiliano Niccolò da Correggio (1450-1508). Dopo un'introduzione che riassume lo stato dell'arte e propone nuove considerazioni sui progetti canzonieristici che hanno interessato la produzione lirica in volgare del Correggio, si procede ad un commento puntuale dei 404 componimenti che costituiscono le "Rime" nell'edizione critica delle "Opere" di Niccolò da Correggio a cura di Antonia Tissoni Benvenuti (Roma-Bari, Laterza, 1969). Per ciascun componimento viene fornito un breve cappello introduttivo e un commento puntuale.; This study aims to provide a preliminary form of commentary on the 'Rime' of the Emilian poet Niccolò da Correggio (1450-1508). After an introduction that summarises the state of the art and proposes new considerations on the canzonieri that have involved Correggio's lyric production in vernacular, a detailed commentary of the 404 lyrics that compose the "Rime" in the edition of the "Opere" of Niccolò da Correggio edited by Antonia Tissoni Benvenuti (Roma-Bari, Laterza, 1969) is presented. For each lyric, a short introductory caption and a detailed commentary is provided.2023-01-01T00:00:00ZIl cinema nell’educazione del balilla e della piccola italiana: politiche culturali, pratiche e immaginari
https://hdl.handle.net/1889/5408
Title: Il cinema nell’educazione del balilla e della piccola italiana: politiche culturali, pratiche e immaginari
Authors: Campagna, Stefano
Abstract: Oltre ad essere la forma di divertimento più diffusa durante il Ventennio fascista, il cinema fu uno degli strumenti principali utilizzati dal regime di Mussolini per tradurre in pratica i suoi progetti di pedagogia totalitaria che, com’è noto, miravano a trasformare radicalmente la mentalità, i costumi e il carattere degli italiani. A partire da queste premesse, la ricerca mira a ricostruire attraverso quali modalità il cinema – nella duplice accezione di cinema documentario e cinema di finzione – fu utilizzato negli anni Venti e Trenta come strumento educativo funzionale a fare dei bambini e degli adolescenti di ambo i sessi dei perfetti fascisti. Dopo aver analizzato il rapporto tra il mezzo cinematografico e i minori nel più ampio contesto mediale dell’epoca e tracciato una fenomenologia delle pratiche di consumo culturale, si ricostruiscono le modalità attraverso cui il cinema fece il proprio ingresso nelle istituzioni scolastiche e parascolastiche, per poi far luce sugli atteggiamenti ambivalenti di insegnanti ed educatori che consideravano il medium un potente strumento educativo ma anche, al tempo stesso, un pericolo per la moralità dei piccoli spettatori. Dopodiché, a partire da alcune scritture composte dai bambini dopo la visione dei film si delinea l’orizzonte storico in cui si attuava la ricezione delle pellicole, guardando al complesso gioco tra scritture, testi cinematografici ed elementi contestuali.; Besides being the most popular form of entertainment during the Fascist "Ventennio", cinema was one of the main tools used by Mussolini's regime to put into practice its projects of totalitarian pedagogy, which, as is well known, aimed at radically transforming the mentality, customs, and character of Italians. The research seeks to reconstruct how cinema - in the dual meaning of documentary and fictional cinema - was used in the 1920s and 1930s as a functional educational tool to make children and adolescents of both sexes perfect fascists. After analyzing the relationship between the film medium and minors in the broader media context of the time and tracing a phenomenology of cultural consumption practices, how cinema made its entry into school and extracurricular institutions are reconstructed, and then light is shed on the ambivalent attitudes of teachers and educators who considered the medium a powerful educational tool but also, at the same time, a danger to the morality of young viewers. After that, starting with some writings composed by children after watching films, the historical horizon in which the reception of films was implemented is outlined, looking at the complex interplay between writings, film texts, and contextual elements.2023-01-01T00:00:00Z