Volume 4, Issue 3, December 2011

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    L’influenza di Pier Paolo Pasolini sui film e sullo stile cinematografico di Nanni Moretti: un’analisi
    (Department of Languages and Applied Linguistics, Flinders University, 2011-12) Bona, Stefano
    Pasolini e Moretti sono due registi-intellettuali di generazioni diverse, considerati figure di grande rilievo per la portata delle loro opere. Le similitudini che li accomunano sono molte e notevoli altrettanto quanto le differenze che li dividono: controverso e scandaloso il primo, meno ‘anomalo’ ma non meno innovativo il secondo, sono entrambi registi politici dichiaratamente comunisti e capaci di intuire il futuro. Perché studiarli insieme? Anzitutto per l’ottica in cui si pongono nei confronti della società, per le loro riflessioni sul ruolo dell’intellettuale e per l’importanza attribuita da entrambi al linguaggio e alla comunicazione. Poi, per il fatto che Moretti ha apertamente riconosciuto fra i suoi punti di riferimento cinematografici proprio Pasolini. Quest’ultima ragione può essere presa come spunto per cercare quanto c’è di pasoliniano nei lavori di Moretti, a livello di pensiero e di tecnica cinematografica. Caro diario (1994), in particolare, è un omaggio esplicito a Pasolini, che probabilmente va persino oltre le intenzioni iniziali del regista romano, e va pertanto tenuto in particolare considerazione Il presente lavoro è composto da quattro parti. Nella prima, si discute la figura di Pasolini. La seconda parte è un breve excursus su Moretti, le sue idee, le sue opere. La terza parte contiene l’analisi di Caro Diario. Nelle conclusioni, infine, dai punti salienti dell’analisi si trarranno alcuni spunti di riflessione.1
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    An Argentine Child’s Wake, with Music and Dancing – As seen by Alfred Ébélot and R. B. Cunninghame Graham
    (Department of Languages and Applied Linguistics, Flinders University, 2011-12) McIntyre, John C
    The French engineer Alfred Ébélot in 1870s Argentina helped lay out a ditch 300-plus kilometres long across the grasslands – the pampa – of the huge Province of Buenos Aires. This was to hinder Indian raiders seeking to make off south with white captives and huge numbers of animals. Somewhere Ébélot witnessed a traditional child’s wake, accompanied by music and dancing. Graham, fluent Spanish speaker and expert horseman, was in the 1870s utterly captivated by the unfenced pampa and by its cow-herders, the gauchos. He too witnessed a child’s wake with music and dancing. “El Velorio” (The Wake), the first of Ébélot’s vignettes in La Pampa (1890), describes such a child’s wake. In 1894 W. H. Hudson, the Argentine-born naturalist and author, recommended La Pampa to his friend Graham, advising him to switch his writing focus to short sketches based on his pampa experiences. In 1899, Graham’s “El Angelito” (The Little Angel) is a five-part description of a child’s wake very similar in design to Ébélot’s “El Velorio”. Ébélot, a positivist, is more critical than Graham of the commercialisation of the child’s wake tradition. Graham’s passion for the pampa and especially his ability to highlight compelling details give the literary edge to Graham’s sketch. Ébélot’s La Pampa proved a useful help to Graham in his rapid development in the late 1890s as a writer of literary sketches. In 1870, two foreigners landed in Argentina for the first time – the Frenchman Alfred Ébélot and the Scotsman Robert Bontine Cunninghame Graham. In different places each witnessed a traditional child’s wake accompanied by music and dancing. This article compares their experiences of Argentina and their literary interpretations of an intriguing piece of Hispano-Argentine folklore.
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    Sufrimiento Íntimo y Comunidades Morales en Con la miel en los labios de Esther Tusquets
    (Department of Languages and Applied Linguistics, Flinders University, 2011-12) Moretti, Christian G
    El hecho de darse cuenta del sufrimiento puede ayudar a tratar el padecimiento de cada individuo ya que se pueden identificar las causas de dicho dolor, y por tanto, adoptar las correspondientes medidas. Sin embargo, en la mayoría de los casos, el sufrimiento del cual un individuo llega a ser consciente presenta implicaciones inevitables. En este artículo voy a investigar, desde la perspectiva literaria y sociológica, el modo que utilizan algunos personajes de Con la miel en los labios (1997) de Esther Tusquets para que los miembros de una comunidad moral concreta comprendan y acepten su sufrimiento íntimo. La novela narra la historia de Inés y Andrea, dos chicas que empiezan una relación homosexual. Las dos pertenecen a la burguesía catalana y viven una vida acomodada. Su relación, no obstante, está destinada a auto-destruirse, como destaca Craig-Odders (1999) en su estudio Intertextuality in Esther Tusquets’ Con la miel en los labios, debido a los prejuicios sociales. Después de aclarar el concepto de “comunidad moral” formulado por Regan (1991) y retomado por Morris (1997), el argumento se desarrollará en dos fases. En un primer lugar, se analizará el aislamiento voluntario de Inés de su comunidad moral, con una particular atención al fracaso del personaje para encontrar códigos comunicativos y comprensivos comunes que le permitan interactuar con los demás; todos estos elementos revelarán la incapacidad del personaje para comunicar su sufrimiento íntimo. En segundo lugar, el estudio se centrará en el personaje de Andrea, quien al principio tiene dificultades pero después logra encontrar las maneras adecuadas de proyectar su sufrimiento íntimo y conseguir consuelo temporal, y más concretamente en el uso que ella hace de códigos comunicativos y comprensivos alternativos.
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    Explicit strategy training in vocabulary learning for beginning Spanish students
    (Department of Languages and Applied Linguistics, Flinders University, 2011-12) Bornay, Natalia
    The teaching and learning of vocabulary in second and foreign language contexts is a controversial issue. Research in the field of vocabulary acquisition has revealed that the use of vocabulary learning strategies (VLS) when learning new words can assist language learners in overcoming retention and recall difficulties. However, there is still no consensus about the most effective method for teaching learning strategies. This paper presents a study of memory strategy training for learning new vocabulary conducted with first-year university students of Spanish. Students were exposed to explicit instruction in two memory strategies over six weeks and were invited to reflect on their usefulness. The findings suggested that explicit strategy training can contribute to developing participants’ VLS repertoire, raise participants’ metacognitive awareness and enhance their regulatory skills.