Le dimissioni del poeta. Una lettura di Baudelaire

La comunicazione analizza la posizione di Baudelaire rispetto al ruolo della poesia nella modernità attraverso la letttura di alcuni componimenti de "Les Fleurs du Mal"

IL NARRATORE TRA IMPEGNO E ART POUR L’ART. A PARTIRE DA BENJAMIN.

La relazione analizza aspetti del percorso intellettuale e critico di Benjamin nella prima metà degli anni trenta in riferimento al tema dell'impegno del narratore

Experienced Use of Dexmedetomidine in the Intensive Care Unit: A Report of a Structured Consensus

OBJECTIVE: Management of pain, agitation and delirium (PAD) remains to be a true challenge in critically ill patients. The pharmacological proprieties of dexmedetomidine (DEX) make it an ideal candidate drug for light and cooperative sedation, but many practical questions remain unanswered. This structured consensus from 17 intensivists well experienced on PAD management and DEX use provides indications for the appropriate use of DEX in clinical practice. METHODS: A modified RAND/UCLA appropriateness method was used. In four predefined patient populations, the clinical scenarios do not properly cope by the current recommended pharmacological strategies (except DEX), and the possible advantages of DEX use were identified and voted for agreement, after reviewing literature data. RESULTS: Three scenarios in medical patients, five scenarios in patients with acute respiratory failure undergoing non-invasive ventilation, three scenarios in patients with cardiac surgery in the early postoperative period and three scenarios in patients with overt delirium were identified as challenging with the current PAD strategies. In these scenarios, the use of DEX was voted as potentially useful by most of the panellists owing to its specific pharmacological characteristics, such as conservation of cognitive function, lack of effects on the respiratory drive, low induction of delirium and analgesia effects. CONCLUSION: DEX might be considered as a first-line sedative in different scenarios even though conclusive data on its benefits are still lacking

Controcanto epico. Vie del romanzo familiare tra postmoderno e ipermoderno

Attraverso l’analisi di due recenti romanzi ("Il Romanzo della Nazione" di Maurizio Maggiani, 2015 e "Here I Am" ("Eccomi") di Jonathan Safran Foer, 2017), il contributo si propone di istituire un dialogo teorico fra due distinte categorie formali (il “modo” epico e il “genere “del romanzo di famiglia). È possibile, nell’epoca “ipermoderna” in cui viviamo, configurare una narrazione nazionale, mettendo in scena per via allegorica una soggettività collettiva, attraverso un genere così privato e catafratto, per definizione posto al di qua della Storia? Che specie di canto (o di controcanto) sortisce da un innesto in apparenza così incongruo

La fatale congiunzione. Mondi salienti e formazioni di compromesso

This essay originates from a variation of Manzoni’s Fermo e Lucia (a later to be de- leted phrase presenting a “short-circuit” through a figure of speech, or maybe a lapsus) and a paratextual passage from the 1830’s Ivanhoe. The essay analyses the complex relationship between “fortuna” and “provvidenza” in The Betrothed, the novelistic masterpiece by Manzoni, paying special attention to the chapters in which the grip of fate seems to be stronger (e.g. the chapters about the plague). Drawing from both Kohler’s and Jameson’s theories of the secularization of providence, this essay scrutinizes the plot of coincidences of The Betrothed, while providing the foundations of a theoretical discussion