La difesa della donna ebrea: Sara Copio Sullam e Debora Ascarelli

Sara Copio Sullam and Debora Ascarelli, the best-known Jewish women poets of the age of the Italian ghetto, have often been studied with a focus on the distinctive features of their writing: the former as a translator of sacred texts, the latter as the author of original verses, sometimes written as a risposta per le rime (reply through rhymes) or in defence of her orthodoxy. They share, however, a common theme, which has often been neglected: the defence of the Jewish woman, which is overt in some of Copio’s sonnets and prose, whereas it has not yet been properly pointed out in some of Ascarelli’s verses. This paper aims at bringing this theme to the fore not only in Copio, through a rereading of some passages of her Manifesto, but also in Debora Ascarelli, through an analysis of her few original verses. These hendecasyllables certainly reflect the Petrarchan and classicistic atmosphere of the late 16th century in Rome, but they are far from the mainstream modes of women’s poetry of the age. They allow us, therefore, to highlight, besides the differences, the similarities between the two poetesses; their commitment, in the late 16th and early 17th century, to the intellectual and moral defence of the Jewish woman, in a context of general depreciation of women, but also in the background of the claim to the “nobility and excellence of women”

L'antico cimitero ebraico al Lido di Venezia / The Ancient Jewish Cemetery on the Lido of Venice

The ancient Jewish cemetery between history and literatur

Discours théoriques et temporalités discursives

Le parti pris théorique adopté par cette étude est que les théories se manifestent à travers des formes discursives et que ces formes accordent aux théories une représentation spatiale, temporelle ou spatiotemporelle. Dans cette perspective, notre étude entend envisager les formes de représentation temporelle manifestées par les théories sémiotiques. De telles formes ne connaissent pas encore de définition dans la littérature sémiotique. Notre étude s’attache à en dégager quatre à partir d’une analyse syntaxique de la notion de temps et de ses composantes définitionnelles, analyse menée sur des diagrammes. La description de ces quatre formes discursives — récit, déduction, argument et décrit — est consolidée par des rapprochements avec des conceptions, principalement philosophiques, du temps. Enfin, il est montré comment ces quatre temporalités soutiennent la modélisation des discours théoriques en sémiotique.The theoretical approach adopted in this paper is that theories are manifested through discursive forms, and that these forms give theories a spatial, temporal, or spatiotemporal representation. From this perspective, our study aims to consider the forms of temporal representation manifested by semiotic theories. These forms have yet to be defined in the semiotic literature. Our study sets out to identify four such forms based on a syntactic analysis of the notion of time and its definitional components, using diagrams. The presentation of these four discursive forms —narrative, deduction, argument and description — is reinforced by comparisons with philosophical conceptions of time. Finally, we show how these four temporalities support the modelisation of theoretical discourse in semiotics