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Morfologia del Trauerfall nel «Wozzeck» di Berg e Büchner

In Berg’s musical drama, the military attendant Wozzeck kills his lover Marie after discovering that she betrayed him. Then he commits suicide, leaving their only son orphaned. Loss as a mournful catastrophe is masterfully prepared, in both Büchner’s hypotext and Berg’s recoding, through some narratologically relevant solutions: mainly the treatment of diegetic temporality which in the mimetic structure is assumed as a strategy of repetition. Through a series of devices that ‘figurally’ anticipate the outcome of the plot, Wozzeck’s storyworld seems to be ruled by a class predestination per se problematic from an ideological point of view, since it poses the issue of compromise with non-dialectical forms of irrationalism. Still, it is by means of this figural treatment of the genettian «order» of the story that the drama succeeds in the effort to render the fatal position not only of an individual, but of a community whose time is fixed in the hierarchies of a technomorphic society that survives by feeding on forms of oppression.Nel dramma musicale di Berg, l'inserviente militare Wozzeck uccide la sua amata Marie dopo aver scoperto il suo tradimento. Poi si suicida, lasciando orfano il loro unico figlio. La perdita come catastrofe luttuosa è magistralmente preparata, sia nell'ipotesto büchneriano che nella transcodificazione berghiana, attraverso alcune soluzioni narratologicamente rilevanti: in particolare il trattamento della temporalità diegetica che nella struttura mimetica si assume come una strategia della ripetizione. Per mezzo di una serie di dispositivi che anticipano 'figuralmente' l'esito del plot, lo storyworld del Wozzeck sembra essere governato da una predestinazione di classe di per sé problematica dal punto di vista ideologico, perché pone il quesito del compromesso con forme di irrazionalismo non dialettiche. Eppure, è attraverso questo trattamento figurale del genettiano «ordine» del racconto che il dramma riesce nello sforzo di restituire la posizione fatale non solo di un individuo, ma di una comunità il cui tempo è bloccato nelle gerarchie di una società tecnomorfa che sopravvive alimentandosi di forme di oppressione.&nbsp

L'”orecchio” di Calvino. Su una congettura del labirinto sonoro

Il contributo è volto a indagare le funzioni di alcune “figure sonore” – legate dunque a un immaginario musicale – nella letteratura di Calvino. Si riscontra la persistenza tematica di alcuni motivi testuali legati all’ascolto, disseminati dagli scritti autobiografici di Passaggi obbligati fino alla raccolta de I cinque sensi, passando per le Cosmicomiche e per alcuni capitali contributi critici come I livelli della realtà in letteratura. L’immaginario sonoro appare fittamente connesso ad alcuni elementi cardine della parabola letteraria di Calvino, quali la prospettiva congetturale, le memorie familiari e di guerra, i mondi possibili e invisibili, la sfida al labirinto.The aim of the essay is to examines the functions of some “sonorous figures” – therefore linked to a musical imagination – in Calvino’s literature. The thematic persistence of some textual motifs related to listening is to be found in the autobiographical narratives of Passaggi obbligati, as in the collection of I cinque sensi, or Cosmicomiche and some important critical contribution as I livelli della realtà in letteratura. The sonorous imaginary appears closely connected to some key elements of Calvino’s literature, such as conjectural perspective, family and war memories, possible and invisible worlds, the challenge to the labyrinth

Eye involvement in patients with myotonic dystrophy

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Measurement of corneal thickness using Pentacam HR versus Nidek CEM-530 specular microscopy.

Objective To compare corneal thickness (CT) measurements using the CEM-530 (Nidal, Gamagori, Japan) and Pentacam HR (Oculus, Wetzlar, Germany). Methods The CT of 209 healthy subjects (209 right eyes) aged 24 to 89 years (71.35 ± 10.72 years) was measured at the corneal apex (CA), pupil center (PC), and thinnest point (TP) with the Pentacam HR and at the corneal center with the CEM-530 in random order at the same time of day. Results A good correlation but statistically significant difference was found between the CEM-530 and Pentacam HR measurements at the CA (6.10 ± 8.12 µm, R2 = 0.8947), PC (7.46 ± 8.57 µm, R2 = 0.8826), and TP (12.44 ± 10.04 µm, R2 = 0.8392). Comparison of the two devices produced the following regression formulas: y = 0.8859x + 57.644 for the CA, y = 0.8852x +56.657 for the PC, and y = 0.8557x + 68.148 for the TP, where x is the CT obtained with the CEM-530 and y is that obtained with the Pentacam HR. Conclusions These findings indicate that the CEM-530 produces a thicker corneal measurement than the Pentacam HR. The herein-proposed correcting factors are needed to reliably compare these devices

Energy Performance of Cool-colors and Roofing Coatings in Reducing the Free Solar Gains during the Heating Season: Results of an In-Field Investigation☆

Abstract Today, it is not well-known the impact of cool roofs during heating season in balanced climates. Proposed study tries to quantify the increase of energy demands of buildings characterized by high-reflective and high-emissive coatings of roof, by means of experiments and numerical simulations. Three coatings are investigated with different solar absorptance and thermal emittance. The experiments have been carried out at the living lab of the University of Sannio, a full-scale test-room, provided with a large flexibility in terms of variability of the thermal envelope and air-conditioning system. Moreover, numerical evaluations of heating and annual energy consumptions are presented