Houellebecq: la France soumise à l'Islam

L'articolo presenta l'opera di Michel Houellebecq quale alta espressione della civiltà del romanzo europeo e della civiltà europea del romanz

Cinque domande su letteratura e storia

L'articolo, in forma di risposta a cinque domande sui rapporti tra storia e letteratura nell'attuale panorama letterario europeo, si concentra sul nodo che avvince il paradigma cronachistico, prevalente nei mass media informativi, e quello storico, dominante nella prassi letterari

Gli addii che chi muore manda a chi vive. Rappresentazioni tragiche e oscene del morente in letteratura e nei media elettronici

The essay compares the letters written by some sentenced to death combatants of the Italian "Resistenza" –with special emphasis on the letter sent by Leone Ginzburg to his wife Natalia from the Regina Coeli prison on February 4, 1944– to the video messages of the prisoners decapitated by Al Quaeda. There follows a reflection on the different testamentary communication practices that the media –both literary and visual– tend to create between the dying individual and the addressees of his or her extreme message. The hypothesis is that, by provoking a catastrophe of signification, the terrorists' video messages initiate a new era of the representation of death in which the image of the dying has lost its capacity of symbolic communication.Il saggio confronta le lettere dei condannati a morte della Resistenza italiana – in particolare quella che Leone Ginzburg inviò a sua moglie Natalia dal carcere di Regina Coeli il 4 febbraio del 1944 – con i videomessaggi dei prigionieri decapitati dai terroristi di Al Qaeda. Dall’analisi scaturisce una riflessione sulle diverse pratiche di comunicazione testamentaria che i diversi media – letterari o visuali – tendono a favorire tra il morente e i destinatari del suo estremo messaggio. L’ipotesi è che i videomessaggi terroristici, scatenando una catastrofe della significazione, inaugurino una nuova era della rappresentazione della morte nella quale l’immagine del morente viene privata della sua capacità di comunicazione simbolica. 

Letteratura dell'inesperienza: il romanzo della Dopostoria

L'articolo, riprendendo un'intuizione poetica di Pasolini, esamina il romanzo storico italiano contemporaneo nel quadro della produzione letteraria europea proponendo la categoria interpretativa di "romanzo della Dopostoria

The "safe falls, safe schools" multicentre international project: Evaluation and analysis of backwards falling ability in Italian secondary schools

Problem statement: Different studies have reported on the epidemiology related to injuries resulting from falls, which are the most common causes of injury in Italy. The World Health Organization considers falls as the second leading cause of accidental or unintentional deaths worldwide. However, it has been demonstrated that the Safe Fall, Safe Schools Programme (SFSSP) based on 10-min warm-up sessions is able to teach techniques for falling backwards in safe way during physical education (PE) classes. Unfortunately, there are no studies that have analysed extensive warm-up and detraining effects related to the age. Aim: The aim of this study was to assess extensive specific warm-up (20 min) and detraining effects after five weeks on the SFSSP on Italian secondary school students according to age. Methods: Eighty-seven secondary school students took part in this investigation. Students were divided into two groups, equally distributed by age. The trial-control group (TC=39) and the control-trial group (CT=48) performed the same PE lesson for 10 weeks. In the first five weeks, two different 20-min warm-up exercises were performed (TC=SFSSP; CT=conventional warm-up); after five weeks, the warm-ups were inverted (TC=conventional warm-up; CT=SFSSP). The backwards falling ability test carried out among both groups was evaluated in relation to the position of the neck, trunk, knees, hips and hands, before and after five and 10 weeks. Results: McNemar\u2019s test showed significant differences (between pre-and mid-time points, P<0.05) for the neck, trunk, hip and hands, while no significant differences were found in the knee value (P=0.581 in TC). No differences were found between the mid-and post-time points for TC. In CT, no differences were found in-between (pre-and mid-time points, P>0.05) for all variables studied. Significant differences (P<0.05) were found in-between the mid-and post- time points for CT in all variables studied. Analysis of the total scores for SFSSP showed significantly differences in TC and CT (P<0.0001). The Wilcoxon signed-rank test showed no significant differences (total scores: first year=1.68\ub11.05 AU; fifth year=1.47\ub10.86 AU; P=0.34) before the SFSSP intervention, while the SFSSP was able to improve the ability after intervention (total scores: first year=4.47\ub10.84 AU; fifth year=3.91\ub11.40 AU; P<0.01). Conclusions: The SFSSP was able to improve motor ability for both groups and the detraining effect was found to maintain the same ability level compared to that after the SFSSP intervention. Participants started with the same level of backwards falling ability and each group, after the intervention, significantly raised its score, confirming the efficacy of the intervention. Therefore, the SFSSP could be included in the standard national programme without changing the standard training lesson

The educational value of the rules in handball

The game rules of team sports and the technical and tactical methods applicable to them are indispensable for practicing competitive sports. The correct competition arose from the automatic mechanism of the sanction following the infringement of a game rule which is also aided by the relational dynamics of the individual members of the group who demand the application of the rule to continue playing. The competition can also be self-regulated by the two groups who compete for the victory without even the decisive action of the referee as always happens in training activities. This phenomenon is found only in those contexts where the rule is necessary and alone sufficient to ensure the orderly development of activities. The objective of the study is to identify the significant elements of the handball game rules, and the related technical and tactical behaviours, to identify an inventory of significant behaviours. The method is documentary archival research for the analysis of the game rules of the team sport in question, and a subsequent comparative method between grids of indicators, descriptors and weights that classify rule, technique and tactics. The expected results will focus on the appropriate presence of the significant elements and the commonality or discrepancy between team sports. The data is useful for measuring the quantity of significant behaviours in order to qualitatively elaborate the value of each of them with respect to the other current behaviours of quantitative performance and establish the connections

L'assedio spezzato: letteratura e Tv nel nuovo millennio

L'ARTICOLO PROPONE UN BILANCIO COMPARATIVO DELLA RELAZIONE TRA NARRAZIONI LETTERARIE E TELEVISIVE DEGLI ULTIMI DECENNI, CON PARTICOLARE RIFERIMENTO AL RACCONTO DELLE SITUAZIONE LIMITE DI VIOLENZA ESTREMA E ALLLE NARRAZIONI TRANSMEDIAL

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COLLANA DI INTERVENTO TEORICO SUI GRANDI TEMI CULTURALI DELLA CONTEMPORANEIT

Posture and skeletal muscle disorders of the neck due to the use of smartphones

The aim of the research is to verify some variables on the use of the smartphone, associated with musculoskeletal pain and any other data that amplify its dependence or use. Smartphones have become an integral part of many people's lives. Most of the kids spend their days sharing photos, stories, videos about their daily lives such as lunches, trainings, travels, shopping. In short, there is an endless list of reasons to be mentally and physically connected to smartphones. However, how much does the excessive use of smartphones affect your body? The widespread abuse of mobile technology can be translated into a physical condition harmful to the human body, known as "Text Neck". Incorrect posture due to incorrect use of the smartphone, flexing the head to send messages and excessive time spent in this position, over time can lead to the presence of musculoskeletal pain in the neck region. A questionnaire of 14 questions, prepared with Google Modules and disseminated through sharing on social networks and it, was submitted to 334 university students of different gender and age. Descriptive statistics was conducted to evaluate the responses obtained from the subjects. The percentage of responses for each question was calculated