Per Marziale XI 103: tra sovrainterpretazione e ambiguità

Questo lavoro non è uno studio sistematico delle forme dell'ambiguità in Marziale, bensì prende le mosse da un caso particolare. Esso discute l'insufficienza dell'interpretazione usuale di Mart. XI 103 per proporne una nuova grazie a una scelta di esempi, alcuni certi, altri problematici (IV 58, VI 75), di tale modalità espressiva. L'opzione per l'uso degli strumenti dell'esegesi intende opporsi al decostruzionismo e alla sovrainterpretazione dei testi. I casi problematici hanno con l'epigramma in oggetto due condizioni in comune: l'insufficienza dell'esegesi corrente e un troppo tenue carattere epigrammatico. Questo dovrebbe legittimare la formulazione di nuove ipotesi su cui discutere in tema di ambiguità. Nel caso di XI 103, os nel senso di ‘bocca’ consente un allusione oscena.This paper is not an exhaustive review of the aspects of ambiguity in Martial s Epigrams, but starts From a specific question. First, it discusses the inadequate usual interpretation of Mart. XI 103, then proposes a "esh view of it, thanks to some pieces of evidence, either evident or dubious (e. g. IV 58, VI 75), in which ambiguity appears to be concerned. The usual exegetic tools are intended in opposition to deconstructing and overinterpreting the texts. The epigrams of controversial interpretation share two characteristics with XI 103: the inadequate current exegesis and a poor epigrammatical content. Therefore, these common features should legitimate speculation and discussion on new proposals about ambiguity. In XI 103, os as ‘mouth’ allows an obscene allusion

Nations and neoliberalism

This paper examines nations and neoliberalism

La Vegetazione psammofila della Sardegna settentrionale: litorale del Liscia

In this paper the authors examine the psammophyte vegetation of a part of the northern littoral in Sardinia, characterized by a peculiar morphology of the bar beach. The vegetational seriation is analyzed, and new psammophyte associations are described and typified: Ephedro-Helichrysetum microphylli; Ephedro-Helichrysetum microphylli armerietosum pungenti; Scrophulario-Helichrysetum microphylli; Armerio-Scrophularietum ramosissimae; Sileno-Jasionetum montanae. Gli autori esaminano la vegetazione psammofila di un litorale della Sardegna settentrionale caratterizzato da una particolare morfologia del cordone dunale. E' stata analizzata la seriazione delle fasce di vegetazione e sono state individuate e tipificate nuove associazioni psammofile: Ephedro-Helichrysetum microphylli; Ephedro-Helichrysetum microphylli armerietosum pungentis; Scrophulario-Helichrysetum microphylli; Armerio-Scrophularietum ramosissimae; Sileno-Jasionetum montanae

The Individual Impacts of Commoditization

The process of commoditization has now entered its most significant phase. White collar work long the preserve of the educated elite is now going undergoing a significant transformation as it starts to commoditize. The principal impacts on the white collar employee include: One company, but many owners as the impacts of foreign ownership, buy-outs by private equity and takeovers by rivals continue to change the pattern of company ownership as well as employment. Few of us can expect to remain within a single company that retains its ownership for a lengthy period of time and with this comes additional uncertainty and insecurity The potential for most if not every white collar job being at risk from commoditization; perhaps not now, but certainly in the future. Remember, any job that can be codified is potentially at risk An increase in low level, routine work at the expense of the intrinsically interesting work most white collar workers have come to expect. This does not necessarily mean that work will be any less pressured. Evidence is pointing to the intensification of routine white collar work which is becoming more demanding not less. The loss of an obvious career path making it much harder to navigate through your working life. This is further compounded by the weakening of the relationship between education and employability which has until very recently been central to a successful career Economic instability and income stagnation as the China Price moves to the white collar labour market.Commoditization, employment

From Transformation to Revitalization: A New Research Agenda for a Contested Global Economy

[Excerpt] The revitalization perspective is hardly new. With deep roots in both labor movement history and industrial relations research, such work was marginalized for much of the postwar period both in union strategy and in the field of industrial relations. What is new is the rather sudden arrival of revitalization research in the mainstream of industrial relations along with a broader literature on contentious politics in a global economy (e.g., Klein, 2002; Delia Porta & Tarrow, 2004). This introductory article offers an overview of the revitalization perspective, deepened in relevance by contemporary struggles for democratic representation in the modern workplace and beyond

Influencias de Tibulo en la poesía elegíaca de Benito Arias Montano: a propósito de un poema de Hymni et Secula

Presentamos aquí un poema latino de Benito Arias Montano incluido en los Hymni et Secula y escrito excepcionalmente en dísticos elegíacos; su valor radica en la imitatio que opera Montano no sobre el lírico Horacio, su habitual modelo, sino sobre el elegíaco Tibulo (II, 1). La comparación de ambos poemas, clásico y renacentista, resulta doblemente interesante: por un lado, para desvelar las técnicas de creación poética en la lengua del Lacio durante el Renacimiento; por otro, para determinar la línea fronteriza entre elegía y oda en la poesía de nuestro ilustre humanista