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Молоканские поселения как пример русских «языковых островов» в Азербайджане (Molokan Settlements as an Example of Russian Linguistic Islands in Azerbaijan)

The Aesthetic Experiencing of Colour: Tracing the connection between aesthetic bildung and chromatic encounters in Walter Pater’s Gaston de Latour

Walter Pater’s unfinished Gaston de Latour (18 88–94) was meant to be the second instalment of a trilogy of novels that began with Marius the Epicurean (1885). Like its predecessor, this work follows the aesthetic education of a sensitive young man in a period of cultural, historical and aesthetic turmoil. My proposed paper argues that Gaston’s aesthetic education is deeply shaped through his encounters with chromatic phenomena, both natural and artificial. Lene Østermark-Johansen explai...

A new form for a new crisis: the emergence of the novel-essay and the case of Walter Pater’s Marius the Epicurean

Walter Pater’s Marius the Epicurean (1885) apparently defies categorisation. Although set in Antonine Rome, it is full of modern references, and though it traces the development of a single character, it is not a Bildungsroman. This essay interprets the novel as a hybrid genre, the “novel- essay”, which surfaced in the late 19th century. Following Stefano Ercolino, I argue that the novel- essay emerged as an aesthetic response “to the increasing pressure of historical time in the last qu...

Il fenomeno della cyber-aggression: il ruolo di empatia e disimpegno morale

La cyber aggression, definita da Grigg (2010) come “danno intenzionale inflitto tramite mezzi elettronici a una persona o gruppo di persone, indipendentemente dalla loro età, che percepisce tali atti come offensivi, denigratori, dannosi o indesiderati” (p.152), rappresenta un aspetto comune e distruttivo della cultura online contemporanea. Circa il 40% dei giovani adulti (ossia persone tra i 18 e i 29 anni; Arnett et al., 2014) riferisce di aver subito un qualche tipo di aggressione informati...