Alessandro Baricco: A Modern Homer / Alessandro Baricco: Omero Modern

Alessandro Baricco is an Italian author, pianist, journalist and music critic, among a wide range of many other talents. His novels have won great critical acclaim in Italy and France and are popular around the world. While generally considered among the postmodern writers, some critics have accused him of being a forerunner in a 1990s movement dubbed letteratura giovanile, that is juvenile literature that is simplistic, targets a young audience and is created for the sole purpose of making money. This criticism is unwarranted. Baricco is a multitalented author who pays strict attention to the quality of his work and weaves plotlines replete with a diverse set of genres, literary devices and symbolism, often inspired by other great writers and thinkers. However, literary critics have yet to acknowledge one of Baricco's strongest and most important influences: Homer, the ancient Greek bard and author of the epic poems, the Iliad and the Odyssey. Taking Baricco's work in a Homeric context can aid in viewing it as valid and important work, worthy of scholarly discussion and interpretation, rather than, as some critics accuse, a one-dimensional story meant only for children. This paper will argue that Baricco's work is Homeric and, in fact, Baricco's implementation of many of Homer's devices, such as his understanding of his audience and use rhythmic language and stereotyped story patterns, has aided Baricco's great success and popularity.

Literatura juvenil, un viaje de descubrimiento

Iniciado el siglo XXI, la denominación Literatura Juvenil y el campo epistemológico específico y de investigación que abarca, no han sido todavía suficientemente definidos. Con este estudio se pretende aproximar algunas de las características más notorias de esta área de la Literatura, que tiene como principales destinatarios los lectores adolescentes. Sin duda, fue Paul Hazard, con Los libros, los niños y los hombres (trad. 1950) quien se atrevió a defender la enseñanza a través de libros recreativos y de imaginación para la infancia, desplazando así el centro de lo didáctico moralizante al ámbito abierto y rico del sentimiento y de la fantasía. Ocho años más tarde, Enzo Petrini, con su Estudio crítico de la Literatura Juvenil (1958), asentó las primeras bases de diferenciación de literatura para niños y literatura para jóvenes estudian-do los orígenes y evolución de la Literatura Juvenil y destacando la contribución de la pedagogía y de la crítica.

Amílcar Urbano Sosa : el enseñar deleitando en Antología de meñique

En el panorama de la literatura infantil y juvenil muy enriquecido en la Argentina en las dos últimas décadas con obras de autores de gran trayectoria, cabe destacar en nuestra provincia el aporte a la poesía para la infancia de Amílcar Urbano Sosa con Antología de Meñique (1963). Profundamente comprometido con su quehacer docente y con la tierra cuyana, este poeta olvidado de las antologías, de los diccionarios específicos y de los estudios académicos hace propio el docere delectans de la tradición clásica. Es por ello que en su libro, teniendo en cuenta el joven destinatario, canta a las primeras vivencias del niño en su encuentro con el mundo de los afectos y con el mundo circundante. En este recorrido por los paulatinos despertares - las estaciones, la casa, las fiestas patrias - acierta a seguirse preguntando por la significación del maestro que es, entre otras, “aprender lo que se ha dado por sabido [...] y alumbrarnos, siendo hombres/ de aquellas cosas que tuvimos al ser niños". En este trabajo, además de recordar los doce títulos que componen su obra especialmente poética, desde la publicación de La rosa y la abeja (1947) hasta Melesca y Canto del descubrimiento, ambas de 1996, nos interesa recuperar para la literatura argentina, mendocina en especial, a quien en su momento fuera galardonado con diferentes premios provinciales y estimado por la crítica como poeta auténtico de la vida y del terruño.

Face Your Fears: Cleaning Gobies Inspect Predators despite Being Stressed by Them

social stressors typically elicit two distinct behavioural responses in vertebrates: an active response (i.e., "fight or flight") or behavioural inhibition (i.e., freezing). Here, we report an interesting exception to this dichotomy in a Caribbean cleaner fish, which interacts with a wide variety of reef fish clients, including predatory species. Cleaning gobies appraise predatory clients as potential threat and become stressed in their presence, as evidenced by their higher cortisol levels when exposed to predatory rather than to non-predatory clients. Nevertheless, cleaning gobies neither flee nor freeze in response to dangerous clients but instead approach predators faster (both in captivity and in the wild), and interact longer with these clients than with non-predatory clients (in the wild). We hypothesise that cleaners interrupt the potentially harmful physiological consequences elicited by predatory clients by becoming increasingly proactive and by reducing the time elapsed between client approach and the start of the interaction process. The activation of a stress response may therefore also be responsible for the longer cleaning service provided by these cleaners to predatory clients in the wild. Future experimental studies may reveal similar patterns in other social vertebrate species when, for instance, individuals approach an opponent for reconciliation after a conflict.

The life and adventures of Robinson Crusoe /

The diary of an Englishman shipwrecked for almost thirty years on a small isolated island where, using wit and industry, he manages to build life anew.

The little keepsake, or, Easy lessons, in words of one syllable.

Includes publisher's advertisement, p. [4] of wrapper.

Susan and Edward, or, A visit to Fulton Markert : [Six lines of verse].

Title vignette.

Robinson Crusoe.

In upper right corner of cover: Untearable linen.

Costumes of America.

Includes publisher's catalog at the end ([8] p.).

Marigold garden : pictures and rhymes /

Colophon: Engraved and printed by Edmund Evans Ltd., at the Racquet Court Press, London.

Jugend-Bibliothek.

Vol. 5-7, edited by "einem katholischen Geistlichen"; v. 9-23, edited by F.S. Häglsperger; v. 24-26, edited by "dem Verfasser 'Der Erzählungen des Priesters Ottmar'" [O. Lautenschlager]; v.27-31, edited by O. Lautenschlager.

The south sea whaler : a story of the loss of the "Champion" and the adventures of her crew /

Some illustrations signed Riou, F. Pierdon, Hildibrand, Pannemaker, P. (Pierre?) Ferat.

Letters from a cat : published by her mistress for the benefit of all cats and the amusement of little children /

Gilt illustration on title of cat with pen and ink inditing "Your Aff[ectionate] Pussy".

Grizzley's little pard /

Mode of access: Internet.