scholarly journals L’atribució hipotètica de Curial e Güelfa a Enyego d’Àvalos (Consideracions sobre un «informe» de L. Badia i J. Torró)

2017 ◽  
Vol 9 (9) ◽  
pp. 165
Author(s):  
Abel Soler
Keyword(s):  
Medieval Literature ◽  
Unusual Reaction ◽  
Scientific Methodology ◽  
Royal Family ◽  
Unpublished Thesis ◽  
Kingdom Of Naples ◽  
The Media ◽  
Scientific Arguments

Resum: La revista Estudis Romànics 39 (2017) ha publicat el meu article: “Enyego d’Àvalos, autor del Curial e Güelfa?”, que resumeix una part de la meua tesi doctoral, La cort napolitana d’Alfons el Magnànim: el context del «Curial e Güelfa» (Universitat de València, 2016). L’article defensa la hipòtesi que Enyego d’Àvalos –natural de Toledo, educat a València, conseller de Felip Maria Visconti i gran camarlenc d’Alfons el Magnànim, al regne de Nàpols– hauria estat l’autor de la novel·la cavalleresca anònima Curial e Güelfa. Encara que la tesi és inèdita, Lola Badia i Jaume Torró s’han manifestat en contra de la hipòtesi mitjançant declaracions difamatòries en mitjans de comunicació i un Informe molt tendenciós. El meu propòsit en aquest article és rebatre els arguments suposadament científics de Lola Badia i Jaume Torró, posar en evidència els seus prejudicis i tergiversacions, i reivindicar el meu dret a aportar els resultats de la meua recerca i a expressar lliurement les meues interpretacions. La meua tesi, fruit d’anys de treball arxivístic i bibliogràfic, ha estat elaborada d’acord amb una rigorosa metodologia científica. La insòlita reacció de Badia i Torró obeeix al fet que la meua hipòtesi qüestiona una gran part dels plantejaments d’ambdós investigadors, els quals han provocat una gran desorientació, ja que situen el Curial en les corts ibèriques del Trastàmara i no en les corts del duc de Milà i del rei de Nàpols, en contacte amb l’humanisme italià. Paraules clau: Curial e Güelfa, Enyego d’Àvalos, València, Milà, Nàpols, Alfons el Magnànim, Lola Badia, Jaume Torró Abstract: The journal Estudis Romànics, 39 (2017) has just published my article “Enyego de Avalos, author of the Curial e Guelfa?”, which summarizes a part of my thesis, La cort napolitana d’Alfons el Magnànim: el context del «Curial e Güelfa» (University of València, 2016). It supports the hypothesis that Enyego d’Àvalos –a native of Toledo, educated in Valencia, Philip Maria Visconti’s counselor and great Chamberlain of Alfons the Magnanimous, at the Kingdom of Naples– would have been the author of the chivalric anonymous romance Curial e Guelfa. Although unpublished thesis, Lola Badia and Jaume Torró have spoken out against my hypothesis through defamatory statements to the media and a very biased report. My purpose in this article is to refute the supposedly scientific arguments of Lola Badia and Jaume Torró, highlight their prejudices and misunderstandings and claim my right to make my own research and to freely express my interpretations. My thesis, which is the result of years of work in archives and analysis of a selected bibliography, has been prepared in accordance with rigorous scientific methodology. The unusual reaction of Badia and Torró is due to the fact that my hypothesis invalidates many of their approaches, which have caused great confusion among historins of medieval literature, because they place Curial in the Iberian courts of the Trastamara royal family and not in the courts of the duke of Milan and of the King of Naples, in touch with Italian humanism. Keywords: Curial e Güelfa, Enyego d’Àvalos, Valencia, Milan, Naples, Alfons the Magnanimous, Lola Badia, Jaume Torró

Recent trends and prospects in Sikh studies

1998 ◽  
Vol 27 (4) ◽  
pp. 407-425 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pashaura Singh
Keyword(s):  
Present Article ◽  
Recent Past ◽  
Community Newspapers ◽  
University Of Toronto ◽  
The World ◽  
Unpublished Thesis ◽  
The Media ◽  
Personal Level ◽  
Recent Trends ◽  
The University

Examining the recent trends in Sikh studies, the issue of academic freedom and religious authority has affected me on a most personal level. Readers may be aware of the controversy in the media over my doctoral thesis ("The Text and Meaning of the Adi Granth," University of Toronto, 1991) over the last few years. My unpublished thesis, filed at the University of Toronto library, was copied without my knowledge or authorization and circulated throughout the world. This led to a series of denunciations in letters and reviews in Sikh community newspapers, which accused me of committing blasphemy. The present article examines this controversy over scholarship on Sikh religion in the light of the historical situation of the recent past.

Floored by Kylie Haymaker: She Wallops like a Kangaroo – How Tiny Kylie Thumped Hunky Jason. (People, August 21, 1988) Heartless Neighbours Jibe That Made Kylie Cry. (Sun, August 22, 1988) Why Kylie’s Driving Me [Jason] Crazy. (Sun, August 23, 1988) Also significant is the contemporaneous Thatcherite swelling of the ranks of the unemployed and underemployed. Writing in the Guardian, Hugh Hebert noted of the “new daytime audience” that there is a huge pool of unemployed and under-employed people and the daytime phenomenon is tapping into that market. Neighbours has been lucky enough to take off as that audience has grown. But it has a lighter touch than EastEnders or Coronation Street – it doesn’t have such deep social problems. (quoted by Harris 1988) Finally, media publicity has continually stoked the boilers of Neighbours’s success in the media in the last four years. Kylie and Jason launched their singing careers, threatening no less than Cliff Richard at the top of the charts in Christmas 1988. As well as the Royal Family, the Archbishop of Canterbury also let it be known that he, too, watched Neighbours. Since 1989, cast members have been invited to Royal Command Performances and to participate in Christmas pantomimes. Neighbours became a political football in 1991, with Michael Fallon, a junior education spokesperson, denouncing it for “making teachers’ jobs even harder” (Independent, May 19, 1991), and Jack Straw, his Labour counterpart, joining the fray in similar terms. It has also spawned a British version, Families, first screened on April 23, 1990. This revolves around two families, one British and one Australian, and the British father’s visiting Australia to find his lover of twenty years ago. In 1992 Neighbours appears to have incited its first murder, or at least manslaughter: LONDON: A man who killed his neighbour over a blaring television says he was driven mad – by the theme tune of Neighbours. Eric Seall, who walked free after being convicted of manslaughter, said: “It was that Neighbours tune that finally did it. That stupid song made my life hell.” A court was told that Seall, 32, came to blows with John Roach, 37, who fell downstairs at their flats in Hampshire and fractured his skull. (West Australian, June 27, 1992)

2002 ◽  
pp. 114-114
Keyword(s):  
Social Problems ◽  
Royal Family ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Guardian ◽  
The Unemployed ◽  
Families First

Bohaterowie czy antybohateriowie? Medialne wcielenia monarchów a problem „rozpadu” Hiszpanii

2017 ◽  
Vol 3 (49) ◽  
pp. 70-81
Author(s):  
Maja Biernacka
Keyword(s):  
Public Opinion ◽  
Family Members ◽  
Royal Family ◽  
Media Images ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Face ◽  
Financial Scandals ◽  
The Media ◽  
High Level

The article is dedicated to the media images of the Spanish Bourbon monarchy, especially the King Felipe VI and his wife Letizia, accompanied with an analysis of their role as (super) heroes or antiheroes of the nation. The author presents the problem of their standing in the public opinion in the face of participation of the royal family members in numerous political, sex and financial scandals, but also general crisis of the monarchy in Spain. Additional factors which make the King’s role of a superhero infeasible is a high level of contestation of the national idea in the society and augmenting secessionist tendencies, especially in Catalonia. In the atmosphere of probable disintegration of the Spanish state the monarch is unable to take substantial measures but remains obliged to make reference to them in his ceremonial public statements.

Using the scanning electron microscope for failure analysis of high density magnetic media

1987 ◽  
Vol 45 ◽  
pp. 392-393
Author(s):  
Evelyn R. Ackerman ◽  
Gary D. Burnett
Keyword(s):  
Electron Microscope ◽  
Scanning Electron Microscope ◽  
Failure Analysis ◽  
High Density ◽  
Magnetic Media ◽  
Specific Data ◽  
Retrieval Systems ◽  
Operating Environments ◽  
The Media ◽  
Scanning Electron

Advancements in state of the art high density Head/Disk retrieval systems has increased the demand for sophisticated failure analysis methods. From 1968 to 1974 the emphasis was on the number of tracks per inch. (TPI) ranging from 100 to 400 as summarized in Table 1. This emphasis shifted with the increase in densities to include the number of bits per inch (BPI). A bit is formed by magnetizing the Fe203 particles of the media in one direction and allowing magnetic heads to recognize specific data patterns. From 1977 to 1986 the tracks per inch increased from 470 to 1400 corresponding to an increase from 6300 to 10,800 bits per inch respectively. Due to the reduction in the bit and track sizes, build and operating environments of systems have become critical factors in media reliability.Using the Ferrofluid pattern developing technique, the scanning electron microscope can be a valuable diagnostic tool in the examination of failure sites on disks.

Spreading the Word: Raise Your Profession's Profile With Local Angles on National News

ASHA Leader ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Know How ◽  
The Media

How to use your local know-how to get the media to pay attention.

Suicide and the Media

Crisis ◽  
2001 ◽  
Vol 22 (4) ◽  
pp. 163-169 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. Warwick Blood ◽  
Jane Pirkis
Keyword(s):  
Social Learning Theory ◽  
The Body ◽  
Media Content ◽  
Causal Association ◽  
Media Messages ◽  
Film And Television ◽  
Media Portrayal ◽  
The Media ◽  
Actual Suicide ◽  
Multiple Meanings

Summary: The body of evidence suggests that there is a causal association between nonfictional media reporting of suicide (in newspapers, on television, and in books) and actual suicide, and that there may be one between fictional media portrayal (in film and television, in music, and in plays) and actual suicide. This finding has been explained by social learning theory. The majority of studies upon which this finding is based fall into the media “effects tradition,” which has been criticized for its positivist-like approach that fails to take into account of media content or the capacity of audiences to make meaning out of messages. A cultural studies approach that relies on discourse and frame analyses to explore meanings, and that qualitatively examines the multiple meanings that audiences give to media messages, could complement the effects tradition. Together, these approaches have the potential to clarify the notion of what constitutes responsible reporting of suicide, and to broaden the framework for evaluating media performance.

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