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“Parole rubate. Rivista internazionale di studi sulla citazione” / “Purloined Letters. An International Journal of Quotation Studies”: end of the first series, quotation and plagiarism, amateurism and multidisciplinary approach.

This essay focuses on the relationship between Jorge Luis Borges’s idea of literature and Henri Bergson’s philosophy. Examining a passage from the latter’s "Essai sur les données immédiates de la conscience" (1889), this article suggests a possible resemblance to (but also a provocative subversion of) Borges’s 1939 famous tale, "Pierre Menard, autor del Quijote".

The essay examines some analogies which connect the famous dream of the mouse (“topo”) or topaz in "Quer pasticciaccio brutto de via Merulana" by Carlo Emilio Gadda (1957) to a page of Guy de Maupassant’s first novel, "Une vie" (1883).

Objetivo: Analisar as formas de produção e os elementos de distinção das práticas de citação no domínio da Organização e Representação do Conhecimento no Brasil de 2015 a 2018. Os objetivos específicos são: mapear os autores mais produtivos e citados do período no domínio de Organização e Representação do Conhecimento e identificar as razões de citação dos autores mais citados do período a partir de suas contribuições científicas. Método: Configura-se como uma contribuição de natureza bibliográfica e descritiva. Utiliza-se o método cientométrico por meio das técnicas de análise de conteúdo e de assunto para demonstrar as motivações das práticas de citações dos pesquisadores vinculados ao domínio da Organização e Representação do Conhecimento. Resultado: Evidencia-se a predominância de citação em pesquisadores nacionais no recorte analisado, com ênfase para a autora Fujita, M. S. L. e o autor Guimarães, J. A. C. Em relação às razões de citações, destaca-se o domínio da dimensão conceitual com 93,2%, em contrapartida, a dimensão social aparece com apenas 6,8% do total das ocorrências. Na distribuição das razões das citações por categorias podem-se destacar as ocorrências voltadas para a sustentação de declarações e informações, que receberam 1.148 menções, bem como as razões voltadas para discussões mais teóricas e conceituais, com o total de 902 razões vinculadas. Conclusões: Em que pesem as formas de produção e as instâncias de consagração apontadas pelo binômio produção-citação a partir dos resultados, a posição dos autores mais produtivos no campo reverbera em citações, com razões plurais e motivações concentradas na sustentação de argumentos, exemplificação de situações, casos e pontos de vista, bem como de definições e esclarecimentos teóricos, conceituais e metodológicos.

Based on the hypothesis that Carlo Emilia Gadda was a reader of Aldous Huxley, this article focuses on Gadda’s Cognizione del dolore. The considerable number of evocations are not to be considered as direct quotations from Huxley. However, these very coincidences, as well as memories, unintentional echoes, and indirect and far in time allusions, seem to support my hypothesis.

The purpose of this paper is to reflect upon the vexata quaestio of Machiavelli’s quotations from Livy in Discorsi sopra la prima Deca di Tito Livio. In particular, I shall focus on modifications and cuts of the original text. As I aim to prove, these adaptations are often due either to the political thesis that Machiavelli wants to demonstrate, or to a pedagogical simplification.

This essay presents some examples of irregular quotations, namely quotations that are neither immediately recognizable and clear, nor interpretable. On the contrary, citations appear rather ambiguous – especially in regard to the relationship between quoting and quoted authors –; indirect and blurred; distorted or parodic. The second part, here published, examines the presence of Wilkie Collins (especially his novel The Law and the Lady) in James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake.

Recently – particularly in the last few year – critics have highlighted the importance of cinema in James Joyce's works. We can think, for instance, of the evocative role of cinematographic techniques; in addition , being a cinephile, Joyce proves to know a wide variety of films. Finnegans Wake has not been much explored from this perspective. This article aims to highlight the presence of cinema and films (but also directors and actors) in Joyce's last novel: this is a temporary and hypothetical catalogue, due to Finnegans Wake's multiple allusions and to its requiring an infinite patience and a qualified collaboration of all its readers.

This essay presents some examples of irregular quotations, namely quotations that are neither immediately recognizable and clear, nor interpretable. On the contrary, citations appear rather ambiguous – especially in regard to the relationship between quoting and quoted authors –; indirect and blurred; distorted or parodic. The first part, here published, examines the presence of George Meredith in an essay by Max Beerbohm, and the presence of some nineteenth-century poets in a novel by Ivy Compton-Burnett.

This essay aims to examine strategies of quotation in Matteo Bandello’s collection of short stories (published in 1554 and 1573). In particular, this article will analyse some passages that explicitly employ fourteenth-century great models (Dante, Petrarca, Boccaccio) and some contemporary authors (Castiglione, Machiavelli, Bembo). Indeed, the analysis of the relationship between Bandello’s work and the literary tradition reveals contradictory and discordant aspects, such as imitation and censorship, acceptance and parody, obedience to classicism and lively critical sense.

Si recensiscono due pubblicazioni in cui Giuliano Cenati analizza il carattere frammentario, ossimorico, metamorfico della prosa breve gaddiana.

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Acute renal infarction is an uncommon and often under diagnosed condition mostly because of misleading symptoms. Accurate data regarding clinical presentation, laboratory tests, diagnostic and treatment are lacking. Detection is often delayed or missed because of non-specific clinical presentation. The mechanisms of acute renal infarction are various, mainly embolic or thrombotic. Abdominal CT scan remains the most valuable exam to confirm the diagnosis. Therapeutic guidelines for the treatment of renal embolism have not been well established. The standard treatment strategy includes anticoagulation with or without thrombolysis. Despite the uncertainty regarding management, the renal outcome remains favorable. Some patients do develop some degree of renal insufficiency during the acute episode. We report here the case of a 73-year-old woman with bilateral acute renal infarction after discontinuation of anticoagulant therapy., (Copyright © 2016 Association Société de néphrologie. Published by Elsevier SAS. All rights reserved.)