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This article follows two previous attempts at using networks for the understanding of drama, "Network Theory, Plot Analysis" (2011)—also in Franco Moretti, Distant Reading (New York & London: Verso, 2013)—, and "Simulating Dramatic Networks," Journal of World Literature (2020). Franco Moretti shows here the steps of "visualizing dramatic structure as a network" and critically engages the idea of symmetry in tragedy. In the course of the next two years, the METRA project will continue to investigate the heuristic potential of dramatic networks.

Il contributo intende investigare le strutture narrative adottate da Pier Paolo Pasolini all'interno del suo ultimo romanzo: Petrolio (1992). Analizzando l'uso pasoliniano dell'allegoria e della visione nell'opera, se ne vuole evidenziare il carattere medievale e, in particolar modo, la forte influenza del modello dantesco. L'analisi di diverse "spie" contenute nel romanzo e nei fogli preparatori, come il doppio rimando all'allegoria storico-politica degli ultimi canti del Purgatorio, porterà infatti alla luce la paternità dantesca del sistema allegorico di Petrolio. Si mostrerà, tuttavia, come non si tratti più dell'allegoria figurale di ascendenza auerbachiana che aveva interessato Pasolini negli anni precedenti, bensì di un ritorno all'allegoria vera e propria, ovvero una narrazione favolosa che cela "una veritade" (Dante, Convivio II, I. 4). Infine, un'analisi ravvicinata delle principali allegorie del romanzo svelerà che tali episodi allegorici rimandano inequivocabilmente a personaggi e ambientazioni proprie della Commedia. In questo modo, si potrà concludere che non solo Pasolini si ispira a Dante per costruire il sistema allegorico di Petrolio, ma che lo stesso apparato figurativo delle singole allegorie pasoliniane è costruito sulla falsariga di episodi danteschi.

Large-scale sample surveys are not designed to produce reliable estimates for small areas. Here, small area estimation methods can be applied to estimate population parameters of target variables to detailed geographic scales. Small area estimation for noncontinuous variables is a topic of great interest in the social sciences where such variables can be found. Generalized linear mixed models are widely adopted in the literature. Interestingly, the small area estimation literature shows that multivariate small area estimators, where correlations among outcome variables are taken into account, produce more efficient estimates than do the traditional univariate techniques. In this article, the author evaluate a multivariate small area estimator on the basis of a joint mixed model in which a small area proportion and mean of a continuous variable are estimated simultaneously. Using this method, the author "borrows strength" across response variables. The author carried out a design-based simulation study to evaluate the approach where the indicators object of study are the income and a monetary poverty (binary) indicator. The author found that the multivariate approach produces more efficient small area estimates than does the univariate modeling approach. The method can be extended to a large variety of indicators on the basis of social surveys.

El problema de la minoridad, como uno de los aspectos más visibles de la cuestión social de comienzos del siglo XX, reclamó modos de intervención que permitieran atender a la gran cantidad de niños y jóvenes que se hallaban fuera de los parámetros de contención familiar y escolar. La opción de incorporar a esos menores al circuito productivo se plasmó en dos proyectos que darían origen a las primeras escuelas de artes y oficios en Córdoba. En un contexto marcado por la ausencia estatal en la resolución de los desajustes sociales, la consecución de dicha tarea vio confluir la acción de las asociaciones civiles de fuerte impronta religiosa y las políticas reactivas de un Estado liberal que apeló a la caridad y la beneficencia privada para neutralizar los costos no deseados de la modernización.

International audience ; The purpose of our article is to explore the theme of female precariousness described in a story by Aldo Nove entitled Storia di Roberta. Our idea is to analyze the protagonist's experience through the perspective of her profession: Roberta is a teacher and an intellectual with a passion for politics and civil causes. Our interest is to understand how the perspective of meta-biography-where the story of the other becomes the privileged stratagem to express the point of view of the author-allows the emergence of a series of social problems indispensable for the understanding of the reality of women at work in contemporary societies. In particular, we focus on the overlapping-from which the notion of professional intersectionality derives-of gender, work, and desire. If Roberta's experience insists on the precarious condition of women in today's society, at the same time this story raises the question of gender to illustrate how job instability becomes the source of a series of problems that are corollaries of economic fragility.

International audience ; The purpose of our article is to explore the theme of female precariousness described in a story by Aldo Nove entitled Storia di Roberta. Our idea is to analyze the protagonist's experience through the perspective of her profession: Roberta is a teacher and an intellectual with a passion for politics and civil causes. Our interest is to understand how the perspective of meta-biography-where the story of the other becomes the privileged stratagem to express the point of view of the author-allows the emergence of a series of social problems indispensable for the understanding of the reality of women at work in contemporary societies. In particular, we focus on the overlapping-from which the notion of professional intersectionality derives-of gender, work, and desire. If Roberta's experience insists on the precarious condition of women in today's society, at the same time this story raises the question of gender to illustrate how job instability becomes the source of a series of problems that are corollaries of economic fragility.

International audience ; The purpose of our article is to explore the theme of female precariousness described in a story by Aldo Nove entitled Storia di Roberta. Our idea is to analyze the protagonist's experience through the perspective of her profession: Roberta is a teacher and an intellectual with a passion for politics and civil causes. Our interest is to understand how the perspective of meta-biography-where the story of the other becomes the privileged stratagem to express the point of view of the author-allows the emergence of a series of social problems indispensable for the understanding of the reality of women at work in contemporary societies. In particular, we focus on the overlapping-from which the notion of professional intersectionality derives-of gender, work, and desire. If Roberta's experience insists on the precarious condition of women in today's society, at the same time this story raises the question of gender to illustrate how job instability becomes the source of a series of problems that are corollaries of economic fragility.