Silvana Colella
Biographic Data
| ID | 6438422 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Silvana Colella |
| GIVEN NAMES | Silvana |
| FAMILY NAME | Colella |
| SIGNATURE | COLELLA S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Macerata |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7539-9309 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
“The Language of the Digital Air”: AI-Generated Literature and the Performance of Authorship
The release of ChatGPT and similar applications in 2022 prompted wide-ranging discussions concerning the impact of AI technologies on writing, creativity, and authorship. This article explores the question of artificial writing, taking into consideration both critical theories and creative experiments. In the first section, I review current scholarly discussions about authorship in the age of generative AI. In the second and third sections, I tur…
Technologies of Care: Robot Caregivers in Science and Fiction
In the field of elderly care, robot caregivers are garnering increased attention. This article discusses the robotisation of care from a dual perspective. The first part presents an overview of recent scholarship on the use of robots in eldercare, focusing mostly on scientific evidence about the responses of older adults and caregivers. The second part turns to narrative evidence, providing a close reading of Andromeda Romano-Lax’s Plum Rains (20…
Cross-Dressing in the City: Olive Malvery’s The Speculator
Despite a growing body of scholarship on finance and fiction, Malvery’s The Speculator has not yet received the critical attention it deserves. In this article, I undertake the first detailed analysis of Malvery’s fictional foray into the world of finance, centred on the story of a female stockbroker operating in disguise in the City of London. The first section of the article focuses on late nineteenth-century and early Edwardian novels of finan…
Speculation and Social Progress: Financial and Narrative Bubbles in Charles Lever’s Davenport Dunn
Introduction In mid-nineteenth-century novels, financial speculation tends to be narrated through a recurrent set of motifs: grand speculative schemes are never successful, fraud always lurks in the background, speculators eventually commit suicide or just die, and their hybris is systematically expunged from the story world. Moreover, satire and sarcasm are often recruited to reinforce the
A Tale of Two Capitalisms: Sacred Economics in Nineteenth-Century Britain
As the title of this book succinctly announces, the tale of nineteenth-century capitalism unfolds as a double narrative. The first narrative, hinging on self-interest, laissez faire, individualism
Gifts and Interests: John Halifax, Gentleman and the Purity of Business
IN HIS INTRODUCTION to The Question of the Gift , Mark Osteen claims that “economism ... is the land mine of gift theory” (5). For many theorists, he explains, gift-giving and market exchanges share the same forms of calculation; for others, more specifically, self-interest is the “objective truth” of the gift. The challenge that gift discourse has taken up in recent years is how to rethink reciprocity, altruism, and generosity while at the same …
Sweet Money: Cultural and Economic Value in Trollope’s Autobiography
Intimations of Mortality: The Malthusian Plot in Early Nineteenth-Century Popular Fiction
Intimations of Mortality: The Malthusian Plot in Early Nineteenth-Century Popular Fiction
Sweet Money: Cultural and Economic Value in Trollope’s Autobiography
Gifts and Interests: John Halifax, Gentleman and the Purity of Business
IN HIS INTRODUCTION to The Question of the Gift , Mark Osteen claims that “economism ... is the land mine of gift theory” (5). For many theorists, he explains, gift-giving and market exchanges share the same forms of calculation; for others, more specifically, self-interest is the “objective truth” of the gift. The challenge that gift discourse has taken up in recent years is how to rethink reciprocity, altruism, and generosity while at the same …
A Tale of Two Capitalisms: Sacred Economics in Nineteenth-Century Britain
As the title of this book succinctly announces, the tale of nineteenth-century capitalism unfolds as a double narrative. The first narrative, hinging on self-interest, laissez faire, individualism
Speculation and Social Progress: Financial and Narrative Bubbles in Charles Lever’s Davenport Dunn
Introduction In mid-nineteenth-century novels, financial speculation tends to be narrated through a recurrent set of motifs: grand speculative schemes are never successful, fraud always lurks in the background, speculators eventually commit suicide or just die, and their hybris is systematically expunged from the story world. Moreover, satire and sarcasm are often recruited to reinforce the
Cross-Dressing in the City: Olive Malvery’s The Speculator
Despite a growing body of scholarship on finance and fiction, Malvery’s The Speculator has not yet received the critical attention it deserves. In this article, I undertake the first detailed analysis of Malvery’s fictional foray into the world of finance, centred on the story of a female stockbroker operating in disguise in the City of London. The first section of the article focuses on late nineteenth-century and early Edwardian novels of finan…
Technologies of Care: Robot Caregivers in Science and Fiction
In the field of elderly care, robot caregivers are garnering increased attention. This article discusses the robotisation of care from a dual perspective. The first part presents an overview of recent scholarship on the use of robots in eldercare, focusing mostly on scientific evidence about the responses of older adults and caregivers. The second part turns to narrative evidence, providing a close reading of Andromeda Romano-Lax’s Plum Rains (20…
“The Language of the Digital Air”: AI-Generated Literature and the Performance of Authorship
The release of ChatGPT and similar applications in 2022 prompted wide-ranging discussions concerning the impact of AI technologies on writing, creativity, and authorship. This article explores the question of artificial writing, taking into consideration both critical theories and creative experiments. In the first section, I review current scholarly discussions about authorship in the age of generative AI. In the second and third sections, I tur…
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