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Autobiography as myth of origin
Get PDFThe following PhD thesis will explore the connection between
autobiography and myth of origin: On the one hand, I am concerned with
the ways in which women autobiographers rewrite classical myths of
origin; on the other hand, I contend that autobiography itself is a myth of
origin, a recreation of the forces that created the narrator.
Throughout this thesis, I will develop two main themes: the first is the use
of myth as a framework for autobiographical writing. This is possible
because of myth's characteristic double focus on the universal and on the
particular version, the historical context. Myth allows feminist
autobiographers to connect themselves to universal truths from which they
are barred by patriarchal tradition and to carve out their own, highly
personal version.
The second theme is that the autobiographers depict the origin as the core
of the self and utterly Other. First, the narrator has to rely on the stories of
other people, or a 'family memory'. Second, the past can be seen as
connected to or leaving traces in the present; at the same time, it can be
completely Other and incompehensible. Third, the autobiographical I is
often cut off from her origins, and a constructive return that integrates the
past and the present self is only possible through a deliberate act of
mythmaking: It is mythmaking and storytelling that provides a connection
between self and Other.
I hope to make a contribution to feminist theory of autobiography as well as
to feminist theory. Reading autobiography as myth of origin approaches the
persistent problem of the relationship between the historical author and the
autobiographical self. Moreover, I will explore the the specific relation
between women and origins, and address the necessity for feminist theory
to develop a framework where self and Other are intimately connected
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Get PDFWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
P. Spitaels, J. Bingen, A. Uyttendaele, F. Blonde, K. Van Gelder, A. Chéliotis, A. Helsen, Thorikos 19701 1971. Rapport préliminaire sur les septième et huitième campagnes de fouilles
No full textGinouvès René. P. Spitaels, J. Bingen, A. Uyttendaele, F. Blonde, K. Van Gelder, A. Chéliotis, A. Helsen, Thorikos 19701 1971. Rapport préliminaire sur les septième et huitième campagnes de fouilles. In: L'antiquité classique, Tome 49, 1980. pp. 569-570
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Get PDFWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
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