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Love and Sex in Mario Vargas Llosa\u27s \u27Quien mato a Palomino Molero?\u27
Get PDFMario Vargas Llosa\u27s murder mystery Quien mato a Palomino Molero? , while certainly as entertaining an example of its genre as one would expect from an author of such universally acknowledged narrative skill, is ultimately less a tale of complicated sleuthing than it is a commentary on collective corruption, social injustice and base human nature. Against a sharply defined backdrop of the class system in his native Peru, Vargas Llosa registers in this novel the socio-political reality that oppresses the individual by limiting his opportunities, both personal and professional, and dooming to failure any attempt to escape the mandates of systemic social stratification. The author achieves his bleak portrayal of Peruvian society in a number of ways, but primary among them is his presentation of the theme of forbidden love and his use of coarse sexual imagery and counterpoint. It is through thematic considerations associated with problematic love and sex that Vargas Llosa creates a scenario in Quien mato a Palomino Molero
Mario Vargas Llosa, ¿Quién mató a Palomino Molero?
No full textEs reseña de: ¿Quién mató a Palomino Molero?, Mario Vargas Llosa. Seix Barral, 1986. ISBN 843220542
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
"Quién mato a Palomino Molero?" Vargas Llosa y la novela policial
No full textBadenberg N, Honold A, Horstmann S. "Quién mato a Palomino Molero?" Vargas Llosa y la novela policial. Revista de Crítica Literaria Latinoamericana. 1989;15(30): 277
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
La búsqueda de la verdad conduce al fracaso : análisis social y narratológico de ₃Quién mató a Palomino Molero? de Mario Vargas Llosa.
No full textquesQuien mato a Palomino Molero? (1986) has received little attention by critics and scholars. What criticism does exist contributes to a panoramic, and in certain cases, fragmentary view of the novel, but little to an understanding of its deep structure, narrative functioning and content. This thesis attempts to fill the gap in existing critical approaches by proposing a new reading based on a reassessment of the author's conception of literary creativity (chapter I), an analysis of the detective genre and its use by the author to illustrate the socio-political condition of Peruvian reality (chapters II and III), and an examination of the novel's narrative functioning from a narratological perspective (chapter IV). The main conclusions of my study are as follows: First, Vargas Llosa, in this work, takes his personal experiences as the stimulus and substance (he calls them "the demons") for the novel's story and problematics. Second, both partially in adopting and transgressing the detective story structure, the author efficiently projects that story and the economic realities of the 1950s. Third, the world-vision that thus emerges is one of a society deeply fractured and divided. Fourth, in the case of quesQuien mato a Palomino Molero?, this world-vision is mainly conveyed through the focalization of the character-focalizer Lituma, and the appropriate use of a privileged, heterodiegetic narrator, mimetic discourse, and indirect free discourse. Fifth, both the adoption and the transgressions of the detective story structure, as well as the narratological components efficiently articulate the expression of the aforementioned world-vision by the implied author. quesQuien mato a Palomino Molero? thus constitutes a meaningful quest novel that convincingly shows that, in the world presented, all quest for truth by the underprivileged sectors of society, whenever it jeopardizes the interest of the privileged ones, inevitably ends in failure. (Abstract shortened by UMI.
La búsqueda de la verdad conduce al fracaso : análisis social y narratológico de ₃Quién mató a Palomino Molero? de Mario Vargas Llosa.
No full textquesQuien mato a Palomino Molero? (1986) has received little attention by critics and scholars. What criticism does exist contributes to a panoramic, and in certain cases, fragmentary view of the novel, but little to an understanding of its deep structure, narrative functioning and content. This thesis attempts to fill the gap in existing critical approaches by proposing a new reading based on a reassessment of the author's conception of literary creativity (chapter I), an analysis of the detective genre and its use by the author to illustrate the socio-political condition of Peruvian reality (chapters II and III), and an examination of the novel's narrative functioning from a narratological perspective (chapter IV). The main conclusions of my study are as follows: First, Vargas Llosa, in this work, takes his personal experiences as the stimulus and substance (he calls them "the demons") for the novel's story and problematics. Second, both partially in adopting and transgressing the detective story structure, the author efficiently projects that story and the economic realities of the 1950s. Third, the world-vision that thus emerges is one of a society deeply fractured and divided. Fourth, in the case of quesQuien mato a Palomino Molero?, this world-vision is mainly conveyed through the focalization of the character-focalizer Lituma, and the appropriate use of a privileged, heterodiegetic narrator, mimetic discourse, and indirect free discourse. Fifth, both the adoption and the transgressions of the detective story structure, as well as the narratological components efficiently articulate the expression of the aforementioned world-vision by the implied author. quesQuien mato a Palomino Molero? thus constitutes a meaningful quest novel that convincingly shows that, in the world presented, all quest for truth by the underprivileged sectors of society, whenever it jeopardizes the interest of the privileged ones, inevitably ends in failure. (Abstract shortened by UMI.
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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