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Like a poet's dreams: the redisplay of the 6th Duke of Devonshire's sculpture gallery at Chatsworth
No full textFilming of Pride & Prejudice at Chatsworth in 2004 revealed the original ‘glow of beauty’ of the 6th Duke of Devonshire’s sculpture gallery. This has helped prompt the return of the gallery to its appearance in the mid-19th century, as Charles Noble and Alison Yarrington explain
Italian Translations of the Book of Common Prayer
No full textThe first translation of the Book of Common Prayer was by William Bedell and Paolo Sarpi and but remained as a manuscript with no known copies. In contrast, a manuscript copy Alessandro Amidei’s translation from 1661 is preserved in the British Library. The first published translation was printed in London in 1685 (its author was an Italian protestant exile, Giovan Battista Cappelli, and its editor was Edward Brown) Other translations followed the initial three during the 1700s and 1800s. In the eighteenth century, the intellectual formation of young British nobles and men of letters was completed with a Grand Tour of Italy. As such, the bilingual editions of the Book of Common Prayer were conceived as a kind of teaching aid for learning Italian. In his chapter Villani investigates the intertwining of religious and linguistic motivation
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
Anne Seymour Damer: a sculptor of ‘republican perfection’
No full text© Cambridge University Press 2013. The attainments of Anne Seymour Damer as artist, author and student of classical antiquity secure her place in this company of brilliant women. Although during her lifetime she was not directly referred to as a ‘bluestocking’, she operated within a network of friendship and acquaintance in her pursuit of arts and letters in ways that linked her with other like-minded women across Europe. One indicator of this intellectual alignment was her sustained study of the art, languages and philosophy of ancient Greece and Rome. Evidence of this is scattered in her correspondence and that of others; for example her kinsman, Horace Walpole, writing to their mutual friend Mary Berry commented, ‘they say, Madam, you speak Latin as well as Madam Damer the great statue woman’. To obtain public recognition as a sculptor, to be ‘the great statue woman’, was Damer’s primary ambition and one that she pursued tenaciously, participating in the annual Royal Academy exhibitions and creating works for public settings. Her remarkable career, spanning four decades, was sustained throughout by a reserve and strength of character often noted by close friends and acquaintances. However, it was her apparent innate deviant sexuality and erratic enthusiasms, not least her involvement with Foxite politics and the theatre, that became the focus of public attention in the years immediately before and following her husband’s suicide in 1776, that shaped her lasting reputation. In brilliance, judged from this public perspective, she could be said to be more diamanté than diamond
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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