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Why Gerbner's Communication Model in Trauma Studies
No full textThe paper delineates further the attempt of scholars like Stef Craps, Gert Buelens, Roger Luckhurst, Michael Rothberg, Irene Visser, Michelle Balaev, and a few others to borrow interdisciplinary insight and formulate alternative framework in trauma studies so as to continue vibrancy of trauma studies. The author of this paper had argued for a potential to formulate alternative framework in MPhil thesis, “Trauma of Maoist Insurgency in Literature: Reading Palpasa Café, Forget Kathmandu, and Chhapamar ko Chhoro.” The possibility was expounded deductively in another article “Thinking through Media Theories: Understanding and Furthering Trauma Studies.” Following the call and the idea forwarded firstly in Bodhi: An Interdisciplinary Journal and later in Continental Journal of Arts and Humanities, the paper argues further that borrowing Gerbner’s communication model can be useful in formulating alternative framework to analyze trauma rendition
Maoist Combatants' Narratives: Partisan Attachment to Post-truce Politics
No full textTen-year long war in Nepal (February 1996 to November 2006) was the source of nearly six dozen book length non-fictions. Of these writings, around one and half dozen were written by the Maoist combatants who had first-hand experience of the armed encounter with the state force. The writings, however, have yet not drawn ample interest of researchers and thus very limited studies have been carried out. This paper tries to fill the gap through close reading of 15 texts written by the combatants; it provides a summative and analytical reading of the non-fictions that render combatants’ experience during the armed combat. These writings are observed to present various facets related to the war including experience during armed encounter, tribute to the deceased, intra-party conflict and betrayal, experience of the distress, and perception of post-peace politics. It is anticipated that this article will draw further attention to literary representations of the war
Maoist Combatants' Narratives: Partisan Attachment to Post-truce Politics
No full textTen-year long war in Nepal (February 1996 to November 2006) was the source of nearly six dozen book length non-fictions. Of these writings, around one and half dozen were written by the Maoist combatants who had first-hand experience of the armed encounter with the state force. The writings, however, have yet not drawn ample interest of researchers and thus very limited studies have been carried out. This paper tries to fill the gap through close reading of 15 texts written by the combatants; it provides a summative and analytical reading of the non-fictions that render combatants’ experience during the armed combat. These writings are observed to present various facets related to the war including experience during armed encounter, tribute to the deceased, intra-party conflict and betrayal, experience of the distress, and perception of post-peace politics. It is anticipated that this article will draw further attention to literary representations of the war
Open and Distance Learning (ODL) in Nepal: Prospects and Challenges
Full text linkIn this article I discuss some of the aspects that pertain to Open and Distance Learning (ODL) in Nepali context. More specifically, drawing from the articles which explicate the prevalence of ODL in developing countries, I delineate on the prospects and challenges of ODL in Nepalese context. As such, I explore fundamental aspects of popularly designated
alternative paths to the traditional mode of learning
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe 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
Hypocricy for Survival: Redefining Terrorism in Shalimar the Clown
No full textThis paper does close textual reading intertwined with contextual analysis of Salman Rushdie's Shalimar the Clown published in 2005. In doing so, the paper argues that this fiction is Rushdie's another effort to survive from the Fatwa reaffirmed over hi
Colonial Paranoia and Cultural Narcissism as a Writing Trope
No full textIn this paper I argue that one of the dominant modes within going back to root – dialectics of colonial paranoia and cultural narcissism – deployed in many novels like R. K. Narayan's The English Teacher, Mulk Raj Anand’s Untouchables, among others is an appropriate trope for Nepali writers, both to present social reality and to help marginalized groups reconstruct their identity
Variations on the Author
Full text link“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
Full text linkWe 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
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