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Adam Roberts: Critical Essays
No full textEach chapter in this collection explores the challenge posed to science fiction, literary fiction and contemporary ideas through Roberts’s novels. His use of the science fiction toolkit combined with his sharp and sometimes lyrical prose blurs the distinction that some would wish to maintain between science fiction and mainstream literature
Adam Roberts, Landor's Cleanness: A Study of Walter Savage Landor
No full textAdam Roberts, Landor’s Cleanness: A Study of
Walter Savage Landor (Oxford: Oxford University
Press, 2014), pp. 194. £55.00 hardback. 9780198723271
Hedley Bull, Benedict Kingsbury et Adam Roberts (éd.), Hugo Grotius and International Relations
No full textFrijhoff Willem. Hedley Bull, Benedict Kingsbury et Adam Roberts (éd.), Hugo Grotius and International Relations. In: Annales. Économies, Sociétés, Civilisations. 47ᵉ année, N. 6, 1992. pp. 1233-1234
Histories of science fiction: The Challenge of Periodization in "The History of Science Fiction", by Adam Roberts
No full textO autor e crítico britânico Adam Roberts, em seu livro A verdadeira história da Ficção Científica, projeta o início da ficção científica (FC) para a Antiguidade Clássica. Esta resenha crítica pretende analisar a premissa histórica do autor tendo em vista o desafio da periodização essa espécie literária, contrastando com ideias críticas de Brian Aldiss, Gary Westfahl, James Gunn, Mark Bould e Sherryl Vint, sem esquecer de autorias brasileiras, como André Carneiro, Braulio Tavares, Raul Fiker e Roberto Causo, entre outras autorias. Ainda se analisará a premissa anglocêntrica de Roberts, ao não visibilizar contribuições científicas de civilizações árabes e ibéricas, entre outras, embora se frise a validade da obra para ampliar as perguntas críticas no estudo contemporâneo.The History of Science Fiction, by the British author and critic Adam Roberts, traces the beginnings of Science Fiction (SF) to Classical Antiquity. This critical review aims to analyze the author\u27s historical premise given the challenge of periodization of this literary genre, contrasting Robert’s ideas with critical thoughts by Brian Aldiss, Gary Westfahl, James Gunn, Mark Bould, and Sherryl Vint, without forgetting Brazilian contribution in this matter by André Carneiro, Braulio Tavares, Raul Fiker and Roberto Causo, among others. Roberts\u27 Anglocentric premise will also be analyzed, as he does not make visible the scientific contributions of Arab and Iberian civilizations, among others, although the importance of his work will be stressed in contemporary studies
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
Middlemarch: Epigraphs and Mirrors (PDF)
No full textIn Middlemarch, George Eliot draws a character passionately absorbed by abstruse allusion and obscure epigraphs. Casaubon’s obsession is a cautionary tale, but Adam Roberts nonetheless sees in him an invitation to take Eliot’s use of epigraphy and allusion seriously, and this book is an attempt to do just that.
Roberts considers the epigraph as a mirror that refracts the meaning of a text, and that thus carries important resonances for the way Eliot’s novels generate their meanings. In this lively and provoking study, he tracks down those allusions and quotations that have hitherto gone unidentified by scholars, examining their relationship to the text in which they sit to unfurl a broader argument about the novel – both this novel, and the novel form itself.
Middlemarch: Epigraphs and Mirrors is both a study of George Eliot and a meditation on the textuality of fiction. It is essential reading for specialists and students of George Eliot, the nineteenth century novel, and intertextuality. It will also richly reward anyone who has ever taken pleasure in Middlemarch
Middlemarch: Epigraphs and Mirrors (XML)
No full textIn Middlemarch, George Eliot draws a character passionately absorbed by abstruse allusion and obscure epigraphs. Casaubon’s obsession is a cautionary tale, but Adam Roberts nonetheless sees in him an invitation to take Eliot’s use of epigraphy and allusion seriously, and this book is an attempt to do just that.
Roberts considers the epigraph as a mirror that refracts the meaning of a text, and that thus carries important resonances for the way Eliot’s novels generate their meanings. In this lively and provoking study, he tracks down those allusions and quotations that have hitherto gone unidentified by scholars, examining their relationship to the text in which they sit to unfurl a broader argument about the novel – both this novel, and the novel form itself.
Middlemarch: Epigraphs and Mirrors is both a study of George Eliot and a meditation on the textuality of fiction. It is essential reading for specialists and students of George Eliot, the nineteenth century novel, and intertextuality. It will also richly reward anyone who has ever taken pleasure in Middlemarch
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