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Shakespeare’s Dramatic Pattern of Social Change in Saroyan’s "The Time of your Life"
Get PDFABSTRACT: Saroyan’s The Time of Your Life (1939) employs a similar dramatic pattern of social change used in Shakespeare’s The Tempest (1611). In Shakespeare, the pattern includes the isolation of a group of characters by washing them up onto the reformer’s island by a magical tempest arranged by the reformer Prospero. He thus severs the characters from their community, and separates them on the island to undergo different healing experiences before going back to their society. Saroyan adopts a comparable, though highly modified, pattern in his play. He mainly focuses on the efforts of a reformer, who tries to help a group of depressed characters who gather in a bar, which is similar to Prospero’s island, in order to escape the difficulties of the outside world. The bar is a haven of peace surrounded by the atrocities of the urban world. In both cases there is a devoted reformer, who dedicates himself to helping his subjects. The paper aims to study the similarities of the dramatic pattern, and shows that underlying these similarities, there are major differences that reflect the cultural divergence of the twentieth century culture from that of the Renaissance. The study means to illustrate that the alterations Saroyan rendered on Shakespeare’s model helps the reader understand the meaning and the age of the modern play and, simultaneously, sheds further light on the Shakespearean play and the Renaissance in general. RESUMEN: El Tiempo de Tu Vida de Saroyan (1939) emplea un patrón dramático similar de cambio social al usado en La Tempestad de Shakespeare (1611). En Shakespeare, el patrón incluye el aislamiento de un grupo de personajes al hacerlos naufragar en la isla del reformador mediante una tempestad mágica organizada por el reformador Próspero. De este modo, aísla a los personajes de su comunidad y los separa en la isla para experimentar diferentes experiencias de curación antes de regresar a su sociedad. Saroyan adopta un patrón comparable, aunque altamente modificado, en su obra. Se centra principalmente en los esfuerzos de un reformador que trata de ayudar a un grupo de personajes deprimidos que se reúnen en un bar, que es similar a la isla de Próspero, para escapar de las dificultades del mundo exterior. El bar es un remanso de paz rodeado de las atrocidades del mundo urbano. En ambos casos hay un devoto reformador que se dedica a ayudar a sus súbditos. El documento tiene como objetivo estudiar las similitudes del patrón dramático y muestra que, subyacentes a estas similitudes, existen diferencias importantes que reflejan la divergencia entre la cultura del siglo XX y la del Renacimiento. El estudio pretende ilustrar que las alteraciones que Saroyan presentó en el modelo de Shakespeare ayudan al lector a comprender el significado y la época de la obra moderna y, al mismo tiempo, arroja más luz sobre la obra de Shakespeare y el Renacimiento en general.
Sleep Disorders in Shakespeare’s Drama: A Neuro-Literary Perspective
Get PDFThis study aims to analyze Shakespeare's portrayal of sleep disorders from an interdisciplinary perspective, focusing on the aesthetic design of dramatic character developments that result in these illnesses. By combining literary, scientific, and psychological viewpoints, the study aims to demonstrate that Shakespeare dramatizes the cases of infected characters within the context of well-crafted plots, using figurative language rather than diagnosing their illnesses clinically. The study also highlights the hidden motivations and human causes that give rise to parasomnias, as well as the dangers to the community through the vivid plot flow. Neuropsychological studies highlight the consequences of these problems for the diseased person, but this study goes beyond that to illustrate the dangers to the community as well through the vivid plot flow, as in the case of Macbeth, adding a new dimension to the adverse effects of sleep
Shakespeare's dramatic pattern of social change in Saroyan's the time of your life
Get PDFSaroyan’s The Time of Your Life (1939) employs a similar dramatic
pattern of social change used in Shakespeare’s The Tempest (1611).
In Shakespeare, the pattern includes the isolation of a group of
characters by washing them up onto the reformer’s island by a
magical tempest arranged by the reformer Prospero. He thus severs
the characters from their community, and separates them on the
island to undergo different healing experiences before going back to
their society. Saroyan adopts a comparable, though highly modified,
pattern in his play. He mainly focuses on the efforts of a reformer,
who tries to help a group of depressed characters who gather in a
bar, which is similar to Prospero’s island, in order to escape the
difficulties of the outside world. The bar is a haven of peace
surrounded by the atrocities of the urban world. In both cases there
is a devoted reformer, who dedicates himself to helping his subjects.
The paper aims to study the similarities of the dramatic pattern, and
shows that underlying these similarities, there are major differences
that reflect the cultural divergence of the twentieth century culture
from that of the Renaissance. The study means to illustrate that the
alterations Saroyan rendered on Shakespeare’s model helps the
reader understand the meaning and the age of the modern play and,
simultaneously, sheds further light on the Shakespearean play and
the Renaissance in general.El Tiempo de Tu Vida de Saroyan (1939) emplea un patrón dramático
similar de cambio social al usado en La Tempestad de Shakespeare
(1611). En Shakespeare, el patrón incluye el aislamiento de un
grupo de personajes al hacerlos naufragar en la isla del reformador
mediante una tempestad mágica organizada por el reformador
Próspero. De este modo, aísla a los personajes de su comunidad y
los separa en la isla para experimentar diferentes experiencias de
curación antes de regresar a su sociedad. Saroyan adopta un patrón
comparable, aunque altamente modificado, en su obra. Se centra
principalmente en los esfuerzos de un reformador que trata de
ayudar a un grupo de personajes deprimidos que se reúnen en un
bar, que es similar a la isla de Próspero, para escapar de las
dificultades del mundo exterior. El bar es un remanso de paz
rodeado de las atrocidades del mundo urbano. En ambos casos hay
un devoto reformador que se dedica a ayudar a sus súbditos. El
documento tiene como objetivo estudiar las similitudes del patrón
dramático y muestra que, subyacentes a estas similitudes, existen
diferencias importantes que reflejan la divergencia entre la cultura
del siglo XX y la del Renacimiento. El estudio pretende ilustrar que
las alteraciones que Saroyan presentó en el modelo de Shakespeare
ayudan al lector a comprender el significado y la época de la obra
moderna y, al mismo tiempo, arroja más luz sobre la obra de
Shakespeare y el Renacimiento en general
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
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
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
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