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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
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
Reseña de "Ecopoetic Place-Making: Nature and Mobility in Contemporary American Poetry"
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Book Review of Words on Water: Literary and Cultural Representations by Maureen Devine and Christa Grewe-Volpp (eds.)
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Book Review: Falas da Terra no Século XXI: What do we see green? (Lisboa: Esfera do Caos, 2001), 251 pp.
No full textBook Review: Falas da Terra no Século XXI: What do we see green? (Lisboa: Esfera do Caos, 2001), 251 pp
‘The waiting arms of Missouri’: human connections and sheltered lives in Eudora Welty’s The Optimist’s Daughter
No full textThis paper reads The Optimist’s Daughter based on the symbolic, silent, and
scarce presence of Missouri, the black housekeeper of the Mckelva’s house. On the
one hand, her presence in the novel is rare and subsidiary; on the other hand, her
presence signals Laurel’s sheltered life and her need for human connections,
showing,as Peggy Prenshaw suggests, that Welty truly believes in “the human
connection between freely operating individuals who engage issues that directly
affect their lives”. Attuned to the political and social codes of the racial South, the
embraces between Laurel and Missouri are silent, but they are also a reinforcement
of what Prenshaw designates as the “respectful listening to the position of the
other”.
Besides, this paper underlines the connection between Missouri and the birds, an association which corroborates Welty’s predisposition to listen to the voice of
Nature. In the novel, the birds’ journeys intensify and anticipate the imminent
flight Laurel is to take into another life, that of imagination and artistic independence. Their presence may also indicate Welty’s intuition of a collective
and racially-based desire for flight and freedom.Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologi
Dwelling in a Junkyard: Longing for Home and Self in Janisse Ray’s <i>Ecology of a Cracker Childhood</i>
No full textThis article discusses Janisse Ray’s Ecology of a Cracker Childhood (1999) as an example of the nature writing tradition, suggesting that her knowledge of southern Georgia is based on an intimate relationship with that specific place. Drawing from Thomas Lyon, Lawrence Buell, Lorraine Anderson, Nathan Straight, and L. Hönnighausen my approach focuses on how Ray’s work reflects on the relationship between a childhood spent in rural isolation and poverty in a junkyardand the diminishing longleaf pine ecosystem that used to cover the South of the United States. This method will help establish a connection, on the one hand, between Ray’s growing awareness of a lost self and the loss of natural ecosystems, and, on the other hand, between Ray’ ssuccess in building a home, which means repairing her own self, and the restoration of the longleaf pine ecosystem. Moreover, I argue, Ray is looking to determine her place within that specific ecosystem but also in the larger world, thus embodying the paradox inherent in the way place is understood in the light of the new regionalism: it roots the body but liberates the imagination. Arguing that considerations about place are at the basis of nature writing, I show that Ray constructs a literary home in which she offers alternatives to repair the longleaf pine ecosystem; providing for a vocabulary that readers might use in formulating their own relationships with the places they live in, urging them, southerners and all others, to take responsibility in promoting healthier relationships between humans, nonhumans, and the environment. Ultimately, this article contributes to the debate in nature writing by addressing Ray’s Ecology of a Cracker Childhood as an example of how in the face of a widening global environmental crisis, we might engage more closely with local and regional perspectives as they often demand a heightened environmental sensibility and a language that contributes to repairing both ecological and personal damage
"Arado" de A. M. Pires Cabral: uma paisagem de proximidade
No full textBased on Plough, published in 2009, this reflection aims to consider the poetry of A.M. Pires Cabral through the lens of ecocriticism. In this sense, the text begins by noting the various landscapes that are part of the poet’s life and art and how they, transformed into language, become the poet himself. Subsequently, some of poems are read according to the critical frame of ecocriticism and the conviction that language can have a strong grasp on how one reads and interprets the land and the landscape. Sensitive to the connections between man and the physical space he inhabits, ecocriticism reinforces an important perspective on Cabral’s poetry: the recognition that human culture affects the physical world and is affected by it.Partindo de Arado, publicado em 2009, esta reflexão pretende considerar a obra poética de A. M. Pires Cabral à luz da Ecocrítica. Nesse sentido, começa-se por referir as paisagens que são pertença do poeta e o modo como elas, fazendo-se texto, são o próprio poeta. Apresenta-se depois a leitura de alguns poemas tendo como moldura crítica a ideia, explorada pela ecocrítica, de que a linguagem pode exercer um forte domínio sobre o modo como se lê e interpreta o território, a paisagem. Sensível às ligações entre o homem e o espaço físico que habita, a ecocrítica permite salientar uma perspectiva importantíssima na obra de Pires Cabral: o reconhecimento de que o homem molda o mundo que o envolve, mas, nessa mudança, a si mesmo se transforma também
Book review of Falas da Terra no Século XXI: What do we see green?
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