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Saints' lives and miracle stories in Bede, the old english Bede and Ælfric between translation and rewriting
Get PDFThe aim of the present study is to explore the ways in which selected hagiographic sections of Bede’s Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum have been rendered in the anonymous Old English translation of the Historia ecclesiastica, and in the Homilies and in the Lives of Saints written by Ælfric of Eynsham. The analysis is focused on five different saintly figures, each embodying a different model of sanctity in Bede’s Historia ecclesiastica: St. Alban, the martyr; Æthelthryth, virgin queen and abbess; Oswald, king of Northumbria, warrior, and saint; Fursey, a model of monastic peregrinatio who has several visions of the otherworld, and Dryhthelm, a layman who embraces monastic life after experiencing a vision of the afterlife. For every saintly figure, I develop a comparative analysis between the source text and the two target texts; each of them, in their own way, is representative of a different stage in the development of the English pre-Conquest literary system. This study combines a philologically oriented approach to the study of Medieval literature with the theoretical framework developed in the interdisciplinary field of Translation Studies. This descriptive approach allows me to address issues concerning the relationship between the ideas of translation and rewriting. It also shows that the boundary between the two ideas is far from being rigidly fixed, because perceptions of fidelity, the main parameter that defines translation as opposed to rewriting, are themselves subject to change and cannot be reduced to the mere notion of semantic equivalence.
With regard to the specific texts examined here, the theoretical framework provided by Translation Studies also allows us to observe the evolution of the hagiographic genre, of its aims, and narrative strategies, within two very different contexts of production: historiography for the Historia ecclesiastica and its Old English translation, homiletics for Ælfric
FRANTZEN, Allen J. / HINES, John (eds.), Cædmon’s Hymn and Material Culture in the World of Bede, West Virginia University Press, Morgantown 2007
Get PDFRiscrittura e attualizzazione dei testi germanici medievali
No full textDiscussione delle questioni terminologiche relative ai processi di riscrittura e traduzione, tenendo conto del ruolo del filologo nello studio di questi fenomeni.Discussion of terminological issues regarding rewriting and translation, with particular attention to the role of the philologist in the study of these phenomena
Riscrittura e attualizzazione dei testi germanici medievali
No full textDiscussione delle questioni terminologiche relative ai processi di riscrittura e traduzione, tenendo conto del ruolo del filologo nello studio di questi fenomeni.Discussion of terminological issues regarding rewriting and translation, with particular attention to the role of the philologist in the study of these phenomena
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
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