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La lettura critica dell'unanimismo nella polemica tra Karel Čapek e F.X. Šalda
No full textThe 1913 controversy between Karel Čapek and F.X. Šalda is best known for its focus on Flaubert and F.V. Krejčí, but it also involved the critics' evaluation of “unanimism”, the French literary movement begun by Jules Romains. In one of his essays, Čapek includes unanimism in a list of several different “isms” that show in his opinion the energy and liveliness of contemporary France; still, he clearly recognizes that none of these trends is to be considered dogmatically as the only possible manifestation of modernity. This vitalistic approach to art is dismissed by Šalda, who endorses the primacy of individual poetic expression and blames young Czechs in Čapek’s entourage for blindly following literary fashion. While it is true that Čapek never subscribes to unanimism, his writings indeed display a certain tendency to take advantage of the generational gap as an excuse to avoid further argumentation. Another issue Šalda raises in the debate concerns methodology and the use of critical sources. Čapek is accused of paraphrasing French articles and even of reading mediocre, unreliable periodicals. Moreover, the use Šalda makes of the essay on unanimism authored by Florian-Parmentier is primarily meant to undermine Čapek's credibility rather than to offer a new analysis of Romains's work. By the end of the controversy Čapek addresses some of the points raised by his opponent: he examines more closely the sociological and psychological foundation of the “Unanime” (Durkheim, Le Bon) and finally becomes less enthusastic about this concept of collective conciousness
I fratelli Čapek a Parigi: riflessi letterari e teorico-figurativi del soggiorno in Francia
Get PDFThe thesis examines how French literature and figurative arts influenced the work of Czech brothers Karel and Josef Čapek. The study stay in Paris (1910-1911) is seen as the first impulse that brought both authors to change their perspective on philosophy, representation of reality and literary experimentation. The analysis follows then each brother's independent path throughout the years, showing how the inspiration drawn from French poetry and painting can't be simply labeled as juvenile fscination. Several forms of documents are therefore scrutinized: memoirs and correspondence, essays and reviews, plays and short stories. A central chapter is focused on Karel Čapek's translations of poetry (Francouzská poezie nové doby), where possible sources and criteria of selection of the texts are discussed
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
The Second Edition of French Poetry — Karel Čapek as Translator and Intermediary of a Single Evolving Literature
Get PDFThe paper examines Karel Čapek’s translation of French poetry and, more specifically, the differences
between the two editions of Francouzská poezie nové doby (1920, 1936). Whilst previous studies
were primarily focused on the linguistic and artistic quality of the Czech translation, this analysis
retraces the possible reasons behind Čapek’s choice of texts. Reviews, essays and even personal correspondence are taken into consideration in order to reach a deeper understanding of Čapek’s critical
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