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Othered places and the Bengali leftist female bildungsroman: Sulekha Sanyal’s Nabankur and the pre-independence communist everyday
No full textMost canonical studies of gender and nationalism in Bengal leave out of their purview the resistances Bengali middle-class women waged against the social constructions of the bhadramahila figure. One middle-class woman writer who, in her quest for a liberatory politics, aligned herself with leftist-communist ideologies is Sulekha Sanyal. Sanyal published her novel, Nabankur (The Seedling’s Tale), a leftist female bildungsroman, when she was only 26. This essay examines the novel’s literary, class, and gender politics through an engagement with Sanyal’s problematization of both the patriarchal disciplining within a rural landlord household and the emerging middle-class bhadramahila discourse. Sanyal looks to the Communist Party and the peasant movement for affective places of belonging—ideological spaces from within which young women from middle-class and elite backgrounds could question genteel norms of gendered selfhood. Operating within an ideology of vanguardism, as Sanyal’s female protagonist does, leads to a complicated reinforcement and naturalization of the middle-class norms of gendered gentility, yet one that contests both the literary prescriptions offered by the Party and those of a more mainstream Bengali literary public sphere
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
Late Capitalism and the Problem of Individual Agency:: A Reading of the Poems of J. H. Prynne
Get PDFGeography’s relation to the creation of a national identity has indelibly influenced different forms of literary writing. In the late capitalist age, the incommensurability of the territorial entity of the nation and physically experienced space cause us to delve deeper into the practices that interpellate us as inhabitants of a democratic nation-space. The scalar fluidity of an individual’s identity is figured by the different ways in which language emulates the social and personal identity of the individual. The virtual nature of the modern democratic state-form where power essentially appears as an empty place is counteracted upon by the poetic language of the late modern British poet J.H. Prynne. Through a study of his two poems (published in the poetry collection Kitchen Poems, 1968) this essay will look into the ways in which individual lives are intertwined with the functioning of economic capital in the state. In an age following the proverbial incursion of the economy into the affective premises of life, Prynne’s language attempts to give agency to the individual caught in the functioning of multiple discourses, separating every day from the pervasive abstractions of high finance resource mobilizations. This task of locating the individual’s identity is done by identifying the connections that the individual shares with the land and by uncovering the material basis of political identity
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
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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