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Lo straniamento e la Thing Theory
Full text linkThe practice of estrangement retains an essential political function. It is possible to link this narrative formula to the investigative paths typical of Thing Theory: in this way the perspective guaranteed by the matter can shed light upon the ideological coordinates of capitalist logic, through an interpretation of the commodity in a dissident key according to the suggestion offered by Francesco Orlando in his Freudian theory. This article therefore aims to document the relationship between Šklovskij’s intuition, Thing Theory and Orlando's proposal through a close reading of Solid Object, a short story by Virginia Woolf.La pratica dello straniamento conserva un’imprescindibile funzione politica. È possibile legare tale formula narrativa ai percorsi indagativi propri della Thing Theory: in tal modo la prospettiva garantita dalla materia può far luce sulle coordinate ideologiche proprie della logica capitalistica, attraverso una rilettura della merce in chiave dissidente secondo il suggerimento offerto da Francesco Orlando in merito alla sua teoria freudiana. Questo contributo mira perciò a documentare il connubio tra l’intuizione di Šklovskij, la Thing Theory e la proposta di Orlando attraverso una lettura ravvicinata di "Solid Object", racconto di Virginia Woolf
Oggettualità e cosalità: teorie dell'oggetto e logiche di potere nella letteratura contemporanea
Full text linkQuesta tesi si pone come obiettivo quello di indagare la messa in scena tematica e formale dell’oggetto all’interno del fenomeno narrativo contemporaneo. Nella fattispecie, ad emergere sarà la rappresentazione dell’oggetto come veicolo di intricate logiche di potere: a seconda dell’accezione materiale declinata – connotata ora secondo i caratteri del principio della cosalità, ora secondo i caratteri del principio dell’oggettualità –, la logica capitalistica e tardocapitalistica vestirà la merce di precise retoriche di apparizione testuale al fine di diffondere al meglio la propria ragione ecumenica. Il riferimento teorico che fa da impalcatura argomentativa del lavoro è la teoria freudiana formulata da Francesco Orlando: lo stampo concettuale della frazione R/r (Repressione contro represso) coniugata nell’ottica della funzionalità permetterà di leggere la storia letteraria dall’inizio della modernità alla Bassa modernità secondo quattro atteggiamenti narrativi aventi a che fare con la relazione – anche linguistica ed espressiva – tra l’umano e l’oggettuale
Autore contro lettore, riddler contro riddlee, criminale contro detective
No full textThis work intends to investigate different ways of managing knowledge in the modern, ancient and postmodern era through the analysis of three riddle contests. In the first case, we will reflect on the relationship between author and reader starting from a review by Edgar Allan Poe on Dickens’ Barnaby Rudge; in the second, the outcome of a riddle contest narrated by Tolkien in The Hobbit will be commented; in the third, the gnoseological logics that preside over the connotations of Paul Auster’s detective fiction will be explored
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
Autore contro lettore, riddler contro riddlee, criminale contro detective. La contesa enigmistica come strumento di gestione del sapere
No full textThis work intends to investigate different ways of managing knowledge in the modern, ancient and postmodern era through the analysis of three riddle contests. In the first case, we will reflect on the relationship between author and reader starting from a review by Edgar Allan Poe on Dickens’ Barnaby Rudge; in the second, the outcome of a riddle contest narrated by Tolkien in The Hobbit will be commented; in the third, the gnoseological logics that preside over the connotations of Paul Auster’s detective fiction will be explored
Ritratto dell'artista da lavoratore. Posture estetiche in La carte et le territoire
No full textAccording to Lipovetsky and Serroy, beauty has risen to a new ontological requirement: the aesthetic phenomenon has expanded beyond its traditional boundaries, influencing reality and, above all, the economic dimension. The result has been an art market in which the aesthetic work responds to unprecedented hierarchies of value, and the author finds himself assuming professional postures fueled by innovative deontologies. This contribution investigates the transformations the aesthetic job undergoes in the late capitalist and post-Fordist logic through a close reading of Michel Houellebecq’s La carte et le territoire. In the novel, it is possible to observe the professional attitudes of three different artists: the photographer and painter Jed Martin, the fictional writer Michel Houellebecq and – through a metanarrative refraction – the narrator Michel Houellebecq. All three face the professionalization of the artistic activity oscillating between the poles of a dialectic that is difficult to resolve between artisanal and industrial work, creativity and methodicalness
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
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe 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
Full text linkWe 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
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