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Memory Study Association (https://www.memorystudiesassociation.org/ ) International Working Group: “Family memory and intergenerational exchange” Barbara Ronchetti (Co-chair)
No full textRussia maggiore/minore/altra
No full textRussia: Major / Minor / Other
Over the centuries, within the flexible and dialectic space of Eastern Europe, it is possible to recognize 'major' and 'minor' cultural, linguistic, and political entities, shifting roles and positions. The perspective of the 'foreign' scholar can contribute to build a 'minor' vision of the culture he/she investigates (whether it is placed in the dominant or subordinate space within the general background of a given historical moment). Russia, a frontier territory without the characteristics of the frontier, is characterized by permeable borders, in which two distinct series of “centricity” coexist and intersect: individual and collective; in so doing, they assign to the country the quality of an empire that is both marginal and central.In this perspective, the relationship with history and memory (one's own and that of others) is essential. For the artist (and the inhabitant) of ‘minor’ Russia, this relationship is complex, because he/she is always the inheritor of his/her own painful and traumatic past. In fact, he/she cannot ignore to be a grain (albeit oppressed and trampled, rebellious or exiled) of the ‘major’ Russia, of its state mechanism, of its political and ideological condition. In the existential and creative journey of writers who describe their country, imaginary and real, moving between different worlds, languages, regimes, colors, one can perhaps recognize the multifaceted face of a greater, dominant, authoritarian, violent, short-sighted Russia, that is at the same time minor, peripheral, exiled (inside and outside its borders), oppressed, estranged and extra-located. The field of research, therefore, must be placed on the threshold of the ‘many Russias’, in the space between hegemonic and marginal phenomena
Il minore come maggiore e viceversa
No full textL’opposizione tra lingue, culture e letterature maggiori e minori sembra riguardare sia il canone europeo che il pantheon della letteratura-mondo: risuona in ambito accademico come all’interno dell’apparato editoriale e mediatico che di fatto custodisce e trasmette le opere letterarie e che, accordando ad alcuni testi e culture maggiore visibilità, finisce col produrre, implicitamente, gerarchie di valore. Essere ‘maggiore’ o ‘minore’ è quindi anche un problema di logiche accademiche, a loro volta parte di un più ampio sistema di produzione del valore, che fa tutt’uno con il mondo industriale e post-industriale. In questo libro dieci specialisti di altrettante letterature nazionali europee affrontano alcune importanti declinazioni di questi concetti, nel comune tentativo di mostrare quanto ‘maggiore’ e ‘minore’ siano concetti correlativi, commutabili e provvisori, mentre – con Deleuze e Guattari – si dovrebbe forse intendere il minore non come sottosistema o fuorisistema del ‘fatto maggioritario’, ma come divenire potenziale e creativo del sistema stesso. Con riferimento al racconto biblico su Esaù e Giacobbe, dove il minore diviene maggiore e viceversa, il volume offre quindi anche una riflessione comune sui rapporti fra nazioni e culture europee, indagate nella reciproca dialettica che ne condiziona il posizionamento, la ‘visibilità’ e la diffusione
Attraversamenti: concetti, metodi e strategie per gli Studi Interculturali
No full textIl laboratorio di Studi interculturali 'textra', nato nel 2018 all'interno del Dipartimento di Studi Europei, Americani e Interculturali, grazie allo sforzo di dottori/esse e dottorandi/e del Dottorato in Scienze del Testo e sotto la supervisione scientifica di Barbara Ronchetti, è un luogo di ricerca e dibattito su temi e metodi di analisi dei testi e dei contesti culturali e letterari in dimensione interculturale. Esso intende proseguire il lavoro scientifico svolto dal Raggruppamento di Studi Interculturali nell'ultimo decennio, e raccoglie l'eredità del Seminario che dal maggio 2011 ha organizzato giornate dedicate all'alterità. Il laboratorio si propone di studiare i fitti interscambi di codici che entrano in campo in ogni occasione di confronto tra universi linguistici, filosofici, culturali e semiotici diversi. Le sue attività sono rivolte a tutti/e coloro che si interessano ai fenomeni d'interferenza e interazione culturale, e in particolare a studenti, docenti e formatori/formatrici
SAGGI: Il duello. Un'immagine della cultura europea, a cura di Barbara Ronchetti.
No full textFascicolo monografico dedicato al duello nella sezione Saggi del "Giornale di Storia Contemporanea", Anno VIII, n.2, dicembre 2005, pp. 2-116
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
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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