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    A Resilient 'European Peace Project'. Robert Menasse’s "The European Courier" and "The Capital”

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    Robert Menasse’s Die Hauptstadt (The Capital), published in 2017, was immediately awarded with the prestigious Deutscher Buchpreis and considered as an unequivocal success for the author in the German-speaking and above all European literary field. The seven members of the jury highlighted that in his novel Menasse digs “with a light hand into the deeper strata of this world that we call our own” and they praised the book as “a multilayered text that interweaves existential questions on the private and political spheres in a masterly fashion, and releases the reader into open-endedness” (Peschel 2017

    Imagery of Crisis and Resilience. A Parallel between Early Modern Traditions and the Present

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    In the first part of this contribution, I would like to take as my starting-point some of the claims most widely accepted in current discussions about the theory of resilience. Of course, I do not set out to provide full coverage of the innumerable studies that have been dedicated to the topic, as I do not intend to provide an exhaustive panorama of current debates. Subsequently, I outline some of the basic types of intervention that have been made, thereby adopting a typological approach to conceptual analysis which focusses on lexical choices, uses, and connotations. In the second part, I elaborate on some aspects of the imagery of crisis and resilience, retracing a visual tradition that connects past and present in the light of arboreal imagery and forgotten virtues. In the closing section, I relate my findings to today’s discourses of resilience, suggesting that they fit into a wider intellectual map of neo-stoic origins, and thereby marking some routes of interpretation which may contribute to a more detailed scrutiny of the cultures of resilience in the diachronic scenario of Europe’s crises

    Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis

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    The 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
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