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Anglo-Russian modernities: intellectual networks and literary transactions 1880s-1910s
No full textThis thesis explores Anglo-Russian contact zones in fin-de-siècle Britain. It examines how Russian émigrés impacted on British public, cultural, and literary discourses, promoting diverse forms of interactions across borders and triggering the creation of a transnational community of letters. Russian émigrés promoted a distinctive form of Anglo-Russian cosmopolitanism, which would become the touchstone of literary creation: intellectual networks and literary transactions, in fact, set the terms for artistic renewal and stand, as such, at the threshold of modernism.
Chapter one offers an insight into the politics of emigration: describing the arrival of Russian émigrés in Britain and their mixed British reception, it reflects on the importance émigrés’ pasts experiences in Russia had in shaping their interest in communal affiliations. It introduces four leading émigré voices, Stepniak, Volkhovsky, Kropotkin and Chertkov, providing biographical details and outlining their contribution in the construction of an Anglo-Russian counter-public discourse. It then maps the émigrés’ ideological affiliations, identifying London and Tyneside as the loci of Anglo-Russian relations, and the British Museum as the cradle, as it were, for this thriving counter culture.
Chapter two focuses on Free Russia, an institution of this unprecedented Anglo-Russian discourse. Having briefly introduced the importance of journalism among émigré circles, the chapter explores the genealogy of this hybrid magazine and points out its leading role in raising British interests for Russian affairs and, consequently, in triggering the construction of an Anglo-Russian space of public debate. It then pinpoints the differences between Stepniak’s and Volkhovsky’s editorial agendas, and focuses greater attention of the literary turn the magazine takes under Volkhovsky’s editorship. Literature emphasises, in fact, the blurring of national, cultural, and ideological borders that the magazine promotes, and it is with the study of poetic patterns that the chapter ends: the opposition to institutions, the motif of exile and uprootedness, as well as concerns for the time-space dimensions are the crux and pivot of both émigrés’ propaganda and English modernism.
Tolstoyan utopianism and its literary offshoots are extensively discussed in chapter three. Once again, the role of the Russian émigré Vladimir Chertkov is fundamental in propelling forward Tolstoy’s ideology, as well as in triggering the circulation of the Russian author’s texts. Emphasis is given to Chertkov’s Free Age Press and to the foreignizing ideal of collaborative translations. Moreover, the chapter explores alternative communities of Tolstoyan matrix in tandem with their cultural and literary implications. It reflects on the genres of utopia and romance and it reveals how Ford Madox Ford’s The Simple Life Limited (1911) and Salome Hocking’s Belinda The Backward: A Romance of Modern Idealism (1905) encapsulate the reformative stances that alternative orderings of modernity informed by Tolstoyan ideology promote. It illuminates, in fact, the significance narrative chronotopes, cottage life and agricultural land in particular, and the narrative technique of defamiliarization have in staging the problematic relationship between innovation and tradition, thereby propelling forward the resignification of geography and space and unravelling the texts’ implicit standpoints.
Chapter four is a case study on the émigrés’ impact on the intellectual and literary life of the Garnett cosmopolitan coterie, which becomes as a proper workshop of Anglo-Russian literary modernity. It starts by tracing the émigrés’ reception, as well as their role as linguistic advisors and literary mentors. In particular, it shows how Stepniak’s collaboration with Constance Garnett over the English translations of Turgenev and his commentary on the Russian author’s works pays a unique contribution to the creation of a transnational space of letters. It then examines Olive Garnett’s novel In Russia’s Night (1918), calling attention to how it articulates cross-cultural encounters and the related concerns of travelling, shifting points of view, community building, and hyphenated identities. It pinpoints how Olive’s novel challenges well-established notions of nationality and national literature: performing cross-fertilization at different levels and balancing English and Russian discourses, the novel stands out as a unique Anglo-Russian Künstlerroman, resulting from actual and fictional transnational encounters and intellectual transfers.
The conclusions focus on the innovative and unprecedented nature of Anglo-Russian intellectual, cultural and literary cross-fertilizations as they take place in turn-of-the-20th-century Britain. First, it looks at the ways in which they negotiate a new transnational space, raising Anglo-Russian cosmopolitanism as the conditio sine-qua-non of literary creation. It then considers how Anglo-Russian collaborations and literary encounters remarkably impact on the modernist fascination for group relations, literary transfers and modes of composition. A brief sketch on how they develop and branch out in other directions is carried out with specific reference to Koteliansky and the Bloomsbury Group, which ends upon suggestions for further lines of inquiry
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
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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