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Stephen King: From Horror Writer to Literary Author? How the National Book Foundation Challenged the Traditional Perspective on Literature.
No full textThe stark opposition between traditional literature and popular fiction is still highly relevant to the modern literary world. Bourdieu's The Field of Cultural Production (1993) introduced and explained several oppositions that construct literary prejudice; these ideas have been used to investigate Stephen King's literary position, which does not match the traditional literary profile. This is the reason why the National Book Foundation's decision to award King the Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters in 2003 provoked a heated debate. Some might interpret the events in 2003 as a break with literary tradition, but English' theory on cultural awards, especially his concept capital intraconversion, in The Economy of Prestige (2005) suggests that consecrating untraditional authors is in fact a tactical move. Publishers–who financially support literary organisations–demand that literary prizes remain of re levance to the general public in order to boost sales with the tag 'award-winning'. This requires (re)engaging with American popular culture, which can be achieved by announcing non-literary bestseller and genre writers as the winners of literary prizes. In the case of the National Book Foundation and its annual medal, this pattern did not develop after the discussion in 2003. Stephen King's consecration did therefore not mark a turning point in literary appreciation by the National Book Foundation, but is an example of capital intraconversion
"The culmination of Romantic agony": Internal Posture in Samuel Beckett's Murphy, Waiting for Godot, and the narratives in Stories and Texts for Nothing
No full textEven though the idea of a constant quality in the oeuvre of an author is recurrent in several literary theories and analyses of Samuel Beckett's work in particular, Jérôme Meizoz' concept of internal posture has not yet been extensively applied in literary studies. This master thesis aims to explicitly address this concept by applying it to three case studies taken from Beckett's corpus of writing, namely Murphy (1938), Waiting for Godot (1952), and the narratives in Stories and Texts for Nothing (1955). In order to reveal how internal posture is constructed in these three texts, this research analyses paratextuality, major themes, and style separately for each case study. Comparing and contrasting these findings shows that Beckett's internal posture embodies intellectuality (especially philosophy) through a continuous addressing of the distinction between physicality and mental freedom, existential pessimism, the meaninglessness of life, and the subsequent estrangement. These themes and sentiments are fortified by a style that includes both tragedy and comedy. The absurdity and meaninglessness are interpreted in a more pessimistic light in the latter two case studies than in Murphy, which reflects the difference between Beckett's earlier and later writing. Meizoz' formulation of internal posture does not provide the desired guidance in terms of method or additional terminology, however, which is why this research resorts to a combination of close-reading and literature review. The research conducted in this master thesis might not reveal new insights for the separate case studies but attempts something innovative by aiming to reveal a constant quality across texts in an oeuvre addressed as internal posture
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
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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