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‘After All the Years of Separation’: Musically Representing Author L.M. Montgomery’s Suspended Romances
Full text linkCanadian author L.M. Montgomery did not set out to write stories about romance. As she indicated in her journals, she wrote character-driven stories of young girls navigating their way through girlhood. However, she understood that the public, and her publishers, expected these girls to experience romance that culminated in marriage, following the societal traditions of the time. Montgomery managed this dichotomy by having many characters experience a suspended romance, delaying the romantic aspect of the relationship for as long as possible. Arts-based practice is a mode of analysis and offers the opportunity to find a new way of understanding and communicating Montgomery's type of suspended romance. Music is, in many ways, considered romantic, so it is an appropriate medium to communicate Montgomery's romantic narrative structures. This paper investigates Montgomery's use of suspended romance in her novels and how this delay provided her characters with time to develop other areas of their lives. An arts-based methodology was used to identify and analyse recurring themes in Montgomery's work, as the question is not can Montgomery's theme of romance be musically represented but how. The result of this creative experimentation is a new musical composition that articulates these suspended romances using six different musical devices. This creative work exemplifies the intertextual link that exists between Montgomery's work and new musical compositions
Transcendent or Constructed? Musically Composing the Worlds of L.M. Montgomery
No full textMy doctoral research involves using creative practice to intertextually represent the worlds created by author, L.M. Montgomery. In doing this I contribute to the ongoing debate in music studies about the representational capacity of music. One prevailing thought in the debate is that music comes from a higher power via the soul, allowing it to occur somewhat naturally. In contrast to this, my creative practice involves ascribing to the music different contextual and cultural meanings to musically represent themes, objects or concepts that are discovered in Montgomery's novels in an accessible way. Montgomery herself addresses the representational qualities of music in her novel Kilmeny of the Orchard where she portrays music in highly romanticised terms. While the aforementioned debate provides scholarship on the construction of meaning in music, it does not specifically address or provide a musical response to Montgomery's portrayal of music. In this presentation, I will draw on recent scholarship and Montgomery's own writing to talk about how this notion of music being transcendent contrasts with my own professional practice of composing music. As an example, and using an arts-based methodology, a theme identified in Kilmeny has been used as the basis for a new musical composition, drawing lines of intertextual meaning between the literature and the music. My work in arts practice demonstrates how the themes in Montgomery's work can be communicated in new forms
'Just like a man': A project continuing L.M. Montgomery’s subtle gender activism through the arts
No full textThere is a long history of utilising various facets of the arts in peace activism. Writing in Canada at the fin de siècle, author L.M. Montgomery's work contains numerous examples of her gender activism with her creation of peaceful societies for her female protagonists. As this was a time when women were not free to openly express dissatisfaction with their role in society, the arts were a method by which they could subtly share their views. While several authors consider Montgomery's subversive views on gender, few authors involve arts practice as part of their research. This paper will investigate Montgomery's building of strong, supportive female communities in her Anne series of novels. I will continue the culture of utilising creative arts to explore these gender dynamics by using an arts-based methodology to identify themes in Montgomery's work, resulting in a new musical composition that articulates the gender struggle. This work exemplifies how responding to gender dynamics through art continues, well beyond Montgomery's era, to provide a peaceful form of gender-based activism
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
Musical Worlds: Intertextual Representations of the Works of Author, L.M. Montgomery
No full textWhether music contains essential meaning is contested within academic discourse. To examine, investigate and utilise music’s many functions within society, music is assigned various contextual meanings and consequently, meaning in music is always constructed. This research project involves constructing such meaning and exploring through the creative practice of composition the ways in which music can relate to literary media, specifically the literary works of author, L.M. Montgomery and the themes found within her work. Montgomery’s work, including the intertextual relationship between her novels and her private journals, has continued to be academically explored since the journals were published in the mid-1980s. Although numerous adaptations of her novels have been produced, including television series, movies and stage musicals, the music in these adaptations participates in the overall screen or stage narrative. Using an arts-based research methodology, this creative project has produced a folio of contemporary art music composed for acoustic instruments that intertextually represents the worlds created by Montgomery. Conceptual frameworks of intertextuality and hermeneutics have been employed during the textual analysis of Montgomery’s novels and journals and a hybrid of deductive and inductive coding with a descriptive approach aided identifying themes in her work. These prominent themes formed the basis of the compositions. This research will continue the growing academic work around Montgomery and broaden the field to include non-traditional research in music, as well as provide a new adaptation of Montgomery’s literature
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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