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Benfey (Christopher E. G.). Emily Dickinson and the Problem of Others
No full textFryde Natalie. Benfey (Christopher E. G.). Emily Dickinson and the Problem of Others. In: Revue belge de philologie et d'histoire, tome 64, fasc. 3, 1986. Langues et littératures modernes - Moderne taal- en letterkunde. pp. 630-632
Benfey (Christopher E. G.). Emily Dickinson and the Problem of Others
No full textFryde Natalie. Benfey (Christopher E. G.). Emily Dickinson and the Problem of Others. In: Revue belge de philologie et d'histoire, tome 64, fasc. 3, 1986. Langues et littératures modernes - Moderne taal- en letterkunde. pp. 630-632
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
From Celluloid to Satellite: The Evolution of the Cinematographic Apparatus in David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest
No full textIn the near-future corporate dystopia of David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest, mass media isn’t just “bad for you”; it’s apocalyptic, a material threat to subjectivity, signification, communication, and community-building. This unimaginable threat comes in an ironically mundane package, an unlabeled cartridge known as the Entertainment, which is rumored to be so compelling that it kills anyone who watches it. The mismatch between the object and the threat it represents draws readers’ attention away from the content of the Entertainment–which is only partially revealed 846 pages into the novel–and towards the strange cinematographic apparatus that produced it.
This project examines ekphrastic descriptions of film-watching in Infinite Jest in order to track the evolution of media technology from the apparatus described by Jean-Louis Baudry in his 1968 essay “The Ideological Effects of the Basic Cinematographic Apparatus” to the Entertainment. Baudry argues that the cinematographic apparatus has two main ideological effects: 1) to give the impression that the film accurately represents reality without transforming it by repressing the work of signification and 2) to position the spectator as “the transcendental self [which] unites the discontinuous fragments of phenomena, of lived experiences, into unifying meaning”. It does this by “reconstruct[ing] the situation necessary to the release of the ‘mirror stage’”, the moment in a young child’s life at the emergence of language and the Oedipal triad (6-18 months) when it begins to identify with its own image in the mirror leading to a split ego forever longing to be whole.
While the affective response described by Baudry is tantalizingly close to the descriptions of the Subjects of the Entertainment in Infinite Jest, the cinematographic apparatus that produced the latter is notably different: it was filmed using a wobbly unclear lens, has an unknown distributor, is displayed on a private teleputer rather than projected in a public theater, and somehow incorporates holography. In this presentation, I will argue that David Foster Wallace uses the strange cinematographic apparatus of the Entertainment to critique Baudry’s theory and the Lacanian model of desire and subjectivity that inspired it.Englis
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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