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Les nouvelles Bêtes de l'Apocalypse : présences et disparitions animales dans les fictions de fin du monde : (1963-2020)
No full textAt the intersection of literary animal studies and the study of apocalyptic fictions, this thesis analyzes representations of non-human animals in fictions that speculate the end of the world (1963-2020). Because apocalyptic imagination is political and possesses critical power, its analysis can contribute to critical animal studies, which in turn enrich the study of collapsology with new insights. Tackled diachronically and synchronically, apocalyptic fictions reveal not only the evolution of our relationship with animals between the 1960s, the 1990s and today, but also divergent contemporary trends. While apocalyptic narratives speak of the present, revealing our world and constructing a satirical discourse, they can also be viewed critically, because they are caught up in the biases of their times and reflect the visions of their authors. Through utopia or anticipation, drawing on the possibility of a clean slate offered by the apocalyptic scenario, these novels offer places of imagination and social experimentation, allowing us to think about new relationships between human beings and other animals. Despite generic and diegetic divergences, the fictions studied all imagine the endangerment of humanity as it has been constructed in opposition to animality, and impose a redefinition of these concepts as much as of anthropozoological relationships. Acknowledging the animal turn of the 1970s and its contemporary revival, both in literary production and human sciences, our corpus, made of fifteen novels in French, English and Italian, focuses on contemporary production, with the exception of Pierre Boulle’s La Planète des singes, published in 1963, which founded a literary myth that influenced the representation of great apes for the decades that followed. Authors in the corpus include : in English, Will Self (Great Apes), Margaret Atwood, (MaddAddam trilogy) and Lydia Millet (Magnificence trilogy) ; in French, Pierre Boulle (La Planète des singes), Céline Minard (Le Dernier Monde), Éric Chevillard (Sans l'orang-outan), Tristan Garcia (Mémoires de la jungle), Sophie Divry (Trois fois la fin du monde), Alain Damasio (Les Furtifs) and Camille Brunel (Les Métamorphoses) ; finally, in Italian, we’ll study Laura Pugno (Sirene).À l’intersection entre les études animales littéraires et l’étude des fictions apocalyptiques, cette thèse analyse les représentations des animaux non-humains, dans les fictions de fin du monde (1963-2020). Parce que les imaginaires apocalyptiques sont politiques et possèdent une puissance critique, leur analyse peut contribuer aux critical animal studies, qui enrichissent à leur tour d’un nouveau regard l’étude de la collapsologie. Abordées de manière diachronique et synchronique, les fictions de fin du monde rendent compte non seulement de l’évolution de notre rapport aux animaux entre les années 1960, les années 1990 et aujourd’hui, mais encore de tendances contemporaines divergentes. Certes, les récits apocalyptiques parlent du présent, ils agissent comme révélateurs de notre monde et construisent un discours satirique, mais ils peuvent aussi faire l’objet d’un regard critique, en ce qu’ils sont pris dans les biais de leur époque et reflètent les visions de leurs auteurs et autrices. À travers l’utopie ou l’anticipation, s’appuyant sur la possibilité d’une table rase qu’offre le scénario apocalyptique, ces romans constituent des lieux d’imagination et d’expérimentation sociale, autorisant à penser de nouveaux rapports entre les êtres humains et les autres animaux. Malgré des divergences génériques et diégétiques, les fictions étudiées imaginent toutes la mise en péril de l’humanité telle qu’elle s’est construite en opposition à l’animalité, et imposent la redéfinition de ces concepts autant que des rapports anthropozoologiques. Prenant acte d’un tournant animal dans les années 1970 et de son renouveau contemporain, autant dans les productions littéraires que dans la recherche en sciences humaines, notre corpus, constitué d’une quinzaine de romans en français, anglais et italien, se concentre sur la production contemporaine, à l’exception de La Planète des singes de Pierre Boulle publié en 1963, qui fonde mythe littéraire influençant la représentation des grands singes pour les décennies qui suivent. Les auteurs et autrices du corpus comprennent : dans le domaine anglophone, Will Self (Great Apes), Margaret Atwood, (trilogie MaddAddam) et Lydia Millet (trilogie Magnificence) ; en littérature française, Pierre Boulle (La Planète des singes), Céline Minard (Le Dernier Monde), Éric Chevillard (Sans l’orang-outan), Tristan Garcia (Mémoires de la jungle), Sophie Divry (Trois fois la fin du monde), Alain Damasio (Les Furtifs) et Camille Brunel (Les Métamorphoses) ; enfin, l’italien est représenté par Laura Pugno (Sirene)
Les nouvelles Bêtes de l'Apocalypse : présences et disparitions animales dans les fictions de fin du monde : (1963-2020)
No full textAt the intersection of literary animal studies and the study of apocalyptic fictions, this thesis analyzes representations of non-human animals in fictions that speculate the end of the world (1963-2020). Because apocalyptic imagination is political and possesses critical power, its analysis can contribute to critical animal studies, which in turn enrich the study of collapsology with new insights. Tackled diachronically and synchronically, apocalyptic fictions reveal not only the evolution of our relationship with animals between the 1960s, the 1990s and today, but also divergent contemporary trends. While apocalyptic narratives speak of the present, revealing our world and constructing a satirical discourse, they can also be viewed critically, because they are caught up in the biases of their times and reflect the visions of their authors. Through utopia or anticipation, drawing on the possibility of a clean slate offered by the apocalyptic scenario, these novels offer places of imagination and social experimentation, allowing us to think about new relationships between human beings and other animals. Despite generic and diegetic divergences, the fictions studied all imagine the endangerment of humanity as it has been constructed in opposition to animality, and impose a redefinition of these concepts as much as of anthropozoological relationships. Acknowledging the animal turn of the 1970s and its contemporary revival, both in literary production and human sciences, our corpus, made of fifteen novels in French, English and Italian, focuses on contemporary production, with the exception of Pierre Boulle’s La Planète des singes, published in 1963, which founded a literary myth that influenced the representation of great apes for the decades that followed. Authors in the corpus include : in English, Will Self (Great Apes), Margaret Atwood, (MaddAddam trilogy) and Lydia Millet (Magnificence trilogy) ; in French, Pierre Boulle (La Planète des singes), Céline Minard (Le Dernier Monde), Éric Chevillard (Sans l'orang-outan), Tristan Garcia (Mémoires de la jungle), Sophie Divry (Trois fois la fin du monde), Alain Damasio (Les Furtifs) and Camille Brunel (Les Métamorphoses) ; finally, in Italian, we’ll study Laura Pugno (Sirene).À l’intersection entre les études animales littéraires et l’étude des fictions apocalyptiques, cette thèse analyse les représentations des animaux non-humains, dans les fictions de fin du monde (1963-2020). Parce que les imaginaires apocalyptiques sont politiques et possèdent une puissance critique, leur analyse peut contribuer aux critical animal studies, qui enrichissent à leur tour d’un nouveau regard l’étude de la collapsologie. Abordées de manière diachronique et synchronique, les fictions de fin du monde rendent compte non seulement de l’évolution de notre rapport aux animaux entre les années 1960, les années 1990 et aujourd’hui, mais encore de tendances contemporaines divergentes. Certes, les récits apocalyptiques parlent du présent, ils agissent comme révélateurs de notre monde et construisent un discours satirique, mais ils peuvent aussi faire l’objet d’un regard critique, en ce qu’ils sont pris dans les biais de leur époque et reflètent les visions de leurs auteurs et autrices. À travers l’utopie ou l’anticipation, s’appuyant sur la possibilité d’une table rase qu’offre le scénario apocalyptique, ces romans constituent des lieux d’imagination et d’expérimentation sociale, autorisant à penser de nouveaux rapports entre les êtres humains et les autres animaux. Malgré des divergences génériques et diégétiques, les fictions étudiées imaginent toutes la mise en péril de l’humanité telle qu’elle s’est construite en opposition à l’animalité, et imposent la redéfinition de ces concepts autant que des rapports anthropozoologiques. Prenant acte d’un tournant animal dans les années 1970 et de son renouveau contemporain, autant dans les productions littéraires que dans la recherche en sciences humaines, notre corpus, constitué d’une quinzaine de romans en français, anglais et italien, se concentre sur la production contemporaine, à l’exception de La Planète des singes de Pierre Boulle publié en 1963, qui fonde mythe littéraire influençant la représentation des grands singes pour les décennies qui suivent. Les auteurs et autrices du corpus comprennent : dans le domaine anglophone, Will Self (Great Apes), Margaret Atwood, (trilogie MaddAddam) et Lydia Millet (trilogie Magnificence) ; en littérature française, Pierre Boulle (La Planète des singes), Céline Minard (Le Dernier Monde), Éric Chevillard (Sans l’orang-outan), Tristan Garcia (Mémoires de la jungle), Sophie Divry (Trois fois la fin du monde), Alain Damasio (Les Furtifs) et Camille Brunel (Les Métamorphoses) ; enfin, l’italien est représenté par Laura Pugno (Sirene)
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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