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Desenterrando O cemitério dos vivos: um estudo comparativo entre Rosalía de Castro e Lima Barreto
No full textIn her poem “Santa Escolástica,” published in 1884 as part of the collection En las orillas del Sar, the Galician author Rosalía de Castro uses the image of the “cementerio de los vivos” to describe the solitude and inhabitability of a peripheral Spanish city, in the wake of a mass exodus of workers and artists from the region. Nearly four decades later, the Brazilian writer Lima Barreto deploys the same metaphor as the title of his unfinished novel O cemitério dos vivos, which is a fictionalization of the diaries he wrote while institutionalized, between 1919 and 1920, at the National Hospital for the Insane in Rio de Janeiro. This terminological coincidence is taken here as a starting point for an unlikely comparison between two authors from immensely different backgrounds. In reconstructing the history of the phrase “cemetery of the living,” this essay recovers a range of texts published in Spanish, Portuguese, English, and French dating back to the 17th century. This provides the necessary context for understanding how and why these two authors turned to this same image as a means of giving a name to the spaces that simultaneously oppress them and, paradoxically, offer them creative refuge.No poema “Santa Escolástica”, publicado em 1884 no livro En las orillas del Sar, a autora galega Rosalía de Castro utiliza a imagem do “cementerio de los vivos”, como meio de retratar a solidão e a inospitalidade de uma cidade periférica espanhola, após um êxodo massivo de trabalhadores e artistas da região. Quase quatro décadas depois, o escritor carioca Lima Barreto retoma essa mesma metáfora em seu romance inacabado O cemitério dos vivos, escrito a partir de diários compostos enquanto internado entre 1919 e 1920 no Hospital Nacional de Alienados, no Rio de Janeiro. A coincidência terminológica é explorada como ponto de partida para uma comparação improvável, entre dois autores provindos de contextos muito diferentes. Ao reconstruir a história da frase “cemitérios dos vivos”, este ensaio recupera textos publicados em espanhol, português, inglês e francês, desde o século XVII, iluminando assim o como e o porquê desses autores empregarem a mesma imagem para dar nome ao lugar que os oprime, enquanto, paradoxalmente, serve como refúgio criativo
Saudade de Nise: Memory and Mental Health in Rio de Janeiro
No full text"Saudade de Nise: Memory and Mental Health in Rio de Janeiro" explores the legacy of pioneer Brazilian psychiatrist Nise da Silveira (1905-1999). Despite great resistance from the psychiatric establishment, she began to lead workshops in painting and sculpture at the asylum in Engenho de Dentro in Rio’s North Zone. Many of her clients (she preferred this word over “patients”) exhibited marked improvement. Several would go on to gain fame in the Brazilian art world. This thesis situates Nise da Silveira within Brazilian psychiatric history, particularly along a trajectory from late 19th and early 20th century eugenics through the psychiatric reform of the 1970s, an anti-asylum movement which continues to this day. Based on two months of ethnographic field work, this thesis tracks Nise da Silveira’s legacy at three centers of mental health: Museu de Imagens do Inconsciente (Museum of Images of the Unconscious), Casa das Palmeiras (House of Palm Trees), and Hotel da Loucura (Madness Hotel). While da Silveira founded the first two spaces in the 1950s as centers of art therapy and research, the minds behind the Hotel da Loucura, founded in 2012, reconceive her methods and apply them to street theater. Considering the 2016 dissolution of the Hotel da Loucura in the face of tensions with the public health system, this thesis examines the significance of Nise da Silveira — and, more broadly, revolutionary psychiatry — in today’s world
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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