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Sergio Raimondi: reading the wor(l)d
No full textThe poetry of Sergio Raimondi (Bahía Blanca, 1968) engages in the most complex issues of his time, including globalisation, colonialism, industrialisation and environmental degradation. His concerns are rigorously analysed through the medium of the poet’s art, steeped in literary tradition and craft. His writing emerges from the so-called “Poesía de los 90” or 1990s objectivist poetry, but transcends the work of his peers in scale, ambition, and formal accomplishment. Raimondi’s first collection, Poesía civil (Civil Poetry, 2001) marked a watershed in Argentine poetry: an attempt to write in verse the public life of his town, Bahía Blanca, including its industry, education, culture, and position in global flows of trade, capital, and power. His monumental collection Lexikón (Lexikon) was published in 2022, an alphabetical collection of 275 poems, spread over 16,248 lines. Poems take on biology, astrophysics, literature, finance, agriculture and football. Raimondi’s formal rigour, with its ordered, measured lines, draws heavily on his training as a classicist to address some of today’s most urgent political issues.La poesía de Sergio Raimondi (Bahía Blanca, 1968) aborda los temas más acuciantes de su tiempo, como la globalización, el colonialismo, la industrialización y la degradación del medio ambiente. Estos fenómenos son tratados por medio de una poesía impregnada de tradición y artificios formales. La escritura de Raimondi tiene raíces en la llamada “Poesía de los 90” o poesía objetivista de la década de 1990, pero trasciende la obra de sus pares en escala, ambición y logros formales. El primer poemario de Raimondi, Poesía civil (2001), marcó un parteaguas en la poesía argentina: un intento de escribir en verso la vida pública de su ciudad, Bahía Blanca, con su industria, educación, cultura y posición en los flujos globales del comercio, del capital y el poder. En 2022 se publicó su monumental Lexikón, un poemario alfabético de 275 poemas, repartidos en 16.248 versos. Los poemas abordan la biología, la astrofísica, la literatura, la economía, la agricultura y hasta el fútbol. El rigor formal de Raimondi, con sus versos ordenados y medidos, recurre fundamentalmente a su formación como clasicista para tratar algunos de los problemas políticos más urgentes de la actualidad
Sergio Raimondi: selected poems
No full textSergio Raimondi’s work engages in the most complex issues of his time, including globalisation, colonialism, industrialisation and environmental degradation. Yet all his concerns are rigorously analysed through the medium of the poet’s art, steeped in literary tradition and craft. He is widely considered Argentina’s most important and influential contemporary poet, with an international reputation. Many of Raimondi’s poems address what might seem unlikely subjects for poetry: industrial practices, global trade, or labour legislation. Yet among the allusions, the immense research, the unsparing gaze, and the expert skill of the language there’s also room for desert-dry humour, touches of self-deprecation and immense empathy for individuals caught up in seemingly implacable historical processes. This volume includes a generous selection of his poems from Poesía civil (Civil Poetry) and Lexikón (Lexikon) in bilingual Spanish-English facing-pages format. A substantial introduction by the translators places Raimondi’s work in its literary and wider cultural context, and reflects on the challenges faced when bringing his unique poetry into English
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
Music for Unknown Journeys by Cristian Aliaga: New and selected prose poems: travels in Europe, Africa and the Americas
Full text linkWhat is the purpose of travel in an age when millions are displaced against their will or have no home to speak of in the first place? How can we travel without being tourists, without erasing the stories of those who live where we visit? These are some of the questions addressed in Cristian Aliaga’s compelling collection of prose poems, Music for Unknown Journeys.
This collection contains Aliaga’s “travelling sketches,” in the tradition of Matsuo Bashō, John Berger, or W.G. Sebald. Each prose poem is geographically situated in his travels across Patagonia or his more recent journeys around the edge-lands of Europe. His work is politically acute, exploring struggles over territory, resources, and culture, in the places he visits. There is an intense emotional charge as he records the stories of those who globalization and contemporary capitalism have used and left behind.
This volume brings together a generous selection of Aliaga’s prose poems, the majority previously unseen in English, as well as a substantial introduction to the author’s work and its context, both literary and political, by the editor and translator.
Cristian Aliaga (b. 1962, Tres Cuervos, Province of Buenos Aires) is one of Argentina’s foremost contemporary poets. His work has been highly praised in the TLS and elsewhere.
'Music for Unknown Journeys by Christian Aliaga is the Argentinian poet's first collection to be translated into English. [The poems] are highly evocative and full of wonderful, sometimes meticulous, details. [...] Ben Bollig has done an effective job of capturing Aliaga's voice in English. Bollig has also written an illuminating introduction.'Leo Boix, Resistance and Defianc
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
‘El mundo iluminado, y yo despierta’: screening Sor Juana in the films of Bemberg and Pereda
Full text linkLiterary life has proved a popular subject for filmmakers over the years: poets in particular have become the fictionalized protagonists of biographical pictures or historical dramas.¹ The question that occupies this chapter is what happens to the literary work when the writer becomes the subject of the filmmaker’s attentions. As Speranza (2002) argues, it is perfectly possible to screen such a story — particularly that of a colourful or controversial poet — without producing a ‘poetic’ film, in any understanding of the term. Here we compare a film from Argentina and a Mexico/Canada co-production, both based on the life and..
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