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Le Plaisir et la joie dans Home at Grasmere de Wordsworth
Get PDFCet article analyse le poème de William Wordsworth Home at Grasmere en rapport avec les débats critiques autour du statut de l’affect positif. Home at Grasmere, écrit en 1806, publié de manière posthume en 1880, est un long poème en vers libre qui parle du retour du poète dans le Lake District en Angleterre, donnant lieu à l’émergence d’un langage du plaisir et de la joie. Ces thèmes ont souvent été suspectés d’être les symptômes d’une anxiété plus profonde dans le poème, par exemple dans les interprétations de William Minto, Stephen Gill et Sally Bushell. Cet article procède à une exploration de la question de l’épicurisme dans le poème à la lumière des aspirations anti-épicuristes de Coleridge pour le projet de The Recluse dans son ensemble, et à la lumière des références de Wordsworth à Lucrèce, y compris un bref résumé des discussions des idées d’Epicure et de De Rerum Natura, pendant la période romantique. L’article propose l’idée que Home at Grasmere présente certaines des complexités morales et politiques en latence dans l’idéal épicurien d’ataraxie, ou absence de perturbation. À travers une lecture détaillée, l’article étudie la dichotomie entre la phénoménologie du plaisir comme satisfaction et tranquillité, et celle du plaisir comme désir et stimulation, en explorant les références miltoniennes du poème, et aussi ce que Kenneth Johnston a identifié, il y a longtemps, comme étant la nature circulaire du poème. L’article compare le plaisir sans désir du poème avec les récits sur le bonheur écrits au XVIIIème siècle, avec la pensée utilitaire émergente, ainsi qu’avec l’analyse de l’utilité menée plus tard par George Bataille. Enfin, l’article plaide en faveur du pouvoir que Home at Grasmere a d’ébranler les simplifications modernes de la catégorie de plaisir.Pleasure and Joy in Wordsworth’s Home at Grasmere This article analyses William Wordsworth’s poem Home at Grasmere in relation to critical debates about the status of positive affect. Home at Grasmere (written in 1806, published posthumously 1880) is a long blank verse poem about returning to England’s Lake District, which foregrounds a language of pleasure and joy. These themes have often been interpreted suspiciously as symptomatic of a deeper anxiety in the poem, as, for instance, in the interpretations of William Minto, Stephen Gill and Sally Bushell. The article goes on to explore the question of the poem’s Epicureanism in terms of Coleridge’s anti-Epicurean aspirations for the Recluse project as a whole, and in terms of Wordsworth’s references to Lucretius, incorporating a brief summary of Romantic-period engagements with Epicurus and De rerum natura. It argues that Home at Grasmere can be seen to demonstrate some of the moral and political complexities latent in the Epicurean ideal of ataraxia, or absence of disturbance. Through a close reading, the article investigates the dichotomy between the phenomenology of pleasure as satisfaction and stillness, and that of pleasure as desire and stimulation, exploring the poem’s Miltonic references and what Kenneth Johnston long ago observed to be the poem’s circular quality. The article compares the poem’s undesirous delight with eighteenth-century accounts of happiness and emerging utilitarian thought, as well as with George Bataille’s later analysis of utility. Ultimately, the article argues for Home at Grasmere’s on-going power to trouble modern simplifications of the category of pleasure
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
The Poetic Enlightenment:Poetry and Human Science, 1650-1820
No full textThe essays in this edited collection look at the role of poetry in the development of Enlightenment ideas. As scholarly disciplines began to emerge – anthropology, linguistics, psychology – the ancient art of poetry was invoked to create new ways of defining and expanding this philosophy of human science
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
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