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Cliff Path
No full textAnne Britting Oleson lives and writes from the side of a mountain in Central Maine. She has published three chapbooks (The Church of St. Materiana, The Beauty of It, and Alley of Dreams) and two novels (The Book of the Mandolin Player and Dovecote). Her work has appeared in literary magazines worldwide
BRITTING, THE MAGICIAN - OF TRICKSTERS AND DOPES, AND DECEPTIVE STORYLINES
No full textThe Frisian writer Tsjibbe Gearts van der Meulen (1824-1906) wrote a short story entitled "Britting, the magician. A memoir", which is argued to constitute a literary masterpiece. In this story, Van der Meulen presents a seemingly innocent memoir about a stranger, Britting, and his wife, who spend some time in Burgum, Van der Meulen’s home town. A second storyline features a very humorous description of catechism conducted by the pastor of the local church. Upon closer inspection, the two storylines reveal a complex interaction, full of biblical allusions, which are used to convey Van der Meulen’s deeply cynical world view. In this world view, humanity consists of tricksters and dopes, featuring the church’s pastor and Britting the magician as supreme examples of tricksters. The literary analysis presented here is meant to unravel the winding paths of Van der Meulen’s incidental genius as a story-teller, revealing the wealth and complexity of the interacting allusions between the two storylines. Van der Meulen’s style is very similar to that of Laurence Sterne in Tristram Shandy. The article has an appendix containing an English translation of Van der Meulen's masterpiece. Article visualizations
Zwischen Zugeständnis und Zurückhaltung: Der bayerische Schriftsteller Georg Britting und die Innere Emigration
No full textThe controversy surrounding the so-called „Innere Emigration“ (inner emigration) as a way to describe authors who stayed in Germany during the Nazi regime engaged German intellectuals in the postwar period. Although the term was accepted between 1933 and 1945 to describe the non-fascist attitude of authors remaining in Nazi Germany, exiled authors questioned the term after the war. Authors who had remained in Germany used the term as a self-definition to avoid the arising „Schuldfrage”, especially in the postwar period. The lack of a concrete definition of what „Innere Emigration” describes creates significant challenges surrounding research on literature written during the Nazi time. Using the example of Bavarian author Georg Britting, who remained in Nazi Germany and gained publicity in the literary scene, this thesis argues that the term fulfilled a specific political function in the postwar period, and was used indirectly or directly by authors like Britting as justification for their position in Nazi Germany to suggest their alienation from the National Socialism. However, their position and work fail to support this attitude. I argue that as a result, the term is not useful to describe the literature under the National Socialism.
The focus of this work lies not on the analyses of Britting’s oeuvre but on his biography, mainly based on his correspondence with fellow emigre Alexander Wetzlar. I look specifically at two segments of Britting’s life: his attitude towards the inner emigration between 1933 and 1945, which includes his political-ideological attitude and his position in the literary publicity, and his attitude towards the inner emigration after 1945 within arising postwar debates. Examination of these two areas show that writing and publishing in the context of the problematic everyday reality in Nazi Germany requires a nuanced understanding and cannot be subsumed under a fixed term. Instead, the positions of these authors could be described as a form of “Zwischentöne”, a term used by Michael Braun and Georg Guntermann
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
No full textThe 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
Hur vardagskonsumtionen blev iögonfallande - En studie om premiumisering
No full textSammanfattning Uppsatsens titel: Hur vardagskonsumtionen blev iögonfallande – en studie om premiumisering Seminariedatum: 2015-05-26 Kurs: FEKN90: Examensarbete på civilekonomprogrammet, 30 högskolepoäng Författare: Oskar Britting och Viktor Hansson Handledare: Annette Cerne Nyckelord: Premium, premiumisering, premiumlivsmedel, konsumentbeteende, personligt varumärke, kommodifiering, iögonfallande konsumtion Syfte: Att utifrån teorier om konsumentbeteende, undersöka rådande premuimiseringstrender, huruvida konsumenter genom vardagskonsumtion av premiumiserade livsmedel kan skapa önskad självbild och bygga personligt varumärke, samt vilka signaler denna konsumtion sänder gentemot konsumentens omgivning. Metod: Studien har genomförts med kvalitiv metod, hermeneutiskt synsätt, samt abduktiv ansats som kombinerar litteratur och teori med, för denna studie, insamlad empiri. Teori: Denna uppsats använder främst teorier om konsumentbeteende, vilka presenteras i fyra områden: premiumisering, Maslows behovstrappa, iögonfallande konsumtion, samt personligt varumärke. Empiri: Empirin är insamlad genom semistrukturerade intervjuer med nio (9) svenska konsumenter som regelbundet konsumerar livsmedel ur premiumsegmentet. Intervjuerna har genomförts på plats bestämd av respondenten, och presenteras i form av citat. Slutsats: Vad som driver konsumtion av premiumiserade livsmedel, är ett behov att visa upp denna konsumtion, och genom detta känna gemenskap, självförtroende, samt att bygga personligt varumärke. Detta byggs genom de signaler som konsumtionen sänder: medvetenhet, framgång och bilden av konsumenten som kännare.Abstract Title: How the Everyday Consumption Became Conspicuous – a Study About Premiumisation Seminar date: 2015-05-26 Course: FEKN90: Master Thesis in Science and Business Administration, 30 ECTS Authors: Oskar Britting and Viktor Hansson Supervisor: Annette Cerne Key words: Premium, premiumisation, premium foods, consumer behavior, personal branding, commodification, conspicuous consumption Purpose: Based on theories on consumer behavior, investigate the current premiumisation trends, whether consumers through everyday consumption of premiumised foods can create a desired self-image, and build a personal brand, as well as what signals this consumption sends to the consumer’s surrounding. Methodology: This study has been conducted with a qualitative method, a hermeneutic view, and abductive inference, combining literature and theory with the responses collected for this study. Theoretical perspectives: This thesis mainly uses theories from the field of consumer behavior, which are presented in four sections: premiumisation, Maslow’s hierarchy of needs, conspicuous consumption, and personal branding. Empirical foundation: Empirical data has been collected through semi-structured interviews with nine (9) Swedish consumers, who regularly buy food from the premium segment. The interviews have been held at locations chosen by the respondents, and are presented in quotes. Conclusions: What drives the consumption of premiumised foods is a need to showcase this consumption, and through this get a feeling of belonging, self-confidence and to build a personal brand. This is built by the signals this kind of consumption emits: consciousness, success, and connoisseurship
Variations on the Author
No full text“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
No full textWe 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
No full textWe 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
Author, publisher and bookseller : a tripartite synergy in Nigerian book industry
No full textThis work is about the roles of Author, Publisher and Bookseller in Book development in
Nigeria. The paper started by delving into the history of Book Publishing in Nigeria after
which it proceeded by defining who an author, a publisher, and a bookseller is and
expatiated on the indispensable roles of these key actors in Nigerian Book Industry and in
the emerging Information Society. Furthermore, the various constraints to book
development were identified while the paper advised on how the Book Industry can be
further promoted in Nigeria. However, the paper concluded and made recommendations
on how the Book sector can help in enhancing scholarship in the country
The Thursday Murder Club: Launching a megabrand author - a publishing case study
No full textIn 2020, the Christmas book charts in the UK made headlines: Barack Obama’s eagerly awaited autobiography, The Promised Land, was beaten to the top spot by The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman, a debut cosy crime novel set in a retirement village. Not only did Osman’s book beat the former US president’s expected bestseller, it also broke records, becoming the fastest-selling debut crime novel of all time. Although Osman has a certain level of fame in the UK from his TV appearances on shows such as Pointless, his celebrity status does not entirely explain the novel’s huge sales. This article tracks the acquisition, publication, and promotion journey of The Thursday Murder Club in order to understand the industry and cultural context of its success and to interrogate the role of celebrity in the creation of author brands. The findings suggest that the unexpected scale of the success of the book owed to a number of factors, including in-depth editing by the novel’s agent, editor, and author to tighten up the plot, an extensive and strategic promotional campaign, the pandemic (which drove interest in the book’s genre and themes), and the quality of the writing. We find that the book’s success was accentuated by Osman’s celebrity status rather than being entirely reliant on it. This research adds to the growing scholarship on celebrity authorship by means of an in-depth case study and provides insight into the processes behind publishing a ‘celebrity’ book and launching a megabrand author
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