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Arthur & George por Julian Barnes: na Pista de um Crime sem Castigo
No full textDissertação de Mestrado em Cultura e Literatura InglesasJulian Barnes recria em Arthur & George o caso que aconteceu nos finais do século XIX e ficou conhecido no Reino Unido como “Os Ultrajes de Great Wyrley”1. Seguindo os eventos, o romance aproxima-se dos percursos vivenciais das duas personagens, Arthur e George, ao mesmo tempo que explora as suas particularidades psicológicas. O intimismo e a auto-reflexão são recursos constantes na recriação das circunstâncias que levaram à condenação injusta de George Edalji a uma pena de prisão e à intervenção em seu favor por parte do famoso escritor, Sir Arthur Conan Dolye.
Traços pós-modernistas dominam no romance, onde não existem respostas definitivas nem verdades absolutas. Um pormenor que parece irrefutável é a atitude preconceituosa
e incompetente de um sistema judicial que se esperava justo e eficaz, numa sociedade civilizada como a da Inglaterra de então.
A ideologia predominante do romance policial, um subgénero onde a lógica prevalece, também é questionada em Arthur & George. A objectividade do conhecimento e a unidade do sujeito são substituídas pela noção de indeterminação, pela aceitação dos limites do conhecimento humano, no que respeita à leitura e interpretação dos factos. Em consequência, o leitor é levado a colaborar na demanda de Doyle, se não pela verdade, ao menos pela justiça.Julian Barnes recreates in Arthur & George a case which took place in late 19th century and became known in the United Kingdom as “The Great Wyrley Outrages”.
By following the events Barnes´s novel appears to be true to life while exploring the psychological peculiarities of the two mains characters, Arthur and George. Intimism and self-reflexion are used in the recreation of the situation which led to the unfair condemnation of George Edalji, and the intervention of the famous author, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, who acted as a solicitor on Edalji’s behalf. Postmodernist traits dominate this novel, where there are not definite answers or absolute truths. What seems to be irrefutable is the prejudice and the incompetence of a judicial system which should be just and efficient in a civilized society such as the English society of those times.
The dominating ideology of the detective story, a sub-genre where logic prevails, is also questioned in Arthur & George. The objectivity of knowledge leads to indetermination and, at the end, what stands out is the acceptance of the limits of human knowledge, regarding the interpretation of facts. As a consequence, the reader feels compelled to join Doyle’s quest, if not for the truth, at least for justice
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
From Q&A to Slumdog Millionaire: it’s written
Get PDFIn this paper, we seek to analyse the film adaptation of Vikas Swarup’ novel, Q&A, published in 2005. Slumdog Millionaire was directed by British filmmaker Danny Boyle and released in 2008. Thus, three years after its publication, Vikas Swarup’s novel was turned into a blockbuster earning successive awards including the 2009 Best Picture Award from the Hollywood Academy. Its success was not the result of a mega “business strategy”; it was largely due to Danny Boyle’s direction and Simon Beaufoy’s thoughtful screenplay; they were two of the winners among a talented cast of actors and filmmakers. A movie about India, adapted by former colonisers from a book written by an Indian novelist, whose depiction of modern India is far from sympathetic, was a delicate undertaking demanding as much cinematic know-how as diplomatic skills
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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