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Studi di filologia e letteratura latina
No full textIl volume raccoglie studi filologici del filologo Giorgio Brugnol
Stories by drawing. Dino Buzzati’s mountains/Racconti di-segni. Le montagne di Dino Buzzati
No full textConsiderato uno dei maggiori scrittori italiani del XX secolo e per questo più noto per l’attività letteraria che per quella grafico-pittorica, Dino Buzzati ha consacrato il suo amore per la montagna con immagini concepite come racconti dipinti. Biografia e bibliografia confermano una vocazione per l’espressione visiva, parallela a quella per la scrittura. Questa doppia anima letteraria e figurativa si presta a valutare l’efficacia retorica delle immagini nel loro rapporto di complementarietà con le parole.
Ai frutti della sua penna versatile si affianca l’esercizio delle arti visive nel disegno, nella pittura e nel racconto illustrato, per arrivare al fumetto. Tra le immagini dedicate alla montagna, spicca il richiamo alle figure retoriche della sua tempera più famosa, un duomo di Milano surreale (1958). La piazza diventa un altopiano alpino da cui svettano guglie e pinnacoli ispirati alla Cima Canali, che sciolgono come cera nei conoidi di deiezione che delimitano la scena agreste. La metonimia gioca con il bisticcio e l’anamorfosi, sottolineando nell’allegoria grafica il doppio uso delle due parole, con un evidente richiamo alla carica espressiva delle figure del linguaggio verbale.
La montagna, carica di richiami simbolici, è una presenza ricorrente e metamorfica di paesaggi rarefatti, composti da pochi elementi essenziali e si trasforma in dune sabbiose, vulcani eruttanti, cumulonembi minacciosi o città turrite, come una palestra di espressione visiva. Essa offre lo spunto per un confronto tra due linguaggi diversamente legati alla possibilità di creare ‘figure’. I racconti grafico-pittorici dello scrittore, milanese di formazione ma ‘montanaro’ di nascita ed elezione, sottolineano le relazioni tra il linguaggio grafico e quello verbale. Buzzati racconta le montagne a modo suo, come le vede e come le sente e le rappresenta in modo immaginifico, dove la libertà espressiva del disegno si sostituisce alla precisione della parola, lasciando comunque aperta la porta al sogno dell’immaginazione.Considered one of the greatest Italian writers of the 20th century and therefore better known for his literary activity than for his graphic-pictorial activity, Dino Buzzati consecrated his love for the mountains with images conceived as painted stories.
Biography and bibliography confirm a vocation for visual expression, parallel to that for writing.
This double literary and figurative soul lends itself to evaluating the rhetorical effectiveness of images in their complementary relationship with words.
The fruits of his versatile pen are accompanied by the exercise of the visual arts in drawing, painting and illustrated stories, leading to comics. Among the images dedicated to the mountains, the reference to the rhetorical figures of his most famous tempera, a surreal Milan cathedral (1958), stands out. The square becomes an Alpine plateau from which spiers and pinnacles inspired by the Cima Canali rise, which melt like wax in the conoids of dejection that delimit the rural scene. Metonymy plays with the pun and the anamorphosis, underlining the double use of the two words in the graphic allegory, with a clear reference to the expressive charge of the figures of verbal language.
The mountain, full of symbolic references, is a recurring and metamorphic presence of rarefied landscapes, composed of a few essential elements and transforms into sandy dunes, erupting volcanoes, threatening cumulonimbus or turreted cities, like a gym of visual expression. It offers the starting point for a comparison between two languages differently linked to the possibility of creating 'figures'. The graphic-pictorial stories of the writer, Milanese by training but 'mountain' by birth and choice, underline the relationships between graphic and verbal language. Buzzati talks about the mountains in his own way, how he sees them and how he feels them and represents them in an imaginative way, where the expressive freedom of drawing replaces the precision of the word, while still leaving the door open to the dream of the imagination
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
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
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
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