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Conte romanesque, chant-roman: postures de la figure auctoriale chez Maurice Bandaman et Werewere Liking
Get PDFWhat is the connection between the author figure and the genre? Contrary to a widespread idea, the generic mention is not a petrified venue. Indeed, from the mention of song-novel in Elle sera de jaspe et de corail and La mémoire amputée by Werewere Liking to that of novelistic tale in Le fi/s de-la-femme-male or that of the novel in L\u27État Z\u27héros by Maurice Bandaman, this study shows that, by a play of permanent negotiation of the limits of their fictional status, the writer and the storyteller, figures of the author, produce hybrid genres. The practice summons a kind of autogenre which raises the question of all the profusion of energy put by the authors in achieving an autonomous status for their fiction writing
Médias et littératures. Formes, pratiques et postures
No full textInternational audienceCompte rendu d'ouvrage : ATCHA (Philip Amangoua), TRO DÉHO (Roger) et COULIBALY (Adama), dir., Médias et littératures. Formes, pratiques et postures Paris : L’Harmattan, coll. Critiques littéraires, 2014, 300 p. – ISBN 978-2-343-02924-
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
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
Du fou romanesque à la « folle » écriture de Tierno Monénembo
No full textTierno Monénembo est un auteur constant dans l’écriture du chaos, de l’absurde, de la folie. Ses neuf premiers romans convoquent la folie, soit en la modalisant autour d’un personnage, soit en l’aménageant en trait d’écriture qui crée un univers carnavalesque, excentrique et bouffon. La trame argumentative de cette contribution est l’analyse de ce motif, de ses motivations et enjeux. À partir d’une typologie du fou romanesque, en s’intéressant aux dires et aux actes du personnage, à sa place et à son impact dans l’économie du texte, nous verrons que la « recevabilité » et la pertinence de ce discours romanesque sont lisibles à la lumière de la déconstruction ou du couronnement / découronnement bakhtinien. En substance, l’écriture de la folie et la folie de l’écriture chez T. Monénembo, plus qu’une marque de fabrique de son roman, esthétise la folie pour interroger l’État africain postcolonial et le sujet traumatique qui en découle.Tierno Monénembo is an author who regularly deals with chaos, the absurd and madness in his literary production. His first nine novels deal with madness either by modeling it around a character or by designing a literary feature that creates a carnivalesque, burlesque and eccentric universe. The nodal point of my argument is to analyze this motif, its motivations and the stakes it involves. Building on the typology of the madman in literature, focusing primarily on what that mad character says and does, and considering the place of these words and actions in the novel and their impact on its textual economy, I will argue that the receivability and relevance of this literary discourse can be read in the light of Bakhtin’s deconstruction or crowing / uncrowning. In sum, T. Monénembo’s writing about madness and the madness of his writing are not just a distinguishing feature of his novel. Indeed, he aesthetizes madness in order to question the African postcolonial state and the traumatized individual that stem from it
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
The state control on local authorities in Mali
No full textEn dépit du nombre de lois déterminant les conditions de la libre administration des collectivités territoriales au Mali, le contrôle de l’Etat sur les actes et les organes de ces collectivités territoriales apparaît, à l’évidence, comme un instrument central dans la théorie de la décentralisation, vérifiant ainsi l’analyse suivant laquelle la portée d’une politique de décentralisation ne peut s’apprécier en dehors du contrôle.Cette problématique se confirme par l’examen des principes posés, en la matière, par les législateurs maliens de 1993 à 2017 ainsi que par la prise en compte du rôle des juridictions administratives et financières.L’étude des solutions législatives et jurisprudentielles conduit alors à examiner les caractères actuels du contrôle de l’Etat sur les collectivités territoriales et à apprécier, de façon aussi concrète possible, les règles de fonctionnement réelles prévues par les lois n°2017-051, 052 et 053 du 02 octobre 2017.Despite the number of laws determining the conditions for the free administration of local authorities in Mali, state control over the acts and organs of these local authorities clearly appears to be a central instrument in the theory of decentralization, thus verifying the analysis according to which the scope of a decentralization policy cannot be assessed outside control. This issue is confirmed by the examination of the principles laid down in this area by Malian legislators from 1993 to 2017 as well as by taking into account the role of administrative and financial jurisdictions. The study of legislative and jurisprudential solutions then leads to examine the current characteristics of State control over local authorities and to assess, as concretely as possible, the actual operating rules provided for by Laws No. 2017-051, 052 and 053 of October 02, 2017
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