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Introduction: Christopher Marlowe: Identities, traditions, afterlives
No full text(Introduction to Early Modern Literary Studies: Special Issue 23)
The collection of essays commemorates the 450th anniversary of the birth of the early modern poet and dramatist, Christopher Marlowe. It arrives at a particularly vibrant moment in the history of Marlovian criticism and performance. But an anniversary brings with it a certain quality as well as quantity of attention. As a marking of the passage of time, it invites a retrospective examination, not just of the period of the subject’s life and work but of the course that work has taken in the intervening years; it begs the question, ‘what has happened to Marlowe’s work, and our sense of it, over the last four centuries?’ As the differing level of coverage of the Shakespearean and Marlovian aspects of this anniversary year demonstrate, it also represents an opportunity to consider the place that subject occupies in the popular imagination today. With this in mind, the present collection aims to contribute to the anniversary year’s Marlowe scholarship by examining his work and his influence diachronically; that is, it seeks to examine Marlowe’s work in the context of the material conditions of its production, but also seeks to illuminate the ways in which that work both responds to pre-existing literary traditions and contributes to the creations of new traditions long after the author’s death. Alongside consideration of what his work reveals about the ontology of the early modern soul, the understanding of the British Isles as a geographical space and the material proximity of open sewage to the public theatre, the essays in this collection also apply focus to Marlowe’s manipulation of his source material and to the ways in which subsequent writers — from the late sixteenth century to the early twenty-first — have appropriated and reconstructed Marlowe’s authorial and biographical identity. In so doing, the contributions to the collection cover a range of Marlowe’s texts including Tamburlaine the Great, Doctor Faustus, Edward II, Hero and Leander and the translations of the Amores, as well as considering the Marlovian implications of work by other authors, such as Ben Jonson’s Poetaster, Anthony Burgess’s A Dead Man in Deptford, Iain Sinclair and Dave McKean’s Slow Chocolate Autopsy and a selection of recent novels focusing on the apocryphal ‘School of Night’. At the end of the anniversary year, then, this collection considers Marlowe not just at, but across four-hundred-and-fifty years, from his upbringing and classical education to his continued resonance in contemporary fiction
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
In search of Shakespeare and Austen: travels in time and place
Full text linkThis thesis comprises six published works, preceded by four sections which provide
context for the publications, and summarise their significance. The overall project is to
examine an aspect of the engagement between contemporary culture and the figures
of William Shakespeare and Jane Austen: a set of contemporary texts, including
theatre productions, films, novels, and television dramas, which attempt to connect
the present-day audience to the personal identities, and the historical worlds, of these
two authors. The project explores the imaginative journeys that such works attempt,
critically examining and appraising their techniques, particularly focusing on how the
idea of travel between moments of time and/or place shapes these adaptations, as
well as investigating how the engagement with the authors can be framed as acts of
literary tourism. This exploration broadens, at points, into a more general discussion
of the inherent excitement, and inherent jeopardy, of imagined and reported travel in
time and place, including encounters in the experienced spaces of theatre, cinema and
culturally significant sites.
At a theoretical level, the thesis draws upon previous research in relevant fields,
especially those of adaptation, and literary tourism. It also reflects upon the paradox
of popular and commercial fascination with the lives and personalities of canonical
authors, in spite of influential moves in recent decades to challenge the canon and to
decry interest in authorial motives and intentions. The focus on the idea of place and
time travel in this study offers an innovative framework within which to investigate
both the production of these texts and their consumption by readers and viewers.
Such travels in search of the author are shown to help us to interrogate central
questions in adaptation studies around the authenticity and fidelity of texts and
performance. The chief aim of the thesis, however, is not to provide an all-embracing
theory, but to bring out the sheer complexity of the phenomena it discusses, and to
analyse and illuminate these complexities
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
Maternal agency in renaissance revenge tragedy
Full text linkThis thesis offers a feminist inflected, historicised close reading of the Renaissance revenge tragedies Titus Andronicus, The Duchess of Malfi and ‘Tis Pity she’s a Whore. It specifically examines constructs of maternity found in a variety of medical, theological, dietary and conduct texts from the early modern period. Additionally, this thesis establishes close links between the representations of the maternal body on the Elizabethan and Jacobean stage and in the early modern settings of the anatomy theatre and the birth chamber. The period reflects the specific belief that consumption is important to demonstrate virtue and religious morality. This thesis will engage with this topic by focussing attention on the significance of fruit and consumption within the dramas and how the maternal body is closely interlinked with the digestive system. By engaging with the premise of the anatomy theatre, birth chamber and early modern literature surrounding maternity, this thesis shows that maternity in revenge drama is purposefully portrayed as transgressive, to successfully condemn maternal characters and validate the violence that is enacted on their bodies. Overall, the thesis undertakes an extensive analysis of the impact of the maternal body on the stage, as influenced by early modern literature and in ritualistic early modern environments. Both physically and textually, maternity is characterised by its performativity in this period, which is recognised and adapted in this study
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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