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A Subtle Cipher: The Horse as an Icon in Irish Literature
No full textThis thesis provides original research that allows an examination of the symbolic role of the horse in Irish literature between 1850-1939: a period that witnessed key political, cultural, and historical transitions in Ireland. It argues that equine references and imagery served as a sophisticated cultural cipher that enabled writers to explore the complex relationship between Ireland and England. Through analysis of works by George Moore, Somerville and Ross, James Joyce, and Molly Keane, it demonstrates how horses — both as literal animals and literary devices, allowed authors to articulate tensions around class, gender and colonial power while remaining accessible to both Irish and English readers. It will reveal how each author deployed horses in distinct ways to examine societal changes during this transformative period. Moore’s Esther Waters uses gambling on horseracing to expose Victorian class hypocrisies and social inequalities. Somerville and Ross employ hunting and horses to explore changing constructions of gender and class identity. Joyce’s integration of the 1904 Ascot Gold Cup throughout Ulysses provides both narrative structure and commentary on colonial relations. Keane’s work uses horses to chart the decline of the Anglo-Irish Ascendancy and evolution of women’s roles. By examining these texts through the lens of equine symbolism, this thesis uncovers how the horse’s liminal position that simultaneously represented both imperial power and Irish cultural identity made it an ideal vehicle for exploring national and cultural tensions. The shared cultural understanding of horses between England and Ireland created a unique literary space where authors could address controversial political and social issues in coded but comprehensible ways. Ireland had a distinctive, if not unique social structure. The mysteries of the Protestant Ascendancy were such that its post-mortem was best explained, particularly to an English readership, by the genre known as Big House literature which includes equine symbols that allow an exploration of a complex web of associations and connotations. This thesis demonstrates that equine coding is a vital, theoretical adjunct to current literary thinking. In addition, the horse in Big House literature serves as a multifaceted symbol that expands the genre beyond its typical domestic focus, as it represents not only the Anglo-Irish cultural traditions and sporting lifestyle but also becomes a powerful metaphor for the decline of the Ascendancy, with the care, breeding, and eventual sale or loss of horses often paralleling the economic and social deterioration of the Big House families themselves. Gaston Bachelard's phenomenological approach to spatial theory, particularly his concepts from The Poetics of Space, enriches the study of Big House literature by providing a theoretical framework for understanding how these houses function as repositories of memory, dreams, and intimate experiences, while his ideas about the psychological significance of domestic spaces illuminate how the Big House operates as both a physical structure and a complex symbol of Anglo-Irish identity and decline. While the horse is an emblem of landed wealth and colonial privilege, it is also a symbol of power that allows a nuanced confrontation with the political and historical matter in the narrative
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
Mary Manning - A Life in Stages
Full text linkThis thesis is an examination of the life and work of the playwright and novelist Mary Manning from when she first became active in 1924 until her death in 1999. I will examine her early plays at the Gate Theatre and her editorship of that theatre’s literary periodical, Motley. This thesis will also assess Manning’s involvement with the pioneering wave of Irish film enthusiasts who created the first exclusively Irish independent films. I will also consider Manning’s American work with her novel Mount Venus and the work she did with the experimental theatre company Poets’ Theatre. I will also examine the third and final phase of Manning’s career when she returned to Dublin to create work for the Abbey, Gate and Project stages. The thesis is capped by a report of a practical project I undertook to assess Manning’s significance with audiences today. Through the course of this thesis, I will attempt to assess Manning’s position in the Irish literary movement
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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