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Comparison between Han Yu and Pai Chu-i
Get PDFHan Yü and Pai Chu-i rank among the most important literati in the the T'ang dynasty. Both of them are free from traditional fixed forms and create new styles which have significant influence on Song literature. Yet they differ in many aspects. Han Yü can best be characterized as one seeking "opposition", while Pai Chu-i resolves to "reconciliation". Such contrast manifests itself in many ways. On the whole, they are both contemptuous and aloof to public opinions about their works, and resort mainly to their own judgements. The works which they value most are generally disregarded, and those they disregard generally valued. Their reactions, however, are completely different. While Han Yü stands firm against his times, and tries to live up to the principles of "returning to antiquity", Pai Chu-i accepts such disregard and is contended that his poems be enjoyed only by himself and his intimate friends. Han Yü looks up to Yang Hsiung 揚雄 as his ideal, because Yang Hsiung does not allow himself to be sullied by the world and carries through his convictions in solitude. Yang Hsiung has in fact been portrayed as typical of the solitary philosopher in the poems written by Tso Ssü 左思 and Pao Chao 鮑照. Pao Chao has written "He renounces the world and the world deserts him" 身世兩相棄. Paraphrasing this famous phrase, Pai Chu-i often says, "I have forgot the world and the world has forgot me" 身世兩相忘. Changing only one word, he brings out very precisely the indifference he feels between himself and the world. He remains rather composed despite such opposition, and proclaims himself satisfied and independent of the world. Han Yü is much more self-conscious than Pai Chu-i and he often caricatures himself in his poetry. Such self-caricature and humourous tone which are absent in Pai Chu-i's poetry is very much a result of Han's characteristic spirit of "opposition". Pai Chu-i avoids such opposition and prefers the "middle". He tries to satisfy himself in the middle of every situation. There are many phrases of "neither A nor B", for example, "neither young nor old", "neither high position nor low position". This suggests that he prefers to accept his situation and is pleased with the present. A "Middle-seclusion" 中隱between officialdom and seclusion is the typical attitude of his reconciliation. Comparison between Han Yü and Pai Chu-i sets off the characteristics of their literature from eath other, illustrating the powerfulness of Han Yü and the gentleness of Pai Chu-i
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
Reception of Po Chu-i in Japan
No full textTo explain the very bottom of Japanese reception of Chinese literature, we have first to consider the fundamental difference of language between Chinese and Japanese, The difference lies mostly in the fact that the former is a conceptual language in which each word corresponds to a concept, while the latter, an emotional code system, in which each sign is to evoke a collective emotion. If the poems of Po Chu-i (772-846, Haku Rakuten in Japanese) has been enjoying a great popularity among the Japanese, it is because his poems contain more signs than other Chinese famous poets, that could evoke Japanese collective emotions, we can see this in Wakan Ro-ei-shu, an poetical anthology of High Heian period, in which many of his works were selected but cut in pieces. The compilator must have judged that by cutting them into pieces, they could evoke Japanese emotions more easily. To the same purpose, the compilator dared even to change the words of some poems of Po Chu-i\u27s. Using such devices, the ancient Japanese seems to have reassured their imaginary world without rejecting Chinese fragrances
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
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