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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
The Menace of Home/Man in Hitchcock's Rebecca and Under Capricorn
No full textTwo of Alfred Hitchcock's films, Rebecca (1940) and Under Capricorn (1949), are rarely viewed as thematic twins. A comparative study of the two films, however, yields fruitful findings and one of them is particularly noteworthy: the man does too little while the woman suffers too much in the strangeness of the domestic sphere. Under Capricorn and Rebecca, when juxtaposed, illuminate that the menace of home camouflages the menace of man while male dominance masquerades as male passivity. This article examines how Hitchcock engineers the menace of home in both films, why the heroine/mistress alone suffers, what emboldens the housekeeper's aggression, and where the master stands in the women's conflict
Cosmopolitan Alterity: America as the Mutual Alien of Britain and Japan in Kazuo Ishiguro’s Novels
No full text This essay treats Ishiguro’s first three novels, A Pale View of Hills, An Artist of the Floating World and The Remains of the Day as a post-war trilogy. It takes an interest in why America is employed as the mutual alien of Britain and Japan, how America’s alterity operates in the three narrators’ accounts of the post-war years, what this accentuated otherness discloses regarding the entanglement of identity and loyalty, and where each of these English-language narrations positions America in relation to its narrator, narratee and international readership. The essay argues that America serves as a discursive hub around which the three narrators circuitously divulge shame and regret; that English narrations of America’s alterity trouble the divide between we the native and they the foreigner; and that for the international readership America allegorizes the critical distance Ishiguro maintains with Japan and Britain and the familiar foreignness alterity has become in an age of globalization. </jats:p
Ripley's Transgression, Highsmith's Art
No full textPatricia Highsmith’s writing invites and yet defies taxonomies. In addition to suspense thriller and psychological thriller, her works are frequently categorized as crime fiction. Even this encompassing label “crime fiction” does not fully describe the aesthetic intricacy her stories explore. Slajov Žižek pinpoints the reason why she defies classification. He considers the novelist “elevating crime fiction to the level of art” because she understands that “true art lies not simply in the telling of stories, but in the telling of how stories go wrong”. Nonconformity indeed distinguishes Highsmith from other authors of crime fiction. Her writing does not focus on crime per se but how crime illuminates the treacherous nature of art. This essay argues that Highsmith employs crime as a metaphor and fiction as a medium to explore the dangerous liaison between art and transgression. The Ripliad quintet is a systematic rendition of her aesthetics, and Tom Ripley, the eponymous protagonist, anthropomorphizes art in its alluring multifariousness. The world Ripley forges is a murky juncture of actual and virtual realities where art and artfulness coalesce, presentation and pretense overlay, innovation and subversion intersect. His escapades defy laws, pushing limits as art rebels and manipulating ambiguity as artfulness equivocates
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
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