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Conrad´s Marseilles
Get PDFThis article discusses the Marseilles period of Conrad’s life, which is still shrouded in mystery. By consulting the Marseilles municipal archives and examining information culled from the local press for the years 1874–1878, the author attempts to determine what events in the life of Marseilles during that particular period may have found an echo in Conrad’s works, and in what way these events could have influenced the personality of the young writer. The author sketches a vivid picture of everyday life in the Marseilles of the 1870s and recalls the principal events in the city’s artistic life, suggesting that Conrad’s first real experience of the opera and the theatre (and no doubt also of the fine arts) was gained in Marseilles. An analysis of all the available documents makes it possible to formulate the following conclusions: 1) The duel between M. George and Blunt, as described in The Arrow of Gold, had its origins in real life: this was the duel between two journalists — C. Hugues and J. Daime — which was then the talk of the town. 2) In drawing the character of Rita de Lastaola in The Arrow of Gold, Conrad most probably made use of several complementary models from real life: apart from Paula de Samoggy (mentioned by J. Allen), the model for Rita may well have been Mme Didier — the mistress of the wellknown Marseilles painter G. Ricard, who himself was quite probably the real-life model for the character of Henry Allègre. 3) During the time when Conrad was in Marseilles the political situation in Spain had completely stabilized and it is hardly likely that Conrad himself could have taken part in any gun-running for the Spanish Carlists. Monsieur George’s escapade may therefore be treated purely and simply as a reminiscence of the stories told by Provençal sailors who had earlier taken part in the smuggling expeditions of 1874–1875. The final section of the article draws attention to possible Marseilles sources for Falk, Heart of Darkness and An Outpost of Progress. Virtually the entire storyline of Falk may be found in the Marseilles press, while the two African stories can be seen as a hypothetical refutation of the tales told by the “colonizer of the Congo” Henry Stanley, who in January 1878 was given a hero’s welcome in Marseilles
Kämpfe für Gerechtigkeit an den Grenzen. Die Suche nach einem neuen politischen Subjekt im globalen Zeitalter
No full textThe chapter stages an encounter between border studies and postcolonial criticism against the background of the lively debates surrounding the topic of political subjectivity and justice. Starting from a discussion of the postcolonial condition, particularly in the light of the development of the "subaltern studies" project in India, the author proposes to take the border as a privileged research onject and at the same time as an epistemic angle on the political tensions and conflicts crisscrossing globalization
D-2177c: 654 East 400 North, Logan, Utah, Conrad S. Carlson residence
No full textD-2177c: 654 East 400 North, Logan, Utah, Conrad S. Carlson residenc
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
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No full textD-0624: 131 West 200 North, Logan, Utah, Conrad S. Carlson residence. Lot 2 Block 29 Plat
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
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