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Constance J. Post, Signs of the Times in Cotton Mather's Paterna : A Study of Puritan Autobiography
No full textSoubrenie Elisabeth. Constance J. Post, Signs of the Times in Cotton Mather's Paterna : A Study of Puritan Autobiography. In: XVII-XVIII. Bulletin de la société d'études anglo-américaines des XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles. N°51, 2000. pp. 357-359
Constance J. Post, Signs of the Times in Cotton Mather's Paterna : A Study of Puritan Autobiography
No full textSoubrenie Elisabeth. Constance J. Post, Signs of the Times in Cotton Mather's Paterna : A Study of Puritan Autobiography. In: XVII-XVIII. Bulletin de la société d'études anglo-américaines des XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles. N°51, 2000. pp. 357-359
Shaping an "Idea without hands": Bronson Alcott's educational theory brought to life in Little Women
Full text linkBronson Alcott, an early American progressive education reformer and transcendentalist philosopher, was a troubled genius who was far ahead of his time. His most controversial educational methods, such as encouraging self-reflection in children, abandoning corporal punishment, and using the Socratic method to inspire insightful conversation in the classroom, have since been accepted in modern education as sound pedagogical practice. But Alcott was a flawed man who often became far too emotionally invested in his own ideologies, unable to accept when other learned individuals came to conclusions that did not directly agree with his own. Often, his unchecked idealism became an obstacle that prevented the success of his own endeavors in education reform. This project seeks to examine Alcott's influences and then identify the basic principles of his educational theory. Using the failure of Alcott's Boston Temple School as an example, it will show that Alcott was unable to anticipate or appropriately respond to the criticism of his contemporaries. This lack of political finesse would leave Alcott exposed to his critics and their barbs and eventually lead to the end of this career as an educational reformer. His educational experiments would instead have to be focused on his own four daughters. One of those daughters, Louisa May Alcott, would grow up to be one of the most famous novelists in nineteenth century American letters. Despite Bronson Alcott's lifetime of work spent crafting and expressing his ideas to whoever would listen, it would be Louisa's novel Little Women that would prove the most effective--and by far, the most accepted--voice for Alcott's pedagogical theories.</p
Fashioning high-heeled identity: Material culture and identity formation in Maya Angelou’s autobiographies
Full text linkMaya Angelou’s autobiographies, "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" and "Gather Together in My Name," require an interdisciplinary lens to understand her self-formation and cultural identity. This thesis analyzes the previously overlooked material objects that are tokens of the class structure Angelou wishes to escape. My aim is to increase discussion concerning the significance of clothing, shoes, and cosmetics as they relate to Angelou’s identity.</p
A sentimental tale: death and madness in The Bondwoman's Narrative
Full text linkAt an auction in 2001, Henry Louis Gates Jr., Director of African American Studies at Harvard discovered an unpublished manuscript, The Bondwoman's Narrative by Hannah Crafts, which immediately became a hotbed for critical commentary because of the controversy surrounding the identity of its author and its genre. Gates hypothesized that Crafts was an African-American fugitive slave and that The Bondwoman's Narrative falls into one (or more) of the following categories: sentimental, slave narrative, or gothic. Though Crafts borrows from the gothic and slave narrative traditions, what has been overlooked in the scholarly conversation is the critical commentary she makes about the destructive nature of slavery and patriarchy through her use of the sentimental genre. Specifically, the themes of death and madness (thought to be problems primarily for white women) to critique these systems make this book an exceptional find.</p
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
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
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