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"Il profumo nel decadentismo americano: 'The Eighth Deadly Sin' di James Huneker"
No full textMolto apprezzato dal celebre scrittore e critico H. L. Mencken, che arrivò addirittura a descriverlo come l'unico ‘peana’ dedicato al profumo mai scritto lingua inglese, il racconto “The Eighth Deadly Sin” ( “L'ottavo peccato mortale”) di James Huneker (1857-1921), uscito nella raccolta Visionaries del 1905, costituisce uno degli scritti più rappresentativi dei rapporti tra cultura sensuale e decadentismo negli Stati Uniti tra Otto e Novecento. Questo saggio vi rintraccia insite le tematiche e la poetiche dell’estetismo e del decadentismo su entrambe le sponde dell’Atlantico. La figura retorica dell'ekphrasis, per esempio, viene qui originalmente rielaborata in chiave sinestetica e ‘olfattiva’ con l’intento di trovare non solo affinità inedite tra letteratura e profumo, ma anche per celebrare quest’ultimo come la più grande e sovversiva tra le arti
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
Community Psychology in Italy
No full textThe aim of this paper is to review the history of community psychology in Italy. We begin by illustrating the early developments of community psychology in the seventies, which was a period of strong social change. The main part of the chapter is focused on the contribution of Italian scholars to the development of European perspectives in the field, and to the elaboration of theoretical principles that should guide community psychology interventions. Taking into account
the construct of social representation, Italian community psychologists view the connections between psychological and social determinants of personal action and between individual and collective processes as the core features of the discipline. They have, therefore, given much
attention to exploring the historical link between the process of valorization of individual freedoms and collective struggle; to promoting socio-political empowerment and social capital; and to examining the multiple meanings of community and sense of community. In the last part of the chapter, we outline the theoretical principles that guide some community psychology interventions such as community profiling, multidimensional organisational analysis, affective education and empowerment training which have been developed by Italian community psychologists. We conclude focusing on future opportunities and challenges
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
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
Perfume in the American Decadent Movement: James Huneker’s “The Eighth Deadly Sin”
No full textEnglish translation of the essay "Il profumo nel decadentismo americano: "The Eighth Deadly Sin" di James Huneker" originally published in 201
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