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David Sutton
No full textDr David Sutton has been Director of Research Projects in Reading University Library since 1982. He is editor of the Location Register of English Literary Manuscripts and Letters and UK editor of the WATCH copyright project (Writers Artists & Their Copyright Holders). He has been awarded the Benson Medal of the Royal Society of Literature for distinguished services to literature; the Archivist of the Year award (Scone Foundation, New York, 2006); and Honorary Fellowship of the Royal Society ..
David Sutton, master builder
No full textDavid Sutton, master builder of the South Shore, has resigned. As the appointment of a superintendent of buildings and bridges takes away much of the importance of the position held by Mr. Sutton, it will probably be abolished and a general foreman be appointed by Mr. Boeh
Interview with David Sutton
Get PDFDavid Sutton (born 18 October 1950) grew up in Stourbridge, a market town in the West Midlands, moving to Saffron Waldon before his studies and career took him from Leicester to Dublin, Sheffield, Paris, Coventry and Reading, where he now lives. He was awarded his PhD in 1978 from the University of Leicester, where his tutor and mentor was the poet G. S. Fraser. David trained as a librarian at Trinity College Dublin and the University of Sheffield. He worked at the British Library for a period before studying food history under Professor Jean-Louis Flandrin at the Université de Paris Huit Vincennes from 1978 to 1980. After his studies in Paris, David returned to his previous career, and is currently Director of Research Projects, based in the University Library, at the University of Reading. In 1982 David became the senior research officer of the Location Register of English Manuscripts and Letters project. Since 1984, David has been the UK editor of WATCH (Writers Artists and Their Copyright Holders), a joint project between the University of Reading and the University of Texas at Austin.
David’s interest in food history has been a constant research pursuit since those years in Paris. Introduced to the Oxford Symposium through his friendship with Paul Levy, he first presented a paper on English Food Proverbs at the 2009 Symposium on Food and Language, becoming a trustee of the Oxford Symposium in 2013, and the Symposium’s Treasurer in 2015. His publications include works on Location Registers of literary manuscripts and a contribution to the Global History of Food series published by Reaktion Books on the history of figs, published in 2014.https://arrow.tudublin.ie/oxfor/1019/thumbnail.jp
Diasporic Archives in Translation Research
No full textThis article explores the implications that diasporic archives may have for translation research. It starts with an overview of recent literature that focuses on archival approaches and translation, an area that has only recently managed to attract substantial scholarly attention (Munday 2012, 2013, Cordingley & Montini 2015). It then turns to a case study exploring how split collections can affect the way we understand a translation’s genesis. The study focuses on translation-related material in the Anthony Burgess archives. More specifically, it examines the surviving manuscripts relating to a project carried out by Anthony Burgess in collaboration with Italian actor Mario Maranzana, who worked together to produce an Italian stage adaptation of Burgess’s Blooms of Dublin (Burgess 1986). One of the distinctive aspects of this unpublished translation is its being recoverable only in manuscripts that are dispersed across different collections. As pointed out by previous studies, manuscript evidence reveals that a plurality of agents contributed to the creative construction of the target text (Bollettieri and Zanotti 2014, Zanotti and Bollettieri 2015). Moreover, as will be shown in the present chapter, a non-linear process characterized the genesis of this translation, as reflected in the diasporic nature of the surviving manuscripts. It will be shown that investigation into archives other than those of the writer proved fundamental in reconstructing the complex negotiations that underlie the Italian version of Burgess’s libretto, thus allowing to make sense of the surviving manuscripts and the apparent unrelatedness of one of them. In the concluding section, I will illustrate what these additional archival materials revealed about the genesis of this project. The case of Blooms of Dublin is quite revealing in terms of the writer’s role and degree of intervention in the translation process, the collaborative dimension of the project and the resulting tensions among the various agents involved. The aim of the chapter is to illustrate the use of archives as primary sources of data in translation research and to discuss the implications that their diasporic nature has on our understanding of the process that lies behind the translation of literary texts
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
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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