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La traversée des sciences comme expérience humaine chez Christine de Pizan
Get PDFIn the premodern first-person narrative, and especially when the first-person narrators became characters themselves, did the authors believe that they could write about anything? Did they believe there were limits to the subjects they could address? Did the fact that they were characters themselves impose restrictions on the number of possible subjects, or did it increase them? The works of Christine de Pizan provide insight into the variety of subjects which could be addressed in medieval writings classified as scholarly. In Christine de Pizan’s work, the intention is for the reader to be able to identify with the character of the author-narrator, who shows limited understanding of the most complex scholarly subjects. The exploration of knowledge is considered to be an experience which directly engage the body and the senses. By imitating the attitude of her readers, their fears, and their difficulties in learning, the character of the author reassures her readership and embodies a mediating literary voice, a way of knowing which is educated without being overly intimidating. This type of author-character proved to be very effective in terms of its reception, but at times yielded surprising results.In the premodern first-person narrative, and especially when the first-person narrators became characters themselves, did the authors believe that they could write about anything? Did they believe there were limits to the subjects they could address? Did the fact that they were characters themselves impose restrictions on the number of possible subjects, or did it increase them? The works of Christine de Pizan provide insight into the variety of subjects which could be addressed in medieval writings classified as scholarly. In Christine de Pizan’s work, the intention is for the reader to be able to identify with the character of the author-narrator, who shows limited understanding of the most complex scholarly subjects. The exploration of knowledge is considered to be an experience which directly engage the body and the senses. By imitating the attitude of her readers, their fears, and their difficulties in learning, the character of the author reassures her readership and embodies a mediating literary voice, a way of knowing which is educated without being overly intimidating. This type of author-character proved to be very effective in terms of its reception, but at times yielded surprising results
Dark Diamond. Narrative Practices of Christine de Pizan from Composition to Layout
No full textPour Christine de Pizan, l’écriture et l’interprétation échappent irrémédiablement au vrai ; elles dépendent du vraisemblable et de l’opinion. Comment mener alors le lecteur vers le sens que l’auteur conçoit comme véritable ? Cette étude explore le lien unissant dans les œuvres narratives de Christine l’interprétation, le genre et la forme, comprise comme disposition, comme agencement intellectuel et matériel de la narration. Les manuscrits supervisés par Christine fondent les interprétations, enrichies par l’analyse des manuscrits non originaux et des éditions antérieures au XIXe siècle. De 1400 à 1408, les sept dits, les livres en prose et la Mutacion de fortune illustrent chez Christine deux modèles distincts d’enseignement narratif. Les dits transmettent une leçon implicite : les persona subjectives de l’auteur et du narrateur ne pouvant y servir de garant moral, c’est la disposition qui porte la signification. Le sens naît des concordances, des discordances et des ambiguïtés internes à la forme. Dans les livres en prose, l’auteur caractérise son propos en bien ou en mal, voix narrative et disposition explicitant des sens convergents. Dans ces deux modèles pourtant, l’écriture est toujours un mouvement de résolution : rêvant à dépasser la permanence du doute, elle élabore des procédés narratifs qui orientent a maxima l’interprétation. Le personnage d’auteur, propre à l’identification, devient lui-même une place interprétative proposée au lecteur depuis laquelle reconstruire par empathie une signification perpétuellement réactualisable.For Christine de Pizan, writing and interpretation do not depend on truth but on plausibility and opinion. Considering this, how can the author lead the reader to the meaning he considers as truth? This study explores the connection between interpretation, genre and form in the narrative works of Christine de Pizan – form being understood as a disposition, as the intellectual and material layout of the narration. Manuscripts supervised by Christine form the basis of our study, enriched by later manuscripts and early editions printed before the 19th century. From 1400 to 1408, the seven dits, the prose livres and the Mutacion de fortune reflect two different models of narrative meaning. The dits give an implicit lesson. The author and the narrator’s persona are too subjective to be answerable for the moral sense; the meaning is transmitted by the book’s disposition. Interpretations arise from coherency, incoherencies and ambiguities lying in the text. In the prose livres, the subject is presented as good or evil by the author; narrator and disposition explicitly convey the same meaning. Both models can be characterized as a resolving dynamics: aspiring to go past doubt, the writing contains narrative procedures that frame the interpretation as much as possible. The author’s character itself is constructed to prompt the reader’s empathy and identification; it constitutes a place from which to update a universal meaning
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
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
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