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Les syncopes de la mémoire : l’oubli et le reniement dans quelques œuvres de George Eliot
No full textMemory is a cornerstone in George Eliot’s fiction in that most of her novels emphasize both its affective function and the positive value of nostalgia, therefore suggesting a cult for a stable and reassuring past. In this perspective, collective and individual memory guarantee a harmonious order in what is presented as a causal world. This ideal linear pattern, i.e. the organic chain linking past, present and future, is however recurrently interrupted by accidents affecting memory and endangering the individual’s moral development and his relation to his environment. Eliot shows how visual deficiencies are often symptomatic of amnesia in characters whose obliteration of the past threatens to shatter their moral selves. The reintegration of memory into their experience and the acceptance of their heritage are the keys to their final awakening to morality. Memory is then central to Eliot’s theory of sympathy as a replacement for religion as a binding force in the web of the human community
La scène internationale : les nouveaux horizons dans Daniel Deronda de George Eliot
No full textAt the end of Daniel Deronda, as the hero is about to leave England so as to start a family in what is to be the new Jewish National Centre, a new perspective is created : this new horizon is that of the East. The final episode, which is a beginning as well as an ending, mirrors the whole novel, which itself harks back to George Eliot’s earlier fiction, yet is also radically different. Daniel Deronda operates on a vaster scale, following a progression from restricted microcosm to complex macrocosm, exploring new bearings on the international scene, away from the narrow concerns of the individual to the recognition of the needs of other fellow beings. Daniel Deronda is definitely a novel about borders to be crossed
Résurgences du moi et questionnements de l’être dans Daniel Deronda par George Eliot
Get PDFDaniel Deronda explore, selon des axes et des perspectives multiples, les voies ardues de la quête de soi, qu'elle soit le fait d'un individu ou d'une collectivité tout entière lorsque ce n'est plus seulement un personnage mais tout un peuple qui doit se construire un centre d'existence. La caractéristique de cette quête, ou plutôt de ces quêtes entremêlées, est qu'elle s'opère sur le mode de la rupture, de la discontinuité, d'une dialectique toujours sensible entre l'oubli et la mémoire, entre la perte et la restitution, la disparition et la réapparition. Le principe de résurgence est ainsi sans doute l'une des clés de ces recherches identitaires problématiques qui se cristallisent autour des trois personnages centraux du roman : Gwendolen Harleth, jeune beauté ambitieuse nouvellement promue dans le monde aristocratique, Daniel Deronda, mentor à la destinée historique et Mordecai Cohen, figure charismatique du prophète juif qui ancre définitivement le roman dans la sphère du collectif et du sacré. Tous trois illustrent à des degrés divers et avec plus ou moins de réussite le cheminement vers l'éventuelle restitution de ce qui fut jadis perdu, de l'intégrité de l'être à la nation recomposée. Ces surgissements de l'être sont d'autant plus remarquables qu'ils sont le fruit de rencontres, voire de confrontations déterminantes, et qu'ils peuvent se manifester par des phénomènes parfois excessifs comme des visions ou des hallucinations. Ce sont ces soubresauts douloureux mais nécessaires dont George Eliot rend compte dans son ultime roman, le plus complexe et le plus novateur de son œuvre.
George Eliot, écrivain engagé ?
No full textDans sa vie comme dans son œuvre, l’engagement de George Eliot apparaît pétri de contradictions et d’ambiguïtés, de doutes et de tensions apparemment difficilement réconciliables. Entre audace et conservatisme, son engagement revêt alors une forme moins concrète que morale, universelle, éthique et esthétique, visant à dépasser ses contradictions internes et celles de son siècle : une tentative de résolution, loin des formes traditionnelles de croyance, des forces destructrices qui menacent l’homme et la société, vers un humanisme séculier fondé sur la sympathie, la responsabilité et l’union des âmes
Le Triptyque imaginaire de Piero di Cosimo dans Romola de George Eliot
Get PDFNous nous proposons d’étudier ici le motif central et récurrent du triptyque offert par Tito à Romola le jour de leur mariage, en le faisant d’abord dialoguer, comme le tableau semble lui-même le suggérer, avec son intertexte, qui est, nous le verrons, double. Le triptyque en question se présente selon cette perspective comme re-création, empruntant pour son élaboration des éléments particulièrement éloquents tout en les réassimilant et en les présentant sous un angle nouveau, s’écartant ains..
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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