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'IL NOSTRO BREVE TEMPO PASSERA QUI'LUOGHI DELL'ADOLESCENZA IN VILDANDEN DI H. IBSEN, ELVEGATEN E BARNET SOM ELSKET VEIER DI C. SANDEL E IS-SLOTTET DI T. VESAAS
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This thesis examines the relationship between adolescent female characters, as represented in the work of three different authors from Norwegian Literature (Henrik Ibsen, Cora Sandel and Tarjei Vesaas), and the particular descriptions of the places inhabited or lands travelled by those characters. From the latter part of the 19th century and throughout the 20th century, childhood and the transition to adulthood have fascinated intellectuals, artists and people of science alike in terms of the wider perspectives offered relating to the process of formation of human identity. None more so than, adolescence – the transitional period between the reality of childhood and that of adulthood. It is a metamorphic, ever-changing period which cannot easily be defined nor labelled; it is characterised by a tumultuous display of contrasting tensions which reflect a vacillating and fermenting identity equilibrium. In short, it is a time of crisis that mirrors the radical revolution within the inner structure of the individual. It causes a heightened creative potential, precisely at a moment when new balances are being forged and refined.
In this thesis it is argued that even in texts written by various authors from different periods, it is possible to discover a common tendency to portray “the places of adolescence” with a similar array of symbols and motives. The landscape hosting the adolescent characters tends to display attributes which correspond to those of the characters themselves. Such places could be called isomorphic, using a notion derived from the field of Anthropological Studies. Ambiguity, paradox and a subversive drift are typical of those spaces. They are unstructured, unstable and ephemeral places that perpetually reformulate their own meaning and identity. Within them, everything is possible – every road can be discovered and taken which can lead towards the very edges of imagination. Those places embody realms of pure possibility, intimately connected to the structure of crisis which is characteristic of the adolescence years. Referring to the works of the psychoanalysts Erikson, Winnicott and Kristeva, an open and metamorphic structure has been postulated – a structure of crisis – for all the literary places where the adolescent subject is free to develop and grow in a creative way. Following Roland Barthes’ theory about the Neutral as that which “outplays the paradigm”, the convention adopted is that such places are considered neutral - ambiguous and rebellious, something that cannot be reduced to a fixed definition. Using a category firstly introduced by Erikson regarding identity structures, other places – which at first can bear some resemblances with those of crisis – are considered rigid and close. In them no real movement is possible and all roads reveal themselves as dead ends.
Analysing Vildanden (1884, The Wild Duck) by Henrik Ibsen, Elvegaten (1924, The Street On the River) and Barnet som elsket veier (1947, The Child Who Loved the Streets) by Cora Sandel and eventually Is-slottet (1963, The Ice Castle) by Tarjei Vesaas, examples of both types of landscapes are revealed, ones of creativity and growth and others of stasis and death.
Referring to Ibsen’s Vildanden, the analysis will focus on the hidden loft where the wild duck is kept in captivity. Although being a real space, the loft is never completely visible to the audience, a detail which triggers the spectator’s and the reader’s imagination. It is a place where fantasy can thrive and where new stories are free to take shape. The creative characteristics within the loft draw an association of imagery with water which holds ambiguous meanings. This place gradually reveals itself as being intimately bound to the young main character’s tragic destiny.
In Sandel’s Elvegaten and Barnet som elsket veier isolated streets and country roads are seen to embody freedom and creativity. They contrast sharply with the busy streets of the bourgeois town, where the individual feels hemmed by social conventions and forced into a pattern which is imposed from the outside. No real inner maturation is possible there.
In Tarjei Vesaas’ Is-slottet two areas are particularly meaningful for the analysis in question : The ice-castle, where one of the two main characters – Unn – gets lost and dies, and the streets which accompany the other character – Siss – first into a state of confusion and isolation and then back to life.
Having tailored relevant methodologies and an original theoretical framework to investigate the nature of similar literary landscapes, future extension using such convention could be applied to analyse works which describe other literary spaces that reflect different crisis points during human development
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
Inhibition of Matrix Metalloproteinases Prevents the Potentiation of Nondeprived-Eye Responses after Monocular Deprivation in Juvenile Rats
No full textThe ocular dominance (OD) shift induced by monocular deprivation (MD) during the critical period is mediated by an initial depression of deprived-eye responses followed by an increased responsiveness to the nondeprived eye. It is not fully clear to what extent these 2 events are correlated and which are their physiological and molecular mediators. The extracellular synaptic environment plays an important role in regulating visual cortical plasticity. Matrix metalloproteinases (MMPs) are a family of activity-dependent zinc-dependent extracellular endopeptidases mediating extracellular matrix remodeling. We investigated the effects of MMP inhibition on OD plasticity in juvenile monocularly deprived rats. By using electrophysiological recordings, we found that MMP inhibition selectively prevented the potentiation of neuronal responses to nondeprived-eye stimulation occurring after 7 days of MD and potentiation of deprived-eye responses occurring after eye reopening. Three days of MD only resulted in a depression of deprived-eye responses insensitive to MMP inhibition. MMP inhibition did not influence homeostatic plasticity tested in the monocular cortex but significantly prevented an increase in dendritic spine density present after 7 days MD in layer II-III pyramids. © 2011 The Authors
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
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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