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Katherine Mansfield and the trauma of war: death, memory and forgetting in “An Indiscrete Journey”, “The Garden Party”, “At the Bay”, “Six Years After” and “The Fly”.
No full textMaking Sense of the Colonial Encounter in Conrad’s Shorter Indian Ocean Fiction: Narrative Technique, Meaning and Epistemology in ‘Karain: A Memory’, ‘A Smile of Fortune’ and The Shadow-Line
No full textThe politics of sympathy in the popular fiction of Mary Ward and Marie Corelli 1886 – 1908
No full textThis thesis demonstrates that the hitherto under-recognised resurgence of sympathy in late-nineteenth-century fiction was key to the social and literary politics of Mary Ward’s and Marie Corelli’s fin-de-siècle popular fiction and to their work’s impact on readers. It argues that their popular fiction thereby provided a new democratic forum for public debate on issues of class, social reform, public morality, and cultural inclusion. The diversity of interpretations and associations of sympathy in the nineteenth century underpinned both Ward’s ethics of fellow feeling and Corelli’s concept of a bond of sympathy with readers. For both, the stimulation of sympathetic reading experiences was key. Readers were encouraged to think and feel along with fictional characters torn by ideological conflict in Ward’s dialogical fiction of ideas, while Corelli’s readers were offered validation of their political and cultural status while being enticed with an alternative fictional world of spiritual and moral uplift that was derided by critics. Extensive and original archival research in the British Newspaper Archive and elsewhere reveals how their work was received. It shows how readers, unlike many critics, took their work seriously, even when, as with Corelli’s morally controversial novels, the fiction could be seen as self-contradictory. Whether intentionally (Ward) or unintentionally (Corelli), readers were drawn into dialogue and debate with their fiction. While Ward’s novels engaged particularly the movers and shakers of the time, Corelli’s fiction was subject to widespread public debate between supporters and opponents, as recorded in the pages of local newspapers. Through this investigation a contribution is made to recent critical debates about the nature and effect of sympathy engendered through the act of reading and about the role of popular fiction in the public sphere
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
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