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Recensione a The Life of Texts. Evidence in Textual Production, Transmission and Reception, edited by Carlo Caruso, London-New York, Bloomsbury Academic, 2018
No full textRecensione al libro The Life of Texts. Evidence in Textual Production, Transmission and Reception, inerente la riflessione sul “testo” in prospettiva filologica, sociologica e “biologica”, e sui processi della tradizione testuale, influenzati dal contesto redazionale e dai modi di diffusione, inclusi gli aspetti paratestuali e il rapporto con le moderne tecnologie. Questi temi, illustrati nell’Introduzione di R. Gameson, sono discussi nei contributi seguenti in rapporto a singoli casi-studio. In Editing Homer, B. Graziosi, tenendo conto della quaestio dell’authorship e dei problemi di ricostruzione dell’iter compositivo dei poemi omerici, auspica una nuova edizione che consideri anche la ricezione e la trasmissione del testo. In The Canon and the Codex: On the Material Form of the Christian Bible, F. Watson identifica, come primo formato di diffusione della Bibbia, il codex, preferito al volumen per l’agilità di consultazione, la possibilità di lettura dei testi in ordine lineare e per collegamenti tra luoghi distanti, e in quanto adatto all’inclusione di tutte le Scritture in un unico supporto. In Wandering Nights: Shahrazād’s Mutations, D. L. Newman esamina la tradizione de Le Mille e una Notte, evidenziando lo stato d’incertezza testuale dell’opera – priva degli originali di numerosi racconti, alcuni noti solo attraverso testimonianze orali – e il carattere a-scientifico delle edizioni-traduzioni susseguitesi dal XVIII secolo. Ricostruendo le vicende compositive della raccolta, Newmann individua come nucleo originario alcuni racconti composti in un’area della Persia esposta a influenze indiane, poi tradotti in arabo e incrementati con materiali di questa cultura e di quella egiziana, e dunque sottoposti a trasformazioni riscoperte solo nel XIX secolo. A fronte di quest’estrema eterogeneità testuale, Newman auspica un’indagine sia sulla formazione dell’ipotesto, sia sulle vicende redazionali di ogni racconto. In A Text in Exile: Dante’s ‘Divine Comedy’, A. Cipollone ripercorre la tradizione dell’opera maggiore dell’Alighieri, designandola come “testo in esilio” poiché diffusosi in singole sezioni anzitutto fuori Firenze. In quest’ottica, più che le edizioni fondate su codici fiorentini, interessante è quella di Sanguineti, incentrata sul ms. romagnolo Vat. Urb. 366. L’importanza di tale prospettiva sembra del resto confermata dal titolo dell’opera, allusivo sì al significato medievale di “commedia”, ma, forse, pure all’accezione antica del lemma attestata nella Poetica di Aristotele – nota a Dante nella traduzione latina di W. di Moerbeke? –, dove si ricorda l’abitudine degli attori a viaggiare tra i komai poiché scacciati dalle città, figure nelle quali l’Alighieri potrebbe essersi identificato. In Textual Metamorphosis: The Manuscripts of Leonardo da Vinci, C. Vecce riflette sulla possibile edizione del corpus dei manoscritti e dei disegni superstiti di Leonardo da Vinci, costituito da centinaia di carte prodotte in forma sciolta o in quaderni di appunti, costantemente revisionate dall’autore e scevre di un’organizzazione gerarchica degli argomenti, in forma, dunque, di “ipertesti senza fine”. Oltre ad assumere la prospettiva multidirezionale delle reti digitali, secondo Vecce l’edizione dovrà comunque rispettare l’ordine cronologico di redazione dei documenti, al fine di mostrare le fasi della formazione del Da Vinci. In Montaigne, The Life and After-Life of an Unfinished Text, J. O’Brien descrive la vicenda compositiva degli Essais di Montaigne. Pubblicata con modifiche fino al 1588, l’opera fu rielaborata dall’autore in vista di una nuova edizione, divulgata postuma a cura di M. de Gournay. O’Brien confronta questa pubblicazione con l’Exemplaire de Bordeaux (EB), copia dalla stampa del 1588 postillata da Montaigne, ingiustamente posta in secondo piano nelle edizioni di fine Novecento per le notevoli discrepanze con l’edizione post mortem, in realtà ricca di distorsioni delle “ultime volontà dell’autore”. In Rescuing Shakespeare: ‘King Lear’ in Its Textual Contexts, D. Fuller espone le differenze tra le maggiori edizioni a stampa delle opere di Shakespeare, tra loro eterogenee e inconciliabili, come dimostra la polimorfia delle pubblicazioni di King Lear, per il quale è impossibile ricostruire un testo “ideale”. Dunque, se il testo di King Lear finora consolidatosi potrà essere ancora stampato per la rappresentazione teatrale, i filologi dovranno orientarsi verso l’edizione di ogni singola versione dell’opera. In Textual Evidence and Musical Analysis: Once More on the First Movement of Beethoven’s ‘Tempest’ Sonata, Op. 31, No. 2, J. Horton sostiene l’esistenza di un rapporto tra testo e musica: non solo le opere musicali nascono di solito come documenti scritti, ma è sempre possibile formulare riflessioni in senso testuale sulla musica qualora la si interpreti come “testo” che, divenuto performance, ingenera diverse interpretazioni. È quanto avvenne per La Tempesta di Beethoven, la cui prime ventuno battute, insolitamente strutturate, hanno dato adito a diverse ipotesi interpretative, che non hanno però mai posto in discussione la dimensione scritta dell’opera, che desta incognite solo in quanto teoria, significato, idea. Infine, in Fragments Shored against Ruin: Reassembling ‘The Waste Land’, J. Harding riflette sulle caratteristiche che dovrebbe presentare un’edizione esaustiva di The Waste Land di T.S. Eliot. Lo studioso riepiloga l’iter compositivo dell’opera, i cui materiali preparatori furono prima revisionati da Ezra Pound e poi regalati a J. Quinn da Eliot stesso, che ne perse ogni traccia. Riscoperte dopo la morte del poeta, le bozze furono impiegate dalla moglie V. Eliot per un’edizione in facsimile, da riesaminarsi poiché non esente da procedure di selezione e reinterpretazione arbitrarie. L’indagine sul testo di The Waste Land dovrà inoltre misurarsi con i suoi diversi esiti a stampa, tra Stati Uniti e Gran Bretagna. Per la ricchezza di queste indagini, The Life of Texts rappresenta un volume imprescindibile per la comprensione dei metodi di ricerca, delle questioni portanti e dei problemi rimasti irrisolti nel campo della textual scholarship di ogni tempo
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
No full textThe 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
HBIM STRUCTURAL MODEL TO EVALUATE BUILDING EVOLUTION AND CONSTRUCTION HYPOTHESES: PRELIMINARY RESULTS
No full textHistoric Building Information Modelling (HBIM) is a technology that has proven to be very effective for the management, preservation, and maintenance of heritage buildings. HBIM allows a digital replica of the building, in which information can be stored, designs can be made, and future actions can be planned. To do this, it is obviously necessary to have a thorough knowledge of the building and its historical evolution. The HBIM model can therefore become the ideal place in which to develop and model construction hypotheses of building portions that no longer exist, or even record its development over time using different phases of work. Based on this context, the aim of this article is to use the HBIM approach for modelling different construction hypotheses and use the model to study the behaviour of different configurations with structural analysis. To do this, the case study of the church of San Michele Maggiore in Pavia was chosen, which in the 15th century underwent major restorations due to structural failures of the vaults of the central nave, which were replaced with the current cross vaults. In the literature there are different constructive hypotheses of the ancient vaults, which have been modelled in HBIM precisely to evaluate the different structural behaviours following the method presented. This article presents the historical analyses and geometric surveys that led to the HBIM modelling and the model itself. In the future, after careful selection of the most appropriate software, structural calculations will be made to study the structural behaviour of the building
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
No full textWe 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
Pragmatic Case Studies as a Source of Unity in Applied Psychology
No full textTo unify or not to unify applied psychology: that is the question. In this article we review pendulum swings in the historical efforts to answer this question—from a comprehensive, positivist, “top-down,” deductive yes between the 1930s and the early 60s, to a postmodern no since then. A rationale and proposal for a limited, “bottom-up,” inductive yes in applied psychology is then presented, employing a case-based paradigm that integrates both positivist and postmodern themes and components. This paradigm is labeled “pragmatic psychology” and, its specific use of case studies, the “Pragmatic Case Study Method” (“PCS Method”). We call for the creation of peer-reviewed journal-databases of pragmatic case studies as a foundational source of unifying applied knowledge in our discipline. As one example, the potential of the PCS Method for unifying different angles of theoretical regard is illustrated in an area of applied psychology, psychotherapy, via the case of Mrs. B. The article then turns to the broader historical and epistemological arguments for the unifying nature of the PCS Method in both applied and basic psychology.Peer reviewe
Dr. Edwin Wright Collection: Author Unknown
No full textNotes - The author relates several short stories about his neighbours including Alex McDonell, homesteading and life around Meanook and Athabasca (1 page
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
No full textWe 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
Measurement of the ratio of branching fractions B(B0→K∗0γ )/B(B0s→φγ ) and the directCP asymmetry inB 0→K∗0γ
No full textThe ratio of branching fractions of the radiative B decays B0→K⁎0γ and B0s→ϕγ has been measured using an integrated luminosity of 1.0 fb−1 of pp collision data collected by the LHCb experiment at a centre-of-mass energy of s√=7TeV. The value obtained is
B(B0→K⁎0γ)B(B0s→ϕγ)=1.23±0.06(stat.)±0.04(syst.)±0.10(fs/fd),
where the first uncertainty is statistical, the second is the experimental systematic uncertainty and the third is associated with the ratio of fragmentation fractions fs/fd. Using the world average value for B(B0→K⁎0γ), the branching fraction B(B0s→ϕγ) is measured to be (3.5±0.4)×10−5.
The direct CP asymmetry in B0→K⁎0γ decays has also been measured with the same data and found to be
ACP(B0→K⁎0γ)=(0.8±1.7(stat.)±0.9(syst.))%.
Both measurements are the most precise to date and are in agreement with the previous experimental results and theoretical expectations
The construction of Karen Karnak: The multi-author-function
No full textThis thesis is situated within the comparatively recent developments of Web 2.0 and the emergence of interactive WikiMedia, and explores the mode of authorship within a Read/Write culture compared to that of a Read/Only tradition. The hypothesis of this study is that the role of the audience has become merged with the author, and as such, represents new functions and attributes, distinct from a more conventional concept of authorship, in which the roles of audience and author are more separate. Read/Write and participatory culture, as defined by this study, is focused on collaboration, and includes the influences of D.I.Y. culture, Open-Source practices and the production of text by multiple authors. Multi-authorship presents a re-thinking of several concepts which support the notion of the individual author, since the focus of multi-authorship is not on attribution and ownership of a finished text, but on the continued malleability of a text. Modes of multi-authorship, demonstrated in the use of the pseudonyms Alan Smithee and Karen Eliot, represent declarative authors whose names signify multiple origins, whilst concurrently indicating a distinct body of work. The function of these names form an important context to this study, since primary research involves the construction of an experimental mode of multi-authorship utilising WikiMedia technology and the interaction of thirty nine participants, who are invited to create a body of work under the collective pseudonym Karen Karnak. The data generated by this experiment is analysed using aspects of Michel Foucault's author-function to identify and determine power structures inherent in the WikiMedia context. The interplay of power structures, including concepts such as identity, ownership and the body of work, affect the resulting mode of authorship and contribute to the construction of Karen Karnak, suggesting further areas of research into the emerging multi-author
Branching fraction and CP asymmetry of the decays B+→K0Sπ+ and B+→K0SK+
No full textAn analysis of B+ → K0
Sπ+ and B+ → K0
S K+ decays is performed with the LHCb experiment. The pp
collision data used correspond to integrated luminosities of 1 fb−1 and 2 fb−1 collected at centre-ofmass
energies of
√
s = 7 TeV and
√
s = 8 TeV, respectively. The ratio of branching fractions and the
direct CP asymmetries are measured to be B(B+ → K0
S K+
)/B(B+ → K0
Sπ+
) = 0.064 ± 0.009 (stat.) ±
0.004 (syst.), ACP(B+ → K0
Sπ+
) = −0.022 ± 0.025 (stat.) ± 0.010 (syst.) and ACP(B+ → K0
S K+
) =
−0.21 ± 0.14 (stat.) ± 0.01 (syst.). The data sample taken at
√
s = 7 TeV is used to search for
B+
c
→ K0
S K+ decays and results in the upper limit ( fc · B(B+
c
→ K0
S K+
))/( fu · B(B+ → K0
Sπ+
)) <
5.8 × 10−2 at 90% confidence level, where fc and fu denote the hadronisation fractions of a ¯b
quark
into a B+
c or a B+ meson, respectively
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