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Turcologica Upsaliensia
No full textOttoman and Chaghatay Manuscripts at Uppsala University LibraryAuthors:Birsel Karakoç,Fikret Turan, andAli YıldızPages:145–16
Tanzimat’a Giden Yolda Köprüler, Dilicanslar, Trenler ve Balonlar: 1835 Tarihli Seyyâhnâme’de Modern Ulaşım Altyapısı ve Araçlarına Dair Resimler ve Tasvir Stratejileri
No full textThe work entitled Seyyâhnâme presents a unique travel account as it provides detailed information about England and France and contains watercolour paintings on the subjects explained. The work was probably written by Mehmed Emin Pasha (d. 1851), a mühendishane military school-educated Ottoman statesman, between 1835-1837, at a time when he was studying at Cambridge University. There are two copies of the work, one of which is the author’s original copy (autograph) and the other is a later copy, and both copies are kept at the Library of Rare Works, Istanbul University. Theauthor enriched his work with 18 watercolour paintings to embody the subjects he expressed which include the modern military service, education, transportation infrastructure and modern vehicles that he witnessed in England. 14 of these paintings reflect modern transportation infrastructure such as streets, bridges and tunnels, as well as new-style passenger cars, steam trains and balloons, of which the author saw the originals or paintings in England. One of these images is a modern shopping street, showing London’s gas-powered street lamps, three of them show England’s prominent steel and suspension bridges, two of them tunnels pass under the river, one modern harbour and dock structure, two modern postal and passenger cars, two of them steam train and tram vehicles, and three of them balloons which had already started to be used for transportation purposes. It is understood that the author drew the pictures with new interpretations by using the pictures published in England as engravings or lithographs as templates. The author states that the subjects he describes are as seen in the pictures, and in this way, he implies that he is the painter of these pictures. This article examines how the author’s descriptions of transportation infrastructure and modern vehicles, which he describes with literary descriptions, are reflected in watercolour paintings
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
The Nafs al-Amr-Name Texts as a Popular Genre of Social Criticism in Ottoman Literary Culture: Their Linguistic, Thematic, and Stylistic Features
No full textThe literary culture of Ottoman Turkish has a certain group of prose texts known as the Nafs al-amr-name that first appeared in the 16th century and focused on criticizing and satirizing certain behaviors of ordinary people and public officials as their main theme and tone. Lāmiʿī Çelebi is considered the author of the pioneering text of this humorous genre, which also contains many slang words as part of its diction. Apart from Lāmiʿī Çelebi, other known authors of the genre include Niksarizāde Efendi and Kurbi Mehmed Said Efendi. In some of sample texts from later periods, the authors’ names are not shown. The syntactic structure of these texts is based on compound-complex sentences. One important part of the criticized attitudes and behaviors concerns the habits of eating and drinking, dressing, speaking, and other social behaviors. In order to criticize and condemn those who display undesirable attitudes, the authors extensively employed insulting and derogatory slang words that mostly occur in everyday colloquial language. The comic effect is usually based on the ironic and contradictory situations in these texts. Currently, three variants of the Nafs al-amr-name by Lāmiʿī Çelebi are known. The fact that authors’ names are not mentioned in some copies of the later texts indicates that the genre was seen as a type of anonymous polyphonic public forum for the discourse of social opposition. The fact that texts have been copied numerous times with minor differences and are found in various bound handwritten anthologies in which dissenting social views and criticisms are also reflected indicates the function of the genre to have been as a literary public forum
How to Explain the University of Cambridge to the Sultan? Words, Expressions, and Definition Structures on the European University and Education System Observed in the Book of Traveler "Seyyâhnâme" Dated 1835 Cambridge Üniversitesini Padişaha Nasil Anlatmali? 1835 Tarihli Seyyâhnâme'de Avrupa Üniversite ve Eǧitim Sistemine Dair Kelime, Ifade ve Tanimlama Yapilari
No full text© Turkiyat Mecmuasi.All rights reserved.The Book of Traveler "Seyyâhnâme," written during 1835-1837 by an Ottoman statesman, describes the British education system, economy, politics, and technology during the period and explains general features of the city of London. The work remains unpublished and is currently in the form of a handwritten manuscript - the autographed copy of which was presented to the sultan of the time. Although the work states that it also aims to highlight the diplomatic tactics of the British State in order to seize India and the differences between England and France, information on these issues is relatively limited. While providing information about England and London, the author includes many statistical tables and watercolor paintings that we believe he produced. In addition, through statistical tables, the work provides the names of universities, their number of students and teachers, and the number of books in their libraries. Furthermore, the work offers unique information on university education and administration and teaching practices within the University of Cambridge, where we believe the author studied at the time. In this context, we examine the choices of the author's terminology and expression strategies about the British and French education system by identifying and analyzing the words, phrases, and morpho-structural elements that emerge within the text
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