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Shakespeare : Made in Canada : Contemporary Canadian Adaptations in Theatre, Pop Media and Visual Arts
No full textImprovising Toward Post-Abyssal Musics: The Difference Between Noise and Noise
Full text linkThis thesis offers a model of the musical practice of free improvisation as a “noisification” process that effects a re-listening to modern Western music and a re-considering of the “abyssal” cultural assumptions embedded therein, then asks what it means to take that model seriously. Having produced Start Making Noises Now—a film investigating freely improvised musical community in Toronto in early 2012 through performances and interviews with local improvisers—the author now reads its stories in dialogue with writings on creative music and improvisation, cultural theory, sociology, pedagogy, and rights. The resulting conversation develops an understanding of free improvisation as occupying a critical pedagogical space within the dominating culture and argues for the dissolution of barriers to participation in freely improvised musical community in solidarity with its roots in the Freedom Struggle and with ongoing “semi-audible” systemic oppressions, for the benefit of the broader culture and of creative music itself
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe 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
Full text link“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
Full text linkWe 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
Rising from the Swamp: The Philosophical Implications of the Dictator Novel
No full textThis thesis explores relationships between the modern Latin American dictator novel and the Western philosophical tradition. The dictator novel, as this thesis demonstrates, is a valuable tool for understanding authoritarian political systems as they have evolved in the West and as they have generated new literary forms. The twofold aim of the thesis is to show that 1) a text need not be “European” to contribute meaningfully to philosophical discourses addressing the politics of absolute power, and 2) that literary texts can amplify and distill philosophical debates on authoritarianism in productive ways. The recent trend toward authoritarianism worldwide has made thinking about the dictator novel more relevant, especially as democratic countries experience increasingly outward displays of authoritarianism tied to elite and oligarchic self-interest
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Full text linkWe 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
Thanatopsis: death and meaning in John Donne's Devotions upon emergent occasions and Death's duel
Full text linkThis thesis considers the representation of death in John Donne's later prose works Devotions upon Emergent Occasions (1624) and Death's Duel (1630). Donne's meditations on mortality interrogate the relationship between material bodies--his own and that of James VI and I--and language. Identifying the corpo-real as semiotically disruptive, Donne effectively deconstructs King James's textual embodiment of absolute sovereign power. As the power of the state church and his own discursive authority as preacher depend upon the belief that Scripture re-presents God's Word, Donne recuperates the representativity of the linguistic sign through poetically figuring the body of Christ, the divine Logos. By both close reading and reconstructing the socio-political contexts of Devotions and Duel, this thesis examines the interrelations among thanatos, representation, and discursive and material power as articulated in two significant early modern texts
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