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A Romance of England and Wales:: ‘Logres’ in <i>Sir Gawain and the Green Knight</i>
No full textThis chapter details the representation of England and Wales in the late fourteenth-century north-west Midlands poem Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. Flood suggests that the Welsh affinities of the poem’s geography are not (as has elsewhere been argued) suggestive of a direct Welsh source influence on the poem, but rather are indicative of the mediation of Welsh historical material within the English tradition through Geoffrey of Monmouth’s twelfth-century Historia regum Britanniae. It explores the significance of Marcher geographies and spatial perceptions for our understanding of the poem, arguing for the March as a cultural centre rather than a periphery
A Romance of England and Wales:: ‘Logres’ in <i>Sir Gawain and the Green Knight</i>
No full textThis chapter details the representation of England and Wales in the late fourteenth-century north-west Midlands poem Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. Flood suggests that the Welsh affinities of the poem’s geography are not (as has elsewhere been argued) suggestive of a direct Welsh source influence on the poem, but rather are indicative of the mediation of Welsh historical material within the English tradition through Geoffrey of Monmouth’s twelfth-century Historia regum Britanniae. It explores the significance of Marcher geographies and spatial perceptions for our understanding of the poem, arguing for the March as a cultural centre rather than a periphery
Early Tudor Translations of English Prophecy in Wales
No full textThis chapter discusses the translation of English political prophecies into Welsh during the early Tudor period, with a particular focus on the long Welsh reception history of the Latin prophecy Lilium regnans, translated into Welsh as Proffwydoliaeth y Fflorddlis. It explores the broader implications of this activity for our understanding of the construction of cultural and political identities among the uchelwyr, the Welsh gentry, important patrons of Welsh and English language political literature during the mid-late fifteenth century
The supernatural company in cultural translation:Dafydd ap Gwilym and the Roman de la Rose tradition
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Insular Connections and Comparisons in the Later Middle Ages
No full textIntroduction to edited collection of essays, defining a new sphere of research centred on the relationship between Insular languages and literatures, as a field of comparative and connective study
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
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