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Tonality and (the) "beyond": Elgar's Gerontius and string quartet Piacevole
No full textThis chapter explores Edward Elgar’s evocation of “the beyond” – the state of purgatory – through musical means in his oratorio The Dream of Gerontius (1900). Commonality but also key differences, between the composition’s prelude to Act II and a later work, the second-movement Piacevole from Elgar’s String Quartet, op. 83 (1918), open up a fascinating hermeneutic window: To what extent might one say that Elgar’s perception of the beyond changed towards the end of his creative life? Much of the chapter’s argument hinges on Elgar’s treatment of tonality: Where does he go “beyond tonality” in these works, and where does he only appear to do so? Departing from received critical opinion, the chapter argues that the Piacevole is more tonally complex than Gerontius. Concomitantly, its portrayal of the beyond is more disquieting. Because of the necessarily technical and abstract nature of discussing – as opposed to feeling – tonality, the chapter develops an interdisciplinary framework to clarify its argument. The author draws on a playfully ambiguous image by Edward-Burne Jones – one of his Bogey drawings – as a means of interpreting the differences between Elgar’s use of tonality in the two works under examination
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
‘Oh, England! My Lionheart’: Englishness and the Countryside in Art Between the Wars
No full textThis dissertation explores the interwar work of Stanley Spencer (1891-1959), Cecil Beaton (1904-80), and Eric Ravilious (1903-42) in relation to their representations of the English countryside and what they meant to notions of national identity. It will move chronologically through the period and examine how the work of these three disparate artists intersected with national, social, and aesthetic concerns that lay at the heart of the question of what sort of country England was in relation to its rural landscapes. The argument will begin with Stanley Spencer, examining the legacies of First World War propaganda that positioned the countryside as the spiritual home of the English and how the physical legacy of the war dead problematised and transformed this concept. I will then turn to Cecil Beaton’s interior decoration of his country house, Ashcombe, as a case study for exploring how the generation that succeeded Spencer’s reckoned with the patriotic and moralistic notion of Englishness they inherited. The argument will finally centre on a cycle of paintings of chalk figures in the English landscape that Eric Ravilious painted at the outset of the Second World War to demonstrate how ancient symbols of the English countryside became re-politicised to combat the impending threat to the stability of national identity
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
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Get PDFWe 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
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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