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Mistero. Per un identikit sciasciano del detective, tra enigma e funzione risolutiva
Full text linkThis article is based on a paper presented at the «XIV Leonardo Sciascia Colloquium» on November 13th and 14th 2023 in Venice. From Sciascia’s numerous critical reflections on the detective genre emerges a deep understanding of the history, the development, and the technical aspects of this narrative style, as well as an identikit of the central character of the genre, which constitutes an effective critical perspective for the analysis of Sciascia’s detectives. These detectives are characters who, when confronting the mystery head on – unlike their counterparts in detective series in the world of entertainment – lose their function of resolving the mystery, under the weight of the dimension of the enquiry which is focused on the reality that his novels adopt
Introduzione. «Arti di pinna»: Leonardo Sciascia Saggista
No full textThe article presents the main theme of the XIV Sciascia Colloquium - the essay form explored by Leonardo Sciascia in his works - discussing each contribution and the focus each author chose to develop for this volume publication
Primo Levi e gli Stati Uniti: anatomia di un caso editoriale
No full textPrimo Levi is widely recognized as one of the most influential authors on a global scale. The 2015 republication of his works by Norton-Liveright, NY underscored his significance beyond Italian and European borders. This ambitious project greatly enhanced the international reception of Levi’s work, setting a new standard for the accessibility of his literature to non-Italian-speaking readers, and encouraging further research within the Italian landscape as well. However, Levi’s recognition in the United States is relatively recent. From the 1960s to the mid-1980s— a period marked by his most significant literary activity in Italy— Levi was largely overlooked in the U.S. This delayed recognition was influenced by editorial and translation choices that were often marked by inaccuracies, as well as the historical and cultural context in which his initial English editions were introduced to the American market. This article examines the pivotal points in the translation and publication journey of Levi’s works in English, comparing features such as translation quality, the treatment of titles and historical-literary references, and the role of paratexts and essays by both the author and the publisher
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
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
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
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