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God\u27s "blood-curdling jokes" in Milton\u27s Paradise Lost
No full textThis thesis begins by exploring the Fall of Adam and Eve, from Milton’s portrayal in Paradise Lost, in order to judge when comedy become a possibility for the human race. The three major theories of comedy are then traced: superiority theory, incongruity theory, and relief theory. It also discusses some complexities within comedy theory such as black comedy, as well as giving examples of some modern theories of comedy and which show comedy to be fundamental to human life and how it may serve a role in sustaining life. Slavoj Žižek’s belief that comedy is the best means of representing atrocities is described and used to support the appropriateness of comedy in discussing the Fall. Milton’s own awareness
of comic conventions is then explored to see to what degree he intentionally included comedy in Paradise Lost. Biographical references, as well as stylistic choices by Milton, are used as evidence for the existence of his use of comedy. It will show that Milton’s characterisation,
as well as narrative choices, suggest that he has adopted an intentional comic mode, which extends beyond his accepted use of satire, the mock-heroic, or the grotesque, which are ideas already widely represented in
criticism. The challenges of identifying the true hero of Paradise Lost are explored with reference to Northrop Frye’s theory of heroes and genre. Finally through the comparison of Milton with Beckett generally, and specifically through comparing Paradise Lost to All That Fall, many similarities between the philosophy of Beckett and Milton are exposed. A detailed exploration is made between the similar topics in both texts such as isolation, companionship, sex, temptation, death, hopelessness, fallenness, original sin, reproduction, knowledge, and cowardice. In conclusion, Miltonic comedy is shown to be dark and further areas of research are suggested
Austin Clarke
Full text linkThis is the first book to examine the work of Austin Clarke (1896-1974) in the light of modern critical and theoretical perspectives. Clarke was one of Ireland's major writers whose career was devoted as much to fiction, drama and autobiography as to poetry.
The study assesses Clarke's work in its entirety but focuses on key works which reveal how resourcefully Clarke explored themes such as the coherence of the personality, the inner lives of women and the roots of repression
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
“Watch this spillage”: allusion and intertext in the poetry of Anne Carson
Full text linkAllusion and intertext are integral to Anne Carson’s poetry and manifest the erotics of “coming to know”. As such, they demand a level of critical attention that has conventionally been afforded more usually to the narrative aspects of her work. Carson\u27s imagination necessarily works in dialogue with her theoretical and scholarly compulsions to create a unique dynamic, an ever-building connective framework of “triangulation-as-process”. Triangulation in cartography provides a paradigm to illustrate this dynamic. Triangulation-as-process provides an orthographic reading of the cultural space Carson opens for readers. Writers from disparate times and genres usually form the nexus of every particular allusive triangulation. I frame the instances of quotation and citation within the poetry as speech act, referencing the interest in theories regarding speech and writing evident in Carson’s work. I identify post-structural influences in the relational dynamics within the process of triangulation, and suggest that her abiding concerns regarding gender, hybridity, fluidity, movement and spatiality are fostered by this process. The mesh of allusions that Carson weaves within and between texts may activate further intertextual connections in the reader’s mind, moving beyond the promptings of authorial intent. Allusion and intertext facilitate the complicated cross-talk of contemporary and traditional narratives, evoking both a sense of flux and of history within her work. The homoerotic triangulations of “Sappho 31” and the Phaedrus are central to this process, allowing power lines to shift, and enacting Carson’s disruption of the narrative of normative heterosexuality. The dynamics of allusion and intertext require a significant shift in readers’ perspectives, and my readings of Carson seek to exemplify that necessary mobility
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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