1,720,959 research outputs found
Lessico e metafora tra Omero ed Eschilo: due casi di studio dalla parodo dei Persiani
Get PDFThis paper analyses the Homeric forms that are reused and reinterpreted by Aeschylus in order to create new metaphors and emphasise two main themes from the Persians’ parodos. The first part is dedicated to the imagery and lexicon that describe the Persian army between land and sea. The second section shows how Aeschylus’ lexical experimentation can rework Homeric expressions and lead to the creation of new iuncturae such as the ‘mind dressed in black’, which represents both the Chorus’ anxiety and the foreshadowing of mourning
Rivisitazioni del vanto epico del guerriero nell'Orestea
No full textA peculiar feature of Aeschylus’s Oresteia, a trilogy characterized by a pervasive blending and overlapping of different linguistic registers, is represented by the reprise and refunctionalisation of the boast of epic warriors on the lying body of a defeated enemy. This paper analyses how the topoi of Homeric boast are applied by Aeschylus to characters who, in different ways, either come into conflict with the epic model (Clytemnestra, Aegisthus, Orestes) or are not up for it because of a disastrous unawareness of the real situation (Agamemnon). This allows the poet to cast light on essential nuances of his new dramatic construction
Basta chiedere? Forme, lessico e rituale della preghiera in Aesch. Cho. 1-3
Get PDFTaking as its starting point the analysis of the prayer that opens Aeschylus’
Libation Bearers, this paper explores the relations between the forms and gestures of this
prayer addressed to Hermes Khthonios and further invocations used within the same
tragedy, by Orestes, Electra and the Chorus, addressed also to Agamemnon and Zeus.
Through a reconstruction of the religious context contemporary to the representation of
the tragedy, and considering epic antecedents, textual as well as gestural elements are
analysed to understand dramatic strategies used by Aeschylus to shape the characters
and build the plot of the dram
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
Presenze di Elena nel corpus sofocleo
Get PDFThe paper focuses on Helen and its ‘presence’ in Sophoclean drama. After a brief introduction (1), section 2 analyses the few references to Helen that are found in Sophocles’ extant plays (from Ajax and Electra). Sections 3‐5 all variously, and selectively, deal with Helen as a character in a few fragmentary plays. In particular, section 4 tentatively associates a one‐word fragment from Sophocles’ Ἑλένης ἀπαίτησις (179 R.2) with the heroine; section 5 focuses on Λάκαιναι – a play most likely featuring Helen among its dramatis personae – and especially on fr. 368 R.2; the latter, it is argued, is incompatible with the hypothesis that Helen was its addressee
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
- …
