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"Dall'avanguardia al romanzo: tempo, modo e struttura nell'evoluzione della narrativa di Ge Fei negli anni Novanta"
No full textIl contributo analizza l'evoluzione dell'opera dello scrittore cinese Ge Fei da un punto di vista prettamente narratologico, da autore dell'avanguardia narrativa a romanziere. Il percorso narratologico permette di identificare alcune grandi tendenze socio-letterarie della narrativa cinese alla fine del Novecento
CHINA’S AVANT-GARDE LITERATURE IN TRANSLATION: GE FEI
No full textThis thesis project focuses on my process of translating the novella Flock of Brown Birds and the short story “Ring Flower” into English. Both pieces of literature are written by the author Ge Fei, one of China’s most renowned avant-garde writers. In this thesis, I explore the dynamics of translating Chinese literature into English, as well as the unique challenges that arise when translating avant-grade literature. The beginning of the first chapter is an introductory look at the sociopolitical background of China’s literary avant-garde genre during the 1980s. The second half of the chapter is a literary analysis of Flock of Brown Birds and “Ring Flower”, as my interpretations of the two pieces was an important part of the translation process. Chapter 2 is a commentary on my translations. In this chapter, I examine the historical background of Chinese and Western translation theory. I also discuss the translation theories that were most influential in my thought process while translating, as well as examine several practical and theoretical challenges that I encountered while writing my translation. Chapters 3 and 4 are my translations of Flock of Brown Birds and “Ring Flower”
Subversion, transcendence, and rejection history in the fiction of contemporary Chinese avant-garde writers Su Tong, Yu Hua, and Ge Fei
No full textThis thesis explores the different patterns of history presented in the fiction of the three major contemporary Chinese avant-garde writers Su Tong, Yu Hua, and Ge Fei as well as their respective views of history. Based on detailed case studies of the three writers, the thesis examines the complicated and intertwined relationships of contemporary Chinese avant-garde fiction with previous Chinese traditions—Confucian, the May Fourth, and Communist—and with foreign influences. It also assesses the overall literary achievement of Chinese avant-garde fiction, its position in the history of modern Chinese literature, and its impact on the Chinese writers of later generations.
Unlike most previous research on this subject, which overemphasizes the "alien" nature of Chinese avant-garde fiction or its discontinuity with Chinese tradition, this thesis aims at a more balanced investigation. Not only is the "newness" of Chinese avant-garde fiction deeply explored, its "Chineseness" or its profound continuity with Chinese literary and cultural conventions is also carefully examined. By comparison, the thesis attaches more importance to the "Chineseness" of Chinese avant-garde fiction.
My analysis demonstrates that, while Su Tong aims at the total subversion of the Communist interpretation of the Chinese revolution and history, while Yu Hua attemptsto transcend the Maoist materialistic view of history through reincorporating subjectivity into historical interpretation, Ge Fei totally rejects the conceptualization of history and the underlying rationalistic assumption of human experience as a perceptible and understandable unity.Arts, Faculty ofAsian Studies, Department ofGraduat
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
La música en las obras de Pablo Montoya y Ge Fei
No full text哥伦比亚当代作家巴勃罗蒙托亚和中国当代作家格非有许多共通性：在作品中使用大量的音乐元素、关心社会问题等等。本文旨在通过中国和西方的音阶理论从三方面分析两人作品中的音乐性：音乐作为文学作品中的中心思想，音乐叙事及通过中西方音乐理论阐释两种语言的音乐性 。Pablo Montoya y Ge Fei son dos escritores contemporáneos de Colombia y de China que comparten muchas similitudes: uso de factores musicales en sus obras, preocupación por los problemas sociales, etcétera. En este artículo, analizaremos la musicalidad desde tres perspectivas: la música como tema central en las obras literarias, la narración musical y la musicalidad en chino y en español mediante las teorías de la escala musical de China y Occidente
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
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