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Trends in Classics - Hellenistic Lyricism
No full textVolume 9, Issue 2 (Nov 2017) Ed. by Montanari, Franco / Rengakos, Antonios Editorial Board: Bernabé Pajares, Alberto / Billerbeck, Margarethe / Calame, Claude / Grethlein, Jonas / Hardie, Philip R. / Harrison, Stephen J. / Hinds, Stephen / Hunter, Richard / Kraus, Christina S. / Mastromarco, Giuseppe / Nagy, Gregory / Papanghelis, Theodore D. / Picone, Giusto / Raaflaub, Kurt / Whitmarsh, Tim / Zimmermann, Bernhard Introduction Sistakou, Evina Callimachean ‘Lyric’ Acosta-Hughes, Benjam..
Choral intertemporality in the Oresteia
No full textOne of the most salient aspects of the chorus in Greek tragedy is its mediation between the play and the audience. Schlegel's view of the chorus as ‘ideal spectator’ has recently been taken up and refined by Claude Calame, who argues that, besides embodying a specific group in the dramatic action, the chorus also merges the voices of the author and the audience. The mediation between the actors and the audience is obvious in the spatial position of the choreutai who, after the parodos, come to stand in the orchestra. Here, between the stage and the theatron, they sing, dance and follow the dramatic action. In this paper, I would like to turn to time and argue that, though less obviously than space, time is also crucial to the mediating function of the chorus. It is a commonplace that tragedy brings together a heroic past with the democratic present. While ‘heroic vagueness’ marks the time of the action as different from the present of the performance, ‘zooming-devices’ establish links to the world of the spectators. The distance of the heroic world as well as polyphony allows tragedy to negotiate issues controversial in the polis of Athens. At first sight, the chorus, often representing marginal groups and using the Doric of Greek lyric in their songs, may seem to distance the action from the world of the audience. At the same time, the ‘song culture’ of ancient Greece provides the audience with a frame in which choral songs have direct significance. In exploring the complex temporality of the Greek chorus, I would like to show that the choral odes contribute much to the dialogue between past and present enacted in tragedy, that intertemporality is an important aspect of the chorus’ mediation
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
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