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Narrating Scottish Devolution: Literature, Politics and the Culturalist Paradigm
No full textThis podcast explores the difficulty of making a cohesive story out of Scottish devolution, and the competing narratives and perspectives brought to the question by writers, historians, parliamentarians and constitutional experts. It emerges from a research workshop held at the University of Stirling to examine the idea of ‘cultural devolution’ – the notion that writers and artists made Holyrood possible – and revisits a side of the story which is less about taxation powers than the management of national feeling. With thanks to BBC Scotland, the Scottish Political Archive, Billy Kay and Stuart Platt for use of archival audio. Other recordings from ‘Narrating Scottish Devolution’ research workshops held at the University of Stirling, supported by a British Academy/Leverhulme Small Research Grant. Recording, editing and production assistance from Peter Geoghegan, with support from the Stirling Centre for Scottish Studies.This is an audio podcast, freely available online.This podcast was featured in the Guardian's Scotland blog on 26 February 2016: https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/scotland-blog/2016/feb/26/nobodys-dream-stories-of-scottish-devolutio
Democracy and the Indyref Novel
No full textThis chapter examines the first wave of indyref novels, registering the passions and divisions of the 2014 referendum on Scottish independence. Drawing on Amanda Anderson’s Bleak Liberalism, it examines fictions by Allan Cameron, Effie Deans, Kirstin Innes, Mary McCabe, and Craig Smith, arguing that the modes of social representation we encounter in these texts mirror the plebiscite which inspired them. These novels tend to reproduce indyref’s tendencies toward massified speech and reified group identity, and their novelistic failures are as interesting as their historical content. Though indyref was made possible through the success of Scotland’s admirably inclusive strain of liberal nationalism, the culture of argument that defined the political novel in English – argument as a ‘lived relation’ between liberal political subjects, compromising and compromised – is seldom to be found in this fiction. Instead, dramatic interest centres on the instrumental chessboard and its word-games, a Great Debate elevated to its own discursive ‘sovereignty’, unmarked by human dialogue or ethical doubt. Straining for narrative and emotional resolution, indyref fiction mirrors the echo-chambers of contemporary social media even as they resort to weak allegory and didactic archetypes drawn from the pre-history of the modern novel
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
Kelman and Masculinity
Full text linkThis chapter deconstructs the masculinism of James Kelman's narrative style, positing his resistance to hegemonic male identity through representations of the male body as weak and porous, and a re-routing of hegemonic masculinity through women
Enlarging the Map of Scottish Literary Influence: José Martí and the Cuban Reception
Full text linkThis study examines the Scottish component in Cuban literary culture, almost totally unknown in both countries. Specifically, it seeks to trace, document and interpret “Scoto-Cuban” literary transmission across the nineteenth-century. Archival and bibliographic study is complemented by a transmission studies methodology centred on the role of key Cuban intellectuals in receiving, translating, promoting and re-working Scottish literature in the Caribbean. We first establish the historic and literary context that gave rise to Cuba’s reception of Scottish writing, before analysing the specific effect of key figures including Lord Byron and Sir Walter Scott, and tracing the “hidden” presence of Scottish influence in canonical Cuban texts. Evidence is presented of the active role of Cuban receptors in promoting Scottish literary production by means of critical works, translations, correspondence and creative writing. Attention is focused on Cuban receptors’ perception of Scottish writers and their work, and the onward transmission of ideas of Scottish nationality and identity in Cuba. José Martí emerges as the most outstanding Scottish-literature receptor in this regard, a Cuban national hero with a special affinity for Scottish writers and cultural iconography. This project remedies a clear oversight in transatlantic literary studies and in the study of Scotland’s international literary heritage. This thesis argues for the inclusion of Cuba on the map of Scotland’s international literary influence, and for the recognition of Scottish writers and Cuban receptors who took part in the Scoto-Cuban literary phenomenon
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