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Limites de l'empathie : le cas du Fou d'Omar d'Abla Farhoud
Full text linkLe roman d’Abla Farhoud qui entre dans la catégorie des « Follittératures » (Plaza 1986) raconte de manière polyphonique l’impact que le frère « fou » de la famille d’Omar a sur ses proches. Ce chapitre aborde les troubles mentaux dans la perspective des affects générés chez et sur le sujet et son entourage. On se focalise sur les limites empathiques qui se jouent dans le cadre sociopolitique et familial, sur les sentiments et les comportements dyspathiques qui empêchent la réalisation de l’empathie. Car si l’empathie est « par nature tournée vers l’autre, l’autre que soi, le différent de soi, que l’on cherche à comprendre » (Famery 2013), une multitude d’obstacles (cognitifs et émotionnels) s’oppose à cet entendement de l’autre. Nous analysons également le rôle de la parole dite (par les personnages) et écrite (par l’autrice) en tant qu’« empathie narrative » (Hochmann 2012) dans le dépassement des frontières qui isolent les êtres, en accordant au langage une force à la fois herméneutique et cathartique. Abla Farhoud’s novel falls into the category of “Folliliteratures” (Plaza 1986), narrating in a polyphonic manner the impact that the “mad” brother in Omar’s family has on those around him. This chapter analyzes mental disorders from the perspective of affects generated in and on the subject and those around him. We focus on the limits of empathy which play out in the socio-political and family context, and on the feelings and behaviors which prevent the realization of empathy. If empathy is “by nature oriented towards the other, the other than oneself, the different from oneself, that one seeks to understand” (Famery 2013, our translation), a multitude of obstacles (cognitive and emotional) opposes this understanding of the other. We also analyze the role of words spoken (by the characters) and written (by the author) as “narrative empathy” (Hochmann 2012) in overcoming the boundaries that isolate beings, by granting language a force that is both hermeneutic and cathartic
LITERATURE FACING HISTORY: WHY FICTIONAL / LA LITTERATURE FACE À L’HISTOIRE: LE POURQUOI FICTIONNEL
No full textLong before the events of 2015, literature has focused on reasons that have determined some people to join extremist movements and to carry out attacks. In this paper, we propose to come to reading a few novels: Alaa al-Aswany, L’immeuble yacoubian, Yasmina Khadra, L’attentat, Karine Tuil, L’invention de nos vies, that will show how identities are found in crisis and draws the attention upon the relationship between the individual, the religious problem and politics
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
D’une hétérotopie à l’autre où le vagabondage au féminin (Jean Echenoz, Un an)
Full text linkJean Echenoz’s text presents Victoria’s story who runs away from Paris, believing that she has killed her lover. Her straying (that embraces the form of a relative deterritorialization in a Deleuzian sense) lasts one year and it is built up geographically upon a descent (more or less symbolical) to the South of France and, after that, she comes back to Paris and encloses the spatial and textual curl. From a spatial point of view, she turns into a heterotopia (Foucault) every place where she is located, fact that reflects her incapability of constituting a personal, intimate space. The railway stations, the trains, the hotels, the improvised houses of those with no fixed abode are turning, according to Marc Augé’s terminology, into a « non-lieux » that excludes human being. Her vagrancy is characterized through a continuous flight from police and people and through a continuous decrease of her standard of living and dignity. It’s not about a quest of oneself, but about a loss of oneself. Urged by a strong feeling of culpability, her vagrancy is a self-punishment that comes to an end when the concerns of her problems disappear and she finds out that her lover is alive
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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