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“Don Juan in the Ottoman East: Dis/continuities in Cantos V-VIII”
No full textAs with the English cantos, those set in Constantinople and Ismail constitute a discrete narrative sequence within Don Juan, one whose apparently seamless plot progression is criss-crossed by continuities and discontinuities in relation to the poem’s previous instalments. Discontinuities particularly concern the position of these cantos in the poem’s compositional history during the fraught period of 1821-22, as well as a representation of the Ottoman East which knowingly reprises and relentlessly subverts familiar orientalist topoi. In keeping with Don Juan’s pervasive medley mode, cantos V-VIII are built on an interplay of dis/continuities forcing readers uninterruptedly to identify and decode multiple, ever-varying lines of argument about excess, consumption, eroticism and war, and held together by a central thread of reflections on power. Investigating the thematic and structural peculiarities of this section of Don Juan, this chapter suggests that we read it as a unit within the poem, which consistently engages questions of authority and control through a distinctive interweaving of figurative protocols, historical-ideological materials, and metaliterary references
"Byron and the critics in the new millennium"
No full textThe assessment of the quality of Byron’s verse and Byron’s thought has always been a controversial issue, largely depending on aesthetic but also on ideological criteria. Intertwining with the development of literary criticism as a professional discipline, Byron’s fortune was subject to considerable changes over the last century, so much so that the position of Byron within the canon of Romanticism was repeatedly redefined depending on the presuppositions of the various critical schools: the neglect of the New Critics, whose ideal of self-contained, distilled and impersonal art left little room for Byron’s effusiveness, was followed first by the renewed interest of New Historicism, elicited by Byron’s relevance to a plurality of contexts, and later by the multiple and innovative approaches of post-structuralism.
Drawing on the wealth of documentation assembled by Rutherford, Reiman and Nicholson, Jane Stabler (1998) and Caroline Franklin (Byron, 2007) have accurately mapped the evolution of Byron criticism in their studies of the poet. Complementing their chronological overview, this essay addresses the relationship between Byron and his 20th- and 21st-century critics by concentrating on major thematic clusters at the centre of the critical debate, starting with the issue of the relationship between the personality of the poet and his verses. The focus is on the many examples of biographical and/or contextual criticism that were applied to Byron’s works, and the attendant critical discussions of cultural constructs such as the Byronic hero, Byron’s masks, Byron’s mobility, ‘Byromania’, Byron’s sexual identity and the gender issues raised by his production. A second cluster deals with the debate about Byron’s ‘thought’ and the often diverging opinions about his philosophy (or the lack thereof) – variously highlighting his link with the tradition of philosophical scepticism, his use of Romantic irony, his pessimism, the religious unorthodoxy or alternatively the spiritual overtones of his works – as well as the debate about his conceptions of history and his controversial political views
Incongruous Objects:A Study in Bric-à-Brac
No full textReview of Jonathon Shears and Jen Harrison (ends), Literary Bric-à-Brac and the Victorians: From Commodities to Oddities
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
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
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