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"Tales of the supernatural: ""Liao-chai chih-i"" and the American short story of the nineteenth century"
No full text"The writers of the supernatural tales present in their stories nonrational events that can be set in either the primary or the secondary world or an ambiguous region in between, such as dreamland. Whether the reader accepts these events as real (""the uncanny""), rejects them as illusory (""the marvelous""), or remains uncertain (""the fantastic""), he perceives the notion of otherness which evokes a sense of awe and wonder.""P'u Sung-ling's (sk50, 1640-1715) Liao-chai chih-i (""tales of the unusual from the Leisure Studio"" or ""Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio"", sk50) was completed in 1707 and first printed and published in 1766. An amalgamation of earlier literary traditions represented by chih-kuai (sk30) and ch'uan-ch'i (sk30), the 494 tales in Liao-chai deal with extraordinary events and the supernatural beings of various disguise. In its incorporation of minor historical facts through painstaking research, its affirmation of the value of love and personal freedom, and its systematic but subtle criticism of the social illness and the political problems of the day, Liao-chai chih-i has created a tradition of its own.""The appearances of Washington Irving, Nathaniel Hawthorne and Edgar Allan Poe represent the high-watermark of nineteenth-century American supernatural tales, in terms of both quantity and quality. In the form of romance, the supernatural tales of these authors bring us into a ""neutral territory"" where shadow and ambiguity are emphasized. Out of the thin fabric of American society and the thinner fabric of American legend, these authors stitched together a new and vital kind of fiction which coordinates European folklore and Gothicism, myths and legends of the whole world, as well as psychological explorations into the American experience."In discussing the representative tales of the supernatural by P'u Sung-ling and Irving, Hawthorne and Poe, a thematic approach is adopted in this dissertation. The first part of this dissertation deals with the supernatural tales of love by the above authors with minor themes such as the concept of retribution, reincarnation and resurrection, obsession and madness, transformation and metempsychosis. The second part concentrates on the supernatural tales of dream, including the use of dream vision, prophetic dream and dream realism.Made available in DSpace on 2011-05-07T12:01:41Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2
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Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
No full textThe 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
Women's Voices in Arabic, French, and English Salons: Literary Impacts
No full textThis study presents the voices of women in classical Arabic literature and the literature of eighteenth century France and England. It compares women as writers and sponsors of salons during two different periods of world history.In these periods, women enjoyed the same kind of recognition and fame as men. They also possessed a considerable degree of social and literary freedom. Their homes were centers of intellectual and literary activities, frequented by the best poets of the day. In the eighteenth century, French and English women found the hostessing of salons to be a valuable way to make their mark on their intellectual world.The output of these remarkable women was of different natures. In Arabia, women did not have to struggle to obtain their rights; they were bestowed on them by the law of Islam. Poetry was the most significant form of Arabic literature. Arab women writers composed poetry to express their emotions to lovers or relatives. In France and England, because of frequent societal prejudice against women as writers, many found the epistolary genre convenient for expressing their thoughts. Unlike their Arab counterparts, French and English women writers often filled their letters with criticisms of their societies. Through literature, they attempted to establish their legitimate rights in social, political, economic, and literary areas.In all three societies the salons played an important role in women's literary output. Arab women turned their verses into an intellectual and literary exercise. Written poetry, for them, was an extension of the poetic conversations of their salons. In France and England, the conversations tended to the literary and philosophical. Even the fictional letters written by the hostesses reflected the nature of the salon conversations. They used the form perfectly to serve their purpose, demanding changes in society. One must be impressed by the zeal and genius shown by women in all these societies not only in terms of conducting their circles, but also in terms of their talent in conversing in a literate and intellectual way with men of high culture. (Abstract shortened with permission of author.)Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-16T06:50:16Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1
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Variations on the Author
No full text“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
No full textWe 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
No full textWe 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
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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