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Speaking from Silence: the Stoic Paradoxes of Persius
No full textVengono esaminati gli aspetti più rilevanti della satira di Persio: il complesso rapporto con il modello oraziano; la dissimulazione di qualunque esplicita aggressione satirica (nel contesto politico neroniano); l’immagine della ‘pozione concentrata’. Il rapporto con lo stoicismo si mostra utile per comprendere vari aspetti dell’invenzione linguistica di Persio, in particolare la sua proverbiale ‘densità’. Il contributo è stato tradotto, con alcune aggiunte e aggiornamenti, in K. Freudenburg, A. Barchiesi, A. Cucchiarelli (edd.), Musa pedestre. Storia e interpretazione della satira in Roma antica, traduzione e adattamento dall’edizione inglese a cura di Andrea Cucchiarelli, Carocci Editore, Roma, 2007, pp. 77-97, 228-231.The essay examines the most relevant aspects of the satire of Persius: the complex relationship with the model Horace; the dissimulation of satirical aggression in the political context of the Neronian Age; the imagery of the concentrated potion (decoctium). The relationship with Stoicism proves to be useful to understand several aspects of Persius’ linguistic invention, especially for what concerns its proverbial “density”. The essay has been traslated, with some additions and discussion of recent bibliography, in K. Freudenburg, A. Barchiesi, A. Cucchiarelli (edd.), Musa pedestre. Storia e interpretazione della satira in Roma antica, traduzione e adattamento dall’edizione inglese a cura di Andrea Cucchiarelli, Carocci Editore, Roma, 2007, pp. 77-97, 228-231
Recensione a: K. Freudenburg, A. Cucchiarelli, A. Barchiesi, Musa pedestre: storia e interpretazione della satira in Roma antica, Roma (Carocci) 2007
No full textRecensione al volume sulla satira latina "Musa pedestre" di K. Freudenburg, A. Cucchiarelli, A.Barchiesi (Roma 2007
Senecan Drama and the Age of Nero
Full text linkThis paper argues for a more complex contextualization of Senecan drama in the art and culture of the Neronian age than it has previously received. The tendency to read the tragedies as tragédies à clef is here criticized. Instead, more attention should be payed to other less analyzed features.For one, this paper emphasizes the importance of the tragedies’ continuing themes as echoed in the prose works, such as the relationship between monarchy and tyrannical power, the role of fate in the kingdom, and the role of the advisor figure. These themes are parallel across the poetry and the prose in their relentless movement from a more positive to a more negative view of power. The paper also examines Senecan drama within a number of possible interpretive contexts related directly to their cultural milieu: as Augustanism “refigured” in order to reverse the optimistic stance of that earlier literature and represent the emperor as a sort of mad god; as a parallel to Fourth-style wall painting, in which domestic scenes are featured publicly and mythological innovation is striking; and as a re flection, metrically, of the heightened interest in music and pantomime under Nero. Examinations in this style help us fully understand the multidimensional nature of the theatricality marking the Neronian age
Musa pedestre. Storia e interpretazione della satira in Roma antica
No full textSelezione di articoli che compongono un panorama del genere satirico a Roma: autori principali, temi, forme, genere, e problemi della ricerca. Contiene uno specifico lavoro, scritto con A. Cucchiarelli, sulla simbologia del corpo nella poetica satirica
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
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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