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Measuring Visuo-Motor Accuracy for Estimating Surface Orientation: Texture and Stereo cues compared.
No full textKnill D, Kersten D, Ernst MO. Measuring Visuo-Motor Accuracy for Estimating Surface Orientation: Texture and Stereo cues compared. Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science. 1998;39(4):914
Alive but Cancelled: The Public’s Response to the Controversial Author
No full textThis thesis explores how the public has responded to authors J.K. Rowling and Lionel Shriver, who have become the subject of public controversy, and what this response tells us about the current conceptions about the author. Academics like Wenche Ommundsen and English & Frow have established that authors are no longer the faceless names they once were, and several of them have reached a proper celebrity status. Especially now, in a time in which social media exerts great influence on how the general public views celebrities and concepts like “wokeness” and social justice become increasingly relevant topics, celebrities and celebrity authors are often expected to display socially just behaviour and reprimanded when they do not. By analysing the online responses to the controversies caused by these two prominent authors, this thesis argues that the public perceives a strong relationship between authors and their work and generally attributes a great deal of responsibility to popular authors with vast platforms.
Keywords: Lionel Shriver; J.K. Rowling; literary celebrity; wokeness; cancel culture; Death of the Author; transphobia; cultural appropriatio
Humans use stereo and haptic distance cues to improve physical object size estimates
No full textBattaglia P, Ernst MO, Schrater P, Di Luca M, Machulla T, Kersten D. Humans use stereo and haptic distance cues to improve physical object size estimates. Journal of Vision. 2008;8(6):1090
"An Acquired Taste": The Internal and External Posture of Nicola Barker, Metamodernist Author
No full textThis thesis looks at how Nicola Barker's internal and external posture are construed on the basis of her last three books, The Cauliflower® (2016), H(A)PPY (2017), and I Am Sovereign (2019), how different institutions react to these books and whether that posture can be considered metamodernist. The theoretical framework and methodology builds on Meizoz's notion of posture, the singular way of occupying a position within the literary field, as defined by Bourdieu. As for metamodernism, multiple important sources are examined, starting with Vermeulen and Van den Akker. The research concludes that Nicola Barker can indeed be considered a metamodernist author and her posture seems to construed as that of a working-class author with a nonconformist and anti-establishment attitude, as well as an unconventional and transgressively intermedial approach that, despite her abundantly employed irony, always seems to contain a moral core
Posture and intimacy in the author-narrator’s voice: a comparison between Dickens’s A Christmas Carol and Gaiman’s Neverwhere
No full textMy research seeks to bridge the divide between Victorian and contemporary literary research by studying two readings, a public performance of A Christmas Carol by Dickens and the 1996 spoken word version of Neverwhere, written and narrated by Gaiman, in order to study authorship and performativity in a diachronic way. By close ‘listening’ to and close reading passages from both readings and putting the authors’ narrating techniques and styles into their own literary and cultural context, I aim to find out in what way the author-narrator’s voice in Dickens’s A Christmas Carol and Gaiman’s Neverwhere constructs an authorial posture and contributes to a feeling of intimacy and companionship between author and listener
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
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