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Russian Wanderer in the Post-Soviet Space
No full textIn “Russian Wanderer in the Post-Soviet Space: Homelessness in Ilichevsky’s Matisse,” Katya Jordan examines Aleksandr Ilichevsky’s conceptualization of homelessness as a state of existential not belonging that beset the author himself and others of his generation when the Soviet system collapsed in the early 1990s. The novel’s protagonist attempts to mitigate his metaphorical homelessness by choosing to embrace actual homelessness and to use it as “part of a flight to a deeper awareness” (Widmer); yet Jordan also shows that the type of homelessness that Ilichevsky depicts draws on the Russian spiritual tradition of strannichestvo, the kind of wandering that allows one to leave the secular world behind in pursuit of a spiritual destination, never to return to either the physical or the spiritual point of origin. By bringing into the discussion the writings of Dostoevsky, Berdyaev, and Ioann Lestvichnik, Jordan shows that although homelessness in Matisse has lost its religious underpinnings, it nevertheless remains primarily a spiritual concept that allows an individual to break free from the mass society one is living in.</jats:p
“A complete account of foreign impressions”: The XVIII Symposium of the International Dostoevsky Society in Retrospect / “Полный отчет о заграничных впечатлениях”: XVIII Симпозиум Международного Общества Достоевского в ретроспективе : (edited by Raffaella Vassena & Katya Jordan)
No full textThe IDS Symposium in Nagoya through the impressions of some of its participants: Fátima Bianchi, Ljudmil Dimitrov, Kate Holland, Liu Na, Jordi Morillas, Katya Jordan, and Jasmina Vojvodić.
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
A complete account of foreign impressions : The XVIII Symposium of the International Dostoevsky Society in Retrospect = Полный отчет о заграничных впечатлениях : XVIII Симпозиум Международного Общества Достоевского в ретроспективе
No full textThe IDS Symposium in Nagoya through the impressions of some of its participants: Fátima Bianchi, Ljudmil Dimitrov, Kate Holland, Liu Na, Jordi Morillas, Katya Jordan, and Jasmina Vojvodić
Russian Wanderer in the Post-Soviet Space
Get PDFIn "Russian Wanderer in the Post-Soviet Space: Homelessness in Ilichevsky's
Matisse," Jordan examines Aleksandr Ilichevsky's conceptualization of homelessness
as a state of existential not belonging that beset the author and his peers when the
Soviet system collapsed in the early 1990s. The novel's protagonist mitigates his
metaphorical homelessness by embracing actual homelessness, using it as a "part of a
flight to a deeper awareness" (Widmer); yet Jordan also shows that homelessness in
Matisse draws on the Russian spiritual tradition of strannichestvo, or departure from
the secular world in pursuit of a sacred destination. By bringing into the discussion the
writings of Dostoevsky, Berdyaev, and Ioann Lestvichnik, Jordan shows that although
strannichestvo in Matisse has lost its religious underpinnings, it remains primarily a
spiritual concept that allows an individual to break free from a mass society and gain
the kind of fulfillment that the Soviet state promised but failed to deliver
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