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Ariane Mnouchkine and the Théâtre du Soleil
No full textThis is the first full-length study of the renowned French theatre director Ariane Mnouchkine and her company, the Théâtre du Soleil. Mnouchkine first came to the attention of the English-speaking world with her 1970 production about the French Revolution, '1789', and later with her Shakespeare cycle influenced by Japanese and Indian theatre techniques, which was seen at the Olympic Arts Festival in Los Angeles in 1984. Today Mnouchkine is recognised as one of the first women directors to achieve an international reputation and her productions, spanning from Shakespeare to contemporary drama, have been widely acclaimed as being in the forefront of twentieth-century theatre. Having worked with Mnouchkine's company in 1985, Adrian Kiernander was in a unique position to observe her directorial style and working methods. In this fascinating study, which includes an interview with Mnouchkine, Kiernander analyses the elements which inform her work as well as the impact she has had on modern theatre. The book will be of interest to theatre practitioners, students and scholars of drama and theatre history and French studies, as well as to the general reader. It includes a chronology of Mnouchkine's productions and theatre career and is illustrated with photographs from productions
The governal of health
No full textThe Governal of Health is a text of historical and linguistic interest, having been printed by William Caxton about 1489, thus being the earliest medical work printed in English. No other detailed study of the text has been made, and it has not been used in the compilation of the Oxford English Dictionary or Kurath and Kühn's Middle English Dictionary.
The principal objective of this edition has been to establish a clear and accurate text based on a detailed study of the eight located manuscript versions of the treatise, with constant reference to the Regimen Sanitatis of which it is a translation. One good manuscript version (from B.M. Add. MS. 29301) was selected as a base and freely emended from the other versions wherever it was clear that errors or omissions had been made.
The introduction to the text contains descriptions of the eight manuscripts which have been located containing texts of The Governal of Health, together with notes on manuscripts containing versions of the Regimen Sanitatis, and on the surviving copies of Caxton's edition and other printed editions and facsimiles. (A discussion of the state of Caxton's text is found at the beginning of Appendix A).
A study of the language of the text is included, concentrating particularly on the vocabulary, with an account of those words which are used with meanings not recorded in the Oxford English Dictionary or the Middle English Dictionary and those words which predate the first examples quoted in those dictionaries.
Finally in the Introduction there are notes on the authorship and date of the text. The precise date of the text remains uncertain; however it is established as a result of this study that the treatise, previously ascribed variously to John de Bordeaux and Bartholomeus, was written by John Mirfeld at St Bartholomew's Priory.
Transcriptions of Caxton's edition and of the Regimen Sanitatis (from BM. MS. Harley 3) are appended, and a full Glossary of all forms in the text is provided
Moving out: centrifugal patterns of masculinity in urban Australian plays, 1955-70 and 1985-2000
No full textAt first glance, Summer of the Seventeenth Doll, first performed in1955, is an exemplary text for an investigation of theatrical masculinity in Australia in the 1950s. The central male characters, Roo and Barney, have become symbols of a 1950s-style masculinity. However the complexities of the play reveal that these two characters are much more problematic than this straightforward picture would suggest. Certainly they do many of the things that counted in terms of the stereotype of idealised masculinity: they have earned the admiration and devotion of the women in the play and are described in godlike or superhuman terms, and as eagles flying down out of the sun (Lawler 1978: 250), they perform hard physical labour, they live and work in the bush, they smoke and drink hard, they speak forcefully and directly, and so on. What is more pertinent to this chapter,they are highly mobile, moving on an annual cycle from work in the canefields of Queensland to the layoff in the city of Melbourne. The title of the play itself draws attention to the cyclical nature of their lives, and the importance of mobility for the performance of their masculinity. However, as Michael Mangan reminds us, masculinity is relational (2003: 9), and in this play the relationality of gender begins to call into question the ideal masculinity of the two heroes
Introduction: rehearsing masculinities
No full textThe phrase "A man's gotta do what a man's gotta do" becomes, in TonyMcNamara's play 'The John Wayne Principle' (1996), the starting pointfor a theatrical exploration of changes in masculinity toward the endof the twentieth century. Popularly, though inaccurately, attributed to John Wayne in the movie 'stagecoach' (1939), this rhetorically incontrovertible statement has been used to justify a range of male actions by means of a circular logic from which there seems no escape. Some people may not like what men do but, according to this formulation, there's no alternative and the world will just have to get used to it. There is something irreducible and immutable about being a man: whatever the situation, to use Robert Burns's version of the same tautology, "a man's a man for a' that". Yet the commoninjunction, 'Act like a man!', recognises that some men may indeed act differently. This apparent contradiction throws up some broad questions. To what extent does acting like a man come naturally to (all) men? And what precisely is the relationship between acting like a man and being a man
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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