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Fotografía y proceso de escritura en "Sete palabras" de Suso de Toro, "Soinujolearen semea" de Bernardo Atxaga y "La meitat de l’ànima" de Carme Riera
Get PDFAbstract. Photography and the writing process in Sete palabras by Suso de Toro, La meitat de l’ànima by Carme Riera and Soinujolearen semea by Bernardo Atxaga. This paper aims to understand the function of pre-digital photography as described in contemporary metafiction. For this comparative analysis, I have selected three novels representing different cultures on the Iberian Peninsula and published in the 21st century: Sete palabras (Seven Words, 2009) by the Galician writer Suso de Toro (born in 1956), La meitat de l’ànima (Half the Soul, 2004) by the Catalan Carme Riera (born in 1948) and Soinujolearen semea (The Accordionist’s Son, 2003) by the Basque author Bernardo Atxaga (born in 1951). These three novels present a common feature in which the narrator (a writer born around 1950) writes a book in which he or she is, simultaneously, the sender of the written message (his or her book) and the receiver of the photography used during the writing process. In this construction of meaning, the writer re-contextualises the visual image and uses it for various proposes: to compare situations or characters, to verify discourses or facts, to identify someone, to preserve data in the record, or to communicate something. Sometimes, the photography does not accomplish its supposed function and does not help the writer to continue documenting or writing. In this case, the difficulty or impossibility of knowing the truth is emphasized. These photographies also have a narrative and structural function in the books, as they frequently demonstrate the text’s own self-awareness.
 
Multilingüismo en la traducción de Zeru horiek (1995) de Bernardo Atxaga al finés y al estonio
Get PDFMultilingualism in the Translation of Bernardo Atxaga’s Zeru Horiek (1995) into Finnish and Estonian. Zeru horiek (1995, The Lone Woman, English translation by Margaret Jull Costa) is the second most multilingual novel written by Bernardo Atxaga after Obabakoak. While Basque is the source language of his literary works, his fictional world is multilingual. In Zeru horiek seven natural languages appear together with Basque: English, Spanish, French, Italian, Catalan, Galician and Latin. This paper investigates how and why these languages are used in the novel, based on the theoretical approaches presented by Manterola (2019) and Verschik and Saagpakk (2023). Another purpose is to bring into the spotlight two translations of the novel never studied before: the Finnish version Tuolla taivaalla (1999, translated by Tarja Roinila) and the Estonian version Need taevad (2022, by the author of this article). Twenty-three years separate these translations, but the literary contexts of their publication are not very different. Firstly, because of the dominance of English as a main source language of literary translations, and secondly, on account of the fact that Basque, Latin and Romance language skills are not very common in its target readers.
Tuolla taivaalla is an example of early and indirect translation and, according to the model of Delabastita (1993), tends to substitute some expressions and passages in other languages, used by Atxaga, with elements of Finnish. The substitution reduces multilingualism, omits all reference to Galician and modifies some literary aspects such as the relationships between characters. Modifications in Esos cielos (the autotranslation by Atxaga) used as source text and an effort to make the text understandable for the reader can explain this linguistic and cultural homogenisation. Need taevad illustrates a late and direct translation that conventionally preserves and reproduces the multilingualism of the original. It even increases it in two ways: by restoring the source language in some passages (in English and French) presented in Basque in Zeru horiek, and by including some expressions in Basque. The strategy that allows this is permutation (translation in a footnote). Hence, two types of Estonian reader have been kept in mind: those who know some of these languages and those who do not
Manifestations of the Writing Process in Contemporary Catalan Short Stories
Get PDFDoktoritöö uurib kirjutamisprotsessi motiivi katalaanikeelses lühijutus ja otsib vastust küsimusele, milline üldpilt kirjutamisprotsessist kui fiktsioonimaailmade loomest uuritavates tekstides antakse. Tegu on tänaseni vähe käsitletud uurimisvaldkonnaga. Samal ajal võib motiivi pidada laialt levinud kirjandusnähtuseks, mis ületab ühe kirjandussüsteemi ja žanri piirid. Käesolevas töös tulevad vaatluse alla 58 teksti, mis on ilmunud ajavahemikus 1985-2009 22 autori sulest, kes pärinevad kolmest erinevast katalaanikeelsest piirkonnast (Kataloonia, Valencia ja Baleaari saared).
Uurimus on kvalitatiivne ja kuulub võrdleva kirjandusteaduse (tematoloogia) harru. Samas lähtub see multidistsiplinaarsest perspektiivist, võtab aluseks kirjutamisdidaktikas käibel oleva kognitiivse kirjutamismudeli, mis jagab kirjutamisprotsessi kolmeks, sageli kattuvaks alaprotsessiks: kavandamine, sõnastamine ja redigeerimine, ning kohandab selle motiiviuurimisele.
Üldpilt, mis tekstides kirjutamisprotsessi kohta avaldub, on suhteliselt mitmekesine. Uurimuse jooksul joonistub välja üheksa tüüpilist joont. Viis nendest – kirjutamise kui tegevuse (1) eesmärgipärasus, (2) (kunstiline) vabadus, (3) subjektiivsus, (4) reflektiivsus ja (5) dünaamilisus – avalduvad kirjutamise iga alaprotsessi kaudu. Nimetatud joonte rõhutamine juhib ideaalse lugeja tähelepanu mis tahes kirjaliku teksti kunstlikkusele. Samuti levib lühijuttudes kirjanduslikule ja sotsiokultuurilisele tüüpkäsitlusele vastav kujutlus kirjutamisest kui (6) vaikust nõudvast, üksildasest ja (7) kannatust põhjustavast tegevusest, mis seostub keskendumisvajaduse, aga ka inspireeritud teadvuse oleku ajutisuse, etteantud reeglite ja kohustusega kirjutada. Kujutlus kirjutamisest kui (8) moraalsest vastutusest (missioon, spionaaž, kuritegu) juhib tähelepanu loominguvabaduse eetilistele piiridele, kirjutamise interpersonaalsele funktsioonile ja (9) avatusele (teose erinevad tõlgendamisvõimalused). Lisaks fiktsioonimaailmade kunstlikkuse rõhutamisele, püüavad kirjutamisprotsessi kujutavad tekstid seega ka kindlaks määrata kirjaliku sõna kohta ühiskonnas ja peegeldavad retseptsiooniteooria mõjusid.The doctoral thesis studies the motif of the writing process in Catalan short stories and seeks to determine the general picture, which the studied texts give of the writing process as a creation of fictional worlds. Until today, this area of study has been little researched. At the same time, the motif can be considered a widely spread literary phenomenon that crosses the boundaries of one literary system and genre. The current thesis looks at 58 texts that were published between 1985 and 2009 by 22 authors from three different Catalan areas (Catalonia, Valencia, and the Balearic Islands).
The study is qualitative and part of comparative literature (thematology). At the same time it originates from a multidisciplinary perspective, and takes as its basis the cognitive writing model, which is used in writing didactics and which divides the writing process into three often overlaying subprocesses: planning, textualizing, and reviewing; and adapts it to the study of motif.
The texts reveal a relatively diverse general picture of the writing process. Nine typical characteristics emerge in the study. Five of them – (1) the purposefulness, (2) (artistic) freedom, (3) subjectivity, (4) reflectivity and (5) dynamism of writing as an activity – are revealed through every subprocess of writing. Emphasising the named characteristics draws the ideal reader’s attention to the artificiality of any text. Also, the short stories demonstrate an attitude compliant with the typical literary and sociocultural treatment of writing that portrays it as an activity that (6) requires quiet, is lonely and (7) causes suffering (an activity associated with the need to concentrate, the temporary nature of the states of inspired consciousness, given rules and the duty to write). The depiction of writing as (8) a moral responsibility (mission, espionage, crime) draws one’s attention to the ethical boundaries of creative freedom, the interpersonal function of writing and (9) openness (different possibilities for interpreting a piece of literature). Therefore, in addition to emphasising the artificiality of fictional worlds, texts depicting the writing process try to determine the place of the written word in society and reflect the influences of the reception theory
Traducir poesía es descubrir los volcanes sepultados debajo de los pies. A propósito de Valitud tõlkeluulet 1970–2020 (Selección de la poesía traducida, 1970–2020), por Jüri Talvet
Get PDFJüri Talvet, Valitud tõlkeluulet. I. Hiliskeskajast modernismini. TÜ Kirjastus, 2021, 298 pp.
Jüri Talvet, Valitud tõlkeluulet. II. 20. sajandi keskpaigast 21. sajandi alguseni. TÜ Kirjastus, 2021, 489 pp
Temática de los imagotipos en la narrativa breve catalana. Estudio de "Minifac Steimann, novel·lista d'orgasmes fallits" de Terenci Moix y "El paradís d'Amélie" de Imma Munsó
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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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