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Thomas Hardy's experiments in narrative discourse in five tragic novels
No full textHardy's tragic novels are examined in the context of Mikhail Bakhtin's writings on architectonic and dialogic modes of discourse in novels. Bakhtin uses the concept of architectonics to describe an author's struggle within a literary text to give artistic unity to his protagonist's experiences. Bakhtin's focus on the conflict between the discursive environment of an author and the subjective horizon of a character helps to clarify Hardy's attempts to use narrative language and form to express the tragic meaning of his characters' discordant lives. Bakhtin's analysis of the dialogic structuring of divergent voices in novels is useful in tracing Hardy's development as a novelist toward open-ended and composite forms of narrative discourse. The Return of the Native and The Mayor of Casterbridge have a strong architectonic focus based on the opposition between the meanings of Egdon Heath and Casterbridge explored by Hardy's narrators and the destructive lives of his characters. In The Woodlanders, Tess of the d'Urbervilles, and Jude the Obscure, Hardy creates experimental forms of narrative discourse which place increased stress on the subjective solitude of his characters, on the unreliability of his narrators, and on the cruelty which he finds in the relations between the individual, society, and nature. With the dialogic structuring of narrative voice and individual consciousness in Tess of the d'Urbervilles and Jude the Obscure, Hardy's vision of modern tragedy achieves its most complex and challenging expression.Made available in DSpace on 2011-05-07T11:58:03Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2
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Feminist fiction and fictional feminism: Sarah Grand and the new woman novel
No full textThis dissertation is a study of the novels of Sarah Grand (1854-1943), a British novelist and feminist activist. Between 1880 and 1920 changes in laws affecting women and in social and scientific beliefs about gender difference led Grand to deromanticize and politicize the most traditional form of the novel, the marriage plot. The first chapter provides an historical and cultural context for the study of the New Woman fiction. Later chapters explore Grand's interruptions of the marriage plot with narratives of female psychology and desire, with challenges to masculinist narrative authority, with multiple plots, with feminist reworkings of other traditional plots like the bildungsroman and the kunstlerroman, and with deliberate deviation from literary plots into social narratives from the worlds of medicine and eugenics.Made available in DSpace on 2011-05-07T12:05:12Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2
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"Keynotes and discords: John Lane's ""Keynotes Series"", 1893-1897"
No full text"Between 1893 and 1897, John Lane published thirty-three works--fourteen novels and nineteen short story collections--under the collective title ""The Keynotes Series."" The series began with its namesake, George Egerton's avant-garde Keynotes, in December 1893. Drawings for the cover, the title page, and a key-shaped emblem were all done by Aubrey Beardsley, and the book was priced at a low three shillings six pence. When Keynotes met with rapid success, Lane capitalized on it by issuing several more works with similarly up-to-date themes, artistic covers and formats, and low prices. The Wilde trials in mid-1895 forced Lane to make visible changes in his business generally. Subsequently, the thematic content of the Keynotes Series received greater editorial attention, and the artistic content suffered with the separation of Beardsley from the firm. Though the series continued through 1896 and even lingered into 1897, the public and critical acceptance of its offerings deteriorated noticeably. The series finally died out in early 1897, ties to it having become a disadvantage for an author."The life of the Keynotes Series took the form of a parabola, beginning with tentative yet bold steps into new forms of literature, rather quickly rising to a peak of popularity with both the public and the critics, maintaining some of its artistic qualities to the very end, but still falling off in popularity and critical acclaim to an unplanned and disorganized end. Within its life, the series achieved some great successes with generally avant-garde fiction written by mostly young and inexperienced writers, gaining a notable place for both the Bodley Head Publishing Company and its leader, John Lane, in the annals of the publishing world. Lane's methods and philosophy, frequently modified in response to the changing public mood, were nonetheless consistent enough to insure a successful product.Made available in DSpace on 2011-05-07T12:44:56Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2
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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
Tragedy and society: The novels of George Eliot
No full textEliot's belief that reform must begin with the individual led naturally to her appreciation of tragedy as the best means of arousing human sympathy and inspiring social activity. I locate Eliot's early social ideas in her essays, drawing attention to similar ideas about reform in the writings of her contemporaries, particularly Feuerbach and Marx. I also discuss the aesthetic components of Eliot's theory of tragedy: the collision between the individual and the general, the fellowship of human suffering, the pressure of inheritance, and the tragic actor's submission to social laws."In Scenes of Clerical Life, Eliot was experimenting with the elements of tragedy which dominate her later works. l go on to trace these elements in Adam Bede, where the cohesive force of Hetty Sorrel's crisis provides the first clear example of Eliot's use of tragedy as a ""strategy of containment,"" a means of artificially uniting the community and repressing discordant social elements. To this end, Eliot constructs an ""entailed Nemesis"" in order to reveal the destructive potential of rebellion in The Mill on the Floss, to emphasize that widespread reforms are part of a slow, organic historical process in Romola, and to revile mob violence in Felix Holt, where Eliot endorses the reform of ideas rather than social structures."The final novels provide an even darker view of social improvement. In Middlemarch, the tragic sufferer must adapt his/her aspirations to the limiting conditions of social life since the tragic posture of rebellion is impossible within the world of the novel. I discuss Daniel Deronda as a departure from Eliot's early conceptions of realism, tragedy, and reform and conclude by analyzing Deronda's utopic mission as Eliot's final withdrawal from the issue of social reform in England.Made available in DSpace on 2011-05-07T12:06:51Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2
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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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