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Guida spirituale e interferenze omiletiche nei Precepts dell'Exeter Book
No full textThe short poem called Precepts by convention, preserved in the Exeter Book of Old
English poetry, has long been almost ignored by critics. The modern title itself points
to the poem’s ultimately negative evaluation by most scholars, referring directly to
its construction as a numbered list of grouped ethical instructions given by a father
to his son, in a word about how to tell good from evil behaviour. Such apparently
“uninspired series of admonitions” or “platitudes” (according to Greenfield’s often
quoted definition) has received new critical attention in more recent years, particularly
within the wider perspective of (and scholarly debate about) wisdom poetry (see
especially Hansen 1988, Larrington 1993, and Drout 2006), but also with a focus
on the historical-cultural context of the Benedictine Reform in England and on the
possible monastic background of its composition (see especially McEntire 1990,
Ralby 2010, and again Drout 2006, 2007). All analytical readings of Precepts, up
to Stanley’s recent freestanding edition (2018), agree that the poem is a Christian
religious poem, rooted in bookish tradition (Neidorf 2021 being the only remarkable
exception), but interpretations of single words or passages, and suggested sources or
analogues may vary significantly.
The purpose of the present article is to offer a number of new analytical cues, in
order both to re-read some of the lexical or textual points in a different light, and to
suggest that the Old English author made full use of a vast and composite vernacular
prose tradition, including Christian regulatory, instructive-educational and homiletic
literature. Analysis will corroborate the view that the paternal guide in Precepts
is properly a spiritual father in a monastic context, endeavouring to pass over his
teachings to his fictitious spiritual son, in a time when the world is believed to be
hastening to its end and a true Christian behaviour proves as the only chance to be
safe in the life to come
Dal silenzio alla luce: Anne Charlotte Leffler, una viaggiatrice molto speciale dalla Svezia a Napoli
No full textL'articolo esamina i rapporti tra il mondo nordico e la cultura mediterranea attraverso l'opera della scrittrice svedese Anne Charlotte Leffler, drammaturga di successo in Svezia prima, scrittrice e animatrice di un salotto napoletano frequentato da Benedetto Croce più tardi
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
Variations on the Author
Full text link“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
Lessico e rappresentazioni dell'ubriachezza nella cultura germanica antica
No full textThe essay considers episodes related to drunkenness in the context of ancient Germanic literature and culture. The earliest statements date back to Latin authors of the classic period, who recount how the barbarians were used to excessive drinking, an action that would reflect their deficiency of civilisation. In the Christian era, Latin commentators then linked the lack of decency in drinking to moral baseness. When sources in old Germanic languages, especially Anglo-Saxon ones, appear, the representation of drinking takes on very different connotations. The focus is on the aristocratic-warrior class, whose common life is recounted. The behaviour is strictly regulated and connected to the social practice of banqueting; in many cases drinking measures the drinker’s ability to move in a complex context such as that established during such occasions. The literary analysis is enriched with an investigation of the lexicon connected to the semantic field of drunkenness and, more generally, of drinking. On the basis of the etymological reconstructions and word comparisons extended to all old Germanic languages, it can be stated that the texts present varied words that clearly delineate the ethical behaviour of the drinker. Comparisons are made on Old English, Old Saxon, Old High German and Old Norse texts. The essay ends with a look at the words used in the context of Middle High German chivalric literature
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe 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
IL VOLO DI ALESSANDRO IN GERMANIA: IL COSMO VISTO DEL CIELO
No full textAlexander the Great’s celestial journey (his flight into heaven on an odd aircraft driven by griffins) is the most widespread visual representation of the protagonist in western monumental artifacts. Nevertheless, the flight and its punishment did not yet belong to the archetypal plot neither of the Greek Alexander Romance, nor of its first translation by Julius Valerius, and it seems to emerge in literature as early as within a Latin Carolingian milieu: in its further occurrences in Frühmittelhochdeutsch, the celestial journey will be embedded in an odeporic repertory (gathering the hero’s final travels across the elements) and some lost fictive epistolary was credited as the model of its extant textual embodiments (which span from Annolied to Hartlieb). This paper aims at charting the literary occurrences of the celestial journey episode in Middle High German literary sources, in order to disclose its ideological and narrative function, the mutual relationships of texts and the development, in the post-classical production (Alexanderlied B and Ulrich von Etzenbach vs Jans von Wien’s Weltchronik), of an up-to-date fantastic travelogue. This, along with Alexander’s aerial and submarine adventures (which correspond to the plot of the main Latin sources, Leo and Historia de preliis), included a rewording of his attempt at submitting the Paradise (which derived from an originally independent work: Iter ad Paradisum). The ‘canon’ of Alexander’s fantastic trips was reinforced by manuscript illuminations, mainly within the tradition of the most popular Weltchronik compilations, where the odeporic sequence displayed a fixed order reverberating upon literature
Formation of carbon nanotubes by plasma enhanced chemical vapor deposition: Role of nitrogen and catalyst layer thickness
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