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Introduction : transforming reading
No full textAnouk Lang writes about transforming reading as the introduction to from codex to hypertext: reading at the turn of the twenty-first centur
Using Data Visualization to Explore International Trade Agreements
No full textAbstract and poster of paper 0949 presented at the Digital Humanities Conference 2019 (DH2019), Utrecht , the Netherlands 9-12 July, 2019
Fanny Van de Grift Stevenson’s short fiction: gender and genre in the Late Nineteenth Century literary imagination
Full text linkThis thesis situates the short fiction of Fanny Van de Grift Stevenson in relation to the canon
of late nineteenth century literature, tracing the ways that Stevenson’s texts draw from multiple
generic traditions and speak to the development of American women’s supernatural literature.
Using critical theories of the Gothic, the wonder tale, the adventure story, the animal fable, and
the local colour story, I explore how the short fictions written by Stevenson between 1875 and
1900 interrogate discourses of anxiety, authority, and identity. Evaluating, in all, thirteen
stories, the study distinguishes four central trends in Stevenson’s writing and dedicates one
chapter to each. Chapter one examines how Stevenson’s writing engages with the transatlantic
New Woman literary figure and the uncanny spectres of domesticity and public life which
plague her. Chapter two focuses on Stevenson’s Californian stories, and reads across the
layered hauntings and traumas of that region and its inhabitants. Chapter three explores the
ways that Stevenson’s tales of U.S. imperialism extends the American colonial literary
imagination overseas. Finally, chapter four investigates five of Stevenson’s wonder tales, three
of which I discovered during archival research for this thesis and which have never been
published or officially acknowledged in any accounts of Stevenson’s life or writing until now.
The theoretical frameworks for this thesis include affect theory, approaches from
psychoanalysis, postcolonial theory, and critical perspectives on the intersections of the Gothic
and American identity. Overall, this study strives to bring attention to the ways in which nation,
genre, and identificatory anxieties shape women’s literature in this period, by locating
Stevenson’s writing in relation to other traditions of late nineteenth century women’s fiction,
rather than understanding her significance in terms of her husband Robert Louis Stevenson, the
axis around which her place in history has usually been seen to rotate. Reading the multiple
meanings of Stevenson’s texts, each chapter brings distinct generic tendencies within turn of
the century women’s literature into a common narrative. By considering the crucial role this
experimental genre work plays in understandings of late nineteenth century literature, this
thesis demonstrates the utility of reintegrating work like Stevenson’s into mainstream women’s
literary narratives, and argues for the inclusion of more diverse and lesser-known voices within
literary history and criticism
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
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
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Reading the reading experience: an ethnomethodological approach to 'booktalk'
No full textInterviews and focus groups have long been employed to research the ways in which literary and televisual texts are understood by their contemporary consumers, and the historical study of reading and of reception has often taken the same approach to written descriptions of reading experiences. The appeal of this kind of information is obvious: where better to learn about readers than straight from the horse’s mouth?
Nonetheless, there are problems with treating such data, whether researcher-elicited or spontaneous, as transparent. Acknowledgement of this has led to an emerging ‘crisis of representation’ within the fields of cultural and reception studies, whereby researchers have begun to question their ability to represent social reality with any objectivity. Whether we are interested in acts of reading past or acts of reading and viewing present, this apparently leaves us with a choice between closing our eyes to obvious difficulties and restraining ourselves only to such topics of investigation as can be approached by the powerful but impersonal methods of quantitative sociology, book history and economics. In this chapter, we propose an alternative approach whose roots lie in ethnomethodology
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Full text linkWe 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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