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Leah Tether, Publishing the Grail in Medieval and Renaissance France
Full text linkLeah Tether a un doctorat en littérature française médiévale (sa thèse, The Continuations of Chrétien’s Perceval: content and construction, extension and ending, est publiée chez Brewer). Ayant enseigné comme « Publishing » à l’université Anglia Ruskin pendant plusieurs années, elle propose d’appliquer les méthodes et la terminologie des études en édition aux textes du Graal produits en France entre le début du xiiie s. et 1530, c’est-à-dire, des premiers manuscrits parvenus jusqu’à nos jours..
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
A Digital Manuscript Case Study: How publishing theory can advance the practice of manuscript digitisation
No full textUsing Gérard Genette’’s seminal work on ‘paratexts’ (defined by Genette (1997) as extratextual items which fundamentally influence a reader’s reception of a text, such as, for example, blurbs, jacket designs, prefaces, etc.), this article undertakes a practical enquiry into the ways in which digital media have been used to render the paratexts of medieval manuscripts. Reference to an existing project, Christine de Pizan: the Making of the Queen’s Manuscript, is made so as to form a case study on this area, one that acts representatively, due to its use of software features, methods and tools that have been applied in a number of digital/medieval projects. This case study will constitute a lens for exploring how successfully manuscriptural paratexts are represented by completed digitization projects by applying Genette’s theory of paratextual spaces. The article will then consider some of the latest developments in digital tools for medievalists under the same light so as to see how differently such projects can now be approached. Ultimately, the article will explore how the broader application of publishing theory could move manuscript digitization projects forward because, just as book publishing actually constitutes an exercise in content packaging – which is traditionally the realm of publishing professionals – the process of creating digital manuscripts, and digital editions of medieval texts, represents a closely related undertaking
La Tavola Ritonda: magic and the supernatural
No full textThe Tavola Ritonda is the conventional title given to a work of Tuscan origin, composed by an anonymous author during the first half of the 14th century, who translates, abridges and re-elaborates the Prose Tristan, the imposing thirteenth-century French romance. One of the principal questions the Tavola Ritonda attempts to answer is how to define the supernatural. The very breadth of its sources and its adoption of a detached and autonomous attitude limit the Tavola Ritonda to reconciling conflicting arguments: on the one hand, magic, being an essential legacy of Arthurian and Grail lore, as well as that of the cantari; on the other hand, the fact of speaking to the new audience of medieval communes in Italy, which imposed a certain sceptical detachment from the merveilleux [marvellous].
The objective of the present work will be to examine the treatment of magic in the Tuscan and Po Valley redactions (in Palatino 556) of the Tavola Ritonda, considering how it is recast and to what extent it is marginalized (though never completely eliminated), and, finally, how it is refunctionalized in a “scientific” sense, as well as in the sense of the Christian miraculous
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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