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Worshipping a Bitch-Goddess: Womanhood and Female Freedom in Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf and Good Morning, Midnight by Jean Rhys
Get PDFThis thesis is a comparative analysis of Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway (1925) and Jean Rhys's Good Morning, Midnight (1939), with a specific focus on how these novels challenge and critique the social script of womanhood, exposing the depths and edges of traditional female roles and patriarchal mechanisms of subjugation.
My approach is mainly based on three analytical methodologies: in-depth examinations of the chosen novels, comparative analysis of pivotal scenes, and the integration of targeted theoretical frameworks and sources. The research is predominantly anchored in feminist criticism extending from the foundational thoughts of Mary Wollstonecraft to Elaine Showalter. Thorstein Veblen’s perspectives, particularly concerning class, fashion, and the New Woman, offer further insights into the mechanisms that oppress, as well as the models that function to liberate, women.
The research uncovers Woolf's and Rhys's exposure and critique of ingrained mechanisms of subjugation, particularly highlighting social class and fashion as problematic constructs for women during the interbellum period. Examining the two literary texts, the study elucidates how the authors employ the novel as a means to challenge women's situation during this era through innovative literary techniques. The precariousness of women's circumstances, connected to their age, work, class, and gender, was specifically highlighted by the authors, and indicated a tension between the ideal of womanhood and freedom. Through the New Woman ideal and magazines, fashion significantly contributed to the establishment of new beauty standards and the shaping of societal norms. As the study shows, the New Woman ideal is both celebrated and problematized by the authors, as it swiftly devolved into a consumerist paradigm where consumption itself became the new ideal. In both literary works, the urban landscape assumes a pivotal role, offering the characters a sphere fraught with both promise and destruction, emblematic of transgression, interconnection, and potential renewal. Through the lens of modernist critics, the study elucidates the symbolic value of the city as depicted by Woolf and Rhys and highlights its function as a site of carnivalesque and polyphonous modes that interrogate entrenched patriarchal structures in the quest for female freedom
Compositions for emancipation and autonomy: Distorted syntax and poisoning in Shakespeare’s and Gilman’s critique of the marginalized role of women
Get PDFThis thesis is a study of female characterization through dialogue in The Tempest (1611) and a close reading of The Yellow Wall-paper (1892), which explores how these texts problematize socio-cultural traditions in the backdrop of the marginalized role of women. These two texts are taken from two radically different genres and eras; however, the female voices in both The Tempest and The Yellow Wallpaper share the desire for equality and change and have the potential to raise awareness to the ongoing gender-based discrimination. In The Tempest, the critique is expressed through distorted syntax, specifically in terms of subordinate clauses and tone, while in The Yellow Wallpaper, the sadistic actions of John are juxtaposed with roles forced on women and the toxicity of the patriarchy
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
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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