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Finding Furphy Country: Such Is Life and Literary Tourism
Get PDFJoseph Furphy, considered to be "the father of the Australian novel" is best known for Such is Life which remains a classic that “nobody reads and even fewer comprehend”. In recent times, there has been a resurgence of interest in Furphy, as evidenced by the range of celebratory activities now associated with him. Fans may visit both “real” and “imaginary” geographies in their search for connection with Furphy’s legend. This paper will consider a range of sites within the nascent Furphy heritage industry, arguing that they offer tourists opportunities to emotionally re-engage with Australia’s frontier past
Trans-Tasman Impostures
Get PDFThe paper discusses a group of New Zealand-born writers and their relationship with Australian writing: Douglas Stewart, Barry Crump, Dulcie Deamer and Eve Langley. It notes Barry Crump's plagiarism of the Australian writer, Dal Stivens, and the relative neglect of some of these writers in New Zealand
Tony Hughes-d’Aeth, Like Nothing on this Earth: A Literary History of the Wheatbelt
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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
Literary traveller as reader: Reading Alice Munro's Lives of Girls and Women in Huron County
No full textThe purpose of this study was to investigate the experience of reading and being a reader within sites of literary significance. In this case, the investigation specifically pertains to the experience of a reader of Alice Munro’s Lives of Girls and Women (1971) while visiting sites of significance related to the author and text. Though the literature related to literary travel is robust from a tourism standpoint, there is a need for studies that explore literary travel from literacy and literary perspectives, shifting the focus from the literary traveller as consumer to the literary traveller as reader. This study contributed to the filling of this gap. Using an auto-hermeneutic phenomenological approach, the researcher-participant visited sites in southwestern Ontario that are connected to Alice Munro and Lives of Girls and Women and recorded her experiences as a reader within that literary landscape. Through data analysis and interpretation, the researcher-participant discovered that her lived experience of literary travel included concretisation, exploration, negotiation, and connection. These findings indicated that, for this reader-traveller, literary travel provided the opportunity to engage in reading processes that deepened literary understanding and enhanced appreciation of this text and the author.May 202
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
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