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The Origins of Smudges
No full textHospitalized while on vacation in Turkey, the author encounters a Babel of languages and, in old photographs and smudged bedsheets, traces of a past that both includes and eludes him.</p
A Bosnian refugee who became a great story-teller: Adnan Mahmutovic on what drives him as a person and author
No full textAdnan Mahmutovic is fast becoming a literary phenomenon across the Anglophonic world, courtesy a strong narrative voice that is unique and spotlights the human endurance in most extreme conditions, including war, ethnic cleansing and survival in new places as a refugee. His recent novel Thinner than a hair is in news; so is the collection of short fiction How to fare well and stay fair. Adnan has a PhD in English literature and an MFA in creative writing, and is currently a lecturer and writer-in-residence at the Department of English, Stockholm University. Fellow writer Sunil Sharma interviewed Adnan by email
One Soul, From Hell and Here:The Graphic Novel Page as Time Machine
Full text linkSequential images exist not only in order as the eye transitions the page, but also at the same time, as the reader is also aware of the page as a whole and has the ability to skip ahead or decode panels in any order. Certain graphic storytellers use this aspect of comics as a narrative device – the simultaneity of panels, and their non-linear potential. To illustrate this idea, in this chapter I am going to compare three graphic novels that use non-linear storytelling, which explicitly or implicitly deal with time travel in their narratives. These are From Hell by Alan Moore and Eddie Campbell (Moore and Campbell 1999), Here by Richard McGuire (McGuire 2014) and One Soul by Ray Fawkes (Fawkes 2011)
The Future Is (Ancient) History : Judge Dredd and the Futuristic Legacy of the Classical World
No full textThe article explores how the legacy of ancient Rome served the creative vision of the future found in the british comic Judge Dredd, firstpublished in 1977. The article argues that Judge Dredd appropriated motifs from Roman history to help establish the framework of the future and that the comic’s satirical tone was aided by these allusions to the classical world. The article concludes that the interaction with the classical past in Judge Dredd was brokered by contemporary popular culture, thus engaging the comic in a multidirectional cultural dialogue with past, present, and future
The Craft of Editing
No full textThe Craft of Editing offers a rare insight into the unique dynamic between author and editor. In this illuminating book, Adnan Mahmutović and Lucy Durneen lead a cohort of industry experts to bring transparency to the mystique that often surrounds the craft and practice of editing. Using genuine case studies from published works – including annotated manuscripts – this book prepares writers for potential dialogue and critique from editors. The Craft of Editing follows the journey from rough draft to publication, an essential part of any writing experience, while showing the singular and authentic approach each editor takes. Using original pitches, debates, emails, and instant messages to shed light on the collaboration between authors and editors, The Craft of Editing is an indispensable tool to creative writers and students alike.</p
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
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