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Literature, Ideology, and the Imaginary
Get PDFIn his paper Literature, Ideology and the Imaginary, Marcello Potocco analyses the elusive relation between literature and ideology. The notion of the social imaginary -- as developed by Castoriadis -- brings the possibility to reconsider the relation between the literary structure, its reception, and ideology. While ideology is seen as a radical expression of the social imaginary in modern society, it can only manifest itself through the ideological function, which does not necessarily destruct the aesthetic experience. In a literary structure, elements may exist that enable a strong identification with the extra-textual world, but this involves primarily identifications with significations of the social imaginary. In an ideological text, affective elements play a secondary role, while conceptual-rational, and subject-material elements provide the basis for the reader\u27s identification. An ideological structure retains a largely conventional, pragmatic relation between the signifiers and the signified, linking them to the social imaginary and, possibly, a uniform interpretative code. Nevertheless, the (non-)realization of the ideological function within a text always depends on the social, extra-textual codes of interpretation, since ideology can only interpellate as a socio-historical force imposed on a text
Re-reading Northrop Frye : images of culture and the Canadian context
No full textResponding to a prevailing critique of Northrop Frye's studies of Canadian culture, the author of the paper combines Frye's Canadian essays with his general theory in order to demonstrate that Frye's use of the term imagination, similarly to Iser's notion of "imaginary", allows a differentiation of the social imaginary and the fictive. Frye has provided a background for treatment of the fictive as aesthetic structure and has employed the study of Canadian culture primarily as a specific tool to describe literature with a disturbed aesthetic structure
Znova o Northupu Freyu, podobe kulture v kontekstu kanadskega kritištva
Get PDFResponding to a prevailing critique of Northrop Frye\u27s studies of Canadian culture, the author of the paper combines Frye\u27s Canadian essays with his general theory in order to demonstrate that Frye\u27s use of the term imagination, similarly to Iser\u27s notion of "imaginary", allows a differentiation of the social imaginary and the fictive. Frye has provided a background for treatment of the fictive as aesthetic structure and has employed the study of Canadian culture primarily as a specific tool to describe literature with a disturbed aesthetic structure.Izhajajoč iz razlike med spisi Northropa Fryeja in t.i. tematskim kritištvom (Atwood, Jones) ter upoštevajoč Fryejevo splošno teorijo avtor članka relativizira očitke, namenjene Fryjevim t.i. kanadskim spisom. Pokaže namreč, da Frye skupne kulture ni pojmoval kot fiksno, marveč kot spremenljivo družbeno in individualno konstrukcijo, ki sicer ima svojo kontinuiteto in deluje kot homogenizacijski mehanizem. S tem se Frye približa kasnejšim teorijam imaginarnega pri C. Castoriadisu in W. Iserju. V Fryjevi obravnavi imaginacije je jasna ločitev med vidikom, ki ga Iser poimenuje kot družbeno imaginarna, Ricoeur pa kot historično narativo, ter vidikom, ki ga Iser poimenuje kot fiktivno. Ricouer pa se celo specifično naslanja na Fryejeve strukturalne izsledke, ko govori o fiktivni pripovedi. Analiza imaginacije in kulture je tudi ob obravnavi kanadske literature pri Fryeju le orodje za analizo estetsko nedovršene literature, ne pa kanadske literature na sploh. V tem kontekstu pa se Frye ukvarja s konvencijsko izgradnjo kulturne identitete in njenega zrcaljenja v literaturi
Ambivalentnost in enopomenskost ironije ob primerih Uroša Zupana in Aleša Mustarja
Get PDFAvtor v prispevku obravnava rabo ironije pri dveh sodobnih slovenskih pesnikih, Urošu Zupanu in Alešu Mustarju. Z zamejitvijo dveh vrst ironije, besedne in situacijske, ter z analizo binarnih opozicij, iz katerih izhaja abivalenca ironičnih izjav oz. situacij, ugotavlja, da se ironija v literarnem besedilu giblje med dvema skrajnostma. Zupanova ironija z uporabo različnih binarnih parov in zabrisanimi prehodi med ironičnim in dobesednim izjavljanjem dosledno ohranja ambivalenco, značilno za fiktivna besedila. Mustar z drugačnim - analoškim - tipom binarnih parov, s poudarjenim dobesednim registrom in z drugimi sredstvi ustvarja enopomenskost ironičnih situacij, ki ožijo estetsko dialoškost besedila in že prehajajo v družbeni angažma
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
Ideology at the Crossroad of Arts
Get PDFProceeding from the notions of the social imaginary and the fictive in literature, the paper defines ideological interpellation as a possible function of works of art. Similarities in creating meaning by double referencing are highlighted, both in literature and music. Extra-musical elements seem to be necessary to establish a narrative and to trigger an ideological interpellation. With regards to this claim, the paper examines the ideological discourse of the »douceur du foyer« in the genre of opera
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
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