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Peripheral Peoples: Istanbul on the Margins of Modernity in Orhan Pamuk’s \u3cem\u3eThe Museum of Innocence\u3c/em\u3e
Get PDFTo be on the periphery is to be on the edge, to not quite belong. My research examines how the characters in Orhan Pamuk\u27s The Museum of Innocence—a rich portrait of the 1970s Istanbul bourgeoisie—coped with their marginality, attempting to fashion themselves as modern and Western despite the highly conservative attitudes they espoused. Many temporal, museological, and even sexual peripheries operate in the novel as well, as does Edward Said\u27s idea of Orientalism—how Western constructions of Otherness affect the daily lives and attitudes of those living in Pamuk\u27s Istanbul. I also consider how, in a deft metafictional move, Pamuk has traversed another periphery in creating an actual Museum of Innocence in Istanbul
Ciudad Juárez: Mexico’s Violent Cradle of Modernity in Roberto Bolaño’s \u3cem\u3e2666\u3c/em\u3e
No full textChilean writer Roberto Bolaño owes much of his current literary celebrity to the posthumous publication of his magnum opus, 2666. The novel comprises five parts, which ultimately coalesce to create a harrowing portrait of violence against women in a Mexican border town. As this grisly scene unfolds, Bolaño implicates the novel\u27s characters—and, more broadly, the reader—in a crime equally disturbing: inaction, indifference, and thus complicity. However, Bolaño offers artistic solutions to the bleakness of the modern condition: reading and writing. In creating this utterly sui generis novel—and violating established literary norms in the process—Bolaño thus enacts the very solution that he offers to the problems of modernity, a time in which poetry is the one thing that isn\u27t contaminated
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
The Multiple Simultaneous Temporalities of Global Modernity: Pamuk, Tanpınar, Proust
Get PDFThis essay proposes the theory of multiple simultaneous temporalities as a constitutive feature of global modernism. It spotlights varieties of heterogeneous time-outside but alongside the homogeneous empty time of clocks and calendars-in modernist literature. These overlapping temporalities replace the linear succession of past, present, and future with a principle of nonteleology. The multiple simultaneous temporalities of these works analogize the multiple simultaneous temporalities of global modernity. Thus the temporalization of difference that separates developed nations from developing ones is refuted by the pluralization of temporality. The simultaneity of these temporalities denies, a priori, the ideology of progress. The essay makes this point through a series of interlaced epiphanies about time, across time, staging an East-West comparison that reflects the creole nature of global modernity. It does so via readings of interconnected novels by Orhan Pamuk, Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar, and Marcel Proust
Ekphrastic Temporality
Get PDFIn moments of cinematic ekphrasis, a painting, often a portrait, allegorizes the experience of uneven development. During the ekphrastic moment, the painting—ostensibly the spatial art par excellence—introduces multiple temporalities into the film. Some of these heterogeneous temporalities are surreal and reversible, while others are nonsecular and nonteleological. Ekphrastic temporalities are features of world cinema more broadly, but this essay develops its account through analyses of Abbas Kiarostami's Like Someone in Love, Certified Copy, and Rug. The multiple temporalities found in these films analogize the multiple temporalities of modernity itself. While Benedict Anderson once theorized the nation via Walter Benjamin's notion of homogeneous empty time, this essay suggests restoring the cinema, the nation, and the world to their primordial temporal heterogeneity. By extension, the simultaneity of these temporalities transcends linear accounts of modernization that underwrite the developmentalist conception of history, which severs the modern West from the belated rest. Thus, when a nation is said to have revolted against modernity, as Kiarostami's Iran was said to have done in 1979, precisely nothing of the sort has transpired. Moments of ekphrastic temporality instead allegorize a portrait of global modernity in which any given nation contains any number of temporalities at any given time. The literal and figurative world picture they illuminate explains why even the most progressive of nations can frequently seem to go backward
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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