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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
'Our poetry never lacks clearness if read in Gaelic':Demystifying Gaelic and Anglo-Highland women's writing in the Celtic Revival
Get PDFAt the turn of the twentieth century, the awkward juxtaposition of Gaelic literary culture and the Celtic Revival in Scotland encompassed the popular marketisation of the Scottish Gàidhealtachd, its oral tradition, and its language by non-speakers of Gaelic, many of whom referred uncritically to native Gaels (‘Celts’) in the problematic terminology crystallised by James Macpherson’s Ossianic poetry in the 1760s. Complexly, many anglophone Revivalists were linked closely to native-speaking Gaels’ contemporary networks that focused on language revitalisation and increasing recognition for Gaelic literature distinct from Macpherson’s legacy, while its impact – adjacent to the older Ossianic tradition that Macpherson had reshaped – continued to infuse Gaelic authors’ work and the language of their defence of Gàidhealtachd communities’ advancing decline. Both sides’ perspective is represented in periodicals such as The Celtic Magazine (1876–1888), The Celtic Review (1904–1916),and An Deo-Ghrèine (1905–1923), whose contributors, including many women, provide valuable insight to the social, cultural, economic, and political status of Gaels and Gaelic in fin-de-siècle Scotland and, simultaneously, to their often discordant interpretation by anglophone Revivalists. This article will contrast and contextualise the work o fseveral women whose writing both embodies and interrogates this dichotomy, chiefly Catrìona NicGhille-Bhàin Ghrannd (Katherine Whyte Grant, 1845–1928), author and advocate for Gaelic education, and anglophone poet Alice MacDonell (1854–1938), typical of ‘Anglo-Highland’ Revivalists of impeccable Gaelic heritage who no longer spoke the language. Initially, it will engage with the multivalent terminology applied to these writers and their work, and the complications of their recovery against Macpherson’s plangent influence
'Our poetry never lacks clearness if read in Gaelic':Demystifying Gaelic and Anglo-Highland women's writing in the Celtic Revival
Get PDFAt the turn of the twentieth century, the awkward juxtaposition of Gaelic literary culture and the Celtic Revival in Scotland encompassed the popular marketisation of the Scottish Gàidhealtachd, its oral tradition, and its language by non-speakers of Gaelic, many of whom referred uncritically to native Gaels (‘Celts’) in the problematic terminology crystallised by James Macpherson’s Ossianic poetry in the 1760s. Complexly, many anglophone Revivalists were linked closely to native-speaking Gaels’ contemporary networks that focused on language revitalisation and increasing recognition for Gaelic literature distinct from Macpherson’s legacy, while its impact – adjacent to the older Ossianic tradition that Macpherson had reshaped – continued to infuse Gaelic authors’ work and the language of their defence of Gàidhealtachd communities’ advancing decline. Both sides’ perspective is represented in periodicals such as The Celtic Magazine (1876–1888), The Celtic Review (1904–1916),and An Deo-Ghrèine (1905–1923), whose contributors, including many women, provide valuable insight to the social, cultural, economic, and political status of Gaels and Gaelic in fin-de-siècle Scotland and, simultaneously, to their often discordant interpretation by anglophone Revivalists. This article will contrast and contextualise the work o fseveral women whose writing both embodies and interrogates this dichotomy, chiefly Catrìona NicGhille-Bhàin Ghrannd (Katherine Whyte Grant, 1845–1928), author and advocate for Gaelic education, and anglophone poet Alice MacDonell (1854–1938), typical of ‘Anglo-Highland’ Revivalists of impeccable Gaelic heritage who no longer spoke the language. Initially, it will engage with the multivalent terminology applied to these writers and their work, and the complications of their recovery against Macpherson’s plangent influence
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
Gaelic gemina opera? The verse and prose texts of Saltair na Rann & Scél Saltrach na Rann
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Gaelic women's poetry
No full textAn introduction to Scottish Gaelic women's poetry in manuscript collections in the eighteenth century, and the advent of women's poetry in print
Evolution of Deirdriu in the Ulster Cycle
Get PDFThis thesis examines the relationship between the character 'Deirdriu', depicted within Longes mac n-
Uislenn, and the woman later referred to as Derdri, Deirdri, Deirdre or Derdrinne. It explores the initial
construction and gradual evolution of this character, in relation to the manuscript tradition of Longes
mac n-Uislenn and its descendants within the Ulster Cycle. It is proposed that the characterisation of
Deirdriu constitutes a form of commentary upon the flawed nature of Conchobor mac Nessa’s kingship
of Ulster, but that she is not a figure of sovereignty in the sense in which it has been understood by
previous critics of the tradition. The thesis reassesses the contents, structure, and manuscript tradition
of the textual witnesses to Longes mac n-Uislenn and Oidheadh Chloinne hUisneach, its later
development, and assesses the validity of regarding both tales as primarily concerned with the portrayal
of Deirdriu. It is argued that several distinct strands of material relating to the relationships between
Deirdriu, the sons of Uisliu, Conchobor mac Nessa and Fergus mac Róich may be identified, ranging
from the Early Medieval to the Early Modern period, and that these strands have exercised varying
levels of influence upon subsequent revisions of these relationships, up to and including the period of
the nineteenth- and twentieth-century Irish Renaissance. The conclusions of this thesis proceed from
close textual analysis of the primary source material, supplemented, where appropriate, by
narratological theory. Chapter 1 introduces the issues to be considered, and reviews the relevant literature to date. Chapter 2
outlines the methodological approaches adopted throughout the following textual analysis. Chapter 3
defines the episodic structure of Longes mac n-Uislenn, and analyses its contents. Chapter 4 presents a
detailed consideration of the Glenmasan Manuscript, the earliest extant witness to Derdriu’s evolution
within the Early Modern period. Chapter 5 argues that the characterisation of Deirdriu within the Ulster
Cycle constitutes a form of commentary upon the flawed nature of Conchobor mac Nessa’s kingship of
Ulster – within the earlier tradition – and upon the compromised honour of Fergus mac Róich within the later
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