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Hervé Guibert: Resurrection of the Author
No full text1 Michaela Rumpíková, Résurrection de l'auteur : Hervé Guibert Abstract Hervé Guibert's writings are shocking, revolting, surprising with their explicit and expressive content. The author's desire to show, to reveal and to expose himself transforms his private universe into a space where intimacy becomes extimacy. His exhibitionist project is accomplished with the assistance of a literary genre, autofiction, the new postmodern cosmos of the "I". This thesis seeks to analyse the notion and the modalities of his "I", intimately connected to the themes of body, illness, life, death and resurrection, in his literary chronicles of AIDS, To the Friend Who Did Not Save My Life, The Compassionnate Protocol, Modesty, or Immodesty and The Man in the Red Hat. The "I" of the autodiegetic narrator appears as fragmentary and unstable. His "self" configures and unconfigures at the same time. There is a sense of alienation from his own body which has been dramatically altered by the illness. As a consequence, we witness both physical and psychological defragmentation of the subject. The body, constituent of the "I" identity, gradually transforms into an impersonal "it", an entity apart. In order to (re)construct himself, the author uses various writing processes that help him become familiar with his new "self". Finally,..
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
Variations on the Author
Full text link“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
Image in Text, Text in Image. Literature and Visual Art in Leonardo Sciascia's novel Todo Modo
No full textLeonardo Sciascia's work is characterized by its complexity and exceptional richness of intertextuality, both with quotations and allusions to other literary works and to objects of visual art. This diploma thesis is devoted to the relationship between literature and visual art: based on a detailed analysis of the novel Todo Modo, which due to its intertextual richness can be considered the author's masterpiece and a representative example of the diversity of use and functions of visuality in a literary work, it tries to show the multifaceted way in which the author uses quotations or allusions to works of art, how he uses the visual medium to characterize the environment, to describe the characters, to focalize the narrative, as a paratext, and above all to mediate another level of meaning in the novel (in the words of the author to "express the inexpressible") and to confirm the analogy of the novel to another literary work. The intention is not only to try to interpret the "message" communicated through visual intertextuality, but also to show to what extent the visual medium itself is the bearer of meaning in the literary text, how important it is for understanding the intentio operis; and thus offer a new key to the analysis of a literary work
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe 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 theme of death in Michelangelo Buonarroti's Verses
No full textThis bachelor thesis aims to analyse the theme of death in Michelangelo Buonarroti's Rime. In the initial part, it focuses on the author himself, his life and work set in the broader literary and historical context of the time. In the following chapters, attention is focused on the general characteristics of Michelangelo's poetic output and a brief outline of the development of humanity's attitude towards the phenomenon of death and burial from antiquity to the period of Michelangelo's life. In the second part of the thesis an analysis of Michelangelo's Rime relating to the theme of death is made. Keywords: Michelangelo Buonarroti, death, poetry, Rim
Italo Calvino and the biodiversity in the city
No full text(EN) The thesis deals with the theme of nature in the city in Italo Calvino's works through the different phases of his literary production: from realistic works (A Plunge into Real Estate, 1957 and Smog, 1958), to those fantasy oriented (Marcovaldo or the Seasons in the City, 1963), up to embracing the works of the seventies and the eighties (Invisible Cities, 1972 and Palomar, 1983). The goal is to analyze the themes of modernization, urbanization and industrialization and their direct or indirect impact on human and non-human worlds, highlighting the evolution of the structures, forms and procedures unfolded by the author. Key words Italo Calvino, Animals in literature, Italian literature, Literature and ecolog
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Full text linkWe 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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