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COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF VIRGINIA WOOLF’S ESSAYS AND THEIR APPLICATION TO MRS. DALLOWAY AND THE GREAT GATSBY
Full text linkThis essay presents a comparative analysis of Virginia Woolf’s critical essays Mr. Bennet and Mrs. Brown (1923) and Modern Fiction (1919) by examining their theoretical application to two major modernist novels of the early twentieth century: Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway (1925) and F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby (1925). The reflective essay explores how Woolf’s essays mark a decisive break from traditional Edwardian literary conventions, calling for a new artistic form that captures the inner life of characters and the fluidity of time. Through Woolf’s argument that fiction should represent consciousness rather than external reality, the essay highlights the transition from traditional narrative structures to modernist experimentation, reflecting the intellectual, social, and emotional transformations of the post–World War I era. By applying Woolf’s theoretical principles to Mrs. Dalloway, the essay illustrates how the novel’s stream-of-consciousness technique, psychological depth, and nonlinear temporality portray the complexity of human identity and memory. In parallel, Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby is analyzed as a complementary modernist text, which, while grounded in the American context, expresses similar concerns with time, disillusionment, and alienation. Both novels depict societies in transition, British and American, in which characters grapple with the collapse of traditional values and the search for meaning in a fragmented modern world. By connecting Woolf’s modernist vision to Fitzgerald’s portrayal of the American Dream, the research underscores how modern literature moves from tradition to contemporary sensibility, emphasizing individual perception over collective convention. The comparative perspective demonstrates that modernist fiction, whether in England or the United States, serves as a universal language that articulates human consciousness, social decay, and the persistent struggle for authenticity
ASSESSMENT AND TESTING OF WORD SUBCLASSES AND COMPOUND PATTERNS USED BY ALBANIAN STUDENTS OF ENGLISH
Full text linkSince contrastive analysis is the focal point of my research, it is essential to emphasize that this method is one of several that examines languages by accentuating their differences and similarities. This study aims to find, contrast, and compare English compounding patterns with subclasses of compound words that correspond to Albanian words regarding meaning and formation. The subject of what defines a compound phrase emerges here. Compound words are formed by amalgamating two or more topics to produce a new term. Their constituents may include nouns, adjectives, verbs, or adverbials as subjects. A compound is a lexeme, specifically a word, in linguistics that comprises multiple stems. Compounding is the process via which compound lexemes are created, with derivation being the alternative process. The capacity and technique of language to generate new words through the combination of existing words is known as compounding or word-compounding. Compounding transpires when an individual amalgamates two or more words to create a singular term with a novel meaning. The interconnection of word meanings can yield a novel interpretation that significantly diverges from the meanings of the individual words. The findings from the collected English and Albanian grammar texts indicate that, although English and Albanian are similar regarding compounds, they diverge in their formation of compounds. The primary objective of this study is to identify analogies and compare compound phrases in both languages
BASIC ISSUES IN DERIVATIONAL MORPHOLOGY (SUFFIXES) CONTRASTIVE WITH ALBANIAN
No full textThe derivation or the origin of words is more productive in the system of word-formation. In descriptive linguistics and traditional grammar, the formation of a word it is made by changing the form of the base or by adding affixes to it –e.g. hope – hopeful, e.g. blerë – blerësit. With the word or the origin of the word we understand the formation of the new words or the words that exist in the language, it is a major source of new words in a language, and in historical linguistics, the derivation of a word is its history or saying better etymology. The derived origin of a word it’s made by prefix, suffix, prefix-suffix and without infixes. Our aim is to make an understandable presentation about derivational suffixes contrastive with those in the Albanian language
COLLECTIVE JUDGMENT AND TEMPORAL FRAGMENTATION IN WILLIAM FAULKNER’S “A ROSE FOR EMILY”
Full text linkWilliam Faulkner’s A Rose for Emily is a seminal work of Southern Gothic literature that treats the psychological and social consequences in regard to isolation, resistance to change, and the lingering influence of the past. Centered on the life of Miss Emily Grierson, the story unfolds through a fragmented, nonlinear structure narrated by an unidentified collective voice, the representation of the town of Jefferson. Therefore, the main aim of this research paper is to describe how Faulkner’s narrative, but good techniques, specifically with the use of a first-person plural narrator and the disrupted chronology, how it changes the reader’s understanding regarding Emily as both an individual character, but also as a symbolic embodiment of the decaying Southern aristocracy. By denying Emily a personal narrative voice, Faulkner defines the role of communal judgment in constructing identity, by reinforcing the emotional distance between the individual and society. This study argues that Emily’s extreme isolation is not merely the result of personal psychological decline, rather a consequence of prolonged social neglect, rigid gender expectations, and most importantly the community’s passive voice that does not reflect. The town’s tendency to observe, speculate, and judge while refusing meaningful intervention, contributes directly to Emily’s emotional repression, and eventual descent that leads into denial. The nonlinear structure of the narrative mirror’s Emily distorted relationship with time, by reinforcing her inability to accept the truth which is death, loss, and social change. The elementary symbolic elements, including the decaying house, pervasive dust, and the preserved dead body of Homer Barron, further underscore themes of stagnation, decay, and the destructive desire to arrest time. Ultimately, the paper demonstrates that A Rose for Emily functions as a critique of collective memory, and moral detachment within traditional Southern society. William Faulkner’s story presents how communities that cling to nostalgia while avoiding responsibility, unfortunately can produce profound human tragedy. Through the examination of the narrative voice, temporal fragmentation, and symbolism, this study highlights Faulkner’s enduring exploration of social complicity, emotional isolation, and the price of resisting inevitable change
ON MANAGEMENT AND THE LEARNING PROCESS
Full text linkThe aim of this paper is to clarify how management could be effective in the learning process, or better to say what is going to be the main idea of creating one successful management of learning process. With other words, in this paper I will try shortly to define the correct definition of management, what would be some important characteristics of management in the learning process, and of course I will try clearly to mention what is going to be one important element of creating an effective management in the learning process, which will affect positively in students’ goals
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
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
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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