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Poetics of Cross-cultural Assimilation: A Study of Taufiq Rafat’s ‘Reflections’
Full text link‘Reflections’ is one of Taufiq Rafat’s longest, most complex poems, with significant philosophical contours and symbolism. It is also the most important in a very personal sense. The author presents a study of this poem as based on three major themes: the concepts of Birth, Death and Rebirth, the relationship between life and art and the mystic apprehension of the artistic, poetic experience
Requiem of a (Socialist) Dream: Locating Tāraṛ’s Aiy Ghazāl-i Shab in Global Capitalism
Full text linkThis article presents an analysis of Mustansar Hussain Tāraṛ’s novel Aiy Ghazāl-i Shab (2013). According to Awān this ‘is the only novel of its kind in Urdu literature that documents the socio-political, cultural and ideological aftermath of the disintegration of the Soviet Union and its socialist ideology.’ Through the intertwined stories of its characters, he says, Tarar has traced the rise and fall of Marxism and its political praxis as communism/ socialism
Reception and Experimentation of the Urdu Literary Form: The Case of the Ghaẓal in America
Full text linkCultural and literary crossing-over has been going on since ancient times. However, as the pace of globalization increased in the twentieth century, literary forms and genres peculiar to one tradition paved their way into numerous others. Just as the Urdu novel imbibed narrative techniques from the Euro-American fictional genre, many poets from the western hemisphere too have inter-textualized Urdu-Hindi generic forms. Of all such inter-textual influences, perhaps the most intriguing is the case of the ghaẓal and its adaptations by a number of American poets. Initially only translations of Urdu ghaẓals of Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib and Faiz Ahmad Faiz were introduced on the American literary landscape. Gradually, many poets started experimenting with the form in English writings. Writers like Adrienne Rich, Judith Wright, Jim Harrison, John Thompson, D. G. Jones, Phyllis Webb, Douglas Barbour, and Max Plater among others emulated the ghaẓal form. However, coupled with the lack of understanding of the original form and of the native culture in which it evolved, the ghaẓal, it seems, remained an enigma for American writers. The breakthrough came with the Kashmiri-American poet Agha Shahid Ali (19492001) in 1990. Ali’s greatest contribution to modern American poetry was his untiring effort to introduce the essence of the ghaẓal and to establish a permanent place for this genre in modern American poetry
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
MEMORYSCAPES BEYOND TRAUMA IN PAKISTANI POETRY: INTEGRATING POST-9/11ISM AND (POST)MEMORY STUDIES
Full text linkContemporary Pakistani poets including Harris Khalique, Rizwan Akhter and Imtiaz Dharker in the last two decades (2001-20) have translated the event of 9/11 and its offshoots into individual, communal, public, prosthetic and transcultural memories of violence, and determined their own paths to manage the turmoil different from the one witnessed by the post-9/11 American poets. This research negotiates with the poetics and politics of difference while highlighting the polyphonic aesthetic structures of (post)9/11- memory in Pakistani poetry. It entwines trauma, memory, and cultural studies, and scaffolds its argument upon the thematic concerns of the selected Pakistani poetry around the four concepts of public fantasy, communal memory, identity displacement, and transculturality. Squaring the theoretical canvas, it traces the repercussions of 9/11 beyond trauma in prosthetic contexts. It further maps how natal alienation – a disconnection of historical memory from the cultural context – not only augments mnemohistory in subjectivity but is also indelible in influencing social, political, and territorial contexts of analogical 9/11 memory. This way, this study will contribute to the understanding of forms of memory and thematic concerns of (post-9/11 Pakistani English poetry. Here, unlike Marianne Hirsh’s use of the term in the context of intergenerational memory, the parenthesized ‘post’ of ‘(post)memory’ refers to the space where my research engages with memory studies theoretically on the rhetoric of difference through which poets construct post-9/11 poetic memorials in Pakistan. In other words, within the canvas of this research, the parenthesized ‘(post)’ provides theoretical space to the diversity of Pakistani poetic voices to 9/11 and its offshoots
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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