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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
Pan as an Internal Other in D. H. Lawrence’s‘ The Last Laugh’
Get PDF‘ The Last Laugh’ (1924), a short story by D. H. Lawrence, is apparently an occult fable which depicts the characters’ encounter with the existence of an absolute ‘other’ in a snowy street one night in Hampstead. The supernatural and omnipotent‘ someone’ shows its presence only by making its most extraordinary laugh resound in the dark. From the fact that the laughing voice resembles the neighing of a goat and the anti-Christianity of its demolishing a church like a wild wind, it is tacitly implied that the mysterious being is the God Pan in Greek mythology.
In the Romantic period, Pan was a god who represented prolific fertility. However, in the twentieth-century literary world, his physical liveliness and unreasonable quality bore a demonic image that was opposed to Christianity and thus was used to invoke people’s terror. Therefore, the tales which involve a Pan-motif emphasized its external ‘otherness’ in relation to Western rationality and deepened the confrontation between the interior and exterior of the human mind. However, Lawrence, in an original use of this motif, depicts the release of Pan into the modernized world by drawing a parallel with the positive self-liberation which one of the characters experiences. The female character devotedly displays an intuitive wonder at and acceptance of the unknown being instead of excessively fearing or mocking it as the other characters do. As a consequence, she feels a liberation from her old self which was fettered by her mind; simultaneously, she acquires the physical power and natural living energy which she never had a chance to feel inside her in the modernized society and becomes a Pan-like woman herself. This paper sheds light on the fact that the character realizes that the enigmatic being, which represents those powers, is not an external object to be feared, and the importance of being inwardly aware of its presence. While Pan represents the antithesis of modernity, I would argue that he is depicted as a return of an ‘internal other’ which naturally existed within humans, which was suppressed and framed as an‘ other’ from the modernized perspective. The paper further reveals the differences between Lawrence’s way of dealing with the notion of Pan and that of his contemporaries, E. M. Forster in particular, due to his strong emphasis on its internality.
Moreover, the duality of human and animal in Pan cannot be left unmentioned. While bringing out the animalistic aggressiveness in the female character, Pan punishes the characters who do not appreciate his existence by turning them superficially into animals. Borrowing Jacques Derrida’s theory, this paper discusses the way in which the text deconstructs the dualisms of self / other and human / animal, and criticizes the imagined superiority of the human mind over physicality, and of human beings to animals.本稿は，日本英文学会中国四国支部第70回大会（2017年10月28日於就実大学）において発表した内容に加筆修正を施したものである
Representations of Aggression and Their Dynamics in D. H. Lawrence's Fiction
Get PDF内容の要約博士(文学)Doctor of Philosophy広島大
Mansfield’s Bliss and Lawrence’s Anguish: Modernist Experiments in Verbalising Uncontrollable Feelings
No full textD. H. Lawrence’s Observation of Life: The Instinct for Aggression and a Path to Union in The Plumed Serpent <平成28年度修士論文梗概>
Get PDFEpiphany, Transformation, and Communication in D. H. Lawrence’s Short Stories: With Particular Reference to “The Horse-Dealer’s Daughter”
Get PDFVariations 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
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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