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Orestano, Francesca
No full textCentro Asturiano membership record of Francesca Orestano; Socio Number: 306.https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/asturiano_membership/4681/thumbnail.jp
Journeying through Translation: Dante among the Victorians, Dante Gabriel Rossetti in Medieval Italy
No full textWhen a literary translation aims not only at making a canonical text accessible in another language, but also at representing a peculiar cultural milieu as a model to be revived in a very different country and age, the process of transposition involves a complex mediation. The ‘transferral’ of the Vita Nuova (circa 1293) by Dante Alighieri from the Middle Ages to the mid-nineteenth century and from Italy to England can be defined as a challenging journey between cultures and epochs. Presenting thirteenth-and fourteenth-century Italian poetry to a Victorian audience involved reconstructing a socio-cultural context which was known only to scholars of Italian culture and Italophiles. The Early Italian Poets From Ciullo D’Alcamo to Dante Alighieri (1100-1200-1300) (1847-48, published 1861) can be defined as a wide cultural project of appropriation and re-conceptualisation of the Due and Trecento, which Dante Gabriel Rossetti accomplished both for his own aesthetic enjoyment and for the benefit of the Victorians. It may sound hyperbolical, but the Preface, the Table of Poets in Part I, and the Introduction to Part II explore a selection of poems representative of the Scuola Siciliana and the Dolce Stil Novo, focus on Dante’s early work and its relations to the Divine Comedy, and retrace crucial episodes in the development and decline of the Communes and rise of the Signoria.
The Early Italian Poets thus surpasses the boundaries of a translation: it is an original poetical creation and also a critical study that activates a cultural mediation. Its multi-layeredness can be comprehended by delving into the modes Rossetti devised for connecting his interpretation of amorous passion, as differently expressed by the Dolce Stil Novo poets and by Dante in the Vita Nuova, with his appreciation of Italy in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. Though Dante’s native country was in the midst of political strife, for Rossetti the high standard of its culture was to be regarded as a paragon for Victorian England.
The impact of Rossetti’s ‘re-mediation’ of the Due and Trecento can be estimated first of all by considering that he produced the first translation of the Vita Nuova in rhymed verse and original metres. While various critical editions had been published in previous centuries, no translations appeared up to 1835. Completed by Charles Lyell in 1830 and published five years later, the first partial translation testifies to the author’s exclusive interest in Dante’s poetry; indeed, The Canzoniere of Dante Alighieri, Including the Poems of the Vita Nuova and Convito; Italian and English excludes prose. Moreover, Lyell disregards the peculiarity of Dante’s prosimetrum and chooses to adopt arbitrary, and questionable, editing criteria: the table of contents presents poetical works organized in alphabetical order and includes the poems composed for the Vita Nuova, the canzoni of the Convito and the poems of the Canzoniere. Puzzled by the odd juxtaposition of titles, an editing rule for which Lyell offers no explanation, readers fail to appreciate the unique articulation of the original text.
Multi-layered figurations and polysemy are distinctive features of the Dolce Stil Novo, which the twenty-years-old Rossetti assimilated, interpreted according to his own aesthetic purposes, and re-created for an English-speaking audience. Re-writing thirteenth-century Italian rhymes into mid-nineteenth-century English thus involved metabolising medieval representations of spirituality and spiritual female figures imbued with allegorical and symbolical meanings, and devising a personal poetics. While moulding mid-nineteenth-century English in order to render the close interplay of verses and prose through which Dante had created an entwinement of unparalleled originality, Rossetti interwove the formation of his own aesthetic taste with a demanding act of cultural representation. The first draft of the translation, which can be dated to the years 1847-1848, first circulated among the Pre-Raphaelite Brethren and the attachés of his literary and artistic circle, then among more renowned writers, to whom he was as yet unknown. His project spanned years and required sustained intellectual effort, because, while getting in tune with diverse poets, apprehending their stylistic peculiarities, focusing on Dante’s personality in his twenties and rendering the conjunction of prose and poetry, he reconstructed biographical and historical events in order to bring into focus numerous artistic identities and relate them to their context
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
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
Il caso di Snitter e Rowf (e di molti altri animali): scienza e crudeltà in The Plague Dogs di Richard Adams
No full textThe essay focuses on the history and debate on vivisection, offering an account of the first dawning of humane feelings toward animals during the xviii century, as in Hogarth’s Four stages of cruelty; it then moves to the foundation of associations for the protection of animal rights, such as rspca, navs, and finally iaapea, and the Victorian debate which cast scientific research against the practice of vivisection. The culminating episode was the story of the Brown Dog, and the riots that took place in London, in 1907, when medical students from London University destroyed the monument placed in memory of a vivisected terrier dog in Battersea Park. The core of the essay is provided by the analysis of the novel by Richard Adams The Plague Dogs (1977) in which Adams builds the story of two dogs who manage to escape from the laboratory where they undergo cruel experiments and surgery. The setting of the story is the sacred ground of the Lake District, ironically a nature sanctuary. Realistic hints, such as the names and action of renowned animal activists and naturalists (Brigid Brophy, Peter Scott, Ronald Lockley) set the story at the core of the recent debate on vivisection. Following the two dogs in their pilgrimage, Adams also shows how newspapers and the media can exploit the news, and involve the Army and the Ministry, by suggesting that the dogs are contaminated with the plague. The happy ending follows, while the issue of vivisection is still the object of future debate, insofar as the author does not provide a solution to it, but just releases the two dogs from their painful captivity
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
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
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