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Povești „vechi” în haine „noi” – o lectură a romanului Cruciada copiilor de Florina Ilis
Get PDFFocusing on the success of Florina Ilis’ novel The children’s crusade, this article explores its potential as a literary contribution in a broader global discourse, as it could be considered “literary Romanian capital” in a discussion about world literature. While the book draws on clichéd stereotypes of Romanian society from the early 2000s, including the Ceaușescu era and the challenging transition from communism to democracy, the author uses a universal language of trauma. This allows for a wider audience to engage with the themes presented in the novel. Thus, her story becomes part of a global collection of works exploring the theme of the “children’s crusade” (including George Zabriskie Gray, Marcel Schwob, Lucian Blaga, Jerzy Andrzejewski, Thea Beckman, Gregory J. Rinaldi, Karleen Bradford, Kathleen McDonnell, Bryce Courtenay, Mario Vargas Llosa, Tullio Avoledo, amongst others). Considering the connection between continuity and innovation in Romanian literature, 75 years following Lucian Blaga’s play, with the same title, Florina Ilis employs a plot with medieval roots in her novel, which has fascinated writers worldwide, to deliver a unique perspective, in a new discourse
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
Landmarks of Theatrical Art in Romanian Folk Culture
Get PDFThe paper aims to offer a synthetic perspective upon the dramatic genre in the Romanian folklore. We present several preliminary elements within a short historical account of the dramatic manifestations; afterwards we create an inventory of the forms of theatrical arts, following the first historical records, a description of the rituals and props in order to depict the folk syncretism and all its beauty. The working instruments are those offered by historiography and the methodology in the field as well as the ethnographic description. Although less consistent than the folk poetry or epic, folk theatre contributes to the complexity and flavour of Romanian folklore. The unseen mechanisms of syncretism have functioned and are still functioning, generating new forms of folk art. The laic and the religious, the traditional and the modern, the epic and the drama, the masks, the dances as well as the costumes and the props – all these contribute to the survival of this particular folk genre. Moreover, being the least discreet of all Romanian folk genres, the folk theatre represents also an element of attraction and cultural export nowadays.41215252Studia Romanica Posnaniensi
Assessment Strategies of Academic Performances used in University. Ascertaining Study
No full textAbstractThe comprehensive significance of evaluation is that of a complex psycho-pedagogical act of establishing the relevance and value of benefits, performances, behaviors, processes, etc., by comparing them to a system of performance indicators, i.e. pre- established criteria and standards. Trying to establish the relationship between the results obtained in the instructive- educational process and the desired one through formulating operational objectives, the assessment strategies are the component of educational action that validate, respectively confirm or deny the achievement of performances followed in instructive-educational activities.In the present study, we aim to identify which are the assessment strategies used particularly in universities to assess students’ academic performance. To do this, we have conducted an ascertaining study and applied in the 2011-2012 academic year, a semi-structured interview to students from the Faculty of Mathematics Informatics, Department of Mathematics, to a total of 72 subjects. The interview consisted of 10 questions relating to the evaluation methods used in the university. For illustration, we present and analyze the responses obtained to 5 of the interview questions. Analysis of feedback from students shows that most often are assessed by written evaluation methods, i.e. examinations during the examination period, 83.3% of answers, and the practical assessment method is used in 9.7% of cases, and the oral evaluation method in 5.6% of cases. The written evaluation method is preferred by teachers probably due to the large number of students of a department or faculty. Students consider this method as an objective evaluation because it measures exactly the level of knowledge and skills acquired. Following the study and analysis of psycho-pedagogical, we plead rather for an ongoing evaluation, and not a final one, thus eradicating the paradoxical situations, the grades expressing the quality and degree of improvement achieved by the students, thus adjusting continuously their effort in learning, reducing the gap between the volume of taught knowledge and the amount of assumed skills and competences. In checking the knowledge it is appropriate to focus on the development of student thinking by requiring reasoned answers, based on logic, trying to give a formative content to the moment of checking
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
Las "chicas malas" de la mitología rumana. La supervivencia de las "iele" (I) - Una estructura mitológica recurrente
No full textEl texto está en el idioma rumano y el resumen en inglés.A very beloved myth in Romania has as its central figure a group of women, called 'Iele', fairies who make
their appearance during summer nights or even on the night of Saint John, in a forest clearing, and dance around
the fire. Folklore portrays them as forest spirits who can bewitch those who surprise them by dancing, causing them
to lose their judgment and / or modifying their physical appearance.The present study is the result of the common
research interest of the two authors on this topic. In the first part of the study, the authors propose a detailed survey
in the area of Romanian folklore and mythology interested in this topic with complex mythological and symbolic
meanings.The article gathers important information from the relevant literature (L. Șăineanu, S. Fl. Marian, T.
Pamfile, A. Gorovei, M. Olinescu, R. Vulcănescu etc.) and it also briefly analyzes the way in which the mythological
elements and legends about the summer fairies called 'Iele'were capitalized in literary fiction and poetry signed by
Romanian writers. A summary version of this article was presented at The Scientific conference 'Dialogue of
cultures between tradition and modernity', XXI edition, organized by the Department of Philology and the Center
for Philological Research and Multicultural Dialogue (CCFDM), "1 Decembrie 1918" University of Alba Iulia,
RomaniaDepto. de Biblioteconomía y DocumentaciónFac. de Ciencias de la DocumentaciónTRUEpu
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