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Trans-Adriatic enlightenments : Maria Petrettini’s Italian translation of the Turkish embassy letters
Get PDFPublished online: 25 February 2024There is a lot to say about the Corfiot aristocrat Maria Petrettini (1772-1851). Her life spanned two centuries and five different empires. She could speak and write Venetian, Tuscan, Modern Greek, English, French and Spanish. She translated from Latin, Ancient Greek and English. She refused to follow the norms of her time on female virtue. She divorced twice, to the detriment of her parents and brother. She was a businesswoman who expanded the family fortune in precarious times. She tried to build a female philosophical and literary canon by researching and writing on women scholars of the past. She published three books and two translations and had many more unpublished works in her drawer. She was celebrated among her contemporaries. In the correspondence of the learned people of her circle, there was always a line or two about her and her endeavours. She strove for a public image. She wanted to be someone like Lady Mary Montagu, the English author she translated; like Cassandra Fedele, the Renaissance scholar whose biography she wrote; like her cousin Isabella Teotochi-Albrizzi, whose transnational salon she frequented. She wanted to be a scholar and a public intellectual. She succeeded. People, men and women of her time looked at her and her writings for inspiration.This research was supported by the project CIRGEN: 'Circulating Gender in the Global Enlightenment: Ideas, Networks, Agencies' financed by the European Research Council under the grant agreement 78701
Tracing the 'political' in women’s work : women of letters in the Greek cultural space, 1800–1832
No full textThe life and work of female thinkers within the Greek cultural space in the beginning of the nineteenth century (1800–1832) allows a contextualization of the intellectual developments of the time surrounding the Greek revolution. By translating philosophical texts and pedagogical works, writing memoirs, and engaging in philhellenic activities, women of the upper classes who self-identified as Greek created spaces where they could participate politically. Examining their textual and non-textual attempts to do so, we gain a broader understanding of the societal and material restrictions they faced and their strategies to negotiate and navigate them. We also gain insight into the intellectual genealogy of the Greek Revolution as a pluralistic phenomenon
Intellectual activists in an age of revolutions : women's ideas and political practices in the Greek cultural space (1800-1830)
No full textDefence date: 17 January 2025Examining Board: Prof. Ann Thomson (European University Institute, supervisor ); Prof. Glenda Sluga (European University Institute); Prof. Konstantina Zanou (Columbia University); Prof. Ioannis Koubourlis (University of Crete)This thesis examines the writings and the political lives of women who were willingly or unwillingly identified as Greek at the time surrounding the Greek Revolution of 1821. As empires crumbled and geographies changed, women tried to reposition themselves in the political landscape. They were affected by the ideas of enlightenment and romanticism that were forming an interesting hybrid in the Southeastern Mediterranean. Sometimes they used the tools they already had in hand (salons, translation), while others they tried to reinvent what was possible for their sex (publication of original works, secret societies). As is often the case with female actors, despite the earnest efforts of Greek women’s historians, historiography has not acknowledged their importance. They have, in one way or the other, been omitted from all accounts, or when they are present, their role has been severely underplayed. In this thesis, I recover some of them who were completely lost while I recast the lives and role of others.Chapter 2 'The intellectual boundaries of material space: women’s writings on geography, the fatherland, patriotism, and the war' of the PhD thesis draws upon an earlier version published as an article 'Female Fatherlands: Women of Letters, Greek Patriotism and the Revolution of 1821' (2023) in the journal 'Historein'.
Chapter 1 and 3 'Voices of a Revolution: Women, Language, and Nationhood' and 'Agency and actions: salons, philhellenism, and secret societies' of the PhD thesis draws upon an earlier version published as an article 'Tracing the ‘Political’ in Women’s Work: Women of Letters in the Greek Cultural Space, 1800–1832' (2021) in the journal 'Journal of Modern Greek Studies'.
Chapter 1 'Voices of a Revolution: Women, Language, and Nationhood' of the PhD thesis draws upon an earlier version published as chapter 'Women of the Word: Translation and Political Activism in the Age of Revolutions' (2023) in the book 'History of Intellectual Culture'.
Chapter 5 'A women’s nation: Maria Anastasia Petrettini and her intellectual borderlands' of the PhD thesis draws upon an earlier version published as chapter 'Trans-Adriatic Enlightenments: Maria Petrettini’s Italian Translation of the Turkish Embassy Letters' (2024) in the book 'Gender and Cultural Mediation in the Long Eighteenth Century: Women across Borders'
Women of the word : translation and political activism in the Age of Revolutions
Get PDFPublished online: 24 October 2023At the beginning of the nineteenth century, the age-old system of empires was beginning to crumble. People were trying to reimagine the political space, and geographies in Europe were shifting. In this intellectual landscape of upheaval, translation served as a powerful tool enabling vocabularies and ideas of revolution to travel from context to context. Translating texts into one’s language was a scholarly activity permitted for women and it was frequently used by female writers as a space where they could unfold their ideas and influence their contemporaries. Although there has lately been a renewed interest in translators and translation, these aspects are still undervalued as a source by historians of knowledge and ideas due to a misconception that translation lacks originality. Yet, the expressive and intercultural potential of the translated word and the insights that paratexts surrounding translations have to offer tell an exciting story – a story of cultural mediation also existing outside the textual world and providing the promise of political participation, even under the dark shadow of gender power relations
Female fatherlands women of letters, Greek patriotism and the 1821 revolution
Get PDFPublished: 29 December 2023This article examines the patriotic discourses of a few female thinkers who were connected with the Greek cause, before and during the Greek Revolution. It examines how they understood Greece and Europe as social, political, geographical and revolutionary spaces and how they understood the gendered character of the war. It seeks to challenge traditional localities of the Greek Revolution by including women who lived in areas that were not encompassed by the Greek nation-state after its inception and did not necessarily use the Greek language in their writings
Female Fatherlands: Women of Letters, Greek Patriotism and the 1821 Revolution
Get PDFThis article examines the patriotic discourses of a few female thinkers who were connected with the Greek cause, before and during the Greek Revolution. It examines how they understood Greece and Europe as social, political, geographical and revolutionary spaces and how they understood the gendered character of the war. It seeks to challenge traditional localities of the Greek Revolution by including women who lived in areas that were not encompassed by the Greek nation-state after its inception and did not necessarily use the Greek language in their writings
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
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