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Memoria e mnemotecnica nei Triumphi di Francesco Petrarca
Get PDFThe studies of Yates and Carruthers have highlighted the importance of medieval mnemotecniques for meditation, as well as for rhetoric and poetry. The medieval mnemotecnique – that was elaborated on the model of the classic one in monastic context – put the working mechanism of memory at the centre of literary and artistic creation, generating a systematic transcodification and establishing a collective imagination. The latter on one hand is used by church authorities in their communication strategy, on the other it allows the individual to reclaim a symbolic apparatus. Indeed, opposing the crystallization of the medieval allegory, the arbitrariness of memory’s association allows the use of the same images to convey new meanings.
In this context Petrarch – as Torre has highlighted – pays particular attention to the characteristics and the poetic functions of memory. The author of the Fragmenta, inheriting the Augustinian radical scepticism towards the phantasma, seems to restore a moral value of images, using them as means of meditation. This meditation, from a poetic point of view, consists in a search of balance between the arbitrariness of memory’s association and the images’ connection to a cultural heritage that the poet wants to renovate. In this sense Petrarch wants to create his own symbolic universe and to share it with an ahistorical élite of intellectuals.
An example of this reflection of Petrarch can be traced in Triumphi. Despite the poem is unfinished, it seems in an editorial status which allows the reader to recognize the project of the poet, as it is possible to recognize through two comparisons. Through the comparison with the canzoni organized as a “polyptych” of the Fragmenta, it is possible to analyse the lyric characteristics of the narration through juxtaposed images used by Petrarch in the poem. At the same time the comparison with the Commedia shows how the poet uses the topos of the vision only as a literary genre: indeed he systematically reveals the fictionality of the visio, foregrounding the processes of the biographical, poetic and erudite memory. Therefore in the poem Petrarch tells of a journey of memorial rethinking of phantasmata relating to his individual memory. At the same time he tries to reform the medieval collective imagination, creating a universe made for himself and his public in which it is possible to find an eternal icon that proves the survival of something human in the eternity
Futilità e assenza: la cecità nell'ultimo Carlo Levi
No full textL'autore indaga la malattia della cecità nell'elaborazione del Quaderno a cancelli (1979)
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
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
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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