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Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe 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
Full text link“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
Il teatro greco come scena del confronto tra eroe romantico e tirannia: "The Two Foscari" di Lord Byron
No full textLe peregrinazioni di un mito: interpretazioni e riscritture tardo-medievali della vicenda di Tristano e Isotta
Full text linkCecilia Pietropoli analizza la funzione del mito di Tristano e Isotta come elemento di rappresentazione di una società in decadenza attraverso la figura di Thomas Malory che fonde in un'unica opera la vicenda della coppia con quella arturiana. Nella “Le Morte Darthour” il personaggio di Tristano, da sempre cavaliere isolato e individualista, assume un ruolo importante per comprendere il nuovo approccio umanistico alla vita, più concreto e reale. Da un tema unico che ruota intorno all’ascesa e alla caduta del mondo arturiano, Malory raffigura come il dramma personale di un singolo cavaliere possa rappresentare quello di un’intera società
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe 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
The Tale of the Two Foscaris from the Chronicles to the Historical Drama: Mary Mitford's "Foscari" and Lord Byron's "The Two Foscari"
No full textAccording to the documents held in the archives of the Venetian "Council of Ten", the story of Jacopo Foscari was no more than a further instance of the duplicity and corruption typical of medieval Italian politics. Yet, already in late fifteenth century, the Venetian chroniclers began to transform Jacopo into a patriot and a hero who, exiled to Candia for no apparent reason, feigned an alliance with the Duke of Milan in order to be brought back to Venice, even though as a traitor to his own country. The figure of the Venetian Doge forced to condemn his own son to death attracted Romantic historians, J. C. L. Simonde de Sismondi above all, as well as playwrights. In 1821 Lord Byron was in Ravenna, were he came in contact with, and was strongly attracted by, the "Carboneria" and the Italian "Risorgimento". Here, he wrote his second historical tragedy, "The Two Foscari". In the same year, in England, Mary Russell Mitford drew on the same subject for her own historical drama, "Foscari", which was to be performed in London in 1826. The two plays will be compared with their sources in order to determine to what extent, and for what purpose, the two playwrights re-wrote this well-known Italian tale with clearly divergent results. Finally, the plays will also be analyzed as instances of their authors' theoretical approaches to Romantic historical drama
Women Romance Writers: Mary Tighe and Mary Hays
No full textRomantic Women Poets. Genre and Gender focuses on the part played by women in the creation of the literary canon in the Romantic period in Britain. Its thirteen essays enrich our panoramic view of an age that is traditionally dominated by male authors such as Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Shelley, Keats and Scott. Instead this volume concentrates on the poetical theory and practice of such extraordinary and fascinating women as Joanna Baillie, Charlotte Smith, Anna Laetitia Barbauld, Dorothy Wordsworth, Helen Maria Williams, Lady Morgan, Ann Radcliffe, Mary Shelley, Letitia Elizabeth Landon, Anna Seward, and Lady Caroline Lamb. Female and male poetics, gender and genres, literary forms and poetic modes are extensively discussed together with the diversity of behaviour and personal responses that the individual women poets offered to their age and provoked in their readers
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