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The Myths of Prometheus and the Black Sea Region. Conflicting Versions, Shifting Paradigms
Full text linkThe Myths of Prometheus and the Black Sea Region. Conflicting Versions, Shifting ParadigmsThe topic of the paper is the interrelation between two ideological constructs: the figure of Prometheus and the so-called Black Sea region. Both of them represent, in specifically transformed versions, primary ideas and realities that lack the additionally attributed coherence of the later concepts currently in use. It aims to explore the key ancient myth of Prometheus in comparative perspective juxtaposing the stable presence it retains in the Western cultural imagination with its life in the Black Sea region, where this myth initially emerged. It focuses specifically on the underestimated political mobilization of the Prometheus myth in the construction of national identities and in the manufacturing of various ideologies. The different, often conflicting versions are analysed in diachronic perspective that provides observability of the potential paradigm shifts in the conceptualizations of the Prometheus figure.Keywords: Prometheus; Black Sea region; national identities; political mobilization Митовете за Прометей и Черноморският регион. Конфликтуващи версии и смяна на парадигмитеПредмет на изследването, представено в този текст, е взамоотнесеността между два идеологически конструкта – митичната фигура на Прометей и т. нар. Черноморски регион. Всеки един от тях изразява в специфично видоизменена версия определени първични идеи и реалности, на които несъмнено е липсвала вторично придадената смислова кохерентност, присъща на по-късно оформените концепти, валидни за настоящия момент. Основната цел е проучването на централния древен мит за Прометей в съпоставителна перспектива с противопоставяне на стабилната позиция, която той заема във въображението на Западната културна традиция, и живота му в Черноморския регион, където митът първоначално възниква. Фокусът е по-специално върху недогледаните политически употреби на мита при конструирането на национални идентичности, както и при производството на различни идеологии. Отделните, често конфликтуващи версии са анализирани в диахрония, което осигурява възможност за установяване на парадигмални изместваиня в концептуализациите на Прометеевата фигура.Ключови думи: Прометей; Черноморски регион; национална идентичност; политически употреб
Laurence Sterne’s ‘Noseology’ and the Making of Gogol’s The Nose / ‘Носологията’ на Лорънс Стърн и направата на Гоголевия Нос
No full textIt has become a tradition to use the succession of Gogol’s short novel The Nose from Laurence Sterne’s Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy as a key to its interpretation, and to identify its kinship to the ‘noseology’ in 1820s’ and 1830s’ Russian literature and the peculiar type of Russian Sternianism, which originated as a result of the novel’s reception in Russia. In this research perspective, set originally by V. V. Vinogradov, so much work has been completed that its potential seems to have been exhausted. Nevertheless, certain vagueness and several logical gaps have been identified in the established visions about Sterne’s influence on Gogol. The task of the present study is to bridge these inadequacies and to clarify the mechanisms that helped transform Sterne’s ‘noseology’ into the puzzling world of Gogol’s The Nose. The examination conducted in this paper demonstrates that the essential link between the whimsical logic of Gogol’s short novel, and especially the paradoxical substantiation of the theme of the nose in it, on the one hand, and Sterne’s novel Tristram Shandy, on the other, is manifested as re-actualization of an entire network of motifs that were established by the source novel and were reproduced in specific ways both in The Nose and in Gogol’s other works. As a result of this process, strange associative groupings that seem to have been deprived of meaning were set firmly as fixed configurations. A characteristic of the specific mechanism manifested in Gogol’s autotextuality is the fact that the cluster of interconnected images and notions issuing from Sterne’s novel was repeated again by means of varying combinations of elements. Each of these single derivative substantiations is incomplete with regard to the paradigm, and though inexhaustible and scattered throughout various texts by Gogol, theystill remain recognizable parts of a common constellation, whose prototype was created by Sterne. По традиция, като ключ към интерпретацията на повестта Нос на Николай Гогол се извежда приемствеността ѝ от Животът и мненията на Тристрам Шанди, джентълмен на Лорънс Стърн, както и родството ѝ с ‘носологията’ в руската литература от 20-те и 30-те години на ХIX век и своеобразното руско ‘стернианство’, производни от рецепцията на романа в Русия. В тази изследователска перспектива, зададена първоначално от В. В. Виноградов, е работено толкова много, че възможностите ѝ изглеждат изчерпани. Въпреки това, в установените виждания за влиянието, което Стърн упражнява върху Гогол, присъстват известни неясноти и логически процепи. Задачата на настоящото изследване е да запълни тези непълноти и да изясни механизмите, по които ‘носологията’ на Стърн е била преобразувана в загадъчния свят на Гоголевия Нос.Проведените в статията наблюдения показват, че същностната връзка между причудливата логика в повестта на Гогол и в частност парадоксалната конкретизация на темата за носа в нея, от една страна, и романа на Стърн Тристрам Шанди, от друга, се проявява като реактуализиране на цялостна мотивна мрежа, зададена от източника, и възпроизведена по специфични начини както в конкретната повест на Гогол, така и в други негови произведения, при което като устойчиви конфигурации се закрепват странни, привидно лишени от смисъл асоциативни групирания. Характерно за специфичния механизъм, проявен в автотекстуалността на Гогол, е че снопът от взаимосвързани образи и представи, излъчен от романа на Стърн, се преповтаря чрез вариращи комбинации от елементи. Всяка от производните единични конкретизации е непълна по отношение на парадигмата, но дори и в тази си неизчерпателност и разпръснатост из различни текстове на Гогол, те все пак остават като безпогрешно разпознаваеми участници в една обща констелация, чийто прототип е дело на Стърн
Литературна компаративистика под друго име
Full text linkВ статията се коментира книгата на Иън Бостридж „Зимно пътуване“ на Шуберт. Анатомия на една обсебеност, която отвъд заявения си характер на музиколожко изследване, посветено на песенния цикъл на Франц Шуберт по стихове на Вилхелм Мюлер, един от шедьоврите на изкуството на романтизма, демонстрира забележителни постижения в областта на литературната компаративистика, като същевременно предизвиква размисли за актуалното състояние на научната дисциплина.Ключови думи: Иън Бостридж; „Зимно пътуване“ на Шуберт. Анатомия на една обсебеност; Франц Шуберт; Вилхелм Мюлер; сравнително литературознание Comparative Literature under a Different HeadingThis article discusses Ian Bostridge’s book Schubert’s Winter Journey: Anatomy of an Obsession, which – beyond the label of musicological research dedicated to Franz Schubert’s song cycle “Winterreise” (“Winter Journey”), a masterpiece of Romanticism that was based on poems by Wilhelm Müller – stands out with its remarkable achievements in the field of comparative literature and calls attention to the contemporary state of this academic discipline.Keywords: Ian Bostridge; Schubert’s Winter Journey: Anatomy of an Obsession; Franz Schubert; Wilhelm Müller; Comparative literature Komparatistische Literaturwissenschaft unter einem anderen NamenIm vorliegenden Artikel wird das Buch von Ian Bostridge Schubert’s Winter Journey. Anatomy of an Obsession kommentiert, das über seinen Charakter einer musikwissenschaftlichen Untersuchung hinaus, die Franz Schuberts Liederzyklus “Winterreise” nach Gedichten von Wilhelm Müller, einem der Meisterwerke der romantischen Kunst, gewidmet ist, auch Bemerkenswertes im Bereich der Komparatistik leistet und gleichzeitig zum Nachdenken über den aktuellen Stand dieser wissenschaftlichen Disziplin anregt.Schlüsselwörter: Ian Bostridge; Schubert’s Winter Journey: Anatomy of an Obsession; Franz Schubert; Wilhelm Müller; Komparatisti
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
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
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Full text linkWe 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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