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Cold Wars after 1989: Thanasis Valtinos\u27 Orthokosta and its Reception
Get PDF This paper examines the reception of Thanasis Valtinos\u27 novel Orthokosta (1994). Since its first appearance, Orthokosta has enjoyed a less than favorable reception, predominantly from leftist commentators who have mounted what seems to be a systematic campaign to discredit the novel\u27s apparent claims to historical truth. The work has been credited with prompting a turn towards "revisionism" in the historiography of the Greek Civil War. Indeed its author has been labeled as a "former leftist” who turned “reactionary" after the demise of “Real Socialism” in 1989. These comments on the text and its author have been accompanied by aesthetic evaluations of the novel which question its status as literature. This paper argues that Orthokosta challenged the basis for the construction of Party-based leftist identities in post-dictatorship Greece and criticized implicitly the populist ideology of the 70s and 80s in Greece. Leftist historians and intellectuals relied on this ideological climate to construct both their political identities and their version of Civil-War historiography. As a work of fiction, Orthokosta questions the institutionalized discourse that sanctified the Left in such historiography and challenges the literary aesthetics that its makers implicitly espoused in constructing it. This paper examines the reception of Thanasis Valtinos\u27 novel Orthokosta (1994). Since its first appearance, Orthokosta has enjoyed a less than favorable reception, predominantly from leftist commentators who have mounted what seems to be a systematic campaign to discredit the novel\u27s apparent claims to historical truth. The work has been credited with prompting a turn towards "revisionism" in the historiography of the Greek Civil War. Indeed its author has been labeled as a "former leftist” who turned “reactionary" after the demise of “Real Socialism” in 1989. These comments on the text and its author have been accompanied by aesthetic evaluations of the novel which question its status as literature. This paper argues that Orthokosta challenged the basis for the construction of Party-based leftist identities in post-dictatorship Greece and criticized implicitly the populist ideology of the 70s and 80s in Greece. Leftist historians and intellectuals relied on this ideological climate to construct both their political identities and their version of Civil-War historiography. As a work of fiction, Orthokosta questions the institutionalized discourse that sanctified the Left in such historiography and challenges the literary aesthetics that its makers implicitly espoused in constructing it. Cet article examine l\u27accueil reçu par le roman Orthokosta de Thanasis Valtinos (1994). Depuis sa première apparition, Orthokosta a bénéficié d\u27un accueil peu favorable, principalement de la part de critiques de gauche, qui ont monté ce qui semble être une campagne systématique visant à discréditer les pretentions apparentes du roman à la vérité historique. L\u27oeuvre a été créditée d\u27une volonté de «révisionnisme» de l\u27historiographie de la Guerre civile grecque. En effet, son auteur a été étiqueté comme un "ex-gauchiste» qui devient «réactionnaire» après la chute du «socialisme réel" en 1989. Ces observations sur le texte et son auteur ont été accompagnées par des évaluations esthétiques du roman qui remettent en question sa valeur littéraire. Cet article soutient que Orthokosta a contesté la construction des identités de gauche basée sur le Parti pendant la période de l\u27aprèsdictature en Grèce et a critiqué implicitement l\u27idéologie populiste des années 70 et 80 en Grèce. Des historiens et des intellectuels de gauche se sont appuyés sur ce climat idéologique pour construire à la fois leurs identités politiques et leur version de l\u27historiographie de la Guerre civile. Comme une oeuvre de fiction, Orthokosta pose des questions sur le discours institutionnel, qu\u27a sacralisé la Gauche dans une telle historiographie et défie l\u27esthétique littéraire que ses créateurs ont implicitement adoptée dans sa construction
Un-framing the Greek Civil War
Get PDFCommenting on the Greek civil war has been beset with perils since the unceremonious end of the conflict on 9 October 1949. The internecine hostilities have been generating divergent opinions and animated discussions in Greece among scholars, intellectuals and ordinary citizens for longer than might have been expected. A debate on the topic in the Greek daily and monthly press at the last turn of the century was described as a “second civil war” and lasted almost as long as the conflict itself. More recently, on 1 July 2014, Nikos Marantzidis a political scientist at the University of Macedonia in Northern Greece was assaulted by a pair of black-clothed men for his published views on the civil war. Having recovered in hospital a fortnight later, he declared in an interview that his cousins, party cadres of the KKE (Greek Communist Party), believe he is betraying the entire family. A quarter of a century after the fall of the Berlin Wall what is now commonly described as the ‘first hot incident of the Cold War’ can still lead to anything between dissension, intellectual skirmish, and bodily harm. Indeed, recent researchers have frequently referred to the memory of the Greek civil war as “cultural trauma”
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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