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Speaking Silently and Overnarrating in Fyodor Dostoevsky’s Krotkaia
No full textSpeech saturates Fyodor Dostoevsky’s Krotkaia, wherein the first-person narrator, a loquacious grieving pawnbroker seeks to comprehend the cause of his wife’s suicide. But this speech, strangely, is often as silent as it is voiced. Reading Krotkaia, I follow the seemingly ceaseless speech of Dostoevsky’s narrator, but also, listen to the pauses, speechless moments, and silence. In so doing, I discuss the audible and inaudible in Krotkaia, positing that reevaluating the relationship between speech and silence calls for reconsideration of the work’s narrative landscape. This article shows how gender dynamics and plot structure are defined by the interplay of speech and silence and treats the meek one’s wordlessness as a communicative act, through which the oppressed female figure cultivates narrative agency. Keywords: The Meek One, silence, narratology, gende
Recasting the Past: Russian Literature, Drama, and the Plastic Arts in the Era of Reform
No full textThis dissertation traces representations of and discourse about the Russian premodern across the arts and print culture between 1859 and 1875. It is the study of the manifold ways in which artistic production captured, translated, and (re)defined the historical past during the era of the Great Reforms (circa 1861-1874). It considers why the past, particularly the premodern past, occupied such a prominent place in the cultural imaginary during an exceptionally modern moment in Russian history. In this project, I argue that a shared, coherent notion of the “premodern” was developing during the reform era, and I show how the premodern was coopted in service of conflicting ideological and political programs that ranged from revivalist, to aesthetically conservative, to nationalist and xenophobic, to highly progressive. “Recasting the Past” demonstrates that the formation of a premodern historical consciousness was rooted in a dense, transmedial array of cultural productions. It comprises three chapters, which are respectively dedicated to the novel, drama, and sculpture. In my first chapter, I analyze contemporary discourse about A. K. Tolstoy’s Prince Serebrianyi to argue for the subversive potential of the historical novel and “pure art” in the early sixties. I show that studying this novel provides insight into a burgeoning, reactionary desire for escapism in the face of liberalizing social change. I then examine colonial, xenophobic, and martial discourse in the historical drama of Aleksandr Ostrovsky, A. K. Tolstoy, and Nikolai Chaev within the context of the failure of the Crimean War (1853-1856) and the rise of patriotic conservatism that took place in the wake of the Polish Uprising (1863-1864). These works’ representations of war, invasion, and occupation reflected reform-era concerns about Russia’s military prowess and the strength of its autocracy. My final chapter focuses on Mark Antokol’skii’s Ivan the Terrible. Situating the sculpture within its contemporary reception and source literature, and in relation to Western European art historical precedent, I argue that the sculpture disrupts linear historical narratives. Each artistic medium treated in this dissertation offers a distinct entry point into the past. By moving among painting, illustration, sculpture, the novel, and drama and focusing on lesser-discussed forms, my dissertation illuminates the transdisciplinary culture of creation and exchange that existed in reform-era Russia
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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