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Peter Lamarque: The Opacity of Narrative
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Literature and the Nugget of Knowledge. An Interview with Derek Attridge and Peter Lamarque
Get PDFThe idea of an interview with Peter Lamarque and Derek Attridge on the cognitive value of literary fiction arose in the wake of an aesthetics course on the relation between literature and truth at the University of Antwerp. In Spring 2015 Peter Lamarque contributed to this course with the lecture “The Opacity of Narrative and Fine-grained Reading”. In Spring 2017 Derek Attridge elaborated his view on the relation between literature and truth in his lecture “The Event of Truth : Literature’s Singular Relation to Knowledge”. After each lecture, we had the occasion to discuss with the author the stakes of the debate and we were rapidly convinced by the many points of convergences between their views. We intended to explore these similarities and differences through a face to face interaction and were happy that both philosophers accepted our invitation for an interview. This interview was conducted by Arthur Cools and Leen Verheyen in York on 9 July 2018
Literature and the nugget of knowledge : an interview with Derek Attridge and Peter Lamarque
No full textAbstract: The idea of an interview with Peter Lamarque and Derek Attridge on the cognitive value of literary fiction arose in the wake of an aesthetics course on the relation between literature and truth at the University of Antwerp. In Spring 2015 Peter Lamarque contributed to this course with the lecture \u201cThe Opacity of Narrative and Fine-grained Reading\u201d. In Spring 2017 Derek Attridge elaborated his view on the relation between literature and truth in his lecture \u201cThe Event of Truth : Literature\u2019s Singular Relation to Knowledge\u201d. After each lecture, we had the occasion to discuss with the author the stakes of the debate and we were rapidly convinced by the many points of convergences between their views. We intended to explore these similarities and differences through a face to face interaction and were happy that both philosophers accepted our invitation for an interview. This interview was conducted by Arthur Cools and Leen Verheyen in York on 9 July 2018
Peter Lamarque su verità e valore letterario. Alcune riflessioni critiche
Get PDFAmong the views defended by Peter Lamarque in his well-structured and well-argued
account of literature, there is a sceptical claim about the role of truth and
knowledge in accounting for the artistic value of literary works. Obviously, he does
not deny that literature can be a source of knowledge; what he questions, however,
is that the possible cognitive value of a work contributes to its artistic value. Roughly,
the idea is that aims and expectations of writers and readers are, among other things,
normative for literary value and that, while we read e.g. a philosophical or scientific
work to learn some truth, we do not read a novel with the same aim; instead, in a
novel we look for, above all, that particular kind of pleasure which originates in our
imaginative engagement with the narrative content, the description of characters and
places, the evocative use of the language, etc.
In this article, Lamarque’s conception is largely endorsed; however, it is suggested
that the thesis that truth is not significant for artistic value should not be generalized
to all literary works. At least in some cases, the cognitive value of a literary work
might contribute to its artistic value. Though a fully developed defence of this view
is not provided, the article raises doubts, on the one hand, on the exclusion of
cognitive expectations from the literary point of view and, on the other hand, on
Lamarque’s implicit adoption of propositional truth as a paradigm. It is argued that
in particular from this latter assumption a rather narrow conception of the ways in
which literature can be a source of knowledge is derived
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
Peter Lamarque
Get PDFPeter Vaudreuil Lamarque is one of the most prominent members of the golden generation of analytic aestheticians born immediately after the Second World War. If, to follow Archilochus via Isaiah Berlin (via Peter Kivy), “a fox knows many things, but a hedgehog one important thing,” Lamarque is perhaps the biggest hedgehog of his generation. Lamarque’s “important thing” is not a single idea but, as he would put it, the practice that we call “literature.” His distinctive achievement has been to integrate a number of different ideas into a systematic philosophical account of literature, which also sheds light on art more generally
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
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