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Moving on from Manderley: Daphne du Maurier’s short fiction
No full textThis reflective article comprises a doctoral research journey for which the archives at MRC were pivotal and produced groundbreaking work, thus enabling the repositioning of a key literary figure from the twentieth century, Daphne du Maurier. The correspondence between the author and Victor Gollancz her publisher led to breakthrough moments connecting contemporary events to the genesis of the short fiction, and this showed du Maurier as an insightful critique of power dynamics in her times
Apples and Pears: Symbolism and Influence in Daphne du Maurier’s ‘The Apple Tree’ and Katherine Mansfield’s ‘Bliss’
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Corporeality in Daphne du Maurier’s Short Stories
Get PDFThis paper examines the shorter fiction of Daphne du Maurier and argues that she engaged fully with contemporary political, social, and intellectual issues through developing a conceptual framework of corporeality that unifies the works. The argument establishes the context of corporeality in which du Maurier’s short stories are to be read, and postulates that her stories illustrate the results of frustrated desire by recurrent reference to the incomplete or impaired human form. Three stories are chosen from the corpus to illustrate how du Maurier employs the gendered and non-gendered, disabled and maimed human form as a recurrent symbol for social, political, and domestic misalignment. Examples include “Monte Verità” as an exploration of gyno-geography and a locational blending of the spiritual and the corporeal; “The Alibi,” with particular regard to impotence, artistic prowess, and murderous intent; and “The Little Photographer” as the arena of fetish, fertility, and the power of the body in pictorial form. This analysis of the short stories lends weight to the reassessment of du Maurier’s reputation, contending that her stories are significant in the development of the genre throughout the twentieth century. It shows how corporeality is the central governing concept in narratives that blur the boundary between psychological study, cautionary tale, horror narrative and the Künstlerroman.À partir d’une étude de ses nouvelles, cet article démontre que Daphne du Maurier a pleinement interagi avec les questions politiques, sociales et intellectuelles de son époque en développant un cadre conceptuel unifiant autour de la notion de corporéité. L’argument établit le contexte de corporéité dans lequel les nouvelles de du Maurier doivent être lues et postule que, par de fréquentes références à la forme humaine incomplète ou altérée, ces histoires illustrent les conséquences d’un désir frustré. Trois histoires sont choisies pour illustrer la manière dont du Maurier utilise la forme humaine handicapée et mutilée, genrée ou non, comme symbole récurrent de désordre social, politique et domestique. Sont ainsi abordées “Monte Verità”, véritable exploration gyno-géographique et mélange incarné du spirituel et du corporel ; “The Alibi”, où s’illustrent en particulier les thèmes de l’impuissance, des prouesses artistiques et des envies meurtrières ; et “The Little Photographer”, où le fétichisme, la fertilité et le pouvoir de la représentation picturale du corps occupent le devant de la scène. Cette analyse des nouvelles de du Maurier étaie la réévaluation actuelle de sa réputation en soutenant qu’elles sont significatives dans le développement du genre tout au long du vingtième siècle. Elle montre que le concept de corporéité gouverne ces récits qui brouillent la frontière entre étude psychologique, mise en garde fictionnelle, récit d’horreur et Künstlerroman
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
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