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‹‹Una scherma amorosa››: Bufalino e il lettore
No full textIl saggio indaga le modalità con cui Bufalino indirizza e controlla a distanza il processo di lettura delle proprie opere, Congegnando un intrigante gioco di specchi, di rifrazioni e di mise en abyme, l’autore inserisce all’interno della narrazione episodi e apologhi allegorici, che compendiano in sé l’intero senso del racconto e mettono in scene figure di lettori. L’attenzione del lettore, messa in allerta dalle spie disseminate a bella posta nel testo, è convogliata spesso su una traiettoria per certi versi ‘obbligata’: muovendo dagli indizi predisposti con avvedutezza dal narratore l’interpretazione si concentra giocoforza su certi nodi significativi, mettendo da parte gli altri, eventuali spunti percorribili.The essay investigates the ways in which Bufalino directs and remotely controls the process of reading his own works. By assigning an intriguing game of mirrors, refractions and mise en abyme, the author inserts allegorical episodes and apologues into the narration, that summarize in themselves the whole sense of the story and bring together figures of readers. The attention of the reader, put on alert by the spies disseminated in the text, is often conveyed on a trajectory in some ways 'obliged': moving from the clues predisposed with shrewdness by the narrator the interpretation is concentrated on certain significant nodes, setting aside the others, any possible hints
Identità e alterità. Il lungo viaggio di Gabriella Ghermandi, Cristina Ali Farah, Igiaba Scego, Ornela Vorpsi
Full text linkL’analisi parallela delle opere di quattro scrittrici della migrazione consente di individuare, nella singolarità delle scritture, una circolarità di discorso sui temi del viaggio e dello spaesamento, del racconto e della lingua..
Il saggio mette in evidenza come lo «statuto relazionale dell’identità» viva in rapporto a quello dell’alterità e si configuri come un’identità multipla che si realizza in uno spazio mobile.
Il lungo viaggio di Gabriella Ghermandi, Cristina Ali Farah, Igiaba Scego e Ornela Vorpsi illustra, con diversi esiti, la trasformazione del tema dell’esilio in quello della perenne erranza. Dalla loro esperienza della migrazione, dalla loro condizione nomade, emergono narrazioni inedite che gettano uno sguardo straniato sul mondo.
Tra Italia ed Etiopia, tra Italia, Somalia e Albania e altre stazioni di transito si muovono personaggi da un mondo all’altro ciascuno mosso da dolorose motivazioni. E attraverso le loro peregrinazioni si disegnano tante mappe ibride in cui la lingua assume il ruolo di dimora vitale. Essa, attingendo dalla pratica dell’ascolto e dell’incontro, consegna i depositi della memoria insieme ai rilevamenti del presente.A comparative analysis of the works of four migrant writers enables us to identify, within individual writings, a circularity of discourse on the topics of journey, displacement, nar-ration and language. The essay highlights how the ‘relational status of identity’ exists in relation-ship to otherness and is defined as a multiple identity shaped in a mobile space. The long journey of Gabriella Ghermandi, Cristina Ali Farah, Igiaba Scego and Ornela Vorpsi illustrates, with differ-ent outcomes, how the topic of exile is transformed into ceaseless erring. From their experience with migration, from their nomadic condition, unknown narrations emerge casting an estranged glance on reality. Between Italy and Ethiopia, Italy, Somalia and Albania, and other transit sta-tions, characters move from one world to the next, all animated by painful motivations. Through their wandering, they trace a number of hybrid maps in which language becomes a vital home. Such home, drawing from the practice of listening and from encounters, delivers its memory deposits together with mappings of the prese
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
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