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Christian Gutleben and Vanessa Guignery, eds. “Nadine Gordimer, Jump and Other Stories : Parcours Critiques.”
Full text linkThe latest volume of the journal Cycnos, edited by Christian Gutleben and Vanessa Guignery, tries, like other volumes in the collection, to strike a balance between offering new critical research on a major author and presenting approaches to a work on the syllabus for the French Agrégation externe d’anglais which can be more immediately useful to students, a fact one cannot help taking into account when reviewing this publication. Mostly based on presentations given at a conference organised..
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
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
D’une guerre l’autre : re-présenter les conflits nationaux, coloniaux et mondiaux et les blessures intimes, ou l’épopée lyrique dans The Landscape Painter de Craig Higginson (Afrique du Sud, 2011)
No full textInternational audienceWhen he sees the young woman who is going to be the new lodger of the bedsit next to his, Arthur Bailey, an elderly painter who now lives as a recluse in post-World War Two London, is suddenly thrown back into the past. The images of the Boer War which had been haunting him for so long resurface, and become interlaced with those of the Blitz, the ruins of London evoking a Gothic landscape. Written from a country still probing its own wounds almost a century and half later, The Landscape Painter (2011), Craig Higginson’s fourth novel, intertwines representations of conflicts in both the then colony and the metropolis, and combines genres and mediums: in the same way the painter of the title alternates between the sublime and the picturesque, the author mingles the lyrical, the epic and the plaasroman (or farm novel), so as to question traditional national narratives. After a series of wars which have broken the characters’ minds and maimed their bodies, language itself has been affected, disarticulated, so that the novel simultaneously questions how to re-present or commemorate those conflicts, both far and close, (inter)national, colonial and personal, the political and the esthetic being thus intimately entangled.Après avoir aperçu le visage de l’inconnue qui emménage dans l’appartement à côté du sien, Arthur Bailey, peintre vieillissant qui vit reclus dans le Londres de l’après Seconde Guerre mondiale, voit soudain ressurgir les démons du passé qui le hantent. Les images du conflit anglo-boer du siècle précédent dans la tourmente duquel il s’est retrouvé pris lors d’un séjour loin de la métropole se mêlent à celles des ruines quasi gothiques d’après le Blitz. De même que sur la toile du peintre s’entrelacent et contrastent touches pittoresques et paysages sublimes, The Landscape Painter (2011), le quatrième roman de Craig Higginson, en revenant ainsi sur des événements survenus près d’un siècle et demi plus tôt, alterne et associe lyrisme, épopée et plaasroman (roman de ferme, genre typique en Afrique du Sud) pour mieux sonder les blessures de son propre pays encore en (re)construction et remettre en question les récits nationaux traditionnels de la métropole et de la colonie. Si tous ces conflits ont durablement brisé les esprits et mutilé les chairs, la langue même s’avère affectée, presque désarticulée au sens fort du terme : on verra ainsi comment le roman interroge la pertinence de ces genres littéraires pour re-présenter ou commémorer ces guerres si lointaines et si proches, (inter)nationales autant que personnelles, et politiques autant qu’esthétiques
Graham K. Riach, The Short Story after Apartheid. Thinking with Form in South African Literature (Liverpool, Liverpool University Press, 2023)
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