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Ornithology as intertextuality:A guide to Max Porter’s birds (and where to find them)
No full textPorter’s works tend to hint at an extremely eclectic range of influences, both in terms of real-life events (as in the biographical aspects of The Death of Francis Bacon) and in terms of their rich layers of intertextuality. Grief Is the Thing with Feathers is, perhaps, the most complex of Porter’s works to date in terms of its relationship to its source material. Grief is clearly rooted in intertextual homage to Ted Hughes’s poetry. Yet it invokes Hughes in ways that owe as much to the biographical as they do the poetic. Grief also has less obvious intertextual relations to Julian Barnes’s novel Flaubert’s Parrot, which blurs the lines between biography and fiction. Furthermore, the title alludes openly to Emily Dickinson, and the presence of a talking crow commenting on the tragic and premature death of a woman recalls Poe. Borrowing the concept of “jizz” from amateur birdwatchers - and using this term strictly in its ornithological sense - this chapter will show that Porter’s intertextual relationships with Hughes’s crow, Barnes’s parrot, Dickinson’s hummingbird, and Poe’s raven all shed light on the different genres in which Grief Is the Thing with Feathers participates, and help to account for the ways in which it defies labelling as any particular genre.</p
A colloquy on Shy
No full textThis chapter offers a closing discussion on Max Porter’s 2023 novel Shy in the form of a colloquy. It attempts to address some critical positions on Porter’s enigmatic latest novel by placing them into dialogue with one another. The first part of the colloquy juxtaposes Shy with the documentary Feltham Sings (2002), written by Simon Armitage, to reflect on the contrasting ways in which these texts offer social and political critique, and to speculate on Shy’s possible futures. Part two tackles the question of the novel’s ambiguous beginning and ending by elaborating on the motif of the eponymous young man’s rucksack and its role as a conduit for the themes of guilt and shame. Finally, taking as its focus the semantic hints rooted in the novel’s staging of the motif of casting stones, the third part asks questions about the complex ways in which the novel summons the reader to grapple with its ambiguities.</p
Neither Billiard Ball nor Planet B: Latour’s Gaia, Literary Agency, and the Challenge of Writing Geohistory in the Anthropocene Moment
No full textNeither Billiard Ball nor Planet B: Latour’s Gaia, Literary Agency, and the Challenge of Writing Geohistory in the Anthropocene Moment
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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
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