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Aspetti del travestimento e narrativa omoerotica in As You Like It
No full textNell’introduzione alla raccolta di saggi critici da lui curata intitolata Alternative Shakespeares (1985), John Drakakis scriveva: “Shakespeare can never be ‘our contemporary’ except by the strategy of appropriation”. L’emergere di un nuovo modello interpretativo, che - come evidenziato da Catherine Belsey nel suo contributo alla raccolta - ha esaltato la possibilità di effettuare molteplici letture dell’opera shakespeariana e di rintracciare al suo interno svariati significati, ha visto una parte della critica degli ultimi tre decenni giocare un ruolo primario nel processo di appropriazione e di ripensamento di quella stessa opera attraverso l’impiego del gender come categoria di analisi dei testi del drammaturgo. Studiosi quali Stephen Orgel e Valerie Traub hanno ravvisato in certe commedie una poetica del desiderio omosessuale originata dal doppio travestimento sulla scena, che è stato considerato in chiave non-normativa per mostrare la sottile linea di demarcazione tra maschile e femminile e, al contempo, la natura eterogenea del desiderio, o - come già Jan Kott aveva anticipato in Shakespeare Our Contemporary (1965) - “the universality of desire which cannot be contained in or limited to one sex”. Prendendo in esame As You Like It, sarà interessante notare come il viaggio che Rosalind intraprende oltre i confini del proprio genere sessuale diventi emblematico di una ‘narrativa’ omoerotica. Il travestimento della protagonista, insieme alla scelta del nome Ganymede, la forte carica di ironia drammatica contenuta nelle scene del corteggiamento tra Rosalind/Ganymede e Orlando, e le interessanti prospettive sul gender e sulla performance teatrale aperte dall’epilogo, saranno pertanto al centro dell’analisi proposta
"'I am not that I play': Questioni di genre, gender e sessualità in Twelfth Night"
No full textThe line of research that a few decades ago set out to identify the hallmarks of theatrical communication has contributed much to our understanding of the ways in which theatre and drama operate in comparison with other world-creating forms of art. To the extent that the dramatic action relies, to be carried on, upon the pragmatic and the deictic potential with which the actors’ words and gestures are endowed, a preliminary analysis of Twelfth Night will be directed at detecting cases of “pointing via language” (deictic elements), and examples of performative utterances (direct speech acts), as well as instances of metatheatrical lines which, by revealing the fictitious character of the stage spectacle, will certainly prove instrumental in fostering a reading of the play from the perspective of gender studies. If it is true that the acting conventions of Shakespeare’s time became the substance of his drama, then there is enough evidence to assert that the boy actor’s double disguise was one of the artifices on which he capitalised the most, profiting from the temporary confusion caused by the transvestism of the theatre to unsettle gender assumptions. More specifically, the crossing of gender and sexual boundaries occasioned by Viola’s disguise gives rise to erotic situations that involve same-sex individuals, allowing queer desires to be brought to light and explored. Furthermore, the heroine’s dress-swapping exposes gender as a dramatic role that having no connection whatsoever with one’s sex, can be played by any-body. It is clear, therefore, that the notion of gender as a form of role-playing finds in the theatre an ideal place where to spot its workings and insubstantiality, and no better place, in fact, than the English Renaissance transvestite stage
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
"I loved well to see plays": Women on and off stage in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century England, Italy, and Spain
Full text linkThis work investigates women’s role as patron-spectators in the theatre of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century England, Italy, and Spain. The aim of such an excursion into the little researched theme of early modern women’s theatregoing is to prove that, even though women, according to traditional periodization, cannot be said to have had a Renaissance, the theatrical event, be it the popular phenomenon that took place in the English and the Spanish public playhouses, or the exclusive happening patronised by the Italian aristocrats, allowed women to temporarily shake off the cultural and social shackles imposed on their sex.
Women’s presence at the theatre has been demonstrated by making reference to three types of contemporary commentary: the anti-theatrical polemic; women’s ego documents; various plays’ prologues and epilogues.
It was found that by letting them infringe their homeboundness in order to attend the theatre, and watch the enactment of plays that some feared might change their worldview and encourage them to re-act, the sixteenth- and seventeenth-century drama gave women the opportunity to experience autonomy, agency, and empowerment.
The analysis of three plays from the period at hand – William Shakespeare’s The Two Gentlemen of Verona; Alessandro Piccolomini’s L’Alessandro; Guillén de Castro’s La fuerza de la costumbre – is meant to show a woman’s character gradual shift from a situation in which she acts as an object of exchange between men, to a situation where that position is called into question by the expression of a non-normative desire, to, finally, the representation of a subjectivity that deconstructs all the conventions and convictions concerning women
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
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