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Safi Safi as a novelist
No full textThis research has aimed to trace and fathom the narrative art of the novelist
Safi Safi in an attempt to explore the underpinnings and the characteristics
which have shaped the distinctive features of this art. Safi has gained
recognition in the literary arena since the publication of his first novel, Haj
Ismael, which won the Palestinian Writers Union’s award in 1989. Since then,
Safi has written a number of novels, and has become a member of the writers’
union’s executive committee since 1992. The present study covers the period
between 1990 and the appearance of Safi’s The Curve in 2005.
The study opens with an overview of the novelist’s upbringing and the micromacro
cosmoses that constituted the environment in which he was raised, with
some attention being paid to the manner in which that upbringing helped to
shape the formative seeds of his education in a way which left its impact on
his fictional creativity. For, the young Safi opened his eyes to the scenes of
the 1948 Nakba, which he had to undergo with his family at the outskirts of
Deir-Ammar refugee camp in the Ramallah district. With the rest of his
Palestian people, Safi has all along shared and embraced the dream of return
to the native soil and also of being freed from the anguish of homelessness.
However, at the age of twelve, and like many of his generation, he suffered
the shock of the 1967 Arab defeat which left a tremendous impact both on his
heart and mind. Afterwards, Safi became more directly involved in political
activities which led him to suffer the experience of imprisonment (1980) in a
way that left its marks on most of his fictional writings.
Now in as much as the novel constitutes an expression of the interaction
between the individual and his social and cultural milieu, and in as much as it
describes the kind of evolution resulting from the aforementioned interaction,
this literary genre has admitted a variety of definitions based on its content
and form, which has led to classifying novels into categories such as the
conventional, the modern, the modern historical and the new novel. The
present study has sought to demarcate these categories by clarifying the basic
features of each category and has then placed the novelist’s works in their
relevant categories. Subsequently, the study has dealt with the influence of the
Oslo Accords on the content and artistic form of Safi’s novels.
After clarifying the elements and features of theoretical definitions, the study
has moved on to consider the empirical aspect where the specific content and
subject-matter of each of the writer’s following novels are explored in order
of publication (Haj Ismael, The Stolen Dream, Ascending Again, Alyaseera,
Shihab, and finally The Curve). This laying out of relevant content and
subject-matter constituted a preface, preparing the ground for going into the
details of the narrative texture in Safi’s works. The content and theme of each
novel has been approached and dealt with separately to show the wide variety
of subject-matter which included the following: the impact of self / collective
oppression in the multiplicity of its sources and the variance of its effects; the
phenomenon of displacement and homesickness; the duality of the
woman/child issue and the impact of oppression and exploitation on their
intertwined fates; and the extant contradictions between the self (ego) and the
other in as much as the relation between the two influences life style and its
various features. The study has shown how these themes have focused on
politically criticizing the internal Palestinian situation and its Pan-Arab
counterpart as well as exposing the existent patterns of thinking and the
shallowness of awareness which have both obstructed the movement of social
progress and emancipation. A succinct summary of the most important events
in each novel preceded the detailed presentation of the above-mentioned
themes.
Subsequent to the foregoing presentation the study has moved on to analyze
the primary components of a novel, which include such elements as character,
setting (time and place), plot and conflict. This analysis was based on a
thorough analysis of each individual novel as a distinctive and independent
entity in its own right. Examples and parts of text have been cited to reinforce
the analysis and support the presented remarks, all against a background of
the critical views of other researchers and critics who concerned themselves
with the works of our novelist.
After this, the present study dealt with the artistic aspects in the novels
covered here, paying special attention to such aspects as language, variety of
narrative styles, dialogue and flashbacks. The researcher has noted how the
variety of styles reflects the variety in themes and implications in Safi’s
different novels. The study has provided theoretical definitions for all artistic
aspects and cited relevant examples and texts to illustrate each given aspect,
making use also of the opinions and views of critics and other specialized
studies. Nor has this research overlooked other artistic phenomena which
have likewise contributed to enriching the fictional/narrative form and content
in the novelist’s works such as the phenomenon of utilizing different types of
intertextuality as well as heritage and mythology which have all added to the
cultural enrichment of the texts and have helped to adorn them with an
effective human touch.
Through exploring the various aspects of form and content in Safi’s fictional
experience, and presenting the most important critical views about his literary
endeavor, this study has sought to respond to a number of questions regarding
the fictional/narrative art of Safi Safi: Has the novelist succeeded in making
good use of, and employing well in his works, the modern techniques of
narratology? What are the most salient influences on Safi’s narrative art of
some major political events such as the signing of the Oslo Accords? Has the
novelist succeeded in depicting the concerns and sufferings of the Palestinian
people in its persevering attempts to attain political, social and cultural
emancipation? How has the novelist managed to set out from his own private
vision and his personal experience to reach the sphere where he mirrors the
broader human experience in its yearning for progress, liberation and getting
rid of ignorance and captivity? The answers to these questions are to be found
spread out throughout the different sections of this thesis. In fine, the study
has also noted the interest that the novelist has in common with other local
novelists in foregrounding place and intensifying the employment of
mythology to the extent that the use of such devices has come to be regarded
as a distinctive characteristic of the post-Oslo Palestinian Novel, which could
constitute an interesting area of study for researchers concerned with
Palestinian narrative art
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
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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
Konsep Pertanggungjawaban Perbuatan Pemerintahan sebagai Sarana Mewujudkan Good Governance di Indonesia
Get PDFTata pemerintahan yang baik merupakan amanat dari reformasi dan cita-cita dari sebuah negara bangsa. untuk mewujudkan good governance perlu untuk mengontrol mekanisme pemerintahan. mekanisme kontrol yang mencakup mekanisme atau sistem dalam bentuk akuntabilitas publik dan akuntabilitas tindakan pemerintah. semua tindakan pemerintah harus dicatat sesuai dengan mekanisme hukum yang mengaturnya. dengan mekanisme akuntabilitas tindakan pemerintah diharapkan untuk memerintah sesuai dengan cita-cita proklamasi kemerdekaan seperti yang tertuang dalam preambule UUD 1945
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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