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'Hundred-per-cent American con man': character in Ken Kesey's One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
No full textA chapter exploring the changing scholarly reception to the novel and offering an innovative re-evaluation of the importance of character in the text
“Bonanza was never like this..,” Quantum Leap and interrogating nostalgia
No full textQuantum Leap first aired in 1989 and ran for five seasons ending in 1993. Though the show was not initially a commercial success by its third season it had gained a large enough audience to run for two further 22-episode series. Since its original airing, Quantum Leap has remained a favourite in syndication and a cult following has arisen surrounding the show with rumours persisting to the present of either a feature film spinoff or a televisual reboot . The show’s success suggests that something about central character Dr Sam Beckett’s adventures chimed with the late twentieth century U.S. viewing public. Interestingly, critics including Denis McNally and Lynette Porter have attributed this success, in part, to Quantum Leap’s evocative repackaging of key moments of twentieth century U.S. history (the assassination of J.F.K., Vietnam, Watergate) or use of famous figures (Michael Jackson, Dr Ruth, Marilyn Monroe). This element of Quantum Leap, which creator Donald P. Bellisario termed the show’s ‘kisses with History’ (qtd in Blocher), might suggest that the programme relied on the simple recreation or re-staging of recognisable historical markers for its appeal, what Frederic Jameson called the ‘complacent play of historical allusion.’ (1988, 105) symptomatic of ‘postmodern nostalgia films’ (1991, 18) such as Rumble Fish (1983) and Back to the Future (1985) or indeed television shows including Happy Days (1974-1984). However, this chapter will attempt to argue that rather than just being an example of the simplistic nostalgia that was considered to be ‘holding sway in the 1990s’ (Hutcheon) Quantum Leap offered a decidedly more complex and surprisingly nuanced critical reading of historicising processes indebted to contemporary postmodern debates. In particular, I will explore how Sam’s ongoing quest to revisit and ‘put right what once went wrong’ during significant points of crisis in U.S history embodies a postmodern process of engaging with history that ‘(while still implicitly invoking) nostalgia undermines ... assertions of originality, authenticity, and the burden of the past, even as it acknowledges their continuing (but not paralyzing) validity as aesthetic concerns’ (Hutcheon)
Simmons, David R., The great New Zealand Myth, A Study of the discovery and origin traditions of the Maori
No full textGuiart Jean. Simmons, David R., The great New Zealand Myth, A Study of the discovery and origin traditions of the Maori. In: Journal de la Société des océanistes, 97, 1993-2. pp. 239-246
Simmons, David R., The great New Zealand Myth, A Study of the discovery and origin traditions of the Maori
No full textGuiart Jean. Simmons, David R., The great New Zealand Myth, A Study of the discovery and origin traditions of the Maori. In: Journal de la Société des océanistes, 97, 1993-2. pp. 239-246
Generalised Hausdorff measure of sets of Dirichlet non-improvable matrices in higher dimensions
Full text linkLet ψ: R+→ R+ be a non-increasing function. A pair (A, b) , where A is a real m× n matrix and b∈ Rm, is said to be ψ -Dirichlet improvable, if the system ‖Aq+b-p‖m<ψ(T),‖q‖
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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