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Libere facoltà. I saggi di T.H. Huxley
No full textIl saggio è strumento critico per interpretare la realtà, per intervenire nel dibattito pubblico, in un confronto attivo e continuo con gli intellettuali della propria epoca. Thomas Henry Huxley, sul finire dell’Ottocento, trascrive in forma di saggio, in un intenso labor limae, i testi delle sue lezioni e dei suoi discorsi: fino ad oggi inediti in Italia, University: Actual and Ideal (1874) e Address on University Education (1876) divengono occasione per discutere del problema della formazione in ambito universitario. Nati da eventi contingenti – la nomina a Rettore dell’Università di Aberdeen e la fondazione della Johns Hopkins University di Baltimora – i due scritti consentono all’autore di veicolare la propria idea di educazione liberale, destinata a coloro che sono uomini liberi e connotata dall’intersezione tra i diversi campi del sapere.
Nel contesto dell’Inghilterra vittoriana, dove la scienza è ancora trascurata nelle istituzioni educative destinate alle élite, Huxley propone la coesistenza tra cultura letteraria e cultura scientifica, parti complementari del ‘libro’ della natura, che l’uomo è chiamato a decifrare per muoversi con passo sicuro su quella scacchiera che è la vita
American Comics and Italian Cultural Identity in 1968: Translation Challenges in a Syncretic Text
No full textTranslation supports the construction of a national identity through the selection of foreign texts to be transferred to the target language. Within this framework, the effort made in the 1960s by Italian editors and translators in giving new dignity to comics proves emblematic. This paper aims to reconstruct the reception of American comic strips in Italy going through the issues of Linus published in 1967 and 1968: the selected cartoonists (e.g. Al Capp, Jules Feiffer, and Walt Kelly) participate in the cultural debate of the time discussing politics, war, and civil rights. The analysis of the translation strategies adopted will reveal the difficulty of reproducing the polysemy of metaphors, idioms and puns, trying to maintain consistency between the visual and the verbal code, but primarily the need to create a purely Italian cultural discourse
Traduzione e conflitto: il fumetto americano nella politica editoriale della rivista “Linus”
No full textAcknowledging the role of translation in circulating and resisting works that create the intellectual and moral environment for conflict (Baker), this paper aims to analyze the reception of American comics in Italy, focusing in particular on “Linus” magazine, which from 1965 on intends to give new cultural legitimacy to the genre, based on the interaction between words and pictures. In the eyes of the adult audience, an ideological statement unfolds in comics, and the translation of the written text, never separated from the visual code, offers a selective representation of it: translation implies a choice and, by virtue of its partiality, becomes a committed and partisan art (Tymoczko, Gentzler). The intellectuals gathered around “Linus”, such as Gandini, Carano, Vittorini, Del Buono and Eco, witness a reconceptualization of power and society. It is the age of the opposition to the Vietnam War, the challenge to expansionist ideologies, and the student protests. The analysis of the magazine’s cultural policy and of specific translation strategies will show how translation negotiates power relations: it can augment the ideology of the source text or be in conflict with it. Hence, “Linus” distances itself from Tales of the Green Beret (1967) on USA soldiers in Vietnam, despite publishing it, and practices censorship against Li’l Abner’s satire on Bob Kennedy (1968), revealing the importance of what is silenced, left out and omitted in the target text (Venuti).Nella consapevolezza del ruolo svolto dalla traduzione nella circolazione o nella resistenza a opere che creano l’ambiente morale e intellettuale per il conflitto [Baker], la finalità di questo articolo è l’analisi della ricezione del fumetto americano in Italia, con particolare riferimento alla rivista “Linus” che, dal 1965, si propone di dare nuova legittimazione al genere, fondato sull’interazione tra parola e immagine. Agli occhi del pubblico adulto si dispiega nel fumetto una dichiarazione ideologica, di cui la traduzione del testo scritto, mai avulsa dal codice visivo, offre un’immagine selettiva: la traduzione è scelta e, nella sua parzialità, diviene un’arte impegnata, partigiana (Tymoczko, Gentzler). Gli intellettuali raccolti intorno a “Linus”, da Gandini a Carano, da Vittorini a Eco e Del Buono, sono testimoni di una riconcettualizzazione della società e del potere. È l’età dell’opposizione alla guerra del Vietnam, della sfida all’espansionismo, della contestazione studentesca. Lo studio della politica culturale della rivista e delle singole strategie traduttive rivelerà che la traduzione ha funzione di negoziazione dei rapporti di potere: può dare risonanza all’ideologia del testo di partenza o porsi in conflitto con essa. Così “Linus” prende le distanze, pur pubblicandoli, dai Tales of the Green Beret (1967) sulle truppe americane in Vietnam o censura la satira di Li’l Abner su Bob Kennedy (1968), a indicare l’importanza di ciò che del testo è posto sotto silenzio, lasciato da parte, omesso (Venuti)
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
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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