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The Classical Tradition in Eighteenth-Century Atlantic Women's Writing
Get PDFPhillis Wheatley, Mercy Otis Warren, and Catharine Macaulay—three eighteenth-century female writers of the Atlantic world—each employed a prose deeply rooted in the ideas and motifs of classical antiquity. All three women were published internationally, cultivated personal and intellectual relationships with prominent figures across the Atlantic, and maintained direct ties to the American Revolution. Collectively, they represent distinct and diverse positions within the dynamic and evolving landscape of the Atlantic world.
Though their engagement with antiquity differed in form and emphasis, each woman demonstrates a unique form of classical reception—one that shaped her understanding of historical time and informed her literary expression through the lens of the ancient past. Taken together, these women reveal that the classics served three key purposes in their lives and work: (1) they functioned as a means of forging transatlantic intellectual and cultural communities, (2) they offered a source of authority by aligning each writer with the prestige of classical tradition, and (3) they enabled each author to articulate ideas of patriotism and political engagement
The Classical Tradition in Eighteenth-Century Atlantic Women's Writing
Get PDFPhillis Wheatley, Mercy Otis Warren, and Catharine Macaulay—three eighteenth-century female writers of the Atlantic world—each employed a prose deeply rooted in the ideas and motifs of classical antiquity. All three women were published internationally, cultivated personal and intellectual relationships with prominent figures across the Atlantic, and maintained direct ties to the American Revolution. Collectively, they represent distinct and diverse positions within the dynamic and evolving landscape of the Atlantic world.
Though their engagement with antiquity differed in form and emphasis, each woman demonstrates a unique form of classical reception—one that shaped her understanding of historical time and informed her literary expression through the lens of the ancient past. Taken together, these women reveal that the classics served three key purposes in their lives and work: (1) they functioned as a means of forging transatlantic intellectual and cultural communities, (2) they offered a source of authority by aligning each writer with the prestige of classical tradition, and (3) they enabled each author to articulate ideas of patriotism and political engagement
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
Alone with Cicero: authorship and community in an ancient letter collection
No full textCicero's letters occupy a vexed position in the classical canon. They were personal documents not circulated by the author himself, but rather collected and disseminated after his death. This gives the corpus a distinctly intimate feeling for scholars, inspiring both identification and rejection. This project uses close readings of letters ranging from Cicero's exile to the beginning of the Roman civil war to interrogate this intimacy, arguing that the letters not only provide access to Cicero himself, but also those he brought with him into his philosophical and literary endeavors, from scholarly influences in the past to desired collaborators in the present, as well as his enslaved literary assistants.
“Alone with Cicero” reads Cicero’s letters against the grain, highlighting the marginalized people who enabled the work of this central figure. It starts by carefully examining Cicero’s theory and practice of epistolary communication, focusing on his portrayal of himself as an author at work and as a member of an intellectual tradition. Cicero used his writing to create a community that stretched into the past, giving him refuge from the political pressures of his present. The evidence of these aspirations from the correspondence also contains traces made by individuals excluded from that community, whose work nevertheless made Cicero’s project possible: the enslaved scribes of his libraries. Their presence on the margins of Cicero’s texts has serious implications for how scholars read them, expanding our view of whose work we encounter in the works of classical literature
Alone with Cicero: authorship and community in an ancient letter collection
No full textCicero's letters occupy a vexed position in the classical canon. They were personal documents not circulated by the author himself, but rather collected and disseminated after his death. This gives the corpus a distinctly intimate feeling for scholars, inspiring both identification and rejection. This project uses close readings of letters ranging from Cicero's exile to the beginning of the Roman civil war to interrogate this intimacy, arguing that the letters not only provide access to Cicero himself, but also those he brought with him into his philosophical and literary endeavors, from scholarly influences in the past to desired collaborators in the present, as well as his enslaved literary assistants.
“Alone with Cicero” reads Cicero’s letters against the grain, highlighting the marginalized people who enabled the work of this central figure. It starts by carefully examining Cicero’s theory and practice of epistolary communication, focusing on his portrayal of himself as an author at work and as a member of an intellectual tradition. Cicero used his writing to create a community that stretched into the past, giving him refuge from the political pressures of his present. The evidence of these aspirations from the correspondence also contains traces made by individuals excluded from that community, whose work nevertheless made Cicero’s project possible: the enslaved scribes of his libraries. Their presence on the margins of Cicero’s texts has serious implications for how scholars read them, expanding our view of whose work we encounter in the works of classical literature
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
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