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A Human Like the Rest of Us
Full text linkThis work was embargoed by the author and will not be publicly available until April 2020.In this book-length collection of poetry divided into two sections, I explore the catalyst and impetus and then the aftermath of violence on the human body and mind. In the first section of the manuscript, Ashley Sugarnotch & the Wolf, I utilize two speakers, named in the title, whose narratives push and pull toward what they both believe to be an inevitable end: Ashley’s death. These poems also utilize the folkloric understanding of the wolf and the chased girl. In the second section, The Rest of Us, I explore the consequences that these violences have on the people left behind. These poems focus on real events and people, who lived along the Susquehanna River in central Pennsylvania. Images of the river also infuse this section, using the beauty and brutality of nature to balance the rest of the text
Constant Construction
Full text linkThis work was embargoed by the author and will not be publicly available until April 2020.This thesis is concerned with the ongoing act of building. The poems in this thesis examine the ways in which we construct things like sound, meaning, poetry, cities, ideology, sense of place, sense of self, character, change, and stagnation. Many of these poems also double as meditations on poetry, even when concerned more centrally with another kind of construction. These poems look at the ways in which we construct something constant, the way we construct inertia and inaction, and investigate the paradox therein. Many of the poems are interested in paradox, how we use language to create silence, how we follow guidelines to find freedom, and how we can feel alone in a city full of people, and how we can observe interiority externally
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
The Moorlands
No full textThis thesis has been embargoed for 10 years. It will not be available until May 2030 at the earliest.This thesis works in the language of the feminine body, the fertile landscape, and the recurring dream. In this dream world, the feminine body is at the center. We expand and create. We move with the ever-present poetic moon. We, the feminine, engage with landscape and lineage on an urgent bodily level. In what ways have the body and the landscape evolved or mutated together? Where does the environment end and the body start? Are these boundaries even necessary? The Moorlands strives to give temporary form to liminality, to invoke kinship across all species, to consider consequences, and to evoke wonder at the total strangeness of being alive.2030-05-0
Saints
No full textThis thesis has been embargoed for 10 years. It will not be available until April 2031 at the earliest.This thesis looks to the speaker’s polygamous Mormon ancestors living in rural Utah in the second half of the 19th century as a site for interrogating the intersections of power, gender, religion, and family relationships through poetry. Other poems investigate the speaker’s childhood in the modern Mormon church. These poems use name and place tracing to create a new lineage.2031-04-2
Three Woman Sky Fall
Full text linkIf you are reading this for a formal abstract about a book of poetry, then you will be sorely disappointed. The following is a creative hybrid poetry manuscript. It explores the cross-language and cultural experience of being Chinese, German, and from Hawaii
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
Child of the Universe
Full text linkThis thesis has been embargoed for 5 years and will not be available until April 2022 at the earliest.This thesis utilizes collaboration to confront the experience of marginalization across a wide spectrum of human experiences. I collaborated with, incorporated lines from, and responded to writing and artwork from a variety of sources. My main sources came from published poets, new stories, local artists, friends, and my immediate family. The purpose of this collaborative thesis was to explore a gallery of artistic voices around the theme of marginalization. My goal was to allow others’ artistic expression about marginalization to inform my curatorial response in the creation of this gallery of voices
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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