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Soil-searching: Grief and Healing in Elizabeth-Jane Burnett’s The Grassling (2019)
No full textLa frattura nel rapporto tra gli esseri umani e il mondo naturale necessita
di essere sanata. La prospettiva antropocentrica inscritta in gran parte della
codificazione occidentale della dinamica natura/cultura si basa sull’idea errata
della preminenza dell’uomo sul resto del mondo naturale, che si è tradotta in
azioni largamente sprezzanti e/o apertamente distruttive perpetrate entro i
confini di una mentalità dominatrice (Eisler 2002) e nella (spesso intenzionale)
noncuranza o mancanza di consapevolezza rispetto alle interconnessioni, alle
influenze e alle interdipendenze che legano l’umano e il non umano (Milstein
& Castro-Sotomayor 2020). Il presente articolo si propone di contribuire allo
sviluppo di tale linea di indagine esaminando come la relazione umano/
non umano sia messa in discussione, ridisegnata e ricostruita in The Grassling
di Elizabeth-Jane Burnett. Difatti il testo, memoir ecopoetico imperniato
sull’idea di lutto, sia personale sia ambientale, si serve della creazione, tramite
metamorfosi, di un organismo ibrido uomo/pianta (il Grassling eponimo)
come strumento di trans-corporeality (Alaimo 2010) per colmare e sanare la
frattura esistente tra umano/non umano.The rift in the relationship between human beings and the natural world
necessitates healing. The anthropocentric perspective inscribed in much of the
Western codification of the nature/culture dynamic is based on the misplaced
idea of the pre-eminence of humankind over the rest of the natural world,
which has resulted in largely dismissive and/or downright destructive
actions perpetrated within the confines of a dominator mindset (Eisler 2002)
and the (often wilful) disregard for or lack of self-awareness in regards to
the environmental interlinkages, effects, and interdependencies which tie the
human and the non-human (Milstein & Castro-Sotomayor 2020). This article
seeks to investigate this specific topic by examining how this conflicting
relationship is challenged, redrawn and restored in The Grassling by Elizabeth-
Jane Burnett. The ecopoetic memoir, centred around a sense of grief both
personal and environmental, employs the trans-corporeal (Alaimo 2010)
device of a metamorphosed human/plant hybrid (the eponymous Grassling)
to bridge, and ultimately heal the human/non-human fracture
«Every part full of these involvements». The Intimate and the Global in «Emergency» (2022) by Daisy Hildyard
No full textIl presente articolo si propone di analizzare il romanzo Emergency (2022) di Daisy Hildyard per mostrare come il testo esplori la complessa rete di interconnessioni messa a nudo dal cambiamento climatico e dalla recente pandemia. Verrà esaminato come l\u27autrice utilizzi modalità tradizionali (p.es. il genere pastoral) per rivisitarne ed espanderne la portata in un’epoca nella quale locale e globale coesistono.This article endeavours to analyse how Daisy Hildyard’s novel Emergency (2022) explores the complex and often ambivalent enmeshing of life on Earth, bared by climate change and the recent pandemic. It will also be shown how the author uses traditional modes (i.e. the pastoral) to revisit and expand its scope in a time when the global and the local are always encroaching on each other
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
Narrating Violence: Cultural Memory and History in Three Short Stories by Gordimer, Vladislavić, and Magona
No full textThe thesis explores the relationship between history, cultural memory and literature in relation to the South African short fiction production in a timespan going from the the transition period (1990-1993) to the post-1994 democratic elections. The investigation into the topic has been carried out with reference to three short stories penned by different authors: "Once Upon A Time" Nadine Gordimer, Ivan Vladislavić's "The WHITES ONLY bench" and "Comrade, Heal Yourself" by Sindiwe Magona. The analysis has taken into account the concept of "cultured violence" to try to shed light on the relationship between a state of "systematic violence" and the Author's personal agency
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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