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Law, sex, and anti-Semitism in Gonzalo de Berceo's Milagros de Nuestra Señora
Get PDFtextThis study of the hierarchical aesthetic of the Virgin Mary as Holy Advocate
contextualizes within a historical framework of Church reforms and canon law the
ambiguity in relation to Christian doctrine of topics related to law, sex and anti-Semitism
in Gonzalo de Berceo’s Milagros de Nuestra Señora. The analysis of the Virgin’s
intermediary dynamic entails attention to Berceo’s use of legalistic stylistic devices in the
context of devotional poetry. The miracles studied here reveal three triadic orders of
hierarchical mediation that characterize Berceo’s scheme of Marian mediation within the
context of the neo-platonic medieval logic. These triadic orders of mediation provide a
model for perceiving the manner in which Berceo’s text engages and participates in the
discourses, both popular and orthodox, of the Gregorian and Lateran reform eras. Some
of these discourses include, for example, debates between the cleric and the knight, and
between the cleric and the Jew, faith and reason, the philosophy of Abelard, monastic
reform rhetoric, the Bible, law, marriage vs. fornication, and the dogma of
transubstantiation, to name a few. The logic of the triadic hierarchy of mediation in the
Milagros provides the means to link and fuse secular and religious concepts. The
ascending order of ‘clergy-canon law-Virgin Mary,’ for example, belies the role of the
clergy in this process of fusion as interpreters and implementers of canon law. The
fusion of the secular belief in the ‘sinlessness’ of simple fornication and the sacred
doctrine of the sacrament of confession is enabled by means of the triadic structural link
of ‘clergy-confession-Virgin Mary.’ In the miracles about Jews and Christians, the
fusion of secular and sacred law that enables the sanctioning of murder, the validation of
the efficacy of religious images, the legitimacy of intermediary dogma, and the doctrinal
orthodoxy of prefiguration, unfolds through the triadic order of mediation structured as
‘laity-Church-Virgin Mary.’ In the Milagros, the direction of the Virgin Mary’s
intermediary activity serves to harmonize the contradictions inherent in the application of
sacred concepts to secular circumstances.Spanish and Portugues
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
The Anthropology of Wisdom Literature
No full textThis book is an attempt to bridge the gap between literary criticism and anthropology in dealing with wisdom literature like the exemplum, a term used here to cover fables as well as apologues, parables, biblical and religious tales, anecdotes, moral tales, jokes, proverbs, and a multitude of other narrative genres. Kaufmann works here with the medieval, classical, and Indic traditions up to about 1400, hoping that three traditions will give her study objectivity and six hundred years will give the necessary distance. Kaufmann finds exempla presenting a uniform tripartite morphology: promythium, nucleus, and epimythium. Sometimes the promythium or the epimythium may be omitted, but never both (9). Deprived of both, the nucleus reverts to what it originally was, a bawdy tale, a joke, an animal tale, and so on (9). There is, I fear, a world of assumption behind that simple sample assertion. At this point, I wondered if I was reading a highly superficial work that would yield less insight than I hoped. I turned to a review of the book in The Journal of Folklore Research (Vol. 35, No. 2, May - August, 1998, Pages 172-74) by William Hansen from Indiana University. My hunch seems confirmed. Hansen writes that he cannot recommend the book. There are difficulties with Kaufmann's definition of her prey. First, it describes not a kind of story but a common way of using narratives of different kinds. It thus captures a species of rhetoric than a genre of story. Second, since either the promythium or the epimythium is optional, the alleged tripartite structure of the exemplum is so slippery that it does not offer the investigator much to hold on to (173). Hansen goes on to catalogue a plethora of errors. There may be individual spots of help here, like the good pointed summary of Nojgaard's sense of structure in fables, but I cannot trust this book.This is a hardbound book (hard cover)First editionFirst printingWanda Ostrowska Kaufman
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New directions in kharja studies : gender, sexuality and religion
Get PDFtextThe focus of kharja criticism on origins and influences has prevented scholarship of this literature from exploring different approaches for understanding this poetry. This dissertation takes a new and needed direction by examining the themes of gender, sexuality and religion in the muwashshahs with Romance kharjas. The first chapter presents a meta-critical analysis of kharja scholarship and notes how these studies have been focused on philological issues. The second chapter looks at the role gender plays in this corpus of poetry. It analyses the relationship of the voices of the kharjas and muwashshahs, compares descriptions of males and females, discusses gender conventions in Arabic poetry and determines the gender of the referent for each poem. The third chapter places the muwashshahs in the context of Andalusian sexuality and society. It notes the importance of their courtly creation and examines the themes of violence, sexuality and pleasure. The fourth and final chapter examines the convergence of religious and sexual language in the muwashshahs. It summarizes this tradition beginning with Plato's "Symposium" followed by descriptions of paradise in the Koran and Ibn Hazm's "The Dove's Ring Neck". The conclusion compares the muwashshahs to the "cantigas d'amigo", the troubadour lyric and the "Divine Comedy" with respect to the themes of gender, sexuality and religion. This analysis demonstrates the cultural and societal influences on these literatures.Spanish and Portugues
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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