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Le storie degli animali nel Corano di Ahmad Bahgat: Quando gli animali prendono la parola
No full textIn Islam-inspired literature, tales of the lives of the Prophets have always highlighted the contribution of animals, though in a subordinate role compared to that of men. The anthology Qiṣaṣ al ḥayawān fil Qur’ān (Stories of Animals in the Quran) by Egyptian author and journalist Ahmad Bahgat stands as an exception. In its sixteen tales inspired by episodes in the Quran which showcase animals involved in wonders and miracles, the main characters are the animals themselves, who tell the Quranic tale like in a first-hand diary, in the first-person and from their own point of view. For the first time light is shed on their existence, without the overshadowing of those of the men with whom they have interacted. It is thus interesting to break down the representation of animals in these stories and grasp its originality. The first part of the essay will concern the author’s sources and how they impact the narrative while the second will focus on the choice of the animal as a means of circumventing the Islamic ban on the representation of the Prophets (Islam is notoriously an iconoclastic religion), achieved by superposing the animal on the Prophet, both in body and soul. The third part will examine the animal/virtue standing as the inverted double of the man/vice and, by consequence, the removal of bias concerning some animals in Arabic-Muslim culture.Nella letteratura di ispirazione islamica, i racconti delle vite dei profeti hanno sempre messo in rilievo il contributo degli animali, seppur relegato a una posizione secondaria e ausiliare a quella dell’uomo. A ciò fa eccezione la raccolta Qiṣaṣ al ḥayawān fil Qur’ān (Le storie degli animali nel Corano) dello scrittore e giornalista egiziano Ahmad Bahgat. Nei suoi 16 racconti, ispirati agli episodi coranici che hanno visto animali al centro di miracoli e prodigi, i protagonisti sono gli animali che raccontano come in un diario, in prima persona e dal loro punto di vista, la vicenda riportata nel Corano. Per la prima volta si fa luce sulle loro esistenze, senza che queste vengano eclissate da quelle degli esseri umani con cui sono stati in contatto. È quindi interessante analizzare la rappresentazione degli animali nell’opera e coglierne l’originalità. La prima parte sarà dedicata alle fonti dell’opera e alle implicazioni che queste hanno sul tessuto narrativo. La seconda parte sarà invece focalizzata sulla scelta dell’animale come mezzo per aggirare il tabù islamico (religione iconoclasta) della rappresentazione dei Profeti, operando una sovrapposizione (parziale o totale, nel corpo e nello spirito) tra il profeta e l’animale. La terza parte tratterà dell’animale/virtù in quanto doppio invertito dell’uomo/vizio e sul conseguente smantellamento dei pregiudizi su alcuni animali nella cultura arabo-musulmana
Il Deserto dei Tartari: a graphic novel
No full textNel 2024, è stata pubblicata la versione a fumetti del romanzo Il Deserto dei Tartari di Dino Buzzati (Sergio Bonelli Editore), con testi di Michele Medda e illustrazioni di Pasquale Frisenda. Il presente lavoro si propone di analizzare le strategie adottate dagli autori per adattare i contenuti dell’opera al genere del fumetto. Non si tratterà di una lettura comparativa con l’originale, ma ci si concentrerà sulla versione a fumetti, commentando inizialmente le scelte grafiche degli autori riguardo al formato, ai colori e ai motivi ricorrenti utilizzati. Successivamente, verrà analizzata la proposta di lettura interattiva menzionata nella prefazione, al fine di individuare, senza pretese di esaustività, i riferimenti intertestuali e intermediali, espliciti ed impliciti, sparsi nell’opera, illustrandone il ruolo all’interno del progetto grafico complessivo.In 2024, the comic book version of the novel Il Deserto dei Tartari by Dino Buzzati (Sergio Bonelli Editore) was published with texts by Michele Medda and illustrations by Pasquale Frisenda. The present work aims to analyze the strategies adopted by the authors to adapt the content of the work to the genre of the comic. It will not be a comparative reading with the original but it will focus on the comic book version, commenting at first on the graphic choices of the authors regarding the format, colors and recurring patterns used. The proposal for interactive reading mentioned in the preface will then be analyzed to identify, without pretensions of exhaustiveness, the intertextual and intermedial references, explicit and implicit, scattered in the work, illustrating their role within the overall graphic project
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
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
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
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Full text linkWe 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
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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