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Classics in post-colonial worlds
Full text linkCITATION: Thom, S. 2008. Classics in post-colonial worlds. Akroterion 53:125-127, doi:10.7445/53-0-127.The original publication is available at http://akroterion.journals.ac.zaThe volume grew out of a conference on Classics in Post-Colonial Worlds held at the Open University in the West Midlands Centre in Harborne, Birmingham in May 2004.http://akroterion.journals.ac.za/pub/article/view/127Publisher's versio
School portrait of Thom. S. Grunwald Miami Military Institute cadet, 1905
No full textThe photograph is a school portrait of Thom. S. Grunwald in his Miami Military Institute cadet dress uniform, ca. 1905. This photo is from a grouping of eight cadets portraits on one portrait board which is now in an album in the Martha McClellan Brown Collection.https://corescholar.libraries.wright.edu/special_ms147_photographs/1041/thumbnail.jp
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
Myth as historic benchmark in Horace Odes : 3:1-6
Full text linkCITATION: Thom, S. 2006. Myth as historic benchmark in Horace Odes : 3:1-6. Akroterion, 51:71-86, doi:10.7445/51-0-64.The original publication is available at http://akroterion.journals.ac.zaCan a lyric poet have anything valid to say about historic realities? In this paper I argue that by looking carefully at Horace’s use of myth as a larger frame of reference
against which Odes 3.1 – 6 should be read, a case can be made for a lyric poet’s subtly critical assessment of the contemporary reality. In short I want to suggest that
the poet uses myth as a means to comment (implicitly) on the contemporary historic reality concerned. Furthermore, if a reference to myth can operate as implied comment on the present, this reference can also include didactic purpose, or more specifically advice on how to act in the present reality.http://akroterion.journals.ac.za/pub/article/view/64Publisher's versio
Horace on Augustus : fact or fiction?
Full text linkCITATION: Thom, S. 2004. Horace on Augustus : fact or fiction? Akroterion, 49:67-72, doi:10.7445/49-0-88.The original publication is available at http://akroterion.journals.ac.zaQuot homines tot sententiae seems a good summary of the variety of critical readings of lyric poetry in general and of Horace’s position on Augustus in particular. This raises the interesting question of the position of factual information in poetry: does lyric as genre imply a choice for fiction as opposed to fact or can some references to contemporary personalities or incidents be taken as realistic? In this case specifically: can what Horace says about Augustus be taken as a realistic assessment of the emperor? To complicate matters, Augustus was a powerful personage who wanted and often managed to put his own stamp on things1 — in himself an embodiment of the opposition between fact and fiction. Given this undoubtedly heady mix, the paper will try to make somehttp://akroterion.journals.ac.za/pub/article/view/88Publisher's versio
Horace's claim to fame in Odes Book 1 : a question of expectations?
Full text linkPlease cite as follows: Thom, S. 2013. Horace's claim to fame in Odes book 1 : a question of expectations? Akroterion, 58:19-46, doi:10.7445/58-0-145.The original publication is available at http://akroterion.journals.ac.zaThe first book of Odes introduces the reader to a carefully conceived sequence of poems. This article argues that with this sequence a larger more philosophical Sitz im Leben1 is suggested for the individual poems as well as for the collection as a whole. This article further proposes that the careful construction of an individual book of Odes has a significant impact on the frame of reference of the collection as a whole. Odes book 1 is taken as an example substantiating this argument.http://akroterion.journals.ac.za/pub/article/view/145Publisher's versio
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
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