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Some Observations on the Newspaper Reports on Tolkien’s Andrew Lang lecture in 1939
Full text linkObservations about how newspaper reports were written and filed in the late 1930s lead to a reassessment of the contents of the “On Fairy-stories” lecture and its differences from the published version
Credit Where Credit’s Due: Douglass Parker and J.S. Ryan
No full textThis Note presents evidence that J.S. Ryan\u27s 1966 essay on Germanic influences on Tolkien plagiarized some content in Douglass Parker\u27s 1957 review essay on The Lord of the Rings Hwaet, We Holbytla
No Ragnarök, No Armageddon: Pagan and Christian interpretations of \u3ci\u3eThe Lord of the Rings\u3c/i\u3e
Full text linkCritical responses to The Lord of the Rings from its publication up to 1981 (the year in which The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien was first published) often considered pagan and Christian elements in the work. To the extent that pagan and Christian views were opposed to each other, such opposition is grounded to a greater extent in the ambiguity present in The Lord of the Rings (at least in terms of its theology or world-view), than in any contradiction in the work. The distinction between ambiguity and contradiction is important, especially in the context of the significance of contradiction in Verlyn Flieger’s keystone analogy in “The Arch and the Keystone” (2019). This analogy does not therefore fit the pagan-Christian dynamic so well as her earlier view in “But What Did He Really Mean?” (2014) which highlights the ambiguity and indeterminacy in The Lord of the Rings
\u27Their Limbs Were Loosened in Listening Horror\u27: The Sublime in the Lay of the Children of Hurin
Full text linkTolkien\u27s unfinished Lay of the Children of Húrin, written primarily during the second half of the 1920s, is a distinctive and remarkable piece of writing whose style stands apart from much of his other writing. In particular, it demonstrates the aesthetic of the sublime as explained and described by Edmund Burke in his 1757 work A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful. The Lay presents a range of scenes and images that portray the qualities which (for Burke) generate the sublime - such as terror, obscurity, power and vastness - and which also reveal its impact in rendering the characters incapable of moving or acting
I\u27m Studying \u3ci\u3eBeowulf\u3c/i\u3e with Beowulf Himself
Full text linkSpeculates that Tolkien may not have been the first to treat Beowulf in the way that he did (at least in the terms described by Professor Drout) by introducing the teaching and scholarship of Harvard professor George Lyman Kittredge (1860-1941)
Better to Reign in Hell : Ambivalence and Orcs in the Lay of the Children of Húrin
No full textA remarkable passage in Tolkien\u27s incomplete Lay of the Children of Húrin, describing the Orc-band after its capture of Túrin, provides an echo of Milton\u27s assembly of fallen angels in Book I of Paradise Lost. The description of the Orc-band also hints at the kind of ambivalence which has often been ascribed to Milton\u27s portrayal of Satan. This in turn provides a connection with recent work on humanity in Tolkien\u27s depiction of the Orcs
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
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