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Mityzacja świata przedstawionego w powieści "Kroniki Eksplozji" Yan Lianke
Get PDFThis article discusses the function of mythologisation in the fictional universe of The Explosion Chronicles by the Chinese writer Yan Lianke. The novel contains numerous references to phenomena and situations of a phantasmagorical nature, which at the same time bear the hallmarks of myth. Knowledge of the constitutive features of myth makes possible a more complete understanding of the function of the literary devices employed by Yan Lianke in the above-mentioned novel, as well as an analysis of the myth-forming elements at various levels of the creation of the fictional world, including the narrative, characters, time, and place. The article describes two types of narrative used in the novel and how they complement each other to reveal the absurdities of the Chinese reality to which the novel refers. The next part introduces Joseph Campbell’s concept of “masks” enveloped in his theory of myth, and explains how characters in the novel create their own or other people’s perceptions.
The article also touches on the aspect of mythological time, explaining why the plot does not follow a logical time sequence, while elaborating on the symbolic meaning of the different seasons and the function of time inconsistencies in the novel. The last part of the article focuses on the place and space described in The Explosion Chronicles. The author of the article explains the role of Chinese symbolism in describing space, as well as the directions taken by certain characters, and use the concept of imago mundi to explain the significance of mythical creation in relation to the characters’ sense of confusion in the dynamically developing city of Explosion.This article discusses the function of mythologisation in the fictional universe of The Explosion Chronicles by the Chinese writer Yan Lianke. The novel contains numerous references to phenomena and situations of a phantasmagorical nature, which at the same time bear the hallmarks of myth. Knowledge of the constitutive features of myth makes possible a more complete understanding of the function of the literary devices employed by Yan Lianke in the above-mentioned novel, as well as an analysis of the myth-forming elements at various levels of the creation of the fictional world, including the narrative, characters, time, and place. The article describes two types of narrative used in the novel and how they complement each other to reveal the absurdities of the Chinese reality to which the novel refers. The next part introduces Joseph Campbell’s concept of “masks” enveloped in his theory of myth, and explains how characters in the novel create their own or other people’s perceptions.
The article also touches on the aspect of mythological time, explaining why the plot does not follow a logical time sequence, while elaborating on the symbolic meaning of the different seasons and the function of time inconsistencies in the novel. The last part of the article focuses on the place and space described in The Explosion Chronicles. The author of the article explains the role of Chinese symbolism in describing space, as well as the directions taken by certain characters, and use the concept of imago mundi to explain the significance of mythical creation in relation to the characters’ sense of confusion in the dynamically developing city of Explosion
The mythologisation of the fictional universe depicted in the novel "The Explosion Chronicles" by Yan Lianke
No full textThis article discusses the function of mythologisation in the fictional universe of The Explosion Chronicles by the Chinese writer Yan Lianke. The novel contains numerous references to phenomena and situations of a phantasmagorical nature, which at the same time bear the hallmarks of myth. Knowledge of the constitutive features of myth makes possible a more complete understanding of the function of the literary devices employed by Yan Lianke in the above-mentioned novel, as well as an analysis of the myth-forming elements at various levels of the creation of the fictional world, including the narrative, characters, time, and place. The article describes two types of narrative used in the novel and how they complement each other to reveal the absurdities of the Chinese reality to which the novel refers. The next part introduces Joseph Campbell’s concept of “masks” enveloped in his theory of myth, and explains how characters in the novel create their own or other people’s perceptions.
The article also touches on the aspect of mythological time, explaining why the plot does not follow a logical time sequence, while elaborating on the symbolic meaning of the different seasons and the function of time inconsistencies in the novel. The last part of the article focuses on the place and space described in The Explosion Chronicles. The author of the article explains the role of Chinese symbolism in describing space, as well as the directions taken by certain characters, and use the concept of imago mundi to explain the significance of mythical creation in relation to the characters’ sense of confusion in the dynamically developing city of Explosion
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
Słabnące przywiązanie do konfucjanizmu – mitorealistyczna powieść Yan Lianke Kroniki eksplozji
Get PDFBy combining mythological motifs, allegory, and absurdity with realistic depictions of daily life in The Explosion Chronicles, Yan Lianke constructs a fictional world that mirrors the dynamic transformations of the People’s Republic of China since the mid-twentieth century. This article explores how mythorealism (shenshi zhuyi 神实主义) serves as a tool for revealing the diminishing importance of Confucian values and traditional ethics in contemporary Chinese society. It examines the diminishing significance of principles of filial piety, propriety, and social harmony in the face of modernization, materialism, and political ideology, and further investigates the interplay between mythological references and the emergence of new cultural paradigms rooted in bureaucracy and the cult of power.W powieści Kroniki Eksplozji Yan Lianke łączy motywy mitologiczne, alegorię i groteskę z realistycznym obrazem codziennego życia, tworząc fikcyjny świat, który odzwierciedla dynamiczne przemiany w Chińskiej Republice Ludowej od połowy XX wieku. Niniejszy artykuł stanowi analizę mitorealizmu (shenshi zhuyi 神实主义) jako narzędzia do ukazania malejącego znaczenia wartości konfucjańskich i tradycyjnej etyki we współczesnym społeczeństwie chińskim. Autorka wyjaśnia odniesienia do mitologii, kultury i symbolikę, za których pomocą Yan Lianke wskazuje na pojawienie się nowych paradygmatów kulturowych zakorzenionych w biurokracji i kulcie władzy oraz zmniejszającą się rolę zasad synowskiej pobożności, przyzwoitości i harmonii społecznej w obliczu modernizacji, materializmu i ideologii politycznej
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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