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Finnegans Wake as a system of knowledge without primitive terms: proposal against the paradigm of competence in the so-called Joyce industry
Get PDFThe thesis challenges the paradigm of hierarchical interpretive competence adopted in the academic community engaged in the professional (i.e. paid) study of the text called Finnegans Wake (FW) attributed to James Joyce. It is argued that having generated an excess of data, the exegete of FW deprived themselves of primitive terms, i.e. fundamental, undefined terms whose meaning is revealed by intuition. It is argued that there exist no consistent criteria for establishing a hierarchy of hermeneutical competence about FW as a literary text. The existing models of competence are either extraliterary (i.e. not concerned primarily with FW as a literary text) or inconsistent. The existing inconsistent models do not include explanations how one (i) adjudicates conflicts between exegetes on the same level in a hierarchy, (ii) categorises claims which (in addition to their initial vagueness) cannot be conflicted, (iii) categorises equivalent claims made with different means, and (iv) categorises different claims made with equivalent means. The thesis takes on three important tenets promoted in the interpretive industry: (i) the text principle, saying that FW is a prosaic text, a specimen of literature, (ii) the author principle, saying that FW is Joyces work, and (iii) the language principle, saying that the language of the text is English. Against the text and author principles, Chapter 1 presents FW as a vastly polyauthorial and polytextual polyreferentiality. Against the language principle, Chapter 2 promotes as optimal the position that the language of the source text (Wakese) is unknown. Chapter 3 discusses the academic paradigm of competence and its extraliterary motivations. The thesis urges the interpretive industry to uphold their paradigm of competence by naming the value of its otherwise unjustified control over the literary interpretation of FW or to gain coherence by exposing their extraliterary motivation
Of Parts and Wholes: Self-similarity and Synecdoche in Science, Culture and Literature
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The discussion here centers on how self-similarity, or parts resembling a whole, has been a recurring aspect in the most diverse fields of human thinking from antiquity to the present. Primary examples are drawn from physics, biology, cybernetics, alchemy, philosophy, myth and, of course, language and literature. The author argues that self-similar patterns are one of the persistent ways in which the human mind structures its experience and knowledge of the world, and then examines some of the questions that arise when an almost ubiquitous concept, structure or linguistic and literary phenomenon resurfaces in a new guise in hard science
Death and dying in Minnesota small town literature
Get PDFDer mittlere Westen der USA ist eine Region, die kulturell besonders schwierig zu definieren ist, da der amerikanische Siedlungsprozess die Bildung einer definitiven kulturellen Identität behindert hat. Daher konnte sich im Mittleren Westen nur eine unsichere und unklare regionale Identität bilden, die sich häufig auf die Kleinstädte stützt. In den Romanen Lake Wobegon Days von Garrison Keillor, The Cape Ann von Faith Sullivan, und Staggerford von Jon Hassler steht die Kleinstadt in Minnesota im Mittelpunkt, wobei das Thema des Todes eine tragende Rolle in diesen Romanen und in der Darstellung der Identitätsproblematik des Mittleren Westens spielt. Dementsprechend untersucht diese Arbeit wie die Todesthematik in den Romanen von Keillor, Hassler und Sullivan verwendet wird um die Mythologie der amerikanischen Kleinstadt in Frage zu stellen und gleichermaßen eine relevante Identität für Minnesota und den Mittleren Westen zu konstruieren
Roses and daggers: expressions of emotional pain and devotion in nineteenth-century tattoos
No full textTrauma, Eigenständigkeit, Versöhnung die Entwicklung irischer nationaler Identitäten im 20. Jahrhundert: eine Annäherung über irische Kurzgeschichten
Get PDFDie zentrale Annahme dieser Arbeit ist, dass die irischen Identitäten im 20. Jahrhundert eine Entwicklung von Trauma über Eigenständigkeit hin zur Versöhnung vollzogen. Diesem Prozess wird sich systematisch mittels irischer, nordirischer und irisch-amerikanischer Kurzgeschichten angenähert, wobei die Kurzgeschichten nicht im literaturwissenschaftlichen, sondern im kulturwissenschaftlichen Sinne als Kommunikationsmedium begriffen werden. Aus dieser Perspektive heraus sucht die Arbeit Antworten auf die Frage, wie eine Kultur Traumata begegnet und bearbeitet. Neben dieser inhaltlichen Frage geht es auch um die Machbarkeit: Kann anhand von Fiktion die Transformation der nationalen Identität nachvollzogen werden? Diese Studie ordnet sich in die Forschung von zwei Bereichen ein: Zum einen ist die vorliegende Arbeit einzigartig in Form ihrer umfassenden Betrachtung irischer Kurzgeschichten und irischer nationalen Identitäten im 20. Jahrhundert. Die Verflechtungen zwischen der Betrachtung der Entwicklung irischer, nordirischer und irisch-amerikanischer nationalen Identität mit historischen Leuchtturmereignissen ist ein Herausstellungsmerkmal dieser Arbeit, ebenso wie die Sammlung von analysierten Kurzgeschichten und irischer Kurzgeschichtenautoren, die hier in deutscher Sprache präsentiert und miteinander in Kontext gesetzt werden. Zum anderen ist die Verbindung von nationaler Identität mit spezifisch nationalen Erzählungen eine Möglichkeit, die Erkenntnisse aus Trauma-, Erzähl- und Kulturforschung zu vereinen. In Bezug auf andere Kulturen, die ebenfalls mittels Kurzgeschichten oder anderen literarischen Formen kommunizieren, kann die hier angewandte Methode des Extrahierens und Interpretierens der Motive genutzt werden, um bestimmte Inhalte, Entwicklungen und Veränderungen nachzuzeichnen
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
Art Spiegelman: Maus
No full textThis article aims to provide an introduction to Art Spiegelman’s Maus (1986, 1991). It considers Spiegelman’s work as a piece of Holocaust commemoration, foregrounding the various narratives of loss and fragmentation that the text produces. I follow Erin McGlothlin’s understanding of the narrative structure as existing on three distinct levels: the diegetic level of Vladek’s story; the middle layer that focuses on Art’s relationship with his parents; and the “outer layer” (2003: 182) that is concerned with Art’s own processes of narrative construction. Relating these various layers to the production of different narratives of trauma, I show that the text works as a commemorative piece by foregrounding themes of loss and fragmentation
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