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A Comparative Mixed-Methods Study of Algerian University Students’ Interaction with Fiction Works and Their Movie Adaptations through Reading and Watching
No full textAbstract: This research delves into the engagement of Algerian university students with literary works and their corresponding film adaptations. Focusing on 1st-year English department students at Mostafa Benboulaid University, Algeria, a comparative mixed-methods approach is employed to study preferences, cross-cultural understanding, and motivations. Five literary works Khaled Hosseini's The Kite Runner, Suzanne Collins' The Hunger Games, Paulo Coelho's The Alchemist, Stieg Larsson's The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, and Antoine de Saint-Exupéry's The Little Prince and their movie adaptations form the basis of this investigation. Data was collected from surveys distributed to 200 university students, along with additional inputs from interviews, creative writing samples, and tests across four student cohorts. Results highlight the enhancement in self-expression, identity exploration, and social communication, comparing students' comprehension, interpretation, evaluation, and enjoyment across both mediums. The findings underscore the potential benefits of leveraging movie adaptations as educational tools, with particular relevance during crises, such as the pandemic.
Keywords: Literary works and film adaptations, Algerian university students, mixed-methods analysis, reading and viewing, cross-cultural understanding
A Comparative Mixed-Methods Study of Algerian University Students’ Interaction with Fiction Works and their Movie Adaptations through Reading and Watching
Get PDFAbstract: This research delves into the engagement of Algerian university students with literary works and their corresponding film adaptations. Focusing on 1st-year English department students at Mostafa Benboulaid University, Algeria, a comparative mixed-methods approach is employed to study preferences, cross-cultural understanding, and motivations. Five literary works Khaled Hosseini's The Kite Runner, Suzanne Collins' The Hunger Games, Paulo Coelho's The Alchemist, Stieg Larsson's The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, and Antoine de Saint-Exupéry's The Little Prince and their movie adaptations form the basis of this investigation. Data was collected from surveys distributed to 200 university students, along with additional inputs from interviews, creative writing samples, and tests across four student cohorts. Results highlight the enhancement in self-expression, identity exploration, and social communication, comparing students' comprehension, interpretation, evaluation, and enjoyment across both mediums. The findings underscore the potential benefits of leveraging movie adaptations as educational tools, with particular relevance during crises, such as the pandemic.
Keywords: Literary works and film adaptations, Algerian university students, mixed-methods analysis, reading and viewing, cross-cultural understanding
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
COVID-19 and Literary Reflections of Isolation: Exploring Society and the Human Psyche in Louise Erdrich’s The Sentence
No full textThis study explores the narrative complexities of The Sentence (2021) by Louise Erdrich, situating it within the wide context of pandemic literature to illuminate the societal and personal impacts of the COVID-19 crisis. The paper studies how this novel, set against the chaotic setting of 2020, encapsulates the essence of a global community grappling with unprecedented isolation, grief, and a collective search for resilience, using narrative analysis alongside literary and socio-psychological theories. This research underscores The Sentence as a crucial contemporary artifact that not only reflects but also aids in navigating the complexities of human experience during a crisis. The analysis reveals the skilled interlacing of personal and communal narratives by Erdrich, employing rich symbolism, character development, and cultural reflections to portray the multifaceted impact of the pandemic on society and the human psyche. This paper contributes to the expanding corpus of literary scholarship ( Ounissi, 2022) on pandemic narratives by stressing the significance of the novel as a cultural beacon of hope and understanding in times of profound societal change. Within the pages of the novel, Erdrich provides a perspective from which to view the present condition, urging a reevaluation of the interconnectedness of literature, society, and the enduring human spirit; at the same time, asking how responding to the pandemic has refashioned novel-writing.
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Cette étude examine les complexités narratives du roman The Sentence (2021) de Louise Erdrich, en l’inscrivant dans le vaste corpus de la littérature de pandémie afin de mettre en lumière les impacts sociaux et personnels de la crise du COVID-19. À travers une analyse narrative enrichie par des approches littéraires et socio-psychologiques, l’article explore comment ce roman, ancré dans le tumulte de l’année 2020, capture l’essence d’une communauté mondiale confrontée à un isolement inédit, au deuil, et à une quête collective de résilience. Cette recherche met en évidence l’importance de The Sentence en tant qu’oeuvre contemporaine essentielle, qui ne se contente pas de refléter la crise, mais propose également une boussole pour mieux appréhender les expériences humaines en temps de bouleversement. L’analyse révèle la manière dont Erdrich tisse habilement récits individuels et collectifs, mobilisant un symbolisme riche, un développement psychologique subtil des personnages, et des réflexions culturelles profondes pour illustrer les multiples effets de la pandémie sur la société et la psyché humaine. Ce travail s’inscrit dans le champ croissant des recherches littéraires sur les récits pandémiques (Ounissi, 2022), en soulignant la portée du roman comme repère culturel porteur d’espoir et de compréhension dans une époque de transformation sociale profonde. À travers ses pages, Erdrich offre une perspective singulière sur notre présent, invitant à repenser l’interconnexion entre la littérature, la société, et la résilience de l’esprit humain, tout en posant la question de savoir comment la réponse à la pandémie a redéfini l’écriture romanesque
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
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