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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
The Crack-Up of the Signification of Gatsby : The Impossibility of History in The Great Gatsby
Get PDFBased on Freudian psychoanalysis and Cathy Caruth's claim about “the language of trauma,” this paper explores what is repressed and excluded in the universalization/idealization/iconization of Gatsby in Nick's narrative. By relocating and highlighting what is repressed and repudiated as alterity in the figuration of Gatsby, one can highlight and politicize the traumatic exteriority in the process of creating an American collective image. Traces of resistance against the hegemonic ideology can be made visible through this process. In this study's interpretation, these repressed alterities (excluded voices) harbor and haunt even after the death and seemingly “complete” idealization of Gatsby as the myth, serving as an intersection between cultural translations. Though excluded from the universal (Nick's national narrative), these repudiated voices maintain a ghostly presence and are still claiming their voices to Nick's narrativization and are always resisting being signified and incorporated into the universal. The past is “present” in the way that it is totally absent and is seemingly already past and lost.Article論文departmental bulletin pape
Candyman, the Specter of Past, Present, and Future: The Analysis of Candyman(2021) through Hauntology
Get PDFapplication/pdfIn sharp contrast to Candyman (1992), Candyman (2021) does not present Anthony (the protagonist) as someone pathologically sick who irrationally lets his anger and anguish out on those around him. Anthony dies a “hero” who protects his girlfriend Brianna from white brutal police officers even after becoming incarnated into Candyman himself. In the ending, as Daniel Robitaille and Anthony McCoy have seemingly amalgamated into the Candyman, Tony Todd’s visage Candyman commands Brianna/viewers as witness to “Tell everyone” so that the legend of Candyman remains alive. Instead of being exaggeratedly deified or dehumanized, Candyman (2021) “chooses” to look to the collective for accountability or aid, providing a new path to live in the memories of Black community by rewriting their own narrative. Most importantly, Candyman (2021) differs from the original version in that in the original version, the actual Candyman killer is unseen, “both vilified (condemned without trial) and forgotten (neutered by the fantasies of white academics) (Michael J. Blouin, 97), whereas conversely, the newest version profoundly scrutinizes the unsavory internal racial mechanisms, tracking the detailed histories of those who repeatedly incarnated into Candyman. The former gives Black men a number of mythical roles, yet the latter succeeds in humanizing them. As to the representation in Candyman (2021), Black characters are no longer invisible “victims” to be save by while charity, but they find their way in the Afrofuturistic ideas.departmental bulletin pape
The Trials of Manliness and Civilization : The Ideology of “Nordicism” and “Manifest Domesticity” in F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Beautiful and Damned
Get PDFThis study explores the ideological function of Nordicism and eugenics in F. Scott Fitzgerald's work of The Beautiful and Damned (1922). Nordicism was a widespread, exclusive and discriminatory idea advocated by such eugenicists as Madison Grant and Lorthrop Stoddard. They considered those who migrated from Southern Europe and Asia as racially inferior and demanded for stricter limitations of their immigration into America. They attributed the corruption of their superior racial bloodline and the social chaos of traditional values and gender codes to racial mixture with these racially inferiors especially after World War I. Among the dismantled traditional codes, what these nativists were mostly concerned about was racial mixture between white females and black males, which they asserted would destroy the Nordic family and the nation itself. In the representation of the Nordic family of the protagonists Anthony and Gloria, we shall see the negotiations of power in terms of race (“intrusion” by Bloeckman), gender (the problem of Gloria's reproduction).Article論文departmental bulletin pape
The Trials of Manliness and Civilization : The Ideology of “Nordicism” and “Manifest Domesticity” in F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Beautiful and Damned
No full textChasing the Spector of Traumatic Slavery: Poetics of Postmemory in Octavia Butler’s Kindred
Get PDFapplication/pdfOctavia E. Butler’s Kindred (1979) employs time travel, one of speculative fiction’s traditional premises, where stories about American enslaved experiences stage slavery as a locus of inventory of ultimate horror like violence,pain, and death as well as communal bondage and resilience. Dana Franklin (the protagonist of Kindred) shuttles between the two times and spaces against her will; between her present-time 1976 Los Angeles and a Maryland plantation in the antebellum era. The most imperative recent disputes in African American literary studies entail the significance of the enslaved past experiences to understand our contemporary moment. This paper first defines her as a diaspora, and then looks at an overview of the neo-slave narrative genre, especially in regard to the poetics of postmemory and the function of testimony as affect. Then, I discuss how the narrative form of time travel as a narrative formulation is particularly suited to a better understanding of traumatic memory as subject to afterwardness which allows to “retrospective reinterpretation once occluded material” to be recovered through mourning (Roger Luckhurst 88). Finally, I would like to suggest that Dana’s repetitive visits to the site of slavery and the subsequent injures she suffers function as trope for slavery memory and also for the evidence of lived experience. By these means, Butler engenders in Dana and readers of this novel contemporary memories of and identification with traumatic incident of slavery.departmental bulletin pape
Kabnis\u27s Red Stain of Bastardy -The Analysis of Racial Revelations in Jean Toomer\u27s Cane-
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