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Early modern melancholia and present day depression : a comparative study of the female experience in dramatic and medical sources
Full text linkThis thesis examines the relationship between the early modern understanding of female melancholia and women’s depression today. Working with proto-medical treatises and Shakespearean drama from the early modern period (1580-1665), alongside contemporary diagnostic frameworks and psychosocial research (1960-2017), it investigates how female melancholics and depressed women speak to each other across the historical divide. Late sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century experiences of melancholia shed new light, in particular, on the neglected area of women’s experience of depression today. I interrogate the notion, prevalent in early modern literature and culture, that female melancholia is equated with weakness; and demonstrate how this assumption was explored and challenged on the early modern stage by William Shakespeare, John Fletcher, and George Wilkins. I argue that melancholia emerges in early modern drama as a potential site for identity and agency, and emphasise the importance of sympathetic recognition for sufferers in the past and the present.
The terms ‘melancholia’ and ‘depression’ are only accessible to women under certain circumstances, however, and not all women are equally successful in eliciting a sympathetic response. In The Two Noble Kinsmen, women’s social class determines their degree of success in receiving sympathy, as I discuss through the sharp disparity between the grieving Queens and the greensick Jailer’s Daughter. In King John, royal position affects how much sympathy Queen Constance receives in her maternal grief. And in Pericles, a surprising relationship emerges between recognition, chastity and melancholia through the complex figure of Pericles’ daughter Marina.
These three plays reveal important and counterintuitive links between early modern feminine selfhood and melancholia which, I argue, can illuminate in new ways the experience of female depression today. This thesis does not propose a seamless continuum from the early modern period to the present, but instead sets out to show how certain important cultural trends and assumptions are retained in more recent diagnostic and psychosocial studies. By exploring the narrative of these two periods together, in an open and interdisciplinary manner, my project seeks to improve our understanding of the way melancholic women were treated in the early modern period; and, in so doing, to reconsider the ways women experiencing depression are recognised and supported today
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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Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Full text linkWe 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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