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Double trouble: One or two women?
No full textA controversy regarding an alleged plagiarism of Canadian author Lucy Maud Montgomery's novel 'The Blue Castle' (1926) in Australian author Colleen McCullogh's novel 'The Ladies of Missalonghi' (1987) is discussed. The major similarities between the protagonists in the two novels are highlighted, also noting that McCullogh's novel is a bit more feminist in leaning than Montgomery's novel
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 international reception of Kim Scott’s works: a case study featuring Benang
No full text[Excerpt]: This chapter draws on recent trends in Australian literary criticism to
scan new horizons for readings of Kim Scott’s novel Benang (1999)
and to consider what these readings indicate about the networks that
shape various scenes of reading and interpretive communities for the production and reception of Australian Indigenous writing.1 Scott is devoted
to the language and country of the Noongar people and this inspires the
generic and linguistic innovation of Benang and That Deadman Dance
(2010), as well as the innovative collaborative life writing of Kayang and
Me (2005). Benang and its author travel out of country and offshore on
the currents of international book festivals and prizes and the transnational scholarly networks of Australian literary studies, postcolonialism,
and Indigenous literature. This chapter is, in part, a history of Benang—
we are interested in overseas publications and translations, and in pursuing this book and its author in an international literary space beyond
the horizon of the nation. It also explores some transnational scenes of
reading that produce different communities of interpretation for Benang
in venues such as conferences and online sites, where the novel has a distinctive career, and the history of the Noongar people speaks to other
histories and “memoryscapes” of dispossession, dispersal, and genocide
(Phillips and Reyes, 14)
The international reception of Kim Scott’s works: a case study featuring Benang
No full text[Excerpt]: This chapter draws on recent trends in Australian literary criticism to
scan new horizons for readings of Kim Scott’s novel Benang (1999)
and to consider what these readings indicate about the networks that
shape various scenes of reading and interpretive communities for the production and reception of Australian Indigenous writing.1 Scott is devoted
to the language and country of the Noongar people and this inspires the
generic and linguistic innovation of Benang and That Deadman Dance
(2010), as well as the innovative collaborative life writing of Kayang and
Me (2005). Benang and its author travel out of country and offshore on
the currents of international book festivals and prizes and the transnational scholarly networks of Australian literary studies, postcolonialism,
and Indigenous literature. This chapter is, in part, a history of Benang—
we are interested in overseas publications and translations, and in pursuing this book and its author in an international literary space beyond
the horizon of the nation. It also explores some transnational scenes of
reading that produce different communities of interpretation for Benang
in venues such as conferences and online sites, where the novel has a distinctive career, and the history of the Noongar people speaks to other
histories and “memoryscapes” of dispossession, dispersal, and genocide
(Phillips and Reyes, 14)
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