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"I set no limits on my love" - magic, queerness and the disruption of binaries in Robin Hobb's Real of the Elderlings
No full textFrom the world of BBC's Merlin to the comic book pages of the X-Men, supernatural abilities have been used as a repeated allegory for discrimination and the importance of community. These examples, paraliterary as they are, provide a means of engagement for contemporary audiences to bond, relate and identify with these characters, long before they understand what is being suggested. In this sense, they can blend into our pop cultural consciousness, seeding questions about our assumptions regarding different races, sexualities, genders and abilities.
Robin Hobb's Realm of the Eldering' s series, which began with the bestselling Farseer Trilogy, explores this capability with a level of nuance that demands investigation and analysis to uncover all of its potential; from its explorations and deconstructions of the binaries, to its questioning of what it means to be in love with someone. In this, we will be building upon the work of Peter Melville and Lenise Prater, expanding beyond their original readings. Chapter One begins by analysing the binary magical system in place and the ways in which Fitz disturbs this system and the assumptions which are built into it with his unique ability to wield both magics -- paying particular attention to the ways this unsettles Burrich as he tries to enforce his own hatred of their shared gift of Wit onto his ward. During this, we shall draw upon Julia Kristeva's work with Abjection as a potential source of understanding for Burrich's fear of Wit as well as considering the pride displayed by Burrich in his masculinity and the ways in which his fear can be viewed as an attempt to protected that masculinity, influenced by Judith Butler's work, Gender Trouble. Chapter Two proceeds to explore the ways in which the Kingdom of the Six Duchies parallels our reality's patriarchal leanings, before analysing the ways in which The Fool serves to disturb this with zeir unique presentation of gender, rooted in zeir magical ability as a White, and how this, in turn, serves to unsettle Fitz as a direct effect of Burrich's teachings. Finally, Chapter Three will consider the relationship between Fitz and The Fool, the ways in which they are bonded by their love and care for one another, and the different forms this bond may take -- this shall be explored through both a magical lens befitting the world in which the character belong to, as well as drawing upon theories around radical care as proposed by Hi'ilei Julia Kawehipuaakahaopulani Hobart and Tamara Kneese, and Edmund Husserl's work on inter-subjectivity
Deconstruction and the Question of Palestine: bearing witness to the undeniable
Get PDFWhile deconstruction has been taken up widely in the field of Postcolonial Studies, there is very little work done on the relationship between deconstruction and the question of Palestine. This thesis maintains that deconstruction has both something to offer the discourses surrounding the question of Palestine and that deconstruction needs to be opened up to the undeniable if it is to continue to be relevant to contemporary emancipation struggles, specifically here the Palestinian struggle. This is not to say that the Palestinian struggle needs deconstruction, or that deconstruction can provide some magical solution. The aim of this thesis is rather to explore Derrida’s own attitudes towards Israel/Palestine and to ask whether deconstruction is hospitable to the needs of Palestinian self-determination
Staying with the Sodomy at Prospect Cottage: Derek Jarman and Nature’s Queer Negativity
No full textThis chapter discusses contemporary representations of Derek Jarman’s garden and the interpretative tendency towards reparative logics, or what Leo Bersani calls the ‘culture of redemption’. Following theorists concerned with the relation between queer ecology and anti-social queer theory, it goes on to explore the negative aspects of Jarman’s garden through the notion of ‘nature as pharmakon’. It ends by suggesting that Jarman’s garden resists a simply reparative or negative interpretation, and instead can be understood to embody a sodomitical logic, which shatters theoretical certainty
An Afterword, if you like
No full textPublished here for the very first time through our House Sparrow Press imprint, Through the Billboard Promised Land Without Ever Stopping is Derek Jarman’s only piece of narrative fiction. Written in 1971, it is a surreal, fabular, lyrical work – a literary fairytale acid-trip road movie hybrid – the energies and details of which influenced much of his later work across media.
The richly poetic story, a cinematic prose quest, tracks the journey of a blind young King and his valet, disguised as beggars, who set out in no particular direction and with no particular purpose. Departing from Fargo, across the frontier of Movietown, along the Superhighway and picnicking on the Lawns of Paradise, they encounter vivid characters like Pierrot, Borgia Ginz and Topaz, an Emperor who ‘smiles with the art of mirrors’, as well as a Sphinx with ‘Silence is Golden’ written in her eyes.
The story serves as a foundational text, laying out many of the themes, images and styling of Jarman’s work in painting, film and design whilst also being haunted by the then emerging ecological crisis in its juxtaposition of the beauty of nature with the reckless consumption of modernity.
This edition features facsimile images of the story’s handwritten drafts from Jarman’s archive, a link to an exclusive audio recording of Jarman himself reading the story in full, and is comprehensively informed by a vivid foreword from Philip Hoare, a deeply researched afterword by Jarman scholar Declan Wiffen, and a warm memoir by the artist Michael Ginsborg, a close friend of Jarman’s throughout the period of the story’s writing
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
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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