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The Slave Trade in the Work of Fox, Johnson, and Spielberg
Full text linkIn her article The Slave Trade in the Work of Fox, Johnson, and Spielberg Ya-huei Lin analyzes Paula Fox\u27s The Slave Dancer (1973), Charles R. Johnson\u27s The Middle Passage (1990), and Amistad, the 1997 film directed by Steven Spielberg based on the true event of 1841. Lin\u27s examination of these three texts is an attempt to clarify the event\u27s narration in the context of Walter Benjamin\u27s historical materialism. Further, Lin explores what Louis Althusser proposes in A Letter on Art as to how the texts at hand make one see the ideology from which they are located. The authors\u27 politics of representation thus become Lin\u27s point of investigation. Taking into account the portrayers, as well as the portrayed, Lin presents a view of the forced journeys of the slaves
William Faulkner's Three Short Stories:Chinese Translations with an Introduction
No full textWilliam Faulkner undoubtedly ranks one of the best and most influential writers both in America and in history. Among his various works of art, the most famous ones are those set in his fictional Yoknapatawpha County, which is molded out of his \ue2native soil.\ue2 Despite their Southern setting, these works convey something universally true. As Faulkner often claims, he is just a story-teller, telling about man in conflict, about how he \ue2endures and prevails.\ue2 Before he received due recognition, Faulkner wrote quite a few short stories which he expected would help him improve his economic condition, so that he could write novels at ease. Nevertheless, although he was motivated by economic interests, many of these short stories turned out very prominent. In my thesis, I translate and discuss three of his outstanding short stories--\ue2Dry September,\ue2 \ue2Red Leaves,\ue2 and \ue2An Odor of Verbena.\ue2 By so doing, I hope I can introduce Faulkner\ue2s world to his Taiwan readers, who might too easily reject his major novels for their complexity and long-winding sentences, but would be glad to savor the more accessible short stories.
The introductory part is divided into three chapters, beginning with a brief account of the author\ue2s life and fiction. In the second chapter I discuss mainly the theme of \ue2conflict\ue2 and the stylistic features in these three stories. Then, in the last chapter, giving some instances from my own translations and those by three translators in Mainland China, I try to demonstrate why translation is a demanding task
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
Seeing through The Bluest Eye: A Symptomatic Presentation of Self-Love in the Look
No full textThis thesis attempts to counter a generally acknowledged view in regard to the essence of hatred, observed as a lack of interracial appreciation within the Afro-American assemblage in Toni Morrison\ue2s first published novel, The Bluest Eye. In effort to explain my standpoint, I endeavor to bring lights from existential phenomenology and psychoanalytical philosophy respectively from Jean-Paul Sartre and Slavoj \uc5\ubdi\uc5\ubeek. To support my argument, I will examine diverse visions of cultural studies and literary reviews, and provide textual evidence of self-love to defy critics\ue2 remarks of self-hatred in the characters. According to Toni Morrison, the aesthetic principle in the white society is the prying eye, a \ue2secret\ue2 which causes the Afro-American subjects\ue2 social inferiority and self-loathing. Despite different approaches to analyze this scenario in the black community, critics conclude that the Afro-American characters\ue2 self-debasement is a sign of their hatred toward the self and other blacks along with the internalization of white aesthetics. In this thesis, I argue that the characters\ue2 self-debasement/self-loathing is only a \ue2mode\ue2 of nature to adapt to the norms of white society rather than an inherent hatred toward their own blackness as critics imply. I analyze all occurrences critics see as Afro-Americans\ue2 self-hating gestures with theories concerning the look and desire in one\ue2s building of identity based on \ue2self-love.\ue2 Thus I consider all characters\ue2 negative emotions (such as shame, anger, and repugnance) toward themselves and others are merely \ue2temporary presentation of the ego\ue2 owing to their frustrated self-love; therefore, \ue2self-debasement\ue2 should not be considered as hatred of any sort. To support my ideas, I use Jean-Paul Sartre\ue2s notions of \ue2ego\ue2s transcendence,\ue2 \ue2hatred\ue2s dubitable nature,\ue2 and
\ue2two patterns in the being-for-others\ue2 to examine characters\ue2 self-love responding the \ue2outside gaze\ue2 in terms of the \ue2mode of being\ue2; to continually justify self-love, I apply Slavoj \uc5\ubdi\uc5\ubeek\ue2s notions of \ue2symptom,\ue2 \ue2ideological fantasy,\ue2 and \ue2unconscious desire as the Thing\ue2 to focus on the protagonist\ue2s self-identification with others based on her \ue2symptomatic\ue2 gestures of self-love in the \ue2mode of being.\ue
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
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
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