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Reconstruction of acoustic source strength distributions and their interactions by inverse techniques
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An evolution of yeatsian poetics in fiction writing
No full textRefuting the existing Yeats scholarship that has considered W. B. Yeats’s fiction writing to be a mere steppingstone to completing his visionary poetics in his later years, this article aims at relocating his fiction writing within the context of his poetic evolution and discussing how he refined his visionary poetics through the commitment to mastering the craft of fiction. To that end, I examine the ways in which Yeats’s fiction writing is rooted not only in Irish tradition but also in European modernist tradition through the lens of his experiment in dealing with the Janus-faced temporality. I thus keep track of his development from a nationalist artist to a modernist par excellence and ultimately carve out a niche for reconsidering the importance of Yeats’s fiction writing
The Suburbia without Apology: On and Off-the-Road Mythologies in Sloan Wilson's The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit (1995)
No full textThis article aims at teasing out the antisuburban sentiment as one of the most unexamined attitudes in American culture and bringing into legibility an as-yet-unexplored-face of the postwar suburbs. To that end, it examines Sloan Wilson’s The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit and its cinematic adaptation through the lens of a deceptive mobility invested with remarkably durable symbolic meanings in American mythologies. The suburbs have functioned historically as a crucial gathering place for middle-class suburbanites, not only in the passive sense that they have ended up there but also in an active sense that the suburbs have helped them secure the belief in the fresh start and new beginning. Accordingly, one can identify a distinct way in which something peculiarly dislocated or unlocatable typifies the suburban experience of the American middle class, which reveals a liminal state of stasis fused with underlying imagined mobility.Both the novel and the movie may have succeeded in making themselves as the quintessential embodiment of the 1950s in chronicling the American way of life in the 1950s, but have never reached a point where the suburbanites’ deceptive mobility is utilized as a yet unrealized possibility of utopian energy in American myth of space. Scarcely constructing a scaffolding as a means toward effecting a critique of dominant cultural norms in the 1950s, the ambiguous ending not so much challenges the familiar image of mobile Americans but reproduces them. The Raths’ journey home is thus reinscribed at just the point it is supposed to end, without developing a new kind of roots to replace what they have left behind.This work was supported by the National Research Foundation of Korea Grant funded by the Korean Government (NRF-2011-32A-A00132
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
“No Place in Particular”: Inhabiting Postinternment America, Articulating Postinternment Anxieties in John Okada’s No-No Boy
Get PDFThis article interrogates, by teasing out the U.S. postwar suburb as a palimpsest bearing the imprint of post-internment milieu of the 1950s, how suburban fantasies reveal both promises and limitations of Japanese Americans’ surreptitious desire for national belonging in John Okada’s No-No Boy (1957). Subsequently, it examines how embedding the postwar suburb in the text is inextricably linked to textual negotiations with the expectations of the postwar readership as a strategy of articulation of a historical trauma.Having gone through the displacements and disruptions due to their Japanese origins and ties, returned internees were eager to put their families and lives back to their old places and faced the growing pressure to blend into the postwar U.S. society. What emerges is a spatial logic with which “evacuees” sought to restore the “evacuated” histories by way of a rememorialization and reconfiguration of space. Caught between the festering opposition between “Japanese” and “American” in the wake of the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II, the protagonist of the novel, Ichiro begins to fantasizes about a geographical and social anonymity to carve out a niche as a returned “no-no boy.” His fantasies are spelled out as a place where forgetting and forgiveness are recalled as a possible solution to his plight. Of particular interest here is that Ichiro’s desire to “start anew” is contingent upon middle-class family values in the mass-produced suburb that came to dominate America’s cultural landscape after World War II. If the postwar suburb was ideologically marketed as a cultural outpost of social homogeneity and national unity, it is questionable if Ichiro’s suburban fantasies mean a retreat into a nostalgic longing for an abstract, generalized sense of place that has rebuilt the American Dream. In this regard, Ichiro’s suburban fantasies are effectively embedded as a palimpsest against which one is enabled to assess how for Okada to opt entirely for confrontation risks being viewed as “un-American”: the postwar suburb where anyone is supposed to have a new, fresh start allows the author to speak “the unspeakable” by filtering the troubling issues through the lens of a suburban way of life that is acceptable to both the Japanese American community and the postwar U.S. society at large. Okada thus stands in for Ichiro as another kind of “no-no boy” in the postwar U.S. society by opting for neither conformity nor dissent. In this way, he does not gloss over the era’s cultural, historical conditions but maneuvers to circumvent them in his novel
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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