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Henrik Ibsen’s Catilina and poetics of romantic drama
No full textThe article deals with the links of Ibsen’s first drama with Romantic poetics. The
play is interesting in that what it slightly foreshadows and which tradition it inherits.
The path to The Vikings at Helgeland (1857), Ibsen’s first masterpiece in a genre which
the playwright determined as a historical tragedy, began with the Catilina (1850). The
semantic core of the work is not a socio-political conflict relating to the 1st century BC
and capable of causing certain topical allusions, but an internal drama experienced by
the “demonic” hero of Romanticism. The author emphasizes Kierkegaardian echoes
in Catilina, referring to Either/Or (1843) which was familiar to Ibsen in his Grimstad
years as one of his friends of youth witnessed later. The motives of disappointment in
history and unbelief in the universal update, typical of late Romanticists, seem rather
simplistic and somewhat naïve in young Ibsen. But even taking into account artistic
immaturity of the playwright’s firstborn drama, it must be noted that because of the
Romantic influence there is an archetype of a historical character in Catilina, which
will develop later into much more complex images of Jarl Skule and Caesar Julian. At
the same time the play, despite its imperfection, anticipates main themes in Ibsen’s later
works, particularly John Gabriel Borkman (1896)
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
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
Ibsen, Blok and Russian revolution (on connections between the poem The Twelve and the double-drama Emperor and Galilean)
No full textThe article deals with relations between Alexandr Blok’s poem The Twelve (1918)
and Henrik Ibsen’s “world-historical drama” Emperor and Galilean (1873). Proceeding
from the Christian paradoxical discourse after the Norwegian playwright, the
poet radicalizes it so much that the bounds of traditional Christian worldview are
broken down. In the poem, one can notice a rather complex indirect connection with
the paradoxical discourse of both Dostoevsky (whose Christian identity is difficult to
question) and Ibsen, especially beloved by Blok, in whose system of views it is important
to notice the Lutheran dominant, implicitly referring to some Gnostic views that
have quite logically been actualized in European culture of the last two centuries. The
similarity between works so different, at first glance, as The Twelve and Ibsen’s double-
drama, deserves attention: in both cases, Christ appears ghostly, not in the flesh,
in Blok — invisible to all the characters, in Ibsen — as visible only to very few. In both
cases, he brings retribution — a theme equally important both in Ibsen’s work and in
Blok’s poem. Both the Norwegian playwright and the Russian symbolist poet interpret
world history from the standpoint of religious and metaphysical paradoxicalism.
Ibsen’s hero who renounced Christ begins the most brutal, bloody persecution of the
Christian Church in order to destroy Christianity (Blok’s Red Guards shooting at
both “Holy Russia” and the invisible Christ for them create a kind of parallel for him
in this case), but achieves the goal opposite to his intentions — he cleanses Christianity
and thereby saves it. The same can be said about Ibsen’s Julian that was said by
Blok about the Red Guard — this is “water” to the mill of the Christian church. We
do not know whether Blok think of Emperor and Galilean when working at his poem,
but the parallels are obvious and remarkable
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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