A response to 'arrogant Western' criticism

Eastern and western feminist literary criticism: A comparison

Reader-Response Theory and Criticism | The Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory and Criticism

Reader-response criticism maintains that the interpretive activities of readers, rather than the author’s intention or the text’s structure, explain a text’s significance and aesthetic value. Biographical accounts of how a writer responds to his or her critics initiated this kind of criticism. That is, since a writer may respond to commentary provided by friends, reviewers, or critics, biograph...

From Usability Testing and Text Analysis to User- Response Criticism

Studies on user experience in the digital medium are often related to Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) and the construction of user models or the performance of usability tests in order to support design and evaluation of digital artefacts. User modelling research has mainly focused on the construction of “usable” and “useful” tools providing the users with “experiences fitting their specific b...

Arrogant misquotations from reference citations

It is very easy to fi nd medical references these days, as computers are now in general use and we appreciate the endless benefi ts that they bring. In earlier times, though, perhaps as recently as 10 years ago, one had to work very hard searching for references using the " List of Journals Indexed for the Japan Medical Abstracts Society Database, " printed and published periodically. However, ...

ARROGANT: an application to manipulate large gene collections

ARROGANT (ARRay OrGANizing Tool) is a software tool developed to facilitate the identification, annotation and comparison of large collections of genes or clones. The objective is to enable users to compile gene/clone collections from different databases, allowing them to design experiments and analyze the collections as well as associated experimental data efficiently. ARROGANT can relate diff...