Ekphrastic Historiographic Metafiction – Enfolding Word, Image and History

Historiographic Metafiction

What we tend to call postmodernism in literature today is usually characterized by intense self-reflexivity and overtly parodic intertextuality. In fiction this means that it is usually metafiction that is equated with the postmodern. Given the scarcity of precise definitions of this problematic period designation, such an equation is often accepted without question. What I would like to argue ...

Connected Component Based Word Spotting on Persian Handwritten image documents

Word spotting is to make searchable unindexed image documents by locating word/words in a doc-ument image, given a query word. This problem is challenging, mainly due to the large numberof word classes with very small inter-class and substantial intra-class distances. In this paper, asegmentation-based word spotting method is presented for multi-writer Persian handwritten doc-...

Historiographic Mapping of Knowledge Domains Literature

To better understand the topic of this colloquium, we have created a series of databases related to knowledge domains [dynamic systems (small world/Milgram), information visualization (Tufte), co-citation (Small), bibliographic coupling (Kessler), and scientometrics (Scientometrics)]. I have used a software package called HistCite which generates chronological maps of subject (topical) collecti...

Critique of Novel/ Postmodern Cleopatra: Postmodernist Critique of the Late Cleopatra and Satan's Night, Ashraf Seraj

Historiographic metafiction and the decline of metanarrative are two important features in postmodernist stories. Writers of historiographic metafiction use historical structures such as real historical personalities and events but engage in deliberate interference so as to make the reader hesitate on deciding whether the story is based on reality or not. Postmodernists in this way draw the rea...

Productive Gaming: The Case for Historiographic Play