Reading Swift's poetry, 1967-2017

The semantics of poetry: A distributional reading

Poetry is rarely a focus of linguistic investigation. This is far from surprising, as poetic language, especially in modern and contemporary literature, seems to defy the general rules of syntax and semantics. This paper assumes, however, that linguistic theories should ideally be able to account for creative uses of language, down to their most difficult incarnations. It proposes that at the s...

An Eyetracking Investigation into the Visuospatial Aspects of Reading Poetry

This study compared eye movements during the reading of authentic prose and poetry with and without enjambment presented in their original layout and in a manipulated layout. We hypothesised that we would find differences in reading patterns on the basis of the layout in which the text was presented. We indeed found differences in reading pattern between prose and poetry, poetry with and withou...

Reading Sohrab Sepehri\'s Poetry in Light of Heidegger’s Ontology

As one of the most famous philosophers of the twentieth century, Heidegger has proposed significant ideas about ontology. The undercurrent of his philosophy is the question of being in the world or Dasein. He believes that human is the only creature for whom being in the world is a question and only human is capable of asking about Dasein. Heidegger thinks that authentic poets with their partic...

READING MEETING 12 - 14 July 2017

Reading Course: Set Theory Ws 2017

Excellent expository articles regarding the cardinal charactersitcs of the continuum are A. Blass, Combinatorial Cardinal Characteristics of the Continuum (see [2]) and T. Bartoszynski, Invariants of measure and category (see [1]). Both of those articles should be available on-line, but if you cannot access them, please contact me to get a copy. In addition, for those students in the class, who...