Some Features of Style in Early French Narrative Poetry (1150-70). Part I

Narrative Tradition In Early Greek Oral Poetry And Vase-Painting

Archaic Athenian vase-painting of the sixth century BC exhibits visual narrative phenomena that are very similar to the verbal narrative patterns of traditional, orally composed poetry: in the poetry these are the familiar formulaic phrases and themes analyzed by Milman Parry and the ensuing train of oral theorists; in the art they take the form of repetitious iconography and recurrent composit...

Portuguese Narrative Poetry

Computing Poetry Style

We present SPARSAR, a system for the automatic analysis of poetry(and text) style which makes use of NLP tools like tokenizers, sentence splitters, NER (Name Entity Recognition) tools, and taggers. Our system in addition to the tools listed above which aim at obtaining the same results of quantitative linguistics, adds a number of additional tools for syntactic and semantic structural analysis ...

Knee osteoarthritis prevalence, risk factors, pathogenesis and features: Part I

Osteoarthritis (OA) a common disease of aged population and one of the leading causes of disability. Incidence of knee OA is rising by increasing average age of general population. Age, weight, trauma to joint due to repetiting movements in particular squatting and kneeling are common risk factors of knee OA. Several factors including cytokines, leptin, and mechanical forces are pathogenic fact...

Inescapable Stories: The Infiltration of Narrative into Non-Narrative Poetry

Narrative permeates our lives, often without our noticing. We commonly recognise it in conventional arenas of storytelling, such as in the oral tradition, or in prose and film. There is also a long-held classification, narrative poetry within that particular literary art. I am exploring how narrative exists in more subtle expressions, especially within so-called lyric poetry. Can a supposedly n...