The Author and the Magi: Magic in the Ancient Novel and its Implications for Readership What argues most strongly for the recognition of the ancient " novel " as part of the novel genre in its proper sense is its familiarity. These texts, picaresque, romantic, concise and designed to thrill, offer no generic convention unfamiliar to us from the modern novels of western Europe—the improbable esc...

Abstract The article discusses the image of family and home in a series novels for young people by popular Polish writer Małgorzata Musierowicz context literary conventions stereotypes about contemporary society. novels, which cover period over 40 years, generally fit realities; however, didactic function results author creating an idealized intellectual family, filling readers with optimism. p...

popular novels are among recentphenomena in literary trends with a large number of audience and high salerates. this paper is an attempt to analyze the degree and reasons forreading popular novels by students of university of isfahan. we studied popularnovels in three different dimensions:  appearance, content and literary qualities.variables such as gender, level of education, socio-economic s...

Recent research on the TIMIT database suggests that longer−length acoustic units are better suited for modelling pronunciation variation and long−term temporal dependencies in speech than traditional phoneme−length units, yielding substantial improvements in recognition accuracy [9]. In this paper, we investigate whether similar improvements can be gained on another database, viz. excerpts from...

In her article "The Soldier as 'I'-Witness in Novels by Barbusse and Ehni" Jane E. Evans discusses the representation of the French soldier in two first-person accounts based on life writing journals. The first, set during World War I, describes the simple ground soldier or troufion (Le Feu). The second, set during the Algerian War for Independence and later, sketches the life of the French arm...

We studied how an enriched public library catalogue is used to access novels. 58 users searched for interesting novels to read in a simulated situation where they had only a vague idea of what they would like to read. Data consist of search logs, pre and post search questionnaires and observations. Results show, that investing effort on examining results improves search success, i.e. finding in...