It seems it is especially postmodern literature that undermines the belief in a clear and direct relationship between the physical world and the language depicting it. Quite recently, especially the possible worlds theories and their application in literary theory have tried to explain this relationship. Analyzing the narrative techniques used by Donald Barthelme in his short story The Dragon, ...

We study perceptions of literariness in a set of contemporary Dutch novels. Experiments with machine learning models show that it is possible to automatically distinguish novels that are seen as highly literary from those that are seen as less literary, using surprisingly simple textual features. The most discriminating features of our classification model indicate that genre might be a confoun...

We study a new context-free computationally simple stylometrybased attributor: the sliced conditional compression complexity (sCCC or simply CCC) of literary texts introduced in [8] and inspired by the incomputable Kolmogorov conditional complexity (KC). Other stylometry tools can occasionally almost coincide for different authors. Our CCCattributor is asymptotically strictly minimal for the tr...

Literary renditions of cities have always gravitated towards the spatial imagination and its ethical counterpart outside textual space. This paper explores multicultural geography North Indian city Allahabad (recently renamed Prayagraj) observed through Neelum Saran Gour’s postcolonial narratives Aria Invisible Ink, projecting narrative alignment aesthetics cultural ethics. Interrogating dimens...

A theory of additive Markov chains with long-range memory is used to describe the correlation properties of coarse-grained literary texts. The complex structure of the correlations in the texts is revealed. Anti-persistent correlations at small distances, L approximately < 300, and persistent ones at L approximately > 300 define this non-trivial structure. For some concrete examples of literary...

Semiotics is one of the theories of reading literary texts.  This theory systematically studies the causes and factors involved in the process of production and interpretation of the signs. One of the main topics in semiotics deals with implicit meaning wherein the scholars examine the implied significance of the signs in addition to their explicit significance. Sadegh Chubak’s Tangsir is one o...

1. introduction cultural infrastructure in adopting appropriate teaching and learning methods in efl classes is crucial. the meaning of silence is culture-bound and cultural guidelines govern when and why one employs silence. learning to speak and write in english in iranian efl classrooms seems to be a process of challenging one’s values. iranian efl learners, with a “silence is gold” mentalit...