"Nothing dies so hard as a word", wrote Harry Quilter in 1892, "-particularly a word nobody understands."' At the end of the nineteenth century, one such word-first uttered in America, but soon reverberating across the Western world-was "neurasthenia". Popularized by the American neurologist George M Beard, this vaguely defined nervous disorder seemed to crop up everywhere, from medical journal...

The number of standard Young tableaux of a fixed shape is famously given by the hook-length formula due to Frame, Robinson and Thrall. A bijective proof of Novelli, Pak and Stoyanovskii relies on a sorting algorithm akin to jeu-de-taquin which transforms an arbitrary filling of a partition into a standard Young tableau by exchanging adjacent entries. Recently, Krattenthaler and Müller defined t...

The prefix pohas been productive to varying degrees in the derivation of a special class of distributive verbs in almost all the Slavic languages (the only exception being Sorbian; cf. Schuster-‹ewc 1968). Distributives in poare particularly common in Serbian (Sb) and Croatian (Cr); they are frequently encountered in all stylistic registers—colloquial speech as well as the press and belles lett...

This paper addresses a particular domain within the sphere of activity that is coming to be known as personal digital papers or personal digital archives. We are concerned with contemporary writers of belles-lettres (fiction, poetry, and drama), and the implications of the shift toward word processing and other forms of electronic text production for the future of the cultural record, in partic...

Ismail Kadare, the most famous writer of today's Albanian literature, is also one writers contemporary literature in general. Therefore, whenever we mention this genius belles-letters, first all our mind goes to his work, its structure, themes, characters, actions and events, words messages, course, artistic features. Although it rare come across works any other author a literary approach that ...