The parable of the works N.V. Gogol as one most important elements writer's strategy is analyzed. Emphasis placed both on its formal and content embodiment in author's works. part shows connection between artistic detail literary work composition whole. deals with writer, who builds a complex system conflicts their role plot scheme. For study, researchers consider it necessary to warn against s...

In this paper, we show two important connections between computational models of narrative and computational models of argumentation. First, we show how argumentation techniques can be applied to enrich story understanding, especially where an understanding the story requires understanding of the motives of its characters. This also helps to explain how stories can themselves be seen as as argu...

The question of whether man was specially created directly from the hand of God or whether he evolved from an ape-like creature has long been a controversial issue. In today’s secular culture it is common to view the biblical history of Adam as a story, myth, or a parable but this is now also becoming the standard interpretation for many within the evangelical community. In order to understand ...

Samuel Beckett’s play of 1949 is a landmark of modern theatre. Two tramps, Vladimir and Estragon, await the arrival of the mysterious Godot. He does not come, although other sinister characters pass through. The tramps pass their time in meaningless activities and talk. Described by Beckett as a ‘tragicomedy in two acts’, the play is conventionally regarded as a tale of existentialist angst foc...

Because of its wide applicability many e cient implementations of the Fast Fourier Transform have been developed We propose that an e cient implemen tation can be produced automatically and reliably by partial evaluation Partial evaluation of an unoptimized implementation produces a speedup of over times The automatically generated result of partial evaluation has performance com parable to or ...

The five largest mass die-offs in which 50–95% of species were eliminated occurred during the Ordovician [490–443 million years ago (mya)], Devonian (417–354 mya), Permian (299–250 mya), Triassic (251–200 mya), and Cretaceous (146–64 mya) periods. Most recently, human actions espe­ cially over the past two centuries have precipitated a global extinction crisis or the ‘‘sixth great extinction wa...

The paper focuses on various examples of Polish literary reportage which draw upon parable, that is, a didactic story aimed at conveying moral, religious, philosophical, or existential principles by means allegory, symbolism, and metaphor. main purpose the research is to examine way in contemporary reporters make use contrast analogy as tools for transferring documented facts universal level. I...

We often try to teach people through stories and narratives instead of giving them explicit facts and rules. But how do these stories influence us, how do they persuade us to change our attitudes? In this paper, we aim to answer these questions by providing a computational model that offers an internal perspective on character motives in stories. This model allows us to represent the deliberati...