The White Author’s Burden: Justifications of Empire in the Fiction of British India identifies a transformation in Anglo-Indian literature by exploring various fictional works (including novels, short stories, and poems) written by British authors between 1800 and 1924. Before 1857 (the year of the widespread Indian Rebellions that challenged British rule), Anglo-Indian literature focused exclu...

Live theater is typically designed to alter the state of mind of the audience. Indeed, the perceptual inputs issuing from a live theatrical performance are intended to represent something else, and the actions, emphasized by the writing and staging, are the key prompting the adhesion of viewers to fiction, i.e., their belief that it is real. This phenomenon raises the issue of the cognitive pro...

Texts are composed for multiple audiences and numerous purposes. Each form of text follows a set guidelines structure to serve the purpose writing. A common way grouping texts is into types. Describing these types in terms their linguistic characteristics called ‘linguistic profiling texts’. In this paper, we highlight features that characterize type. The findings present study importance parts...

I Much of what I write these days is an elaboration of Alan Palmer’s argument that “novel reading is mind-reading.” Here, too, I take up one aspect of that argument and consider it in light of my recent experience of studying fiction in a lab with fMRI equipment. (Well, not really—we are actually very far from approaching actual works of literature with brain imaging technology—but as close as ...

Julia Bullock is an assistant professor of Japanese at Emory University of Georgia. Bullock’s research interests are in the areas of modern Japanese literature, film, popular culture, and gender theory. She has published articles on feminine subjectivity, gender and national identity, female homoeroticism, misogyny, and Japanese feminism. In this impressive publication, analyzing the philosophi...

Throughout adolescence, children begin to develop their life story: a coherent account of their experiences and selfhood. Although the nature of this development is still being uncovered, one promising direction for research is the examination of factors that could encourage life story development. Here the authors explore the idea that exposure to the literary arts (i.e., poetry and fictional ...

Scientific models invariably involve some degree of idealization, abstraction, or fictionalization of their target system. Nonetheless, I argue that there are circumstances under which such false models can offer genuine scientific explanations. After reviewing three different proposals in the literature for how models can explain, I shall introduce a more general account of what I call model e...

This article discusses spatial experience in games, in relation to other media. A brief review of some classic works on spatial experience in literature, photography, cinema and television is presented. A theoretical framework composed of three ‘types of space’ is used for an analysis of a hypothetical simplified gameplay. As a result, the spatial experience of games is understood as a dynamic ...

Smiling has a big influence on our every-day social interaction. In this article, the impact of smiling when applied to a virtual agent that serves as a health advisor is studied. Using experimental evidence from literature, three different types of smiles are compared in a fictional situation after being modeled on a virtual agent. These scenarios have been rated by test subjects in a practica...

the present article attempts to investigate the power of imagination and creativity of a writer qualified as one of the extraordinarily gifted individuals of world literature. in one of his works which is totally different from other works of the nineteenth century, the writer, lautréamont utilizes valiantly all dark powers protruding from his reflections and mental and contemplative background...