This article reports on case-study research which explored English as a second language (ESL) learners’ perceptions of the role played by the literary cloze activity in the development of their language and literary awareness. The subjects, four students from a variety of language, culturaland literarybackgrounds, attended a semester-long university ESL subject which adopted a language-based ap...

The idea of the frontier reflects a uniquely colonial view of a place and process of encounter between colonising people, indigenous inhabitants, and natural landscapes.[1] Within this colonial context, the idea of the frontier has been variously developed through history by natural and social scientists, popular historians, artists, writers, and government officials. This volume draws together...

Novels written in the genre of chicken literature (chick-lit), known as new women's fiction, are works by women writers for female readers. These works, which to have emerged mid-1990s and considered among products popular culture, gained a great reputation being translated into many languages. At this point, importance translation should be emphasized because plays an important role introducin...

Multicultural societies are one of the research objects that social sciences researchs particularly focused on. In these societies, cultural, sociological phenomena and problematics analyzed by many different various methods some conclusions reached. As an important representative disciplines comparative literature creates a area on with contributions both imagology intercultural literary theor...

The talk of Larisa Soboleva, professor of Ural Federal University, and Olga Zhuravel, associate professor and Dean of the Department of Journalism at Novosibirsk State University and the author of the book entitled Literary Work of Old Believers in the 17th – Early 21st Centuries: Themes, Problems, Poetics concerns the diversity of manuscript sources used and published in the abovementioned boo...

In the past quarter century, established methods of literary history have been severely contested. On the one hand, syncretic, single-author histories have become problematic as a result of a combination of the expanded literary canon and a range of theoretical challenges. On the other, a demand for historicized overviews that reflect the radical recent reshaping in all fields of literary study...

Over the years, new theories of literary criticism have invariably emerged as a response, critique to, and development of the earlier criticisms. This paper introduces a relatively new literary theory that can enrich the repertoire of literary criticism in Indonesian context, namely family systems therapy or FST, through a critical analysis of Seize the Day by Saul Bellow, an American author wh...

This thesisapplies the Data-Oriented Parsing framework in two areas:parsing & literature. The data-oriented approach rests on the assumptionthat re-use of chunks of training data can be detected and exploited attest time. Syntactic tree fragments form the common thread in the thesis.Chapter 2 presents a method to efficiently extract them from treebanks,based on heuristic...

Orality and literacy Orality and literacy Orality and literacy Orality and literacy In Walter Ong's classic study Orality and Literacy, he shows how writing is not just a tool but a way of life. I suppose the primary aim of the book is to describe the nature of oral societies, but I have always seen it as the story of how we – in our modern literal societies-have become what we are. I have cont...