The dynamics of silence and remembrance in Australian writer Lily Brett’s autobiographic fiction Things Could Be Worse reflects the crisis of memory and understanding experienced by both first and second-generation Holocaust survivors within the diasporic space of contemporary Australia. It leads to issues of handling traumatic and transgenerational memory, the latter also known as postmemory (...

PROSE is a knowledge-based configurator platform for telecommunications products. Its outstanding feature is a product knowledge base written in C-Classic, a framebased knowledge representation system in the KL-ONE family of languages. It is the first successful product using a KL-ONE style language that we know of. Unlike previous configurator applications, the PROSE knowledge base is in a pur...

This article begins the development of a taxonomy of mathematical prose, describing the precise function and meaning of specific types of mathematical exposition. It further discusses the merits and demerits of a style of mathematical writing that labels each passage according to its function as described in the taxonomy.

format. The novel is still the most popular genre in the young adult literature market, and so by calling it “a novel,” publishers and authors reassure readers that this is what they’ve come to enjoy. Equally important, booksellers will shelve the book with other novels rather than with poetry, though my own experience is that the shelving process in bookstores and libraries is an inconsistent ...

T his session is concerned with the automated creation of fiction or "literary artefacts" that might take the form of prose, poetry or drama. Special focus is placed upon those approaches that include the generation of narrative structures and therefore use some kind of story model. First attempts in automated story generation date back to the 1970s, with the implementation of Meehan's TALE-SPI...

The warrior glanced west, over the rampart, as the rising sun sent its golden rays beyond the cliff fortress. He could see the glistening of the spears and shields of the Roman army as it crystallized into a fighting phalanx and began to march toward the ramp. The realization that resistance was futile at this point occurred to him as an afterthought, virtually irrelevant to his existence up to...

The article analyzes the image of Buenos Aires in narrative Ana María Shua, an Argentine writer Polish Jewish descent. Urban space plays important role her prose described often as apocalyptic or dystopian. Through a historiographical metafiction, author rewrites memory ancestors El libro de los recuerdos (2007), novel that presents life immigrants capital Argentina, divided into neighborhoods ...