In the 1990s the influence of literary and extraliterary changes introduced new topics to Croatian literature for young adults. Those are the topics (like drug addiction) that had been considered taboo prior to these changes. This paper presents work on a selected corpus of novels written in the period from the 1990s to the present to investigate the family and social context that appears in no...

Identifying plot structure in novels is a valuable step towards automatic processing of literary corpora. We present an approach to classify novels as either having a happy ending or not. To achieve this, we use features based on different sentiment lexica as input for an SVMclassifier, which yields an average F1-score of about 73%.

This paper explores the application of computer simulation techniques to the fields of literary studies and narratology by developing a model for plot structure and characterization. Using a corpus of 19th Century British novels as a case study, the author begins with a descriptive quantitative analysis of character names, developing a set of stylized facts about the way narratives allocate att...

For centuries, women in the traditional social order and system have always been considered subservient to men. In patriarchal Bourgeois society, the matriarchal community has been "humiliated", "afflicted", "silenced" and "tortured" socially and economically. With the post-modernizing age, women began to see the universe with their own eyes and not through the male gaze. In India, with the mat...

The current paper examines the ways the concepts of ̳home‘ and ̳belonging‘ are conceived, accepted, and imagined by the characters of Sam Selvon‘s The Lonely Londoners (1956) and Hanif Kureishi‘s The Buddha of Suburbia (1990). Taken from two different but close-knit periods in twentieth-century Eng- land, the 1950s and the late 1970s, the novels represent the socio-political circumstances that fo...

The article discusses cultural perceptions and interpretations of health illness in a Svalbard context through the analysis novels Longyearbyen (2020) by Norwegian writer Heidi Sævareid Arctic Novel (1964) Soviet Vladlen Anchishkin. Both use 1950s as setting for portraying issues related to illness.
 It is evident from analyses that were essential both Russian settlements on 1950s. Many sa...