Individuals who read more tend to have stronger verbal skills than those who read less. Interestingly, what you readmaymake a difference. Past studies have found that reading narrative fiction, but not expository nonfiction, predicts verbal ability. Why this difference exists is not known. Here we investigate one possibility: whether fiction texts contain more of the words typically evaluated b...

Fiction retrieval has become one of the interesting special issues within information science during the past few years. This is a consequence of several facts. The most important of them is the need for fiction retrieval and secondly, the possibilities for creating retrieval systems for fiction have increased, due to the development of computerised environments for information retrieval. The m...

Medical romance fiction is a subgenre of popular romance fiction that features medical professionals in their work environment. This essay explores the way professionalism is portrayed in popular medical romance fiction written during the early twenty-first century, a period of significant disruption in both the public image and self-understanding of organized medicine. I analyze a selection of...

In “Truth in Fiction,” David Lewis raises four objections to a Meinongian semantics of fiction. Lewis does not deny that a Meinongian logic of fiction could be made to work, but identifies disadvantages in Meinongian semantics as a reason for recommending his own possible worlds alternative. A Meinongian semantics proposes to explain meaning without ontological prejudice. It analyzes the meanin...

Virginia Woolf reflects on the vulnerability of women’s voices in her essay Three Guineas (1938). More specifically, Guineas, uses term ‘influence’, which, according to her, women lack because they have neither financial power nor education, rendering them inaudible. She argues that remain ‘outsider[s]’ with ‘no right speak’ (Woolf 2015, 116). By end essay, reader realises has transformed this ...