This article discusses the potentials of 3D virtual worlds as tool for science fiction prototyping in education. Science fiction prototyping has become an important resource for creating, discussing, and assessing the impact of future scenarios. Introducing this creative process into education and training can help students understand societal and contextual implications of future technologies,...

The article considers N. A. Durova's novels "The Sulphur Key" and E.A. Gan's "Utballa". "Utballa" as an example of romantic prose and, at the same time, presence ethnographic elements in gives grounds to speak "ethnographic romanticism". Romantic poetics demonstrated a strong interest national originality people. This explains novels, which describe way life foreign ethnic groups (Cheremis Kalm...

Every good piece of writing, fictional or otherwise is marked by a introduction. This initial part the primary provider reader’s first impression that sustains reading. The introduction as well other parts written spoken text essentially realized through specially selected language. In prose fiction, special selections and patterns are hallmarks. paper explores devices style deployed Usman in c...

Le XVIIe siècle, siècle de la galanterie en France, voit s’épanouir, dans le contexte préciosité, une culture ludique conversation à cour et les salons. Celle-ci se prolonge littérature prose ou vers qui poursuit mondaine des genres mineurs, souvent rassemblés recueils collectifs, comme lettres billets publiés, portraits maximes, odes, madrigaux, chansons autres sonnets, mais aussi fiction, pet...

On October 14–15, 2022, Tomsk State Pedagogical University organized the Second All-Russian National Scientific and Practical Conference, “Literature for children teenagers: approaches to analysis, reading practices, regional context of study,” dedicated 120th anniversary University. The hybrid format conference brought together more than two hundred scholars, philologists, teachers, librarians...

This paper focuses on fiction electronic books and their usability. Two complementary studies were drawn together in order to investigate whether fiction e-books can successfully become part of people’s reading habits: the Visual Book project, which found that electronic texts which closely resemble their paper counterparts in terms of visual components such as size, quality and design were rec...

The current study investigated whether fiction experiences change empathy of the reader. Based on transportation theory, it was predicted that when people read fiction, and they are emotionally transported into the story, they become more empathic. Two experiments showed that empathy was influenced over a period of one week for people who read a fictional story, but only when they were emotiona...

The results of a computational analysis of all predications, finite and non-finite, in a one-million-word corpus of present-day American English (the "Brown Corpus") are presented. The analysis shows the nature of the syntactic differences among the various genres of writing represented in the data base, especially between informative prose and imaginative prose. The results also demonstrate th...

Based on data from a large-scale experiment with human subjects, we conclude that the logarithm of probability to guess a word in context (unpredictability) depends linearly on the word length. This result holds both for poetry and prose, even though with prose, the subjects don’t know the length of the omitted word. We hypothesize that this effect reflects a tendency of natural language to hav...