This research paper investigates two literary texts, one is an ancient Indian epic Bhagavad Gita (The Song of the Lord) anonymously written between (500 -200 BC) while second a historical novel Manuscript Found in Accra by Paulo Coelho. Though texts may vary their genre and religious tradition, they still share significant features. The first related to setting. shared feature army preparation ...

Title of Document: HACKING LITERATURE: READING ANALOG TEXTS IN A DIGITAL AGE Aaron Dinin, Doctor of Philosophy, 2014 Directed By: Professor Martha Nell Smith, Department of English Evangelists of the digital age, in the immediacy of its adolescence, often describe digital technologies as “revolutionary” (e.g. “the digital revolution”) and as having a world-changing impact on human cultural inte...

The fundamental revelations to the founders of the three monotheistic religions, among many other revelation experiences, had occurred on a mountain. These three revelation experiences share many phenomenological components like feeling and hearing a presence, seeing a figure, seeing lights, and feeling of fear. In addition, similar experiences have been reported by non-mystic contemporary moun...

Ancient Chinese texts present an area of enormous challenge and opportunity for humanities scholars interested in exploiting computational methods to assist in the development of new insights and interpretations of culturally significant materials. In this paper we describe a collaborative effort between Indiana University and Xi’an Jiaotong University to support exploration and interpretation ...

The statistical theory of language translation is used to compare how a literary character speaks different audiences by diversifying two important linguistic communication channels: the “sentences channel” and “interpunctions channel”. can “measure” author shapes speaking audiences, modulating deep-language parameters. To show its power, we have applied corpus Maria Valtorta, an Italian mystic...

Memories in literary texts reveal past events which complete the itinerary of a character throughout the book. Whether they are exposed from the point of view of that character or from the perspective of the other characters joining the action, the memories bring novelties about the distant or the recent past to the actual action This explorative study intends to identify memories, with an ulte...

Literary criticism, formed by literary-critical thought, has a long way of development that continues to this day. Textual studies, which deals with the study, analysis and re-arranging manuscripts various forms ancient religious texts, laws, historical events, philosophical meetings, also certain methods principles in study literary heritage. Azerbaijan is one countries where trends Middle Age...