n Calibrations, Ato Quayson provides us with a highly stimulating and thoughtprovoking method by which the literary aesthetic domain is read in order to shed light on larger social processes (xv).' Although there is some fluidity in the direction of this movement of thought, the motivating factor, indeed the primary interest in the aesthetic, is to put it to use for an understanding of the "soc...

today, effective interpersonal relationships are key factors for success of the organizations. so, we need to examine and understand the social competence that is required for effective interpersonal relationship. humor is a common communicational strategy that it can have an important role in social competence and interpersonal relationship. this research has attempted to examine the impact of...

This essay surveys four articles of the section dedicated to the boundaries of fiction in literature, scientific discourse, and other areas of human creativity. The section is supposed to contribute to the study of a broad range of the problems of literary theory, such as the interaction between literature and other social practices, resulting in the creation of a particular discourse of ‘reali...

In this paper, we investigate whether longstanding literary theories about nineteenthcentury British novels can be verified using computational techniques. Elson et al. (2010) previously introduced the task of computationally validating such theories, extracting conversational networks from literary texts. Revisiting their work, we conduct a closer reading of the theories themselves, present a ...

much less certain precisely how the aesthetic codification occurs, or what theoretical encounters of this variety would have done for narratives already encoded in existing literary forms. For example, what would Good make of the narrative encodement of Emma Bovary's illness or the stories of the famous ailing figures in Proust and Mann? Did they not also have significant anthropological contex...

background : nurses play a crucial role in patient-care. therefore, assessing nurses’ clinical competence is essential to achieve qualified and safe care. the aim of this study was to determine and compare the competence assessments made by head nurses and practicing nurses in a university hospital in iran in 2009. methods : a cross-sectional survey was conducted to make comparisons of both sel...

This paper describes the Quantitative Criticism Lab, a collaborative initiative between classicists, quantitative biologists, and computer scientists to apply ideas and methods drawn from the sciences to the study of literature. A core goal of the project is the use of computational biology, natural language processing, and machine learning techniques to investigate authorial style, intertextua...

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