Among all arts, literature is paradoxically the one that met the computerat an earliest stage, although this meeting has remained confidential for long. Today the marketing of the electronic book has got the dimension of a true cultural revolution which can be compared with the diffusion of printed works in the 16° century, the birth of the novel-serial in the popular press of the 19° century o...

The interest in exploring fame and the love of it relates not only to Hume’s autobiography where he hypothesises the love of literary fame as a key spur to his work, but also to 2.1.11 in the Treatise where Hume offers an account of praise and our delight in it as part of his theory of the passions. It is in this section that Hume first introduces us to the wondrous mechanism of sympathy, a not...

In this paper I argue against the theory – popular among theorists of narrative artworks – that we must posit a fictional narrative agent in every narrative artwork in order to explain our imaginative engagement with such works. I accept that every narrative must have a narrator, but I argue that in some central literary cases the narrator is not a fictional agent, but rather the actual author ...

This paper addresses the institutional context and academic practices related to the production and use of literary theory and criticism in the Spanish universities, with a special focus on the role of theory in Spanish Anglistics in recent years. The paper assesses interdisciplinary communication, the impact of new theoretical paradigms (feminism, postcolonial Studies, etc.) in a specifically ...

In his article "A Theory of Genre Formation in the Twentieth Century" Michael Rodgers explores the relationship between Vladimir Nabokov's Invitation to a Beheading and magical realism in order to theorize about genre formation in the twentieth century. Rodgers argues not only that specific twentieth-century narrative forms are bound intrinsically with literary realism and socio-political condi...

Theatre is known for its collaborative practices. Literary translation, on the other hand, is reputed to be a solitary pursuit. So when four academic researchers teamed up to translate August Strindberg’s plays Simoom (1889) and The Bond (1892), producing single texts that would be both publishable and performable, their working procedures reflected the contrasting destinations of their product...

Cognitive stylistics offers a range of frameworks for understanding (amongst other things) what producers of literary texts 'do' with language and how they 'do' it. Less prevalent, however, is an understanding of the ways in which these same frameworks offer insights into what readers 'do' (and how they 'do' it). Text World Theory (Werth, 1999; Gavins, 2007; Whiteley, 2011) has proved useful fo...

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This article provides an overview of current work on university-level computerassisted instruction at Stanford University. Brief descriptions are given of the main areas of current interest. The main emphasis is on the courses now being used: Introduction to Logic, Axiomatic Set Theory, Old Church Slavonic, History of the Russian Literary Language, Introduction t o Bulgarian, Intrqduction to BA...

In the early stages of writing this book, I was lucky enough to be invited to speak on topics growing out of my research by a graduate program in literary studies at a large public university in the Deep South. The invitation arose not from my fame (since I had none) but from a personal connection with an old friend, with whom I had taught on the East Coast while I was adjuncting and job huntin...