A large number of novels are being uploaded as online novels. The present paper proposes a ranking algorithm based on the users’ favorite lists (bookmarks). Empirical evaluation has been conducted with respect to each genre of novels. In several genres, it is confirmed that the top ranked novels in July are predicted from the bookmarks of May.

A major contribution of Pierre Bourdieu to the study of art was his analysis of the autonomization of modern art fields. His model of autonomy and legitimacy in modern art was based on a study of the genesis of an avant-garde in French art in the late nineteenth century. I argue that a similar autonomization of art occurred in the midtwentieth century in the United States. I present studies in ...

a bstr act Reflections on the relationship of aesthetics to politics tend to circle, almost compulsively, around a relatively stable set of conceptual oppositions, inherited from German philosophies of the late 18th century. This essay proposes an expansion of the theoretical terms of the debate by extending the field of transcendental aesthetics into the domain of historical temporalization. F...

This paper argues that Schumpeter’s 1911 edition of ‘Theory of Economic Development’ can be fruitfully read as a theory of the avant-garde, in line with such theories developed by artistic avant-garde around the same time, in particular by the Italian Futurists. In particular it will show that both Schumpeter and other avant-garde theorists sought to break with past (1), identify an avant-garde...

This paper analyzed three middle grade novels and a short story from two cultures using the journey motif as the vehicle for the analysis. The three novels are Bud Not Buddy and The Watsons Go to Birmingham both by Paul Curtis   and Journey to Jo’burg by Naidoo (1986). The short story is My Two Dads by M. Lee.  The three novels and a short story were chosen because these no...

In the history of modern and contemporary Chinese literature, Su Tong, a leading representative avant-garde writers, is good at using creatively narrative skills to develop his stories. Raise Red Lantern one famous masterpieces, which ranks among top 100 novels 20th century. The story began with small sedan chair carrying Lotus, 19-year-old college student, into Chen Family. She was going be fo...

We study perceptions of literariness in a set of contemporary Dutch novels. Experiments with machine learning models show that it is possible to automatically distinguish novels that are seen as highly literary from those that are seen as less literary, using surprisingly simple textual features. The most discriminating features of our classification model indicate that genre might be a confoun...

Contemporary avant-garde architecture is addressing the demand for an increased level of articulated complexity by means of retooling its methods on the basis of parametric design systems. The contemporary architectural style that has achieved pervasive hegemony within the contemporary architectural avant-garde can be best understood as a research programme based upon the parametric paradigma. ...