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...

Abstract Trauma studies have seen rapid growth in popularity within the past two decades, moving from a psychological phenomenon to concept utilized by literary critics, sociologists, and now biblical scholars. Yet, most of work on trauma theory focuses aspects instead sociological or cultural trauma. Drawing Jeffery Alexander’s trauma, reading Micah 1–3 reveals how as book transforms Micah’s l...

which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Iran as a developing country is experiencing major changes at different economic and cultural levels. Along with all these changes, the population is also growing and number of young people is increasing. The alarm bells are ringing as the new studies show the high prevale...

Defining the specific role of the factors that affect metaphor processing is a fundamental step for fully understanding figurative language comprehension, either in discourse and conversation or in reading poems and novels. This study extends the currently available materials on everyday metaphorical expressions by providing the first dataset of metaphors extracted from literary texts and score...

The present Study aimed to examine the efficacy of using literary texts in promoting intercultural communication competence, and intercultural awareness and understanding within language teaching contexts. The participants were 50 Iranian undergraduate students of English Literature, 20 male and 30 female, with their ages ranging from 19 to 24 engaged in reading and discussing literary texts wi...

ferdowsi's shahname is a literary work with many and varied personalities which can be converted to dramatic texts, but it needs to analyze on basis theories of dramatic characterization. characterization of the protagonist of the play, as a key element of the show has a special component such as action and motivation to handle dramatic action, a physical and mental characteristic that dis...

The main argument of this monograph,* if I understand it rightly (something its rather cloudy writing makes me uncertain of), is that the body of works often (and traditionally) grouped together under the rubric ‘ancient literary criticism’ should be understood not as contributions to aesthetics or criticism of literature as these terms are commonly understood today but rather as political inte...

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We study a new context-free computationally simple stylometrybased attributor: the sliced conditional compression complexity (sCCC or simply CCC) of literary texts introduced in [8] and inspired by the incomputable Kolmogorov conditional complexity (KC). Other stylometry tools can occasionally almost coincide for different authors. Our CCCattributor is asymptotically strictly minimal for the tr...