This article evaluates the application of dominant institutional discourses, such as psychoanalysis, in the interpretation of literary fiction. I take up the case of Jean Rhys and her 1929 novel, Quartet. Both author and novel have been analyzed through the concept of masochism, as creating masochistic characters or a masochistic aesthetic. But what do we mean when we so classify or “diagnose” ...

Motivation In the novel Hard Times, Charles Dickens described the fictional " Coketown " as follows:

there is a semi-proverbial expression in some persian literary texts that has not yet indexed in none of persian dictionaries –such as loqat-nameh or any other proverb references and has been totally neglected. accordingly it seems necessary being explained.  it has been mentioned under different topics such as ibn-e hâjib’s lamb, ibn-e hâjib’s sheep, ibn-e hâjib’s ewe in divans of adib-ol-mamâ...

This scientific work provides information about the peculiarities and functions of educational popular literature, which is considered as special types certain literature. The literature include such categories reference book, encyclopedic technical public political fictional reprinted classical Each these literatures has its own features individualities. As a result our studies, we can see tha...

The cognitive tendency of a literature that favors an assembly knowledge for the purposes accrediting fictional novum anticipation is verifiable in recent novel by Argentinian author, Marcelo Cohen. following analysis will attend to loans between materialist semiology and theory ideological communication supports treatment controversial interaction raised within community dissident individuals ...

Emerging from a legitimate contest regulated by a set of rules, professional wrestling is today a fictional product, where no actual competition takes place. Those same rules serve as a setting for a particular kind of narration: the kayfabe, the fictional framework for all professional wrestling’s narrative, a fictional world with the characteristic of having a 1:1 ratio between real time and ...

The invention of fictional ideas (ideation) is often a central process in the creative production of artefacts such as poems, music and paintings, but has barely been studied in the Computational Creativity community. We present here three baseline approaches for automated fictional ideation, using methods which invert and alter facts from the ConceptNet and ReVerb databases, and perform bisoci...

Modern computer games often have a strong narrative structure to the progress of their gameplay. In some genres, story is at the forefront of the interaction. As game makers seek to add new capabilities for procedurally generated content to their new releases, work on interactive narrative is growing in significance both as a basic research topic as well as a source for insight into the creatio...

Drawing on the familiar material from NASA’s lunar explorations and a serendipitous encounter with a memento from the Apollo 11 mission, I am working on an animated film featuring a single, looping orbit around the moon. Rendered from a computer model where planetary positions and orbits are plotted to correspond as far as possible to actuality, the lunar surface itself is based on data collect...