European literary histories are steeped in botanical metaphors. So, for example, the plant figure is found in the elaborations of Friedrich Schlegel, arguably the founder of modern literary history, as when he writes in Epochs of Poetry, ‘in the Homeric plant we see, as it were, the origin of all poetry; the roots are lost to our sight but the blossoms and branches of the plant emerge from the ...

The project under discussion represents an attempt to exploit the potential of web resources for higher education and, more particularly, on a domain (that of literary translation) which is traditionally considered not very much in relation to technology and computer science. Translation and Interpreting students at the Universidad de Málaga are offered the possibility to take an EnglishSpanish...

22 23 The evolution of fairy tales often involves complex interactions between oral and 24 literary traditions, which can be difficult to tease apart when investigating their 25 origins. Here, we show how computer-assisted stemmatology can be productively 26 applied to this problem, focusing on a long-standing controversy in fairy tale 27 scholarship: did Little Red Riding Hood originate as an ...

Contributing to research on social processes of cultural de-hierchization, this article explores how critical recognition in elite newspapers is related to the recognition that authors receive from other agents in the literary field in the past half-century. We distinguish four types of institutional recognition: (a) long-term recognition in literary encyclopedias, (b) short-term recognition th...

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...