The aim of this contribution is to reflect on the process building multilingual European Literary Text Collection (ELTeC) that being created in framework networking project Distant Reading for European History funded by COST (European Cooperation Science and Technology). To provide some background, we briefly introduce basic idea ELTeC with a focus overall goals intended usage...

An increasing proportion of health professionals and scholars of the humanities is interesting to the Narrative Based Medicine. The terms used indicate a mode of coping with the disease aims to understand its meaning in an overall, systematic, broader and more respectful of the patient. The Narrative Based Medicine fortifies clinical practice with the narrative competence to recognize, absorb, ...

Information visualization has not been very successful in pervading areas of literary and scholarly enquiry, such as the analysis of relatively unstructured human-generated text like poetry. The work presented here proposes the use of visualization tools for such scholarly analysis and details the operation of a tool developed for this purpose.

Early modern maps were surrounded by and interspersed with texts of many kinds. The intimate relationship between cartographic image and geographical text in the map was due to the map’s mixed media structure and its early appearance in the context of history books, travel reports, or chorographic descriptions. Literature was based on other types of text. Epic, drama, and poetry were essentiall...

Simile, which appears in different modes, is one of the major subjects of a branch of rhetoric called Bayan. Some of these modes, such as intellectual-intellectual and sensible-intellectual are not in harmony with the illuminating   role of simile; therefor, the books on Bayanhardlyhave positive attitudes towards these modes of simile, but contrary to this attitude, such similes appea...