This paper proposes a journey through some of the many novels written by Honoré de Balzac, through the mythic constitution of his world, his epic, which summons up the same recurrent circle of figures: his “human comedy” will offer surprising insights for a better understanding of the crimes of the powerful.

Stroke is a leading cause of death worldwide and a common cause of disability in adults in developed countries. Most strokes are not fatal and, in contrast to coronary artery disease and cancer, the major burden of stroke is chronic disability rather than death. It is unsurprising, therefore, that characters with stroke appear frequently in literature, although sometimes the diagnosis is wrong....

In this paper we look at a task in historical linguistics and the study of language development, namely that of identifying the time when a text was written. The novelty is that we evaluate our classifier and our selected features on literary texts having their action placed in the past and written so as to give off the impression of the respective epoch. We investigate several types of feature...

In her article "Nordestina Modernity in the Novels of Freitas, Queiroz, and Lispector" Fernanda Patricia Fuentes Muñoz discusses aspects of the Nordeste — the northeastern region of Brazil — in Emília de Freitas's A Rainha do Ignoto (1899), Rachel de Queiroz's O Quinze (1930), and Clarice Lispector's A Hora da Estrela (1977; The Hour of the Star, 1992, Trans. Giovanni Pontiero). The region has ...

IT is easy to be aware of Lawrence's great effect on our thinking about social values, but it is difficult, for a number of reasons, to give any exact account of his actual contribution. It is not only that the public projection of him is very different from his actual work, and that this has led to important misunderstandings (that he believed that "sex solves everything"; that he was "a precu...

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The mastery of color words is a highlighted point in Eileen Chang’s novels, from which we can catch glimpse language technique. Chang's Novels are like painting with instead monotonously depicting life. She expresses her exquisite and unique perception life through the deconstruction cultural meanings words. blended different colors clothes novel’s characters scenes, using rhetorical devices su...