This paper attempts to define the grotesque and its primary literary features before examining components in two Victorian authors' works with goal of separating their approaches based on gender. The most well-known novelist era, Charles Dickens will be one authors covered this through his story To Taken a Grain Salt, other is Mary Elizabeth Braddon’s Eveline’s Visitant. Braddon particularly ma...

Abstract There are three levels on which time is constitutive for narrative discourse: a) without events as well the story world cannot be conceived; b) needed to tell a story; c) recipient of text makes temporal connections by recalling something that happened earlier in or way has been told, wondering how will continue. An examination these shows, however, underlying concepts temporalities di...

The subject of the paper is a connection between certain microeconomic aspects importance for functioning modern organizations in context sustainable development. Modern companies must be open to ideas, they have become competent viewing different problems from perspectives, more flexible and sensitive market warnings ready implement changes process management. Nowadays, situation big suspense,...

In this meta-analysis, we synthesized data from published journal articles that investigated viewers’ enjoyment of fright and violence. Given the limited research on this topic, this analysis was primarily a way of summarizing the current state of knowledge and developing directions for future research. The studies selected (a) examined frightening or violent media content; (b) used self-report...

Reading is not only "cold" information processing, but involves affective and aesthetic processes that go far beyond what current models of word recognition, sentence processing, or text comprehension can explain. To investigate such "hot" reading processes, standardized instruments that quantify both psycholinguistic and emotional variables at the sublexical, lexical, inter-, and supralexical ...

The retrieval of entity data has always been a core application of database systems and querying an entity's attributes can be efficiently done using declarative languages like SQL. But today's retrieval tasks more and more focus also on conceptual aspects of entities, which often are not directly expressed by attributes. For instance, users might want to find a 'thrilling' novel, unfortunately...

Lignans of Forsythia spp. are essential components of various Chinese medicines and health diets. However, the seasonal alteration in lignan amounts and the gene expression profile of lignan-biosynthetic enzymes has yet to be investigated. In this study, we have assessed seasonal alteration in amounts of major lignans, such as pinoresinol, matairesinol, and arctigenin, and examined the gene exp...

Stories are really an interesting one to read, especially kids love to listen to stories. It grabs the reader’s attention and gives them great pleasure or excitement or thrill or suspense while reading it. Readers go along with stories and may have the expectation and predict the flow of story based on the previous situations narrated by the authors. Predicting the flow of story requires reason...

It is especially important to assess the potential mutagenicity of air environment in area active life and human respiration. In our opinion, perennial shrub plants are most informative objects such research. Purpose. Study sensitivity male haploid generation Forsythia suspensa Vahl. state atmospheric Kyiv surface layer; prospects using this species indicate quality possible risks public health...