Genre is a category of artistic, musical, or literary composition characterized by a particular style, form, or content (according to Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary [2] – among two other, less relevant definitions). It can be debated whether a genre can be defined by style (and form) alone, or must content (topic) also be taken into account. For example, can science fiction be distinguished ...

the vast diversity of the proposed definitions of parody, both before and after the twentieth century, can be an emblem of the lack of a thorough agreement amongst the literary critics about the definition of this literary technique (genre?!). while there is not a comprehensive all-accepted definition of parody, modern and postmodern literatures both exhibit a wide application of it. after look...

One of the biggest challenges facing current methods for classifying music by genre or artist is that features of the sound are computed on very small temporal scales (20 to 50 milliseconds), while the labels need to be assigned at relatively large temporal scales (3 to 5 minutes). We address this challenge by partitioning songs into smaller pieces and classifying each one separately. Our choic...

In this report we present the work done on the first subtask of the DEFT 2014 challenge which dealt with genre classification of French literary texts. In our approach we developed three types of features : lemmatized words, stylometric features and features that incorporate some form of world knowledge. Subsequent classification experiments were performed using the Balanced Winnow classifier. ...

A relatively new field of specialized NT study is a careful examination of the literary genre or style of different books. Revelation has often been classified as a kind of literature called "apocalyptic," but the category of "prophetic" is probably a better classification for the book. The book calls itself a prophecy. If the genre were primarily apocalyptic, this might constitute a basis for ...

First of all, a brief introduction to development of novel is to be given. Then the meaning of Bildungsroman novel along with the origin and development of this literary sub-genre have to be examined. Various representative authors like Dickens, Goethe, Joyce, Mann, and Christoph Martin Wieland in addition to some female writers like Charlotte Bronte, Sylvia Plath are to be presented critically...