This study involves automatically identifying the sociolinguistic characteristics of fictional characters in plays by analyzing their written “speech”. We discuss three binary classification problems: predicting the characters’ gender (male vs. female), age (young vs. old), and socioeconomic standing (upper-middle class vs. lower class). The text corpus used is an annotated collection of August...

The article is devoted to the phenomenon of “desacralizing” biography at example several studies A.P. Chekhov’s life and works, reasons popularity such biographies among mass readers. This way describe partly connected with memoir tradition, in particular, essay by N.M. Yezhov “Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (An attempt characteristics)” (1909). tried create an objective yet creative psychological por...

The authors investigate to what extent differential equations can describe the dynamics of love relations in masochistic novellas. Unlike previous researchers, they base their analysis not only on psychological credibility. They relate their model to the ideas of literary criticism. The authors compare Ivan Turgenev’s Torrents of Spring with the most famous masochistic novella Venus in Furs by ...

O presente artigo tem como objetivo propor uma leitura de Hedda Gabler, peça Henrik Ibsen, a partir da filosofia Jacques Rancière. Para isso, consolida-se mediante o adensamento reflexivo em três pontos principais sua filosofia: caráter ausente paternidade letra órfã, tirania intriga questão familiar e teatro dos pensamentos. Depois, reflexão parte para aspectos relacionados à masculinidade, pa...

Zusammenfassung The analysis of space-semantic oppositions – as developed by Jurij Lotman and extended Karl Renner Hans Krah plays a much greater role in analysing prose than poetry. However, the focus on spatial temporal oppositions, connection topological semantic features subspaces, well possible borders their potential crossing can make significant contribution to interpretation lyrical tex...