Revels in madness will be a useful reference tool for students and scholars, especially for those looking for more obscure figures, like the German Romantic psychiatrists J C Reil, J C A Heinroth, and K W Ideler, whom Thiher describes in detail since few medical libraries have their books. In his introduction, Thiher indicates his distance from Foucault's "brilliant, influential ... but misguid...

While much computational work on fiction has focused on works in the literary canon, user-created fanfiction presents a unique opportunity to study an ecosystem of literary production and consumption, embodying qualities both of large-scale literary data (55 billion tokens) and also a social network (with over 2 million users). We present several empirical analyses of this data in order to illu...

Zeidari Nasavi’s Nafsat al-Masdoor is one of the few works which are written in technical prose and mainly aim at conveying meaning rather than affection. Considering the emotional strain of his literary text, Zeidari believes music has the highest effect on conveying the feeling, and in various ways, including the use of elements of prosody, literary figures, and the selection and arrang...

georg büchner’s lenz portrays part of the life of a great writer during the rein of jacob michael reinhold lenz (1751-1792) when germany was in turmoil and disruption. being lonely and depressed, büchner decided to leave home and his country. after being exiled from weimar and losing touch with goethe, he found refuge in rev. oberlin and asked him to save his life. büchner wrote at a time when ...

the books written on the world strange items and categories ,may be called as a literary genre, too. they also originate from the people's beliefs, traditions, customs, and culture of a specific region. some of these strange items and categories have been turned into various tales of mysteries. the experts of other fields, such as geography, history, etc. have used them as well. azari toos...

like volter, french salient author, al- jahiz is a philosopher literate; namely, literary dimension of his personality predominates over his philosophical character. like other great literati and writer of the world, he was a master in all sciences and knowledge of his age including philosophy, speech, politics, and a verity of customs, beliefs and religions and in some of them he was skillful ...

Part of the Comparative Literature Commons Recommended Citation He, Zheng. "A revived life in a reviving culture: the Chinese reception of Byron in the short story magazine in 1924. 1 CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION No, he was not a god. He was a mortal, a mortal who was more fearsome and more adorable than a god. When he was alive, he was bathed in the violent waves of the secular world, his body awash...

sadegh choobak is one of the outstanding authors and novelists in the modem persian literature. he was also under the intellectual influence of hedayat and american authors. he is one of the most realistic iranian novelists. his works may be classified in two different periods. his first works are more well - known and have unique characteristics. his description of the phenomena of every day l...

â â â  poetic stories in ilia abu mazi’s poetic works â â â  sadeq fathi dehkordi * â  shlyr fathi ** â  abstract â  â  poetic story is a kind of art firmly connected to poetry and story and is a sign of restoration in arabic poetry furthermore, it is an artistic field for presenting poets' ability in putting poetry and tale together. this genre has included many current poetic works. ab...