Waka is a form of traditional Japanese poetry with a 1300year history. In this paper we attempt to semi-automatically discover instances of poetic allusion, or more generally, to find similar poems in anthologies of waka poems. The key to success is how to define the similarity measure on poems. We first examine the existing similarity measures on strings, and then give a unifying framework tha...

some thoughts and events are of a prominent position in human life as if they lead human to insistence and repetition by becoming a part of his concerns and at last they represent themselves as an individual and permanent feature in his conscious and unconscious. but permanent repetition of the mentioned imagery represents a subject  of whose reality there is no information available under norm...

Introduction Prismatic Balint groups are a further development of classical Balint groups in form of a mood oriented sensory-metaphorical process. The group method enables resolving of chaotic, panic, psychotic and traumatic experiences, which as a source of team conflicts have blocked communications between doctors, nursing staff and patients. A prismatic mood oriented Balint-group remains ful...

Poetic analysis involves the explication of a poem by focusing on the process of semiosis in it. Through semiosis linguistic meaning is transformed into stylistic meaning. An examination of semiosis brings us to look at the hypersemanticized poetic structures which are none other than the style features of a poem. Since style functions in a literary text by conveying meanings other than literal...

For a long time, there have been the mountainous discussions about intertexuality in the field of novelist narrative studies by scholars from China and western countries in their academic practices in terms of the in-textual responses from a novelist narrative text to another produced either by the same writer or by different novelists based on the academic focus of the textual influences from ...