While many literary theories focus on materialistic concerns, less frequently have these focused the spiritual matters arising from such concerns. A cosmological interpretive strategy focuses and cosmic themes rather than ignoring them. This essay’s analysis will using a to analyze Thornton Wilder’s Our Town Arthur Miller’s The Man Who Had All Luck. reveal that, merely being spatial material te...

Some scientists write literary fiction books in their spare time. If these books contain scientific knowledge, literary fiction becomes a mechanism of knowledge transfer. In this case, we could conceptualize literary fiction as non-formal knowledge transfer. We model knowledge transfer via literary fiction as a function of the type of scientist (academic or non-academic) and his/her scientific ...

ERHAPS an ideal concept for celebrating a Golden Anniversary is to review the past 50 years and then to challenge our vision of what to strive for during the next 50 years. By coincidence it was just 50 years ago, almost to a day, in 1917, when I first heard of the mysterious things called "vitamines," while a student at Washington State College. Literary societies were an important part of col...

Mapping spaces in fiction seems like a simple idea. But in fact, it turns out to be a major interdisciplinary challenge at the crossroads of literary theory and cartographic concepts for more than one hundred years. Introduced and contextualised is the emerging field of a literary geography along with one of its core methods: literary cartography. After facing a certain period of stagnation, wh...

Writers are often viewed as having an inherent style which can serve as a literary fingerprint. By quantifying relevant features related to literary style, one may hope to classify written works and even attribute authorship to newly discovered texts. Beyond its intrinsic interest, the study of literary styles presents the opportunity to introduce and motivate many standard multivariate statist...

We present CoocViewer, a graphical analysis tool for the purpose of quantitative literary analysis, and demonstrate its use on a corpus of crime novels. The tool displays words, their significant co-occurrences, and contains a new visualization for significant concordances. Contexts of words and co-occurrences can be displayed. After reviewing previous research and current challenges in the new...

Exegesis that includes careful attention to internal matters-theme and development, structure, and features of literary style--can help resolve perennial problems of interpretation. One such difficulty involves the unity and authorship of the book of Nahum. Conclusions reached from the shared contributions of biblical and literary data argue strongly for the unity of the whole prophecy that bea...

In answering the question 'what is special about the gene' from a literary perspective, the article suggests that if literary appreciation is often seen as a mark of human exceptionalism, knowledge of the gene may undermine this claim. Tracing some of the historical and philosophical complexities that circulate around the word 'gene', the article argues that in one sense 'the gene' plays the le...

Because literacy is a civil right, educators are responsible for designing and implementing education that designed with the excellence of all students in mind. In order to learn about ways ensure literary practices equitable students, authors joined an educators’ book club read Cultivating Genius: An Equity Framework Culturally Historically Responsive Literacy by Gholdy Muhammad. Muhammad desc...