This article addresses the question of how dithyramb was classified in antiquity, examining detail two fragmentary papyri (P.Graec.Vindob. 19996a–b; P.Berol. 9671 verso) alongside other testimonia which comment on nature and development dithyrambic genre. While majority these expect to be associated with Dionysus, some show that this Dionysiac link not exclusively followed as defining criterion...

The majority of approaches to author profiling and author identification focus mainly on lexical features, i.e., on the content of a text. We argue that syntactic dependency and discourse features play a significantly more prominent role than they were given in the past. We show that they achieve state-of-the-art performance in author and gender identification on a literary corpus while keeping...

A t the dawn of the twentyfirst century, young adult literature looks very different than it did fifty years ago. Indeed, fifty years ago, we were just getting started with the likes of Salinger’s The Catcher In The Rye (1951), with Hinton’s The Outsiders (1967), Zindel’s The Pigman (1968), and Cormier’s The Choco­ late War (1974) still a gleam in the eye of their literary creators. We have a c...

short story is one of the newborn literary genres that has drawn special attention of  literary men and researchers to itself in recent years because of its general effect on literature and its special influence on reader of a literary work. this article investigates short story comparatively in arabic and persian literature. the aim of this paper is to discover latent aspects of short story in...

a genre of novel was created during abbasid period which is considered the product of this same period. the founder of this genre was a famous writer from hamada, called badi’ al-zamon hamadani. he called it maghama and used it as a means to bring up different social thoughts. after him, hariry used this genre. he exactly followed badi, al-zaman hamadani in creating maghama, discussing its subj...

This essay deals with the question of the multiple constraints that determine the production of highly commercialized literature, namely, novelization. As a literary genre, novelization is easy to define: it is the novelistic adaptation of an original film or, more specifically, of the screenplay of this film. As a cultural practice, however, novelization is hardly known, given its lack of pres...