COL104 Baroque Rome This interdisciplinary history seminar for first-year students focuses on Europe's most famous capital city between 1550 and 1650, a period when Rome was a symbol of religious zeal, artistic creativity, and intellectual repression. We will explore these contradictions and their impact on cultural innovation by taking a close look at daily life in early modern Rome and at the...

A significant aspect of creativity is its elusive mystery. Unlike pure novelty or pure originality and adaptability, creative ideas have an aura of something which is unanticipated, yet, in a way not completely surprising, but providing insight into familiar ideas. This position paper wishes to focus on this mysterious aspect of creativity and discusses uncertainty and the creative gap as aspec...

BRUTUS is a p rogram that tells stories. The stories are intriguing, they hold a hint of mystery, a n d n o t least impress ivethey are written in correct English prose. An example (p. 124) is shown in Figure 1. This remarkable feat is g rounded in a complex architecture making use of a number of levels, each of which is parameter ized so as to become a locus of possible variation. The specific...

The School of Translation at the Zurich University of Applied Sciences is one of two Swiss institutions educating translators. The contribution describes the institute’s literacy conception and the changes from linguistic parallelism to a model of multilingual literacy in which many forms of language interactions are reflected, not only translation. A first year writing program has been created...

В статье изучается эволюция восприятия творчества К.М. Симонова от середины XX до XXI вв. Отмечается неоднозначность оценки творческого наследия Симонова. Делается вывод о необходимости проведения обобщающего исследования, которое систематизировало бы массив научных работ по произведениям К. и одновременно освещало его творчество в контексте развития советской литературы. The article studies th...

The novel Malekan-e- Azab is the latest published work by Abu Torab-e Khosravi. The significance which is always assumed by Khosravi for words and writing is conspicuously seen in this novel as well; however, the author’s attempt to develop novel atmosphere and techniques has added a new dimension of complexity. To fully appreciate this complication and to gain an understanding of the dis...

The personality and creativity of Nizami Ganjavi, who began to be regularly studied glorified since his time, has always been the center attention philosophers, poets, writers, dramatists in all periods literary history. In article, poems, stories, novels plays written Azerbaijani fiction from Middle Ages present day about genius thinker have analyzed.

The article deals with the problem of mythologized perception names poets Silver Age N. Gumilev and A. Blok in works G. Ivanov «Chinese Shadows» «Petersburg Winters». purpose this study is to determine, based on a comparative analysis literary portraits Blok, which are created using contrast technique, specifics myth about Russian Poet memoir prose Ivanov. two contrasted basis number criteria: ...

This study examines how reading habits affect people’s sensitivity to word distributions in literary and non-literary writing. We manipulated eight literary and non-literary passages, creating modified versions that had lower word chunk frequencies but higher individual word frequencies than the originals. Subjects were then asked to rate the passages’ quality of writing. Results showed that su...