“Voys Lessons: Whirling Words in Chaucer’s ‘House of Rumour’” examines the lability of sound and its use in the dissemination, transposition, and authorship of stories within The House of Fame , a text exemplifying the mobility and flexibility of misused or unhinged words, as expressed through sound as opposed to text. By engaging the use and interpretation of sound in contrast to words, this n...

Recent results in the field of machine translation research and development have shown that there will be much progress in future. The results have even encouraged researchers to see indications "that the time may finally be coming to strive once again for the promise of true automated translation" [Carbonell/Tomita 87:69]. With respect to a more general applicability of the methods involved on...

George Orwell is a famous writer in the 20th century England, especially known for his humanitarian spirit. Among sharply written works, Animal Farm of significant value to focus our attention on. This political allegory successfully creates set animal images, with some certain hidden meaning life. New Historicism offers readers another perspective reorient into context behind text itself and r...

This article brings ecocritical and historical approaches together with literary analysis to provide the first in-depth of chocolate in French novels. It argues that is a uniquely hybrid, indeterminate substance both literal figurative terms it enables writers ask questions about human nature our status as civilized, textual beings. Examining examples from range writers—Stendhal, Huysmans, Vern...

The present paper is a critique of quantitative studies of literature. It is argued that such studies are involved in an act of reification, in which, moreover, fundamental ingredients of the texts, e.g. their (highly important) range of figurative meanings, are eliminated from the analysis. Instead a concentration on lower levels of linguistic organization, such as grammar and lexis, may be ob...

This article reviews the social potential of digital storytelling, and in particular digital storytelling’s potential to contribute to the strengthening of democracy. Through answering this question, it seeks to test out the relative strengths and weaknesses of two competing concepts for grasping the wider consequences of media for the social world: the concept of mediatization and the concept ...