Where is Scotland on the map of literary studies? This is a timely question for scholars to address. Recently, for example, some Scottish literature scholars have written a petition to the Modern Language Association to expand its current Scottish Literature Discussion Group into a Division on Scottish Literature at the MLA. The petition states that recent Scottish literary scholarship has " (a...

The problem of automatically determining the gender of the author of a literary document (i.e. fiction/non fiction), an electronic document (i.e. text collected from e-mail), an informal text (i.e. essays) etc. has been studied and have achieved reasonable accuracy in the range of 70-80%. These works have proven that noticeable differences exist, which discriminates author gender using simple l...

Th is paper explores the approach to the construction of literary tourism site from the perspective of authenticity which is a keyword in heritage tourism. Since MacCannell (1973, 1976) introduced the concept of authenticity into studies of tourism motivations and experiences in 1970s, the various notions of tourism authenticity can be summarized into four types of theories objective authentici...

We present the first study that evaluates both speaker and listener identification for direct speech in literary texts. Our approach consists of two steps: identification of speakers and listeners near the quotes, and dialogue chain segmentation. Evaluation results show that this approach outperforms a rule-based approach that is stateof-the-art on a corpus of literary texts.

Why do we read literary texts closely? There are plenty of other things to do with literary texts, many of them more fun, some of them even interesting. But the interesting ones, though they may help us in our close reading, or may indeed challenge, limit, or secure its conditions of possibility, belong to other disciplines: psychology, linguistics, sociology of art, anthropology, area studies,...

We present in this paper a numerical investigation of literary texts by various well-known English writers, covering the first half of the twentieth century, based upon the results obtained through corpus analysis of the texts. A fractal power law is obtained for the lexical wealth defined as the ratio between the number of different words and the total number of words of a given text. By consi...

Of the many dilemmas facing the assessment of literary competence, one is the extent to which language should constitute part of the target construct intended to be measured. Some argue for the construct-irrelevance of language and hence recommend that it be eliminated or minimized in favor of an exclusive focus on literary competence. In practice, this does not seem to be the case, as language...

Contrary to perceived wisdom, we explore the role of machine translation (MT) in assisting with the translation of literary texts, considering both its limitations and its potential. Our motivations to explore this subject are twofold: (i) the recent research advances in MT, and (ii) the recent emergence of the ebook, which together allow us for the first time to build literature-specific MT sy...

1. The Search for Interdisciplinarity 1.1. The Scientific and Technological Process 1.2. The Resistance of the Literary Field 1.3. An Intermediate Proposal: Interdisciplinarity 2. The Impact of Technology and Literature’s Interdisciplinarity 2.1. Technology at the Service of Literature 2.2. Digital Literature 2.3. Literary Theory about Literature in Hypertext 2.4. A New Paradigm for a New Human...

People have been analyzing discourses, in some sense, for as long as they have been speaking. They have done so without the help of linguists, literary critics, or their theories. But a theoretical framework can still perform a service in making explicit what is normally implicit. In this paper, I will attempt to build a framework for classifying and cataloguing everything that goes on in the p...