Recent feminist and gender-oriented scholarship about the Victorian sonnet has attributed a pioneering role to Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s Sonnets from the Portuguese in the nineteenth-century revival of the genre. Eminent literary critics such as Angela Leighton, Alison Chapman, and Dorothy Mermin agree that theSonnets, in Chapman’s words, ‘translate the amatory discourse of Petrarchanism int...

We adapt the hierarchical attention network for the task of genre classification using lyrics. Utilising a large dataset of intact song lyrics we apply a recurrent neural network model which tries to learn importance of words, lines and sections in the genre classification task. This hierarchical structure attempts to replicate the structure of lyrics and enable learning of which sections, line...

Despite the wide-spread utilization of the case study method in Information Systems (IS), some researchers are still puzzled by the question of “how can you generalize from a single case?” Some researchers believe that findings derived from a single case study have little basis for generalizability beyond the immediate context and, therefore, cannot be used for predicting events in other contex...

Pacéré as the demiurge of orature Not all unwritten literatures are oral literatures. They would more appropriately be referred to as “spoken literatures”, in the wider sense of literatures that use different means of communication (mouth, gestures, body movement, instruments). The dumb “speak” with signs. Pio Zirimu proposed the term “orature” to palliate the alleged contradiction in the phras...

It has been observed that from the eleventh century onwards one main concern of Tibetan authors to was determine the authenticity of the Buddhist texts received from India and thereby establish different lineages of transmission, by which means they were able to trace back any specifi c teaching either to the historical Buddha or to such representatives of Buddhahood as Vajradhāra or Samantabha...

urdu literature has provided an outstanding treasure by using all persian literary genres presented in both verse and prose. among all literary genres of poetry elegy is the kind which some of the scholars and critics of the subcontinent consider as an independent genre from arabic and persian literature. there is no doubt that mourning and lamenting for the dead has always been part of every n...

While from the viewpoint of typology it is often stated that the genre of detective fiction originated with the work of Edgar Allan Poe, this statement can be challenged from the standpoint of literary or reception history. Several recent histories of detective fiction emphasize the importance of employing a wider generic view, yet they hardly expand their perspective beyond English literary tr...

The talk of Larisa Soboleva, professor of Ural Federal University, and Olga Zhuravel, associate professor and Dean of the Department of Journalism at Novosibirsk State University and the author of the book entitled Literary Work of Old Believers in the 17th – Early 21st Centuries: Themes, Problems, Poetics concerns the diversity of manuscript sources used and published in the abovementioned boo...