This article concerns research based on handwritten document and electronic books. We present here the first achievements of a Hypermedia Edit and Read Station (HERS) devoted to the browsing and the edition of hypermedia documents from literary material including document images. Our purpose is twofold. First, capabilities are offered to transcribe manuscripts. Second, tools are offered to orga...

postmodernism is of the third period of human’s thought eras. during this era which spans the end of the nineteenth century to the present time , “creation “of the real replaces its “ discovery”. this stream is the extremist form of modernism. it has some specific qualities such as irony and mixture of popular art and formal art. this essay aims to analyze one of arabic modern texts named “coll...

at the beginning of 20th century, psychology got a special status in contemporary criticism (or critical approaches) through the theories of freud and jung. literary works were being criticized by such approaches on the basis of the text sender (author or poet), after a while, with the rise of other psychological schools – such as gestalt- they started to be criticized on the basis of their inf...

maghameh is one of the literary styles that has been created in the fourth century. the present article studies various aspects of this literary style. first it defines it and then studies its formation and growth followed by its characteristics, sources and different views on it. it attempts to study malek al shoara bahar’s works and his goals in using maghameh, affects and similes in his poet...

some literary texts seem being created on the threshold of two different movements, since they reflect the features of them both. some literary features are also common in two different literary movements and they can even be seen in the works belong to two different eras. the novel “asfār-e-kātebān” (books of scribers) is among the works which have lots of techniques and measures which are the...

tendency to najwa (religious whispering) and praying to god has been present in human soul from the time immemorial. in other words, the background of human’s god-seeking tendencies has been confirmed through historical and archeological excavations. attachment to the infinite source of being and coming to the divine threshold is a process that can be possible through prayers and that's th...

Hideo Kojima's Metal Gear Solid, (MGS) is widely recognized by both gamers and industry professionals as one of the most influential games of all time. In this paper we contend that one of the ways in which the literary merit of a game can be explained is through the use of close critical literary readings of the game text together with a discussion of how the yielded interpretations work colle...

This article explores the application of text normalization methods based on Levenshtein distance and Statistical Machine Translation to the literary genre, specifically on the collected works of August Strindberg. The goal is to normalize archaic spellings to modern day spelling. The study finds evidence of success in text normalization, and explores some problems and improvements to the proce...