This article explores the hegemonic status enjoyed by the crime novel in the contemporary era, agenre which, in contrast to the literary mainstream, continues to flourish. It suggests that thedevelopment of a body of research on crime fiction has resulted in the widespread acceptance ofa finite number of unassailable generic qualities. One of these, the heuristic function of the cri...

We have implemented a system to recognize and classify music. Given an audio sample; our system is able to determine the genre, artist, album, and title of the given song. This is done by creating a database of models based on songs it’s trained on. Input songs’ features and models are compared with existing models to determine the identity of the song, along with its genre, artist, and album. ...

This paper sets out to explore fiction, literary multimodality and dialogism using the example of Wikipedia as an enabling hypertext technology. It will be proposed that the digital architecture and the user conventions of the genre offer a strikingly adaptive framework for the writing of fiction. The notion of the wiki as a collaborative creative site will be examined as a (virtual) spatial an...

Musical obsessions are rare in both clinical practice and literature. A case is presented of a musical obsession which had the additional unique characteristics of acute onset, marked severity, and occurrence as an isolated symptom.

This paper tries to examine literature as history, with an emphasis on the crucial role of fiction in narrating the marginalized events of history. Some fictions are actual accounts of events in history, and some are reflection of events. Actually, literature and history are integrated to each other, in a way that, pure history which shows us the reality and truth is just a myth. The pens writi...

This study aims to highlight the utilization of literary genre as a well-liked method for instructing both language skills (that is say, writing, reading, speaking, and listening) fields are grammar, pronunciation, vocabulary). Why employing textbooks in foreign classrooms main motives choosing appropriate fictional texts these emphasized make reader acquainted with motivating incentives standa...

The UK publishing industry in the twenty-fi rst century is one populated by high-profi le, multicultural authors. Monica Ali, Hari Kunzru, Andrea Levy and Zadie Smith have enjoyed critical and commercial success, building on the literary and marketplace achievements of postcolonial writers such as Salman Rushdie, Ben Okri and Arundhati Roy. Postcolonial and multicultural writers, and novels wit...

In this paper, we investigate whether textual analysis can yield evidence of shared vocabulary or formal textual characteristics in the works of 19th century poets Lord Byron and Thomas Moore in the genre of Romantic Orientalism. In particular, we identify and trace Byron’s influence on Moore’s writings to query whether Moore imitated Byron, as many reviewers of the time suggested. We use a Dis...