In his paper, "Literary Emergence as a Case Study of Theory in Comparative Literature," César Domínguez constructs an interdisciplinary theoretical model which sheds new light on literary emergence, a phenomenon that defies literary, artistic, and cultural boundaries. Domínguez opens his discussion with a synthesis regarding the state of the question, paying particular attention to the contradi...

all along history, the art and society always have interplayed. literary works especially novel are rooted in contemporary society and tell us about social, political, cultural and historical issues of a society. a realistic novel may reflect realities of its time like a mirror. the sociology of literature is aimed to explain the links between society and literature and clarifying the quality o...

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...

Protection and preservation of our cultural and literary historical and documentary heritage are particularly relevant today. The paper presents methods for creating digital resources of historical artifacts related to the Balkan war. Special attention is paid to the process of 3D scanning of objects. The methodology will be used in building an electronic archive and Virtual Museum.

In her article "Comparativist Imagology and the Phenomenon of Strangeness Małgorzata Świderska presents national, ethnic, and/or (inter)cultural strangeness in literary works concept of comparativist imagology and from the work of Jean-Marc Moura. Świderska imagology to Heimito von Doderer's "

This paper describes a query system on texts and literary material with advanced information retrieval tools. As a test bed we chose the electronic version of Dante’s Inferno, manually tagged using XML, enriched with a domain ontology describing the historical, social and cultural context represented as a separate XML document.

There are cultural barriers to collaborative effort between literary scholars and computational linguists. In this work, we discuss some of these problems in the context of our ongoing research project, an exploration of free indirect discourse in Virginia Woolf’s To The Lighthouse, ultimately arguing that the advantages of taking each field out of its “comfort zone” justifies the inherent diff...