Fiction retrieval has become one of the interesting special issues within information science during the past few years. This is a consequence of several facts. The most important of them is the need for fiction retrieval and secondly, the possibilities for creating retrieval systems for fiction have increased, due to the development of computerised environments for information retrieval. The m...

Since the seminal publication of Cognitive Therapy and the Emotional Disorders (A. T. Beck, 1976), cognitive therapy has emerged as one of the most popular and widely taught therapeutic modalities of the last 20 years (Rush & Beck, 2000), because, in part, of its consistency with the scientistpractitioner model. Although the scientist-practitioner model has been controversial (Albee, 1970; Barl...

Ray Bradbury’s The Martian Chronicles is a futuristic, science fiction novel that chronicles the colonization of Mars by humans, projecting the United States’ colonial and immigrant past on to a symbolic future. Bradbury’s use of language is mostly picturesque and sensory. The present paper applies a text-oriented analysis of stylistic elements that construct meaning in the text and evoke the n...